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And which 'Murica pickup truck?

They fucked around and found out, and got embarrassed.

Although by stopping users right after the search with a scraped LLM answer, they won’t go to other sites like they used to which could serve google ads for them, resulting in less money. Not to even mention the long term issue that with no more traffic or revenue, the websites the AI uses for information will die, making the AI useless.

“they simply sold the older, less pure gold bars in New York for what they were worth in U.S. dollars as gold prices were reaching all-time highs, then pocketed the cash and bought bars that met their updated weight and purity standards in Europe, as prices conveniently pulled back.”
-https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2026-04-06/bank-france-sells-its-129-tonne-us-gold-reserve-then-buys-it-back-europe

It’s good to know that Trump won’t do something if he needs the permission of Congress for it first. I’m sure he follows those rules very well, and would never break them.

Speaking of that, has anyone seen the official declaration of war and authorization of military action against Iran anywhere? The Congress seems to have misplaced it somewhere. Must have gotten lost in the mail.

Even worse, she might have also done the terrible crime of wearing something tan and that would have seriously damaged the reputation of the United States.

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So basically DLSS for spy satellites. Kinda neat.

If it’s anything like the solution planned in Finland, the waste is placed in copper containers, transported in pretty much bomb-proof vessels, and the facility is kilometres deep underground split into multiple separated chambers that get filled with concrete (or bentonite to be more precise) once they are full. The result is a solid block that will survive basically forever and the only thing you need to do is not go dig it back up.

Another good one is Onkalo in Finland.

The three best current female chess grandmasters are global ranks #123, #152, and #169. So unless the process of transitioning somehow damages your mental ability to play chess massively, there are at least 122 men that could at any point transition and become the top female grandmaster. And if there was no womens only chess championships, there would be I think… One? Female grandmaster in the entire history of chess? Judith Polgar got to rank #10. Second highest was Hou Yifan at #55.

For some other sports, back when Serena Williams was the top women’s tennis player, she lost to the man at men’s ranking #203, who said he wasn’t even playing seriously.

That’s why there are very often womens and open (and almost never mens) divisions in sports, and why trans players aren’t usually allowed in the womens one - because usually, it would be really unfair.
The open one is open, female athletes are free to compete in them. They essentially never do because they can’t qualify, but if you want to know what sports without gendered brackets would look like, it would pretty much be men only.

Trump, you just made your Board of Peace. Ask them for help, ask them to uphold world peace and end the war for you. Surely you can solve your own war yourself, big man, seeing as it was you who started it?

The front fell off.

Russia claims that it was attacked by Ukrainian drones launched from Libya, but usually what they claim is not true so nobody actually knows yet.

Wroom wroom make monkey brain happy.

Because the servers I follow aren’t on matrix, signal or jitsi, and neither are any of my friends.

Currently, a lot of the discarding is done by individual shops/resellers. I know of a few instances where basically all customer returns and unsold merchandise was slashed at the orders of the manufacturer to make them unusable, and then thrown in the bin.

If that is made illegal and everything would have to be returned, stored, processed and then sent somewhere else anyway, the chance that it’s going to end up with destruction greatly diminishes - opening that outlet section/shop or selling them to a local outlet company suddenly makes a lot more finacial sense.

There kinda is, as at some point the heating hits a stage where the oceans will warm up enough, and as warm water can’t hold on to as much Co2, it will be released into the atmosphere, which causes the oceans to warm up, which releases Co2, which causes… And so on.
Add in some ice melting and stuff like that, and once the feedback loop starts properly, there’s not much we can do to stop it.

We are a frog in a pot where we know someone is going to put a lid on it eventually, and we keep arguing and contemplating about when and how soon it might happen, instead of working on getting out of the pot before it does.

Though if you are in extremely cold weather areas, like Alaska, it actually doesn’t help at all as the permafrost keeps the basement walls and floor frozen all year round down hundreds of metres (~3 times as many hundreds of feet)

But anywhere the ground isn’t frozen, go down a few floors and it usually stabilizes somewhere around 15C/60F no matter the ambient air temperature. Fantastic for geothermal heatpumps - warmth in the winter, cooling in the summer.

The fact that they can sell you a car without having to give you all of the terms and conditions is kinda nuts. Imagine if you went to buy a house and they just went “Nuh uh, pay first, we give you all the HOA rules and city ordinance laws you have to follow afterwards. What is in them? It’s a mYsTeRy!”.

Well, yes. Dumping high concentrations will instantly kill everything in the waterway, diluting them and doing it slowly means they can handle it and survived.

Heck, the ocean is full of salt, but if you started dumping high-concentrated brine off a beach you’d kill every animal and plant on sight, just as you would kill yourself drinking said brine. But it would be quite hard to argue that you can’t safely put salt in the ocean, or add some to your food, once it is diluted to a safe level.

The question is how much of something total can the ocean handle before it becomes a problem. And for many things the answer is, quite literally, that it is just a drop in the ocean.

Any temperature below somewhere around 60F/15C is “deadly cold”, as in your survivability depends entirely in how well you are clothed as you will eventually die of hypothermia otherwise, the only variable being how long it takes. Kinda like how you can get a 3rd degree burn with 44C water, it just takes 6 hours.

-12C really isn’t all that cold - lowest temperature in northern Finland this winter so far has been -42,8C / -45F - but it is a temperature where you will need to pay some attention on how you dress for it. For me, it’s around (-10 to 15c depending on the wind) where I’ll put on long-johns in the morning and add a sweater instead of just having a t-shirt under my jacket.