Dudes a CEO and he's posting "I'm an alcoholic LOL" jokes on his LinkedIn. Wild.

I'm not familiar with Lenin's particular definition of imperialism. Does it somehow exclude what Russia is doing?

Believe it or not, Infowars has you covered there too. What better way to hide your gold from an overreaching government than by turning it into piss?

I made a similar flavor combination the other way around once. At the time I sometimes used a Keurig to make coffee and then again to make instant oatmeal. I thought it would be funny to come up with the shitty life hack of combining them into one process. I had to actually try it once, partly out of curiosity of how bad it could be, and partly to get a picture to post my "genius" idea on r/shittylifehacks.

It was bad. Not "I might throw up" levels of bad, but eating it was just such a slog. I wasn't willing to waste a perfectly edible bowl of oatmeal for a joke, so I soldiered on through a very unsatisfying breakfast. Annoyingly, I didn't even have a cup of coffee to wash it down with.

The dumbest part is that after going through all that, I never actually got around to making the post, and stopped participating on reddit a couple years ago now.

Accidental for the cops. The photographer and Lady Liberty there knew exactly what photo they were going for, and the cops predictably gave it to them.

Mr President, if we get to November of [2026] and people’s 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10–20% at the supermarket, we’re going to go into election day, face a bloodbath

Wow, I agree with something Ted Cruz said. That doesn't happen often.

fuck you, Ted

And I agree with something Trump said? On the same day, no less. What are the odds?

I clicked the link and read the whole thing. I still am not sure if this is sincere or satire. It's so out there that I kind of hope it is real, and that they find what they are looking for.

Ooh! I have actually experimented with fire scaling myself. To some extent, a scaled down campfire can work, but at a different burn rate. I once made a tiny hearth and experimented for a while at making tiny fires in it. I found that within the range I was trying, a little scale model of a fire that worked well at full scale worked just as well at mini scale, just on a much faster time scale.

For example, if I had a human scale teepee style fire burning, say 1 to 2 inch diameter sticks at about 12 to 18 inches long, I'd need to toss another stick on it roughly every 1 to 5 minutes to maintain a nice blaze. Scaled down to sticks about 1/8th that size, I needed to feed it a stick every few seconds to maintain it. Much smaller and I wouldn't have been able to move my tweezers fast enough to keep it fed.

The interaction of different stick sizes also scales that way. If I was to add a couple of eight inch wide split wedges on that same human scale fire, then once those caught, I could slow down feeding the smaller sticks into it to about 1 every 10 minutes, and still keep the same flame size as long as the larger pieces last. Likewise on the same mini fire as above, I could add a few 1 inch wide split wedges, and slow down to feeding it a little stick every 10 seconds.

The size I was playing with could be considered, say, mouse sized. By the time you scaled down to ant sized, the time scale would be so exaggerated as to be meaningless to compare to human sized fires. This isn't taking into account any additional non-obvious factors that change how it behaves. So no, ant sized campfires are not possible. Mouse sized scale campfires are possible, but only if you tend them constantly and quickly.

Also, I didn't take any precise measurements, I was just making tiny fires to relax. All numbers above are just rough estimates from memory, so you can't really calculate how the scaling works from this, only that is sort of does work, within limits.

And I mean, like, really REALLY good at pinball.

No no, go ahead and brag a little. It makes both of us happier about our different life choices.

Felony false alarm or report under Texas Penal Code § 32.06 for saying she had heard reports of hospitalizations from drinking the water, but the police had not heard any such reports. She's now suing the city, the police chief, and one specific city council member. The mayor talked openly with the news about the water issues, but declined to make any comment on the arrest.

Follow up video: The DA did actually file charges, but a grand jury refused to indict, so the case is over. Another guy from out of town got arrested (on live stream) for holding a sign in front of the police station protesting the arrest. He was charged with a misdemeanor, but the judge dismissed it immediately.

Go ahead, no one will notice. No one will immortalize it on camera to be viewed across the internet. It'll be fine.

Actually, they have 2 Outlooks, and neither of them are working.

"S bren s beve"

Such words of wisdom.

Note that these are book ages shown on the movie characters. The movies omit the ~17 year time skip between Frodo's 33rd birthday and his flight from the Shire.

I like the thought, but it won't work. The big websites won't be willing to lose money they don't have to, and like ID laws that give them reasons to extract more data from users anyway.

This looks fun. I don't know any Polish but I've seen it around, and I used to be kinda fluent in win32 years ago. I'll have a go. [Edited updated best guess in brackets.]
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• LPCWSTR win32 string type [longpointer(32bit) to c style (null terminated) wide(UTF-16 characters) string]
• PSZCZYNA Polish
• WCSLEN win32 type for storing the length of a WCS (whatever that is)
• WCZESNY Polish
• LPCTSTR win32 string type [longpointer to c style T? string]
• BYDGOSZCZ Polish
• WSTRZAS Polish. Tricky because it contains STR, but feels much more Polish than win32.
• HGDIOBJ Polish? [win32 handle to a GDI object]
• DOWOD Polish
• HWINSTA win32. handle for a (static?) window maybe.
• DLUGOSC Polish
• LPCSTR win32 string type [longpointer to c style string]
• DWORD win32 (and any other c based 32bit OS) 4 byte integer type (or 8 bytes in 64 bit OSs) [remembered wrong here. in some systems DWORD changes size with architecture, but in Windows it was 32 bits in win16, and so it is forever]
• KAL Polish??
• LPWSTR win32 string type [longpointer to wide string]
• SZCZECIN Polish
• BLAD Polish
• PUHALF Win32 pointer to unsigned 1 byte integer (or 2 byte in 64bit)
• CHUJ Polish
• UHALF win32 unsigned 1 byte integer
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Steampunk then: What if we combined real Victorian craftsmanship and tech with imagined advanced machines.

Steampunk now: What if I glued two plastic gears to a cheap vinyl corset.

This will be an important test for local governments holding federal agents responsible of unlawful behavior. I expect the Trump crowd to all out fight this, both in court and media.

The civil case is just there as an example (among many) of what kind of person he is and didn't need to be in the headline. The pardon was for the 3 year prison sentence for $39 Million dollars in tax fraud for stealing his employees' payroll tax withholdings.

Edit: He also had a prison sentence from the state of Arkansas, where he was immediately paroled and the parole board refuses to pass on his location to process servers. An all around amazing guy who's exactly the sort of person you would expect Trump to pardon.