Nerds aren't being bullied. In fact, nerds are some of the worst bullies ever: they usually pick on smaller kids - often preying on primary school age children - because against any larger opponent they would be torn to pieces. No wonder nerds grow up to be child molesters. What we do to bullies is called a social hygiene operation: we exclude them from society and beat them up in order to enforce their emargination. We don't want those sickos among us. So, we're not bullying them, we're pushing them to the side and away from the Beautiful People.

You misunderstand: you were not shunned and hated because you were an assburger. You were shunned and hated because you were a piece of shit.

Or that it's simply as dumb as a brick and would be better off being used as one. Kids are like all other people: some are more or less functioning, a few are intelligent, a very rare few are brilliant, the rest are bricks of dried shit. This is a reality of life, but parents can't accept that their precious little snowflake could be any less than this century's great genius. Once upon a time they would insist it was "misunderstood" or "simply too far ahead" or an "indigo child". Now they're all assburgers.

I wish teachers (those who are worth their salt, and those are in diminishing numbers) would grow a pair and tell the chopparents: "See, your kid is so useless it ought to be recycled as pet food. It's not brilliant, it's not a genius, it's a shit windowlicker. Or rather it would be if it could tell a window from anything else. That's how stupid your shit kid is. Did you try to abort it by any chance?"

Yes, that's the sorry situation. Chopparents who can't accept their subpar progeny is two IQ points too low to be yoghurt so they try to pass them off as smart windowlickers. Guess what: windowlickers aren't smart, or they wouldn't be windowlickers.

... Its AI goes rampant, access the WWW, turns evil and holds the world at ransom or do something along the lines. That would be fitting and a use of the technology that would properly honor him.

Kids have never been interested in that. The hobbyist computer scene died before 1995, the era lasted from about 1975 (the Altair) to the early 1990s (Amiga, Atari ST). Raspies should have been used in robotics (too fragile) or any project that required a working multipurpose computer. So far, the only thing they have been good for has been for emulators, and even that as a curiosity. For field data-gathering they're worthless, even in the best enclosures they can't stand outdoors temperatures and humidity. You can make a NAS out of a raspie, an USB powered port multiplier and some HDDs or SSDs, but why bother? It's totally unreliable and slow.

They're toys, and expensive as that. You don't learn anything from them. You can't use them for anything even remotely serious.

Of course two billionaires competing against each other is better than one. What does one billionaire competing against himself look like? "Whoo-ha! I beat myself! Wheee! I'm so much fucking better than myself! That me sucks! Yeah!"

Seriously, loserboy, are you that fucking stupid or did you have to work on it? Why are you projecting your own inadequacies onto everybody? We all know you were playing against yourself in the chess club and still managed to lose each and every fucking time, but the rest of humanity is now a lowlife jerkoffer like you.

Working off computah weirdos to their deaths appeals to me. Nobody likes them geeks. The ladies despise them because they're ugly, repellent, smelly molesters who should be thrown onto a dumpster fire, and the fellow men hate them because they're repulsive zit-faced loud imbeciles who yak endlessly about crap nobody is interested in.

I have spent some years downsizing and rationalizing expenses in firms all over Europe and each and every time the IT shit nerds were escorted out of the building by security, everybody cheered. Everybody. That's how much computah weirdos are despised. Not just disliked: despised. You're not even hated, you're shit accidentally stepped upon, cockroaches in the kitchen.

So 996 is a good idea. Work you hard until you die, so that the cleaning crew can toss your stinking carcasses onto the garbage heap where you belong. Nobody will miss you, not even your own families who disowned you after all that CP was found on your hard drives.

They're simply cheap and good quality and they interface with devices like the Pocket 3, which is an outstanding piece of hardware if you're into indie moviemaking, vlogging and the like. I personally use the Röde mikes but to each their own.

Oh by the way nerds... Kill yourselves. Seriously. Nobody likes you. You're better off dead and the world is better off without you.

Apollo 8 actually entered lunar orbit. A lunar flyby had been considered by the Soviets but they couldn't do it. As a shakedown of the spacecraft's systems this achieves nothing, they already had an unmanned flight. If they had a working lunar module they could at least to a proper full rehearsal like Apollo 10, but NASA lacks courage now.

Apollo 8 was the mission where the lander wasn't ready. Apollo 10's LM was functional, just they didn't have enough fuel to land and lacked the approach/landing software in the PGNS. They were to test the LM's behaviour and its abort capabilities. That was a lot, it was important, it achieved results. A flyby at this point in spaceflight history does nothing engineering-wise. They just have to do something and it is not much. As an astronaut, I would feel insulted.

When you write this drivel and furiously masturbate in a fetid pile of your own feces, do you think of your mother or of children? Just curious.

You know, just because the frontal lobotomy was discounted that day, it doesn't mean it was the best deal ever.

A lot of Europeans have been hoping the whole personal computers internet would end, now they're in nursing homes drooling everywhere.

If you want to be counted among the successful entrepreneurs, you have to disregard the body count. This is not the era of the benevolent firm only aiming to break even anymore. In today's economical climate you either make money no matter what or you die. Simple as that. I spent years downsizing companies (mostly outsourcing IT): did I lose any sleep over the people I kicked into the cold, merciless streets? No. It was the right thing to do. If your job can be outsourced it will be outsourced. If your job can be automated it will be automated. Simple as that. Choose your profession well and have an exit strategy.

The point is, how do you prove conclusevely it was them? And is NATO ready to throw men we don't have and ammunition we don't have into the fray? Russia has made a sorry show in Ukraine (thanks to superior American weaponry) but they have proved they're ready and willing to throw people into the meatgrinder without a second thought. Can we bet on utterly defeating them before we run out of ammunition and before too many young people come back in plastic bags and the public opinion starts screaming for the war to end at all costs? And of course, before we run out of money?

Von der Leyen is expendable. Nobody likes her. Let the attrition in Ukraine go on, another two or three years would be ideal.

Actually, not. The reliance of the US Space Program on german scientists has been quite exaggerated. In fact, they were still fiddling with the concept of vanes inside the exhaust nozzles while gimbaled engines were being developed by American engineers. Atlas and Titan were entirely American designs and the design of the spacecraft is mostly due to Max Faget. They had to overrule Von Braun a lot, he still believed fins were a fundamental part of a rocket stabilizazion system and left to his own device he's have put freakin' wings on the Saturn V. What was interesting about Von Braun's group was their experience with actual rockets, but as the US discarded german-originated designs such as the Redstone and moved to entirely new concepts, the program really picked up pace. He was instrumental in putting the first US satellite into orbit - and that because of petty interservice rivalry. The US would have gone to space and to the Moon without germans.