I feel it. My back was spasming so hard that my right leg was an inch and a half shorter than my left because the muscles were cramped that hard and wouldn’t release.

I swear roberts only makes good decisions to build up capital for the bad ones.

When it first happened the doctor asked my pain level and gave me a look when I said “10.” So I explained that I was doing everything I could to not be actively groaning/sobbing/screaming out loud because society reacts poorly to huge dudes behaving like that. That I’d spent most of the drive over screaming in my car. That I’d puked a few times the night before from pain.

I finally summed it up as, “if you tell me now that I’ll still feel like this in two weeks, I will go home and kill myself. Because that’s my estimate of how long I can endure this.”

Ended up getting into a physical therapist and eventually got cortisone shots. Fixed most of it, thank god

We should be so lucky

Native slotting into server drive cages. No concerns about alignment with the front or back.

Do…do you think those dots are to scale?

No that’s what data claims, I wrote a paper about this last year and did a bunch of research for it.

There was a jump between old early gen SATA SSDs and modern NVMe in my opinion, but it’s really only noticable if you’re running something like a game with a huge amount of data to load, and you’re actively comparing the two.

My old PC had several different hard drives of differing types and I’d periodically be too lazy to move a game from one drive to another so I’d play it off different drives over a period of time, and was able to compare the loading times.

So I’d say they’re faster, but it’s nowhere near the leap that HDD to SSD was.

The coolest thing about Space X is that it knocked about 100 million dollars off the cost of putting a satellite in orbit. More, if you consider the possibility of multiple small satellites sharing a launch to a similar orbit.

This enabled many, many small research companies to begin developing satellites for Earth and atmospheric imaging which is advancing our ability to collect precise data about things like greenhouse gas emissions.

Fuck Musk, absolutely, but a lower barrier to entry to putting things in space absolutely has utility.

Elon Musk watched The Expanse, looked at the Belters, and thought to himself, “Yes, this is the ideal human living condition.”

I am also Spartacus. We are all Spartacus. It couldn’t have been her, I saw her somewhere else. I think with you.

It really is the most ancient point of sale methodology I’ve seen in the last fifteen years or so.

I mean, I was taught that this was specifically an executive check on judicial power in school 25 something years ago.

But again that sort of implies that it “would only be used for good” by an executive against an out of control supreme court. It didn’t really account for a fascist just telling the courts to go fuck themselves just because.

This is just a modern iteration of the book HOLES, and it takes place in a landfill instead of a dry lakebed.

I swear they’re going to argue the founders themselves misinterpreted the language of the constitution and the amendments are all invalid and no longer applicable.

Wait, is your claim that this guy is raping cows? Like, murderer, okay. Maybe even you could argue dairy cows are enslaved. But rape??

We should fire him into an irretrievable orbit with enough food, water, and oxygen for months. Put cameras everywhere inside the capsule and live stream his descent into madness as he runs out of supplies.

This is why I’ve been shouting for nearly two decades that it doesn’t matter how benign a religion is, or if it brings people peace and positivity. Any organization which incubates the tendency toward magical thinking is an existence level threat to our survival.

I imagine most places will have an average temperature +2C above average this year, with the global average hitting it in 2028.

It is currently the beginning of Feb and our normal weather here is a few days of snow, usually a few inches, usually at least one large to shut everything down (like 10+"). Overcast. In the 20s and 30s (F).

I went skiing on Saturday and have never seen so much literally bare ground outside of the very early or very very late season.

I went to a protest today. Parked a distance away and walked. It was 68°. It feels like the end of April. We got almost no snow - only like a foot unseasonably early in the middle of November. The wildfire season this year is going to be rough, and the summer will be brutal.