Breakfast cthurrito

Though, to be fair, changing him from a wannabe gangsta to a YouTube manosphere influencer was an inspired touch.

Not sure about this new Ali G reboot, to be honest.

This bodes well for them getting an exemption from the ban on Red Chinese RAM.

The people of ancient Egypt undoubtedly had a vernacular culture as rife with jokes, in-jokes and miscellaneous stupid shit as any online forum. Most of it presumably didn’t make it into stone or papyrus, and even if it did, with its context being long gone, we wouldn’t get it.

Apparently archaeologists discovered a transcription of an ancient Sumerian joke, which requires a lot of explanation to even imagine that it could have been funny. A hypothetical ancient Egyptian meme would probably be a bunch of hieroglyphs, a scholarly annotation explaining that they don’t make sense, and some hypotheses on what’s actually happening, possibly with wild speculations tenuously linking it to the handful of surviving texts and inscriptions we have to go on.

It’s not impossible that Microsoft put the Windows source on Github (as they have done with DOS) before this is ready for use.

Is this vibe-coded?

JTHM was great; it actually mercilessly mocked the darklings who were its nominal following, unlike a lot of more pandering goth comics that mixed the gentlest digs at pretentiousness/formulaic music/ridiculous dance moves/wretched poetry with stock tropes (vampires, New Orleans, beauty-in-darkness). Vasquez was the kind of cranky bastard who could really write.

Donnie Darko was, IMHO, hugely overrated. It felt like a student filmmaker trying to do a David Lynch impression, overseasoning it with Hot Topic angst, missing, and somehow getting lucky. Given how his subsequent film, Southland Tales, fell flat, that’s probably not inaccurate.

Not shown: she perseveres and ends up becoming a celebrated breakdancer

Now that corporate intellectual property is on the line, shit just got serious

Much as in the Everett True universe, men in chequered coats are not to be trusted

Truckloads of dangerous waste (a few lorries’ worth a year per plant), which is only dangerous if you stand close to it in the next 10,000 years or so, something that can be mitigated by how one stores it. (Keeping it under water attenuates much of the radiation, for example.) Or, alternatively, it can be reprocessed to make more reactor fuel.

So it’s less than ideal, though one has to measure the quantity of waste and the risks against the certainty of health costs of fossil fuels (which are visible in cancer statistics even when everything is working perfectly).

Somebody once suggested removing all restrictions on the sale and possession of firearms, but severely regulating ammunition.

Are they going to upgrade the name as well?

Ultron? I think I had one of their XVGA Multiscan monitors in the 90s.

throw an Indian router, an Israeli router and a Turkish router into the chain for extra security

There are a lot of people in third-world shantytowns who’d be appalled at the sort of things the most frugal of us fritter our money away on while they struggle to get drinkable water

Maybe if they sacrifice enough rare books, the Basilisk will save them

Oxygen is slowly killing you. It’s just better than the alternative.

English did historically use æ, as the Latin ae-ligature (along with œ), though it went out of fashion at around the end of the Victorian era, and may not have been used in American English except as a stylistic affectation.

English historically has not done vowel symbols other than AEIOU and the occasional Y, leaving the speaker to bloody well figure out themselves which vowel sound a letter represents in a specific word, leaving it free to use ligatures and diacriticals as accents (i.e. the archaic dieresis in “coördinate” informing the reader that the “oo” is not a “ooh” digraph, these days seen only in the New Yorker). In contrast, languages like German and the Scandinavian languages treat accented vowels as distinct vowels of their own, moving them to the end of the alphabet in the dictionary.