If they truly, truly believed that, would they be speeding towards building it? If yes, that would make them truly insane, right? Not as in a quaint "off their rocker" but more "non compos mentis".

Both companies have deluded themselves into thinking the arms race is going to happen anyway and they need to rush to it first, as if somehow that helps. They have publicly stated as such repeatedly. They think the ~10-50% chance of extinction sucks, but that it's going to happen anyway and they believe they can steer it towards something good the best and unlock all the potential positives like infinite life.

I think the missing word there might be "private", because there's also Esrange (for smaller satellites as of now).

Today, Opus talked about "rotation slabs" in relation to logging. (and not log rotation). I didn't even bother asking what that was supposed to mean and switched over to Sonnet.

Ah, another article doing the "oh this extremism thing is just because there's an election cycle; they don't really think like this" defense. Similar to how the western media did in the 30s.

But then we also have the "the democrats are mega extreme now and they want to destroy America and make Hasan Piker their God-Emperor" thing that the same media organization are pushing. Traditional US media is completely fucked and captured.

Fission reactors in multiple European countries had to shut down due to heatwaves. And in Scandinavia (Sweden), they are "routinely" stopped for scheduled and most importantly unscheduled maintenance.

But those don't have scary sounding German names, I guess.

I don't find the word Dunkelflaute any more scary than the word Kindergarten, but I am used to speaking and reading German...

And you might have noticed me commenting on the need to shut down some reactors due to lack of water elsewhere.

> The choice matters.

Yeah this is where I stopped reading.

Hard to say Flock is the worst... There's a lot of competition. I'll throw Toka into the ring.

https://www.techspot.com/news/113395-flock-biggest-investor-...

Wow, that's an insane pairing. For those who don't click, Toka is a software company that specializes in hacking and altering security camera footage.

Edot, we have footage of you stealing a car at gunpoint, then you getting out and breakdancing while turning into an elephant. Any explanation or straight to jail?

It seems impossible for this to be a true statement. and yet.

What’s next? $20m series B in ByBy, a horizontally integrated trash disposal, concrete shoe manufacture, lye bath, and pig farm operation?

"I work in tech"

> Supporting a flip device with vertical folding would be a new form factor for GrapheneOS. The main use case for those is a tiny phone to use with one hand in the folded form factor.

So, I've been using flip phones now exclusively since the Samsung Z-Flip3 (and will never go back to slab phones unless the flip segment disappears), but I almost never use the outer screen. Maybe that is just me, but I have a feeling it's pretty common.

Railway dust contains quite a bit of PM2.5, PM10 and NOx.

Similar trivia with a Swedish connection: the original name of the Honda Fit/Jazz was Honda Fitta, but then they found out it's the Swedish word for "cunt" so that was a no-go.

They even had the slogan all drawn up;

Fitta: Small on the outside, Big on the inside!

They should just have gone with it , staring everyone, who brought it up, down.