Great recommendation. Slow and sludgy is the right vibe for sure

Ambeevalent

Also a pope mobile, which means someone tried to assassinate the car pope and that there was a car Jesus.

If he was at a trailer park at 0930 the criminal tools are a meth pipe and a jet lighter.

I've never heard of paraphernalia referred to that way either. The lock picking stuff or "tools of the trade" is what came to my mind too but this guy is a billionaire I assume and they have a different set of rules we're not privy to.

The shock is losing so much inventory/production capacity unexpectedly. Not the fact that animals die.

I've had several versions of Shokz bone conduction headphones and they are good for long days on teleconferencing and for running or biking when you still want to be able to hear what's around you. I like them for practicing instruments too. The sound quality is good for phone and casual music but not audiophile level

That's what we used to think but then this article came out and changed everything we thought we knew about the relationship between sharks and Earth's largest satellite. Sharks are, according to the article, the most lunarly attuned fish. Hammerhead sharks have been observed exhibiting behavior that is suggestive of an ability to predict eclipses. These sharks care enough about the moon to line their burrows with shells oriented along the path the moon takes through the sky.

All them kids can see is fake perc 30s.

His ending was so brutal. That movie is so good.

For him the keyword was "Management, another please." I don't know if that'll work for most people.

The lack of proportionally between the arms and legs would be its own special hell

I think the commenter in the picture was wooshed

Musk first acknowledged the deaths of the macaques on September 10 in a reply to a user on his social networking app X (formerly Twitter). He denied that any of the deaths were “a result of a Neuralink implant” and said the researchers had taken care to select subjects who were already “close to death.” Relatedly, in a presentation last fall Musk claimed that Neuralink’s animal testing was never “exploratory,” but was instead conducted to confirm fully formed scientific hypotheses. “We are extremely careful,” he said.

Public records reviewed by WIRED, and interviews conducted with a former Neuralink employee and a current researcher at the University of California, Davis primate center, paint a wholly different picture of Neuralink’s animal research. The documents include veterinary records, first made public last year, that contain gruesome portrayals of suffering reportedly endured by as many as a dozen of Neuralink’s primate subjects, all of whom needed to be euthanized. These records could serve as the basis for any potential SEC probe into Musk’s comments about Neuralink, which has faced multiple federal investigations as the company moves toward its goal of releasing the first commercially available brain-computer interface for humans.

The letters to the SEC come from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit striving to abolish live animal testing. The group claims that Musk’s comments about the primate deaths were misleading, that he knew them “to be false,” and that investors deserve to hear the truth about the safety, “and thus the marketability,” of Neuralink’s speculative product.

“They are claiming they are going to put a safe device on the market, and that’s why you should invest,” Ryan Merkley, who leads the Physicians Committee’s research into animal-testing alternatives, tells WIRED. “And we see his lie as a way to whitewash what happened in these exploratory studies.”

For example, in an experimental surgery that took place in December 2019, performed to determine the “survivability” of an implant, an internal part of the device “broke off” while being implanted. Overnight, researchers observed the monkey, identified only as “Animal 20” by UC Davis, scratching at the surgical site, which emitted a bloody discharge, and yanking on a connector that eventually dislodged part of the device. A surgery to repair the issue was carried out the following day, yet fungal and bacterial infections took root. Vet records note that neither infection was likely to be cleared, in part because the implant was covering the infected area. The monkey was euthanized on January 6, 2020.

Additional veterinary reports show the condition of a female monkey called “Animal 15” during the months leading up to her death in March 2019. Days after her implant surgery, she began to press her head against the floor for no apparent reason; a symptom of pain or infection, the records say. Staff observed that though she was uncomfortable, picking and pulling at her implant until it bled, she would often lie at the foot of her cage and spend time holding hands with her roommate.

Animal 15 began to lose coordination, and staff observed that she would shake uncontrollably when she saw lab workers. Her condition deteriorated for months until the staff finally euthanized her. A necropsy report indicates that she had bleeding in her brain and that the Neuralink implants left parts of her cerebral cortex “focally tattered.”

Yet another monkey, Animal 22, was euthanized in March 2020 after his cranial implant became loose. A necropsy report revealed that two of the screws securing the implant to the skull loosened to the extent that they “could easily be lifted out.” The necropsy for Animal 22 clearly states that “the failure of this implant can be considered purely mechanical and not exacerbated by infection.” If true, this would appear to directly contradict Musk’s statement that no monkeys died as a result of Neuralink’s chips.

At some point in the last two years I completely stopped using Google search in browser and just use Google maps to find businesses or ddg for searches. Actual Google search just has too many sponsored or promotional links

If you find yourself making a male-to-male adapter stop. Question all the steps that lead you there. Probably find another way.

I just saw a post that touches on this a few days ago. I'll share the Ben Franklin quote once more, and never again after because I find it painfully crass.

 The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.    

Yea, those busted 27 year olds. Wtf

The beer after reading unnecessarily pessimistic comments on social media

I think they can just call them "families" now without the qualifier.