True the battery tech is really coming along, going to be interesting to see what prices are like when I go to replace the 22kwh worth of batteries on my boat next year. The fight between cheaper tech, inflation, and tariffs is going to be a nail biter.

It’s interesting, but even if it’s reaching near rare earth strength, can it be produced at scale? A less powerful magnet is useful if it can be cheaper.

Apparently they’re looking at tying together hundreds of stand alone generators from Caterpillar.

That they’re already happy to let us mine and extract.

Again, there is zero justification for taking allied land by force. The only reason is that they want to do things that would piss off Denmark, and all of those things would also piss off America.

There’s zero reason to need to control Greenland any more to regulate shipping. The US had 6000 troops in Greenland during the cold war.

The US has all that now, without invading an ally. So again, the only reason the US needs Greenland, is to do things that would piss off Denmark.

The only reason the US would need greater access to Greenland would be to attack Europe.

Damnit, another sequel?!

The American dream is now to escape America.

I mean, it’s really both. Hamas is batshit crazy, they’re just far less militarily powerful.

There are no good guys in the Israel Palestine fight.

Putin told Trump he’s at risk of losing Crimea this winter

China laughs as the US hurts itself in confusion.

Natural cooling, in a vacuum. Isn’t that kind of like natural wetting, through a rubber glove?

Fascism always needs an enemy. If they don’t have one, they’ll make one.

There are fanatics in Russia. Enough to end the world? Maybe, are those dice you really want to roll with a moron in charge of the US?

Boilerplate code is where it rocks. The syntax for that API function you use once every 5 years and no way remember, it’s got you covered. It can knock out helper functions like a boss too. Nothing complex, that takes too long to fix, but the text filter and type conversion stuff is quicker than typing them out yourself.

Something else, very similar motif. It’s a sci-fi pulp novel.

I think the story neuromancer had workers who would show up have their brain chip turn them into meat puppets for 8 hours then they would wake up not knowing what they had done to earn their checks. It was a cheap labor scheme for day workers or prostitutes. I still think that’s really the capitalist goal.

Pretty sure that’s the Boeing 777 and they discovered that after a crash off Brazil.

I use autopilot all the time on my boat. No way in hell I’d trust it in a car. They all occasionally get suicidal. Mine likes to lull you into a sense of false security, then take a sharp turn into a channel marker or cargo ship at the last second.