Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I miss those people, and I want to know what happened to them next.

It’s called the Iron Rule of Prohibition for a reason.

Christ. I hadn’t even thought of that. I think there would be plenty of warning for a mobile target (e.g. POTUS and detail) to leave the target zone, but damn…

280 miles to Mar-a-Lago.

And yet…Vance just might hold another office, a higher office even, by means other than election. He’s got about a 17% shot if I’m using the actuarial tables correctly.

Does he realize how close Cuba is to Florida? It’s all fun and games until hundreds of Geran drones hit buildings in Miami.

Trump reminds me of one of those Bond villains—e.g. Max Zorin or Auric Goldfinger—who has all kinds of incredible master plans, and yet can’t help grifting on the little things like cheating at horse racing or gin rummy.

Maybe you’re more thoughtful, but a lot of AI haters are like people who are so afraid of arson that they want to stop *everybody* from using fire. Those of us who just want to bake bread don’t appreciate being vilified.

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This is Negotiation 101. Your negotiation power is inversely proportional to your willingness to walk away. The more you need what the other person can give you, the more you will have to give up to get it.

To live in a typical sci-fi Martian colony is to live in poverty, far from the Earth’s industrial base, and with too few people to benefit from specialization. All in an environment like arctic tundra, but you can’t breathe the air, and the ground is covered with the dust of a million rusted cars.

At least the moon is close. Mars is a longer trip and in a deeper gravity well. Also, I think Mars dust is even worse. And between the distance and the dust, solar power would be hard to use. With enough effort, we could put a team there, but nobody would want to live there for long.

Jonathan Karl @jonkarl This morning, I asked President Trump if he's okay with the Iranians charging a toll for all ships that go through the Strait of Hormuz, he told me there may be a Joint US-Iran venture to charge tolls: "We're thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It's a way of securing it— also securing it from lots of other people." "It's a beautiful thing" 4:22 AM • Apr 8, 2026 • 1.7M Views

You just know that Trump is *this close* to literally doing the whole "mining our own harbors" thing.

For me it’s Lenny Kravitz’s “Fly Away” with the lyric “Let’s go and see the stars,
The milky way, or even Mars.”

Cosmologically, that’s equivalent to someone here in Chicago singing “Let’s go see Paris, The World, or even the bar at the corner of my block.

Protects the people, protects the computers…

The Earth is in that picture too, and it's 4 times wider and 80 times more massive, yet large strikes are rare. They would be even rarer on the moon. Most visible craters are millions or billions of years old. On the other hand, there's no atmosphere to protect from tiny pebbles hitting at 20km/s...

Maybe some of them had poor viewing angles, or the capsule orientation was wrong, but Apollo 8 reported seeing the far side, and I'm pretty sure most of the rest did as well. Granted, Artemis 2 was higher up, so no other human had that particular view of the farside, but other people have seen it

I heard some news anchors say that Artemis 2 was the first time humans had seen the far side of the moon with their own eyes. But by my quick count, 9 Apollo missions reached lunar orbit, carrying 25 astronauts, every one of whom could have seen the far side.

i don't want to live through one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World

Not to mention that Bluesky is built by only a handful of developers. I’m pretty sure the whole company is less than 50 people, and they aren’t all devs. That’s why you can’t have all your favorite features immediately.

When you post that picture it reminds me…a friend of mine used to be a stripper, and she tells me that one time she yelled to the crowd “I’m going to do an impression!” She then swung up and wrapped her legs around the pole and hung upside down with her arms dangling. Nobody got it.

There’s also the fact that most special forces missions depend on a degree of surprise, stealth, and deception, whereas Iran has a pretty good idea of what we’re going to do and where we have to do it.

You’re right, it takes a lot of troops. A couple of hundred maybe to go in and seize the materials, with thousands more to protect them. And some of that uranium is still buried from the previous attack…

As I understand it, using special forces to seize an enemy’s nuclear bombs or materials has long been considered an option. There are people who maintain plans and units trained to execute them.

Heh, when affordable calculators came out, I remember people saying we still had to learn arithmetic because “You won’t always have a calculator with you!”

Bitch I’m posting this from a lightweight battery powered supercomputer I keep in my pocket.

Fuck you, slaver!

And rumor has it that we’ve been helping Ukraine find Russian targets. We’ve been fighting with the Russians through proxies for most of 75 years. So this shouldn’t have come as a shock to planners of the Iran war.

100 million?!? I'd settle for deporting just one in particular.

After 30 years at the keyboard, handwriting is almost a lost art. Printing is painfully slow if I want it legible. The only cursive I do is writing out the amount of a check, and I don't think I've written a check in the last two or three years. I do still have to sign documents sometimes...