The New Coffee Room

I think you’re too dismissive. It’s true the applications are narrow but that doesn’t mean they’re not impactful. Quantum computing could totally transform drug discovery, catalyst design, or battery chemistry for example.

@89th said:

I joined in 2005 when I was a baby at my first job out of college (man, it was almost exactly like Jim in The Office), except we sold telecom wire instead of paper, but the office size, layout, and even the boss looked just like Michael Scott. We even had a holiday party on a boat like they did in the first season!

Anyway, I was really bored at work and they had blocked chat rooms, so I was searching to find a somewhat interactive place to chat and found the old coffee room somehow. What a stroke of random luck. I started a thread about how I can debate and beat anyone or something like that and I think @tom-k said "I'm scared" thinking I was going to be a bully. Turned out I was just a young idiot. Now I'm a middle aged idiot.

You also had a man-crush on Sean Hannity.

I wonder how they define ‘early career salary’.

Watch China wait until the war is over and make a deal with Iran to allow passage for all yuan-denominated oil deliveries.

Me right now.

Our balcony.

Putting my sunburned feet in the water.

That said his outline of what’s happening seems correct. It’s what ending our role as a global superpower looks like.

Yeah politicians generally play checkers not chess, especially in democracies. That is when they’re not eating the pieces.

Also there’s what’s known as the ‘myth of energy independence’. As if we can sit on our shores with $40 oil while huge swathes of the world just go without or pay 4x that.

A pound of ground been now costs more than the federal minimum wage.

First time ever.

@bachophile said:

American F15 E strike eagle downed SW Iran. Two crew ejected.

Search and rescue underway.

“That reminds me of the time I was airlifted off Everest…”

Still, all that time, money, and prep just to have someone slip you a Mickey at base camp….

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Koh Lanta - one peninsula over. Fewer tourists and more high end.

Did you know: all five of the US flags planted by the Apollo missions have been bleached white by the UV rays which means now the moon technically belongs to France

Lol NASA