I think all the appeals to preserve “whimsy” in recent years lends credence to your observation.

Yup. It’s a scary time. You take some LinkedIn data, some Walmart shopping habits, a Spotify user catalog, a Google timeline, combined with Flock footage - mix it all together with “AI” - and suddenly you’ve got an extremely detailed profile of any individual you want. And we’re only in the early stages. That is, spying, prediction, eavesdropping… The only logical conclusion to the surveillance apparatus is an evolution towards an apparatus for control. And it will be the most sinister, subtle, and undetectable type of coercion imaginable.

I just want to grill for gods sake.

Lmao I just watched the trailer for Monkey Shines. Rest in peace George, you legend.

Wat… The lone seeder is elevated to mythical status in torrent culture. People take great lengths to preserve old content - whether that’s by seedboxing, ripping physical content, or even the more backend stuff like trackers who have entire systems devoted to “reseed requests”.

If pointless noise on forums is one of the biggest downsides of LLMs, isn’t your whole spamming thorn game self defeating?

No reason you can’t use LLMs to write deterministic scripts. Handing off every task to an agent is a crapshoot, but they do help with some tasks. At the minimum - writing regression tests.

500 million could buy you a fleet of 150 buses to start a bus system for a small town.

Sure, it won’t buy you a coast-to-coast rail system, but no one said that was what the 500m was trying to afford.

The good part was the freedom

Except for the slaves, which as you know, are explicitly allowed in the constitution.

The rosewill 4u cases are cheap and fit eatx. I put some noctuas in mine, and it works great.

It is the necessary precondition to the “anyone with greater than x FLOPS in their own home is a terrorist” argument.

A reminder to those who hail steam as the savior: you’re gonna get bit.

Somewhat unrelated, but window awnings are an often overlooked solution for your exact problem. They’re not quite as quick and dirty as some reflectix or aluminum foil, though.

https://youtu.be/uhbDfi7Ee7k

If you think curves and pillars are hard to represent in software, you’ll be aghast how hard they are to represent with hand drawings.

Your typical architect or engineer of the era would need a kit of dozens of French curves to achieve proper specs in the drawing.

I think auto cad’s role in minimizing residential craftsmanship pales in comparison to pre-fab techniques, fewer craftspeople, high volume assemblies, necessity for faster builds, less old-growth timber availability, and a philosophical shift in the economics of home building that now lean more towards speed and mass production.

1-Million-Mile (1.8-million-kilometer) batteries

After 2 million kilometers (1.25 million miles), CATL’s EV batteries retained about 400 km (250 mi) of range. Competitor cells, on the other hand, retained considerably less, at around 350 km (218 mi) and less.

The data is based on 12 electric vehicles, 100 sample batteries, and real-world applications across four major cities in China. You can see in the chart from Morgan Stanley Research that Models 11 and 12, which use CATL batteries, exhibit considerably slower degradation than the other suppliers.

https://electrek.co/2026/01/06/catl-ev-batteries-significantly-outperform-rivals-degradation/

What leads you to believe that CATL has been unsuccessful at achieving a 1 million mile battery?

Im not worried about it. The driveway is primarily a concrete slab, with the aforementioned river rock acting as a sort of decorative strip along the edge. It sure does smell nice.

My neighbors mint spread to an area of my driveway that is comprised of (from bottom to top) weed barrier, 8 inches of CA6, and 2 inches of river rock.

Needless to say, we’ve been finding excuses to make as many mojitos as possible.

but i appear to have been banned on .ml

Uhhh, yeah you were making threats on people’s lives lol

I highly suspect that you will have a long leash here, and will be allowed to say just about whatever you want.

Bruh, you yourself just had your leash yanked on .world

What are you even talking about? Rimu is an authoritarian is the point.

Piefed literally has social credit score lol. The dude in charge is a nanny who thinks the users aren’t wise enough to do their own blocking. There’s been a shit ton of drama surrounding that dork in recent weeks, and all he’s done is dig in.

“If it only exists on your laptop, it doesn’t exist”