Saw almost the exact same headline for Asian markets this morning, in between other less cherry articles like there's a cooking oil crisis in Brazil, and it's just baffling. Optimism and worst oil crisis ever are not compatible.
Just satisfying my curiosity and figuring out that the 2011 quake was about 50 times larger than today's but it released 354 times more energy.
hell yes i love entertainment-led content
We were born at the wrong time 😭
A robot purpose-built to win a race just tells me that building a robot for a specific purpose is a lot better than a general-purpose humanoid robot. Just think how much faster that thing would have been with wheels.
Ooof. Now I wish I had hair.
This is the correct relationship for a writer to have with her editor
Scalper countermeasures. Got it. Amazon never blessed me to buy either.
What an amazing gift for a loved one celebrating the 31st anniversary of Waterworld this year.
The Angle Computer is a complicated electromechanical system with gears, motors, and bundles of wires. It has a grey metal shell that includes a half sphere. Inside this sphere, arms move a star pointer to indicate the position of a star. Other gears and mechanisms read out the position.
In the 1960s, the B-52 bomber could navigate by the stars. Celestial navigation requires spherical trigonometry, so an analog Angle Computer solved these equations electromechanically. Let's look inside...
Wtf since when does Amazon JP not let you cancel?
Uncoolest place: Toilets at Ueno station!
Thanks rich asshole
It all makes sense when you understand that VC-backed tech companies want to insert themselves as a monopolistic, corporate tollbooth into EVERY human activity.
Transportation, communication, payments, farming, reading, listening to music, finding information, and now— with AI, *thinking*.
The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.
Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.
And they would have gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids!
Next number is 10,000.
I know just the guy
Chris Cornell did have the voice of an angel.
Same for translation.
It was the superior format!
Big volcano has a chance to do the funniest thing.
Happy you got that bike duck fixed!
On the other hand, massive moon-based rail guns.
My theory is that covid turned a lot of peoples' brains to mush and now they believe in magic.
Rakuten served me up some spice the other day.
too fucking funny
Hahahaha, Akiaji is good, but it's one of those beers that loses its flavor quickly. I'm not sure I'd drink it 8 months after brewing.
magical
