Apparently Malta already has the Internet. Surprising, I know.

The article doesn’t say anything about them running an AI data center. No one is making that claim.

The butler does everything, it’s their job.

Ship of fools is also a short story by Ted Kazcynsky.

It’s absurdist comedy, the joke is cows don’t have opposable thumbs so can’t use tools, let alone make them. There are other opposable thumb jokes in the world too, it’s almost a subgenre of “animals struggling with human things.”

I tell you farside has way more leeway to do this sort of comedy, because it’s such a short strip so you haven’t invested much attention span given the relatively high rate of pay offs per comic.

Personally if a comic has a certain amount of text to read I often won’t gamble on it, I’ll skip it. The attention economy predates the Internet if you ask me.

1. Pile of grass (pre-chewed).
2. Grass masher.
3. Back scratcher.
4. Slow saw.

All cow tools are 100% approved by cows, the bidding for the first item will start at 3 licks.

I get it, his trumpet is broken.

In a society constantly trying to lower pay, and create worse labour conditions, when the NHS is under constant attacks, when there a housing and cost of living crisis, Brexit happened and politics went corporate and American…

…now why wouldn’t young people want to work for a society like that? Why aren’t they working hard for the promise of a worse life, and the enrichment of billionaires? In a world where everything is measured in financial gain, profit, and capital, rather than happiness?

The drone sticking around means someone is still interested in harming the area. It being the front car that got hit probably means they were (mis)identified as being in a convoy. These are clues. Laying in a near by ditch or cover position may have even been interpreted as not something a normal civilian would do.

If you’re in a war zone, you need to code movements to survival, and understand the clues of what’s going on. An area hit, and watched, is likely to be hit again. A convoy that’s only half-destroyed is likely to be hit again. A strike where people are still behaving in an organized defensive manner (holding for an hour in a cover position), rather than leaving, is likely to be hit again.

Because Israel, wants to kill, and harm human beings. But there are clues here for how millitaries operate that you’d want to understand before going in. How/why things are hit, when, and to what goal. They want a road cleared, they’re going to clear it. Get distance.

Imagine if all that were true, and we had a biology devoted to milk and cheese. What we’d develop as a symbiosis/parasite relationship.

…we would be a different kind of tool builder… Thinking in a totally different way, and scale.

Or sometimes their kid would do it, or very rarely Derren would ask Samantha to enchant his boss or a coworker.

And for those who don’t get The Wizard of Oz… It’s the Author’s views on the then current debate Re: Switching to a currency backed by Gold AND Silver.

The Lionwas Teddy Roosevelt… The Golden brick road leads to the Emerald City (which represents the US Greenback)… Oz is a foolish banker, making up lies as he goes… And Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers were SILVER in the original novel.

I think the joke is: Sometimes you gotta take a stance… But maybe choose when and where better (obviously in an isolated encampment when there’s just the two of you might not be the best time to go off at someone you have to get along with to survive).

Writing and fact checking ONLY the most basic concepts and common information that is found multiple times and in multiple places online (eg. It’s strongly reenforced and verified in the training data and has/will be the same for a long time).

Mass formatting, changing formats, changing language, and decoding via common methods.

Pitching “what you mean, but can’t remember the name for”.

…and that’s about it.

Churchhill… A big advocate of chemical weapons, which he used on the Russian Bolsheviks… But when it damaged his popularity he dumped a bunch of them into the ocean! They’re still there… Just waiting to poison a bunch of stuff I guess.

Yeah, sad isn’t it…

Mind you there’s also the idea that species in the ocean often end up evolving into crabs… So more crabs to come. They’re somewhat inevitable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

Localized pressure differential… Also known as Delta-P…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_hazards#Localised_pressure_differentials

…the contents of the pipe being cut is a large volume of low pressure… The ocean at depth is a large volume of high pressure… The differential is high enough to suck a crab through a small space, making minced meat of it.

There’s stories out there of it happening to divers… Mostly to do with low pressure gas pipes being fixed or repaired.

The morbidly curious can find plenty on YouTube.

They warn you about this effect in diving school… Sounds horrifying and unstoppable.

She was wildly abused on that set, one of the harness pulls permanently damaged her back, fractured her spine and gave her life long pain.

Yeah that’s him I think… And yes he died in the bombing too.

…I wonder how many people he’s killed.