Interesting.

Seems self indulgent and untoward… Especially so since the celebratory year is almost half over.

Link to video Interesting video about whale falls (basically what happens when a whale dies and how it feeds an bottom ocean community for decades.)

I must confess I basically skipped leg day from 1980 until sometime last year. So I have some catching up to do.

[image: 1777426525733-81syd3wuf-l._sl1500_.jpg] About 1/5 of the way in. Tell me it gets better.

https://x.com/marcorandazza/status/2049299288774041800?s=20

I just watched a couple minutes but I liked the comment that paranoia makes a good engineer. I’ve been obsolete as a coder for far too long to worry about it.

cock

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https://x.com/brianstelter/status/2049145864606691578?s=46

@Doctor-Phibes said: Privatisation of companies to serve the greater good. Isn't there a word for that? [image: 1777396164385-img_2131.jpeg]

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All the more reason to serve the cheapest plonk wine possible at such events.

Same logic works for kids btw

Ceefax because ‘minitel’ was taken. BlackBerry integrated with corporate email systems it wasn’t just a standalone system.

@Horace said: @taiwan_girl said: I think most people, if given the choice, would chose remote, And those who enjoy/need the office social interactions convince themselves that those people just don't know what's best for themselves. Meanwhile, probably 90% of people, if given the choice to take or leave the whole in person office scene, would leave it. But the 10% are sure they're all simply ignorant of what is good in life. I think most people would prefer a bit of both. The main complaint I hear about office working is all the time wasted in commuting, rather than being in the actual office being awful.

It's pretty obscure and not quite as funny as people are saying (he's getting an impending mortality bump). Trump said that Pence needed the courage to not certify the 2020 election results, which in Trump's addled mind would have led to Trump retaining the presidency. (It wouldn't have.)

A book I mentioned in the book thread is called "Station Eleven" about a pandemic that kills not all, but most people. Goes through some of the same decay that you guys talk about. (interesting, but the book was written just a year or so before COVID).