Imagine starting a war to distract from your pedophilia, and fucking it up so badly you have to wheel out your bimbo wife to remind everyone about your sex crimes, to distract them from the war.

Finally, a good use for AI.

railgun or spinlaunch system.

Not for manned launches though. Unless the goal is to send 280kg of meat paste to orbit.

And if it is an exceeding rare book, you probably don’t want to be destroying it to scan it. I think it’s possible to use a decent camera instead of a scanner, but it is still quite an involved process. Look at what Google did…

The books were placed in a custom-built mechanical cradle that adjusted the book spine in place while an array of lights and optical instruments scanned the two open pages. Each page would have two cameras directed at it capturing the image, while a range finder LIDAR overlaid a three-dimensional laser grid on the book’s surface to capture the curvature of the paper. A human operator would turn the pages by hand, using a foot pedal to take the photographs. With no need to flatten the pages or align them perfectly, Google’s system not only reached a remarkable efficiency and speed but also helped protect the fragile collections from being over-handled. Afterwards, the crude images went through three levels of processing: first, de-warping algorithms used the LIDAR data fix the pages’ curvature. Then, optical character recognition (OCR) software transformed the raw images into text, and, lastly, another round of algorithms extracted page numbers, footnotes, illustrations and diagrams.

Oh how I wish petrol was only 95p a litre here.

Don’t you guys have something about guns and unjust governments written into your constitution?

They are definitely not selling the Gabe cube at a loss. The steam deck could be sold at a loss, because people will buy steam games for it, but the steam machine is a PC, and there would be nothing stopping, for example, corporations buying thousands as cheap workstations that will never see a single steam purchase.

It’s taken 70 years, but the US has finally defeated Vietnam.

*drivarr, surely.

I would love to replace work van with an electric one, but so far it’s not possible for one main reason (other than cost)…I often tow quite heavy trailers and my diesel can tow 2500kg, but every electric van I’ve looked at can only tow 750kg. Maybe it’s something to do with that?

It could be argued that anyone who was not in a horrific air crash is luckier.

This wasn’t police, it was council enforcement officers. People too stupid to get into the police.

Was fucking kids part of his cover too?

OK, Donald J. Trump. He was a democrat at the height of his Kiddy-Diddling-with-Jeff phase.

To be fair, he’s done a lot for the UK’s republican movement.

I guess they feel being capable of a romantic relationship is a sign of having compassion. Unacceptable.

I’m guessing the Germans fined them in US dollars because he was driving in mph. I’m sure they would have been OK doing 320 kph.

Lemmy poster Erusuoyera says pope is catholic.

A brick is a missile if you throw it at someone. Surely throwing missile-like objects automatically makes them missiles anyway.