yesman

Casinos have operated like this for years. People who loose lots of money get flown to VIP events with free hotel, meals, concerts, and even mix with movie stars. People are employed as concierge to these gamblers, so it's not MGM calling and encouraging you to gamble, it's Beth or Stephen.

Gambling is just theft with extra steps. I'd ban all of it, including the lottery.

Unironically, the Soviet Union. I've herd that anthem a thousand times as a joke, but you know, it kinda slaps.

Obviously I'm just talking about the arrangement and music because I've no idea what the lyrics mean.

The thing that makes data centers in space stupid is physics.

nevermind the expense of launching, maintaining, or upgrading server racks 500km above the ground. How the hell are you going to cool them?

I've seen scifi proposals about liquids in a cooling loop being exposed to the vacuum of space. But you still have to ask, why spend a billion dollars for a tech that can't compete with a 120mm fan back on Earth?

This wasn't luck. His choice of victims made him invisible.

First, there is a school of thought that says that the planet is ultimately doomed, and if we want to survive as a species, we need to get off of it.

I've just never understood this mentality. Terraforming Mars to escape climate change is as dumb as a bag of hammers. As far as cosmic catastrophes go, most of the stuff that'd kill Earth will get Mars and the Moon too.

And if you've got ambitions outside the Solar system, then planetary engineering becomes a trivial problem by comparison.

I think that "we've got to leave Earth or we're going to die!" tacitly admits that there are few good reasons to do it.

The worst part about Windows Update is when it functions as intended. They're going to re-install Edge, turn OneDrive back on, and shove Copilot into Explorer, Notepad, and Paint.

This is all for your security.

It's no enough for aluminum to be in contact with iron, they must be powdered and mixed. Also you need extreme temperatures to start the reaction.

I once met a girl at a party and things went so well and so fast that when I took her to the bedroom, I invited her sister to join us.

That's because the girl was black-out drunk and I wanted to put her to bed, in the custody of her sister, so that I could leave.

He's wearing the genocide equivalent of gang colors.

I have a Kindle Touch and IDGAF if it can connect to Amazon. I don't connect it to the internet because I'm afraid it'll update and break. Right now I've got it set to never sleep because the wake button doesn't work. But that little hack only works on old versions of the firmware.

The only service I wanna connect my kindle to is Calibre.

The law they charged that activist with requires an intentional act, i.e. giving a pig the panic code. Possession of a wiped phone can't show destruction of evidence by itself.