Well, that isn't too hot. My kiln, in my barn, was running a firing last night that got just about that hot for cone 6 pottery and it can do cone 10, even hotter.

It'll take more than a furnace that can do what the average potter's kiln can do before it sounds impressive.

Yes, it's called "D-K Posterboy-itus".

Congenital, I think.

Meet Pop.

Is even shooging against the law now?

The deal was killed in 2024, highly capable Chinese vacuum robots have been around for far longer than that.

The fact is that Roomba's tech was advanced when they first made it, but that was years ago. By now robot vacuums are generic, and there's a limit to how much of a premium you can demand when doing a generic product.

damn right it does.

Pretty much. Steam is based on the customer's opinion -- the one that gamers actually care about.

From the website

Nominations for The Game Awards are selected by a voting jury of OVER 100 leading media and influencer outlets across the globe.

Not one gives a shit about a bunch of shills giving awards over games.

The main thing gamers care about is:

Is it worth playing?

I think some of this is just businesses catching up.

Last month my hotel had chargers in their underground parking so I thought about topping up my PHEV, until I looked at the rates and realized it would cost far more than gas.

As expected, I didn't see the chargers in use a single time over my 3 day stay.

Imagine instead the chargers were free. The cost would be on par with the complimentary coffee pods and toiletries, and I would have come away with a very positive experience.

Installing paid chargers was a bad business decision by the hotel, I expect more public free charging in the future.

I'll be surprised if I find out EOs have any authority outside the executive branch of the federal government. Otherwise a presnit could just unilaterally ban abortion, change federal, state, and locals laws and tax rates, disband Congress...

So join ANTIFAI - anti-f*-ai.

Though it might get you labeled as a ter'ist. Especially if you don't buy the products they're pushing.

What's the point of having a national military if you can't use it to pump taxpayer dollars into corporate coffers?

*scenario*

"Fox company, we'll airdrop a licensed mechanic and a licensed parts salesman onto your position around 0930, as soon as they finish repairing some stuff the enemy captured last year and make their way back to our side of the lines. Division says hold your position as best you can until then -- and remind the riflemen not to use their weapons as clubs, as that will void their warranty. It would be better for the overall war effort to let you position be overrun."

"No, Davies can't fix the autocannon even if your lives depend on it. Division says to shoot him in the arse if he so much as touches it."

They're dragging buzzwords through the water, so see whether they get any nibbles.

Your MBA/PHB eats this shit right up.

The one conclusion we can draw from this is the folks drawing conclusions are exposing nothing but their own beliefs.

All we know is the dog was unleashed and the Waymo hit it.

We don't know if the dog shot out from under a parked car, so it was literally impossible to avoid. Or if it was sitting in the middle of the road and the Waymo ran straight over it.

All the folks trying to assign blame one way or another are doing so completely prematurely.

There's a narrative on the right that fascism was a left wing form of government.,

But the reality is that both fascism and communism were extreme right wing forms of government.

Fascism openly so, but also communism. Remember what fascism actually cares about, maintaining order, obedience to authority, sacrificing for the glory of the state.

Communism was supposed to be about equality and the people controlling everything in a bottom up manner. But the moment you implement it on a national scale you end up with a small inner circle, and they either go fascist like the USSR, or a technocratic dictatorship like China.

There's a reason that when the USSR fell the one narrative you heard was about how much the government lied (because they were far right masquerading as far left). And there's a reason why it was so easy for Russia to go far right under Putin, because they were under far right rule in the USSR.

So yeah, demanding public ownership is pretty on brand for fascists.

They tried to do Jesus, but passengers kept calling security about a hippy boarding the plane.