Developers, developers, developers, developers!!! Yeahaw:)):!;!(&5@5@4&!4!!!!!!!!

How about B5: Crusade?

This is the exact same government muscle-flexing Biden’s crew pulled to chill speech on COVID vaccines—coordinated pressure campaigns, flagging “misinfo,” deplatforming skeptics, and leaning on platforms until they folded like cheap lawn chairs (as Zuckerberg himself later admitted under oath). Same intent: intimidate critics into silence.

The only fresh entertainment value here is watching Reddit suddenly discover their spines and “review for legal sufficiency” now that it’s Trump’s DOJ instead of Biden’s. We won’t forget how eagerly they greased those palms and handed over data—or just memory-holed dissent—when the previous admins waved the “public health” flag. Free speech absolutism was always conditional, wasn’t it?

Hypocrisy this blatant deserves a slow clap from the grand jury gallery.

This reminds me of the Bitcoin Faucet and AllAdvantage. All it takes is a shift in demand or technology and suddenly your operating model falls apart. Welcome to the Internet.

Now you can smoke yourself silly.

Yep, banks, airlines, and retail are all irrelevant.

Psst. They don't buy it for the compute. They buy it for the crypto card and security.

PC LOAD LETTER

We're trying to make sure that the astronauts feel comfortable in space and not out of sorts so we made it like just another day at the office.

Yeah, let me get out infront of the comments that will be full of the usual “Big Blue is so 1970s” snark, because nothing says “edgy” like dunking on the company that literally built the infrastructure the entire digital world runs on.

But let’s be real for a second. While everyone was busy calling IBM boring, stodgy, or “the company your grandpa still uses,” they were out here creating one foundational technology after another:

    The hard disk drive (1956 RAMAC — the first one ever)
    The floppy disk that made personal computing actually personal
    DRAM — the memory chips inside literally every device you own
    The relational database and SQL that power basically the entire internet
    Fortran, the first high-level programming language
    Magnetic stripe cards (you know, the thing that made credit cards and ATMs work)
    Silicon-germanium chips that make your smartphone’s Wi-Fi, GPS, and cellular actually fast

And while we’re on the subject of “irrelevant old tech”: over 87% of the world’s credit card transactions still run on IBM mainframes every single day. Your salary, your rent, your impulse buy at 2 a.m. — all of it humming along on the same “dinosaur” systems the cool kids love to mock.

So sure, pile on the hate. IBM’s used to it. They’ve been the Rodney Dangerfield of computing for decades: “No respect, no respect at all!” But every time you swipe a card, save a file, run a query, or (now) watch a quantum computer match real lab data on magnetic materials you’re standing on IBM’s shoulders. They didn’t just ride the wave. They built the ocean.

Keep innovating, Big Blue. The haters will be back next week to complain about something else you quietly made possible.

Finally, the untold story of how the Hobbits discovered microaggressions and how the Ring got canceled for being a symbol of systemic oppression. Shadow of the Past? Perfect title â" itâ(TM)s literally the shadow that swallowed Colbertâ(TM)s once-great Late Show, the one that started hilarious and then slowly petered out under an avalanche of politics until half the audience ghosted it for good. Middle-earth just got Colbertâ(TM)d. Hard pass.

I agree. The last thing I want is a 0 rated death trap made with Chinese cells parked right next to a wooden structure.

We are having a hard enough time as it is already debugging code generated by LLMs and now someone wants to make it even more obscure??

Ah, yes, because nothing screams “bold post-Brexit innovation” like gene-editing barley so cows can burp less methane while we get juicier steaks faster. Bravo, UK! You’ve finally hopped on the GMO train—not for the boring old reasons like, y’know, feeding starving people or actually solving real agricultural problems—but because an island that contributes roughly 1% of global emissions (look it up, it’s adorable) is dead-set on slashing its own cow farts by a whopping 15%. That’s right, folks: the planet’s fate hangs in the balance of British livestock flatulence, and this single-letter DNA tweak is apparently the heroic fix.

Even Bill Nye—the guy who used to side-eye GMOs like they were radioactive—eventually came around and endorsed them specifically as a tool against world hunger. But nah, why bother with anything as pedestrian as ending famine when you can virtue-signal about climate while the actual heavy emitters (China, India, the US) keep right on trucking? Genius. This isn’t science; it’s eco-therapy for a nation convinced their pasture tweaks will cool the globe.

And the best part? It’s not even “GMO” in the scary EU sense—no foreign genes added, just two switches flipped off. Yet here we are, celebrating it because it makes the meat industry slightly more profitable and the cows slightly less gassy. Truly, the future is moo-ving in the right direction straight into irrelevance. Well played, Britain. Well played.

Instead of being angry, cap the gas line at your other residence (wow, you have two, that's more than 95% of us which means you have more financial freedom to get what you want) and install another induction cook top like you have at the other residence. As you said, you'll breathe less "toxic gas" and not have to use that awful fossil fuel anymore.

But the key here is CHOICE. It's obvious from the fight that a lot of people do not want to be forced into electric appliances, and that is their choice. The indoor air pollution theme only came into play recently to give extra leverage to what was a campaign against fossil fuel for CO2 reasons.

For the record, I am rather sensitive to the smell of natural gas and propane, yet I have a natural gas connection and an electric range. I don't have any of the "leaks" you speak of, and you should call a plumber to check every pipe joint if you have these leaks.

So let's let the people have their choice and focus environmental aspirations on big polluters instead of small fry, because we won't waste our social capital making people angry over a very minor source of CO2 as compared to others.

Russia’s latest smear on Pavel Durov and Telegram is unfortunate, but predictable. Telegram is the real free speech winner, and has quietly become the ultimate Reddit replacement, packed with the freshest uncensored takes on politics, borders, elections, and culture that Big Tech’s corporate overlords have scrubbed from every other site. No algorithms throttling wrongthink, no power mods nuking voices, just individual channels and groups free from breathing down-your-neck moderation. There’s a thriving community for everyone if you can find it the channel, all hidden away from the echo chamber.