I use them for pretty much everything because they’re marginally quicker to clean thoroughly than a fork

I had to uninstall chrome and switch to edge on my work laptop just to make it usable. 8 is barely enough, if you’re very careful

Yes, Mark, chase the next thing. I’m sure that will be the one that works out for you

AIUI he’s wrong - the chemicals were way too dilute to do anything to the paint OR algae. The paint is peeling due to lack of prepping the pool before painting it

WDM? It’s only been 7 PMs in the last 10 years. That’s only 5 more than the more usual number of [less than] 2

We can, at least, identify her exactly in the film, as she celebrates her 23rd birthday

No, the MAGAs are saying that it was antifa who dumped algae and chemicals in the pool to make Trump look bad

The picture wasn’t even on the blockchain. It was a url which links to a picture of a cat sitting on someone else’s server

That logo hasn’t grown on me

He paid a lot of taxpayer money to a friend, and I’m sure he got a hefty kick-back too. Why would he care beyond that?

Sad thing is it’s not a poor decision - he gave a lot of taxpayer money to a friend and almost certainly got a nice little kickback himself. It’s a bad decision if you assume he gives a fuck about the pool. But not if you think he only gives a fuck about enriching himself

I feel like the headline could just be 4 words

the pair were not exclusive

…

MJ would learn on this trip that her partner was seeing other women

…isn’t that was “not exclusive” means?

The shocking thing here is not that there are MAGA accounts from outside the US, but that twitter introduced a feature which would expose that

As an aside, you can tell how successful the rebranding of twitter as “x” has been, since even now more than 2 years after the rebranding news articles still have to add “formerly known as twitter” every time they mention it.

More significantly, he’s one of the key instigators and powers behind the current us government. Explicitly wants to create a technocratic dictatorship.

There was a Twitter exchange Erich did the screenshotted rounds a year or so ago, which went something like this:

Tweet 1:

Sometimes i spend so long crafting the perfect prompt that i realise what the solution is and don’t even have to ask ChatGPT

Tweet 2:

Bro just discovered “thinking”

Given that Melanie has just made a completely unprompted speech about how she totally was never friends with Maxwell, i suspect that something new is about to drop

Not me, but there’s a great example of this in chess.

There’s an opening called the Bongcloud. You move the pawn in front of your king out for your first move, and then for your second move you move your king up a square. It’s memed as being the strongest opening possible, but it’s actually almost the worst 2 opening moves you can possibly make. Because modern chess does have a large online component and the current best players are young and like memes, it has been played in tournaments, which means that if you play it in an up to date chess programme the programme will name it as the Bongcloud.

A lot of people seem to think that it’s called the Bongcloud because you’d have to be stoned to play it. But almost all chess openings are named after one of three things: a person, a place, or an animal. In this case, the Bongcloud is named after a person - Lenny Bongcloud.

Lenny Bongcloud is a now-inactive user of chess.com. He would always open with the moves described above. That’s because, unbeknownst to them, Lenny wasn’t playing the same game as his opponents. They were trying to checkmate him. He was trying to walk his king to the opposite side of the board as quickly as possible. If he gets checkmated, he loses. If he gets his king to the other side of the board he counts it as a victory and resigns.

So, yeah. One of the oldest known games in the world has an opening the “official” name of which comes from a jokey alias adopted by someone who was deliberately playing the game wrong.

They don’t need to die, they need to go back to what they used to be. The first copyright law was called the Statute of Anne and it covered a work for 14 years.

That’s a totally reasonable amount of time for an author/publisher to make their money. And it’s reasonable for creators to want to get paid for their work.

And then it should be public domain.