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Comment No it won't (Score 1) 22

The collision could create a bright flash that would be visible with the naked eye for several seconds

I can guarantee if this asteroid does hit the Moon, it will either be at noon local time for me, or it will be cloudy that night. Unless it's something happening over a period of days or weeks, seeing celestial events around here is a rarity, generally because of the clouds.

Comment Re:Prurient Interests (Score 1) 137

As the meme says, "we knew more about the Coldplay Kisscam couple after one day than we know about Matthew Crooks after one year."

Be careful about what people find interesting but be even more careful about what people find anti-interesting.

Especially the "free press".

If I were going to assassinate a president you can be darn sure a) I wouldn't tell anyone about it, b) wouldn't leave any notes lying around, c) would destroy my hard drive well prior to the day, and d) would make sure I can hit my target at 400 feet.

Comment It's a start (Score 1) 10

Can I now have access to the written records of the Senate debates about approving the amendments to the Constitution like I used to have at the National Archives until those records were hidden from public view? Being able to read the words of the Founding Fathers and others about the meaning and extent of the amendments is a great way to piss off a certain group of people.

Comment Re:incredible (Score 2) 23

The greater joke is that we have a Secretary of Education that's only qualification is that she is married to the country's sleaziest / richest wrestling promoter.

You forgot the part where she was involved with child sex abuse as well as lying about having an education degree. Not to mention tipping off a doctor about a Justice Department investigation.

Comment Re:Get it while it's hot! (Score 1) 32

Just like "webmaster" was a thing just by being able to edit HTML files and that evaporated in the early 2000s.

Judging by current web sites, they're still around. Just had a web page not work in Firefox. The fields where you enter your credit card information never activated. Couldn't enter anything. How many decades has this been around and we still can't get it right? Had to downgrade to using Edge at work and hope my info doesn't get spread to the four winds.

Comment Re: Russian Hacker In Ukraine? (Score 1) 64

"Most Americans speak English too, but you don't see us trying to annex the USA."

It's easy for you to abstain from a fight, because the U.S. does not ban public education in English.

Such as Russia teaching only Russian to Ukrainian children they've kidnapped? Or trying to eradicate anything Ukrainian through indoctrination of children they've kidnapped?

Comment Embedded videos suck (Score 0) 28

Trying to get an embedded video to play inside a web page is a nightmare. Enabling this script or this css, constantly refeshing to see if it will work, is just another example of the enshittification of the web. At this point it's far easier to copy out the link and run it by itself than it is trying to navigate the mountains of cruft web pages have in them.

Comment And? (Score 2) 277

That's how you win wars. To quote General Patton: “No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”

Considering all the atrocities Russia committed and continues to commit against Ukraine, this doesn't even register.

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