Did you ever read about the solar-powered plane that went all the way around the world? No fossil fuels in that one.

Elon Musk moved to Texas because Cali wouldn't let him open a factory during a global pandemic, so I imagine his response to sea level rise will be to move to Denver or some shit.

I expect Pyston to announce that Python contains Pyston's precious intellectual property and every Python user must pony up a $600 site license. It's happened before.

Star-Lord thought it was the shit in Guardians 2

Code for Texas being a right to work state. They can hire scabs at half pay. Makes the shareholders beam.

"Shombo, always," he heard Voytek say loudly, the accent unmistakable, growing closer, resentful, "is genius. Shombo is genius coder. Shombo, I will tell you: Shombo codes like old people fuck." (From "Zero History" by William Gibson)

2 Chronicles 34:7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. (Republicans: "But muh Nathan Bedford Forrest statue! That's history!)

My wife's Win7 lappie got hit with ransomware once. My Linux lappies never have. Just sayin'. But good luck getting people and agencies to switch. Can't push a rope.

Most people are in the middle. The extreme right has veered so far to the right they've come all the way around the big wheel and morphed into the hard left, with their idea that the federal government should interfere with how states chose their electors or not allowing states to decide whether two menfolk or two womenfolk can get hitched, or punishing a private company for flagging the Orange Man's tweets. The far left has bent so far around the big wheel they've entered into the same realm of moral panic that used to mark Evangelicans in the '80s when they freaked out about Satanic day care centers, or Mortal Kombat or Doom causing kids to become killers. This moral panic was best exemplified by their objection to female characters on The Mandalorian having armor that didn't squeeze their boobs uncomfortably like a permanent mammogram. Now Cancel Culture has invaded Open Source.

CO2 in 2019 was 409.8 parts per mllion, higher than any point in the last 800,000 years. When the numbers come in for 2020 I'm sure it might dip to 404 ppm or some shit like that, before taking off again.

You're just jealous because Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train has yanked down $381 million worldwide in a year with a global contagion.

Because the patented Deorbiting Flaps(tm) have no air to push against?

Me: "Hey Elon, they're not deorbiting like you said." Musk: "The automatic deorbiting systems must have failed."

My interface for Slashdot is lynx, in a terminal emulator, in a tab right next to another one I can use to ftp. Just like I use alpine for Usenet rather than a web-based front end. But when you're a GUI hammer everything looks like a WWW nail.

There's a little thing called the Constitution of the United States of America that would keep that from happening.