ACK, and I was also probably wrong about the location. I had just had my first look at a tiny map and I didn't realize how much farther north the tsunami zone was. Only about a three-meter tsunami, which is quite small compared to March 11th.

Mod parent funny.

And Ponzi schemes are sure to collapse.

Thanks for the heads up. Middle of the night here, but if you want to follow it in English, https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworl... has a live feed. I'm watching it now. Haven't seen the epicenter, but the tsunami warning zone indicates the same area as the quake in 2011 that killed 20 thousand people and led to the Fukushima #1 fiasco.

I'll find out in mid January, lol - it's en route on the Ever Acme, with a transfer at Rotterdam. ;) But given our high local prices, it's the same cost to me of like 60kg of local filament, so so long as the odds of it being good are better than 1 in 8, I come out ahead, and I like those odds ;)

That said, I have no reason to think that it won't be. Yasin isn't a well known brand, but a lot of other brands (for example Hatchbox) often use white-label Yasin as their own. And everything I've seen about their op looks quite professional.

That's kind of my take on the story, but my wording would be more along the lines of "What are the success criteria?" Or perhaps "Would I donate to support this?" (Surely I would not donate on the basis of the description here and not even feeling motivated to learn more.)

But that's also why I wouldn't donate to support the project. You could think of it as a kind of paradox of choice. There are LOTS of things I could donate money to, but in general the success criteria are almost never clear. Whatever I donate to, it's likely that I could have had "more success" donating somewhere else.

Disclaimer needed? I was weird enough to pay for some freely distributed software. Long time ago, and usually for educational purposes for me or my students. One of the results I was hoping for was that the software would continue to exist with support and possibly even improvements, but can't recall any cases where that actually happened. Later donations often had more clear objectives, but my batting average for "wins" was so low that I mostly stopped donating...

Deserves the Funny, but it's also too true in a sad way. In those days the machines were basic enough that you could actually figure out what was going on. Now they are entirely black boxes at every level and from every perspective.

Obligatory quote against the censor trolls. However I have two substantive responses to your topics.

First, I think the extreme megalomanics with sufficient resources are already cloning themselves. Still a secret, but I think the basic plan involves a series of clones a few years apart, all of them carefully indoctrinated to believe whatever the cloner believes. The "upgrade" plan will involve only one major jump, presumably explained as a "relative" who just looks remarkably similar to the megalomaniac at the head of the chain, and then each few years a fresh prime-age clone will be swapped into the top (and only visible) role. Not sure how long the "prime-age" span is, but the plan will be to make the cloner appear to be ageless. (And by the time it becomes obvious what is going on, no one is expected to be able to do anything about it.)

Second, the extreme sociopathic elitists only want medical care for themselves. The only reason "the peasants" should get any healthcare at all is for the sake of developing new medical treatments for the elite. Human guinea pigs, but treated with less respect. Apart from that, they probably believe that peasants can be allowed to buy whatever healthcare they can afford, but at full market price and while maximizing the profits for the elite.

So I thought I would get an example of a "shooting yourself in the foot" (using JavaScript, but I should have gone for examples with Ruby and JavaScript) to try and extend the Funny moderation. However the google search is so sick and literal minded these days that it went off on the tangent of subtle programming mistakes when using JavaScript. Which devolved into another stupid argument with the AI.

In theory it could have asked me what I was looking for, but in practice I think I human being wouldn't have started out on such a stupid foot.

So glad to hear that it was entirely in my mind.

Then again, you might be crazy if you're taking medical advice from Time magazine, such little as is left of it...

But I also felt you needed to be quoted against the ADHD censors with mod points.

Mod parent Funny, but I thought the story had much more potential for humor and so far there's none. Maybe it's too early and the moderators haven't woken up yet?

(Not casting a stone. Felt like I was barely going to manage to wake up after that horrendous test yesterday... Second time at that test site. First time was bad, but this time was more like a circus.)

Just the ACK and concurrence. But if I could read minds, the YOB's is the LAST one I would want to read.

What is the maximum value of moral turpitude?

FTFY

Kind of the joke I was looking for, but I just wish the YOB would finish imploding and go away. Unfortunately I feel like it's too late. This trend started a long time ago, and the YOB is only the peak so far. Now that the precedent has been established and the paths to harvesting the government are well established, it's not like they'll stop after the YOB disappears.

Instead, whatever stupid stuff the YOB says today, we wind up discussing it until he says something more stupid tomorrow.

(Heck, notwithstanding his "You're fired" catchphrase, he hasn't even fired Hegseth yet. I didn't expect him to last out this week.)