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The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA

This, my dear friend, is all I can at present recollect on the Subject. You will see by it, that the Opinion of this mischievous Effect from Lead, is at least above Sixty Years old; and you will observe with Concern how long a useful Truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally receiv'd and practis'd on.

Benjamin Franklin, 1786

A gramme is better than a damn.

Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

Macs

  MacBook Neo: $699 (up from $599) +16.7%

  13-inch MacBook Air: $1,299 (up from $1,099) +18.2%

  15-inch MacBook Air: $1,499 (up from $1,299) +15.4%

  M5 MacBook Pro: $1,999 (up from $1,699) +17.7%

  M5 Pro MacBook Pro: $2,499 (up from $2,199) +13.6%

  M5 Max MacBook Pro: $4,099 (up from $3,599) +13.9%

  iMac: $1,499 (up from $1,299) +15.4%

  M4 Max Mac Studio: $2,499 (up from $1,999) +25.0%

  M3 Ultra Mac Studio: $5,299 (up from $3,999) +32.5%

  iPad: $449 (up from $349) +28.7%

  11-inch iPad Air: $749 (up from $599) +25.0%

  13-inch iPad Air: $949 (up from $749) +26.7%

  11-inch iPad Pro: $1,199 (up from $999) +20.0%

  13-inch iPad Pro: $1,499 (up from $1,299) +15.4%

  iPad mini: $599 (up from $499) +20.0%

  Apple TV 4K: $199 (up from $129) +54.3%

  HomePod: $349 (up from $299) +16.7%

  HomePod mini: $129 (up from $99) +30.3%

  Vision Pro: $3,699 (up from $3,499) +5.7%

The original NES cost $179 at launch, or about $550 today.

And for premium games we spent $45, or about $150 today.

Why don't you ask Twitter, Tesla, or SpaceX employees how they feel about the situation.

This is great!

Years ago, a buddy of mine was in a car accident and broke his arm. He was then banned for using keyboard remapping software so he could keep playing one-handed. It always bothered me that some game companies treated any modification as cheating, regardless of why it was being used.

I’ve always wondered how developers balance anti-cheat systems with accessibility. Sometimes the same tools can be used for both. It’s encouraging to see companies giving players more flexibility and recognizing that not everyone interacts with games the same way.

Gaming should be about skill and creativity, not whether your body happens to fit the default input scheme.

They misspelled “Better than before. But… yeah.”

It’s still common in Geneva to see lawn jockeys on display.

This is 100% about being racist with extra steps.

Who still reads emails?

Feel powerless? Set up a filter.

Maybe don’t let Google decide what its browser can and can’t do on my computer…

Why do browsers need to do this? Feels like an edge case need, at best, that was likely just a cover for some power Google wanted to exploit.

Good move.

Elon is rigging the stock market and getting index funds to invest in companies that are over-valued and thus not stable.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sYA-z0Y8WRQ

I’ve had MacBook Pros for as long as they’ve existed and, honestly, I’ve never needed a repair.

The only real issue I’ve had was when I dropped one and destroyed the screen. It was covered by AppleCare, and Apple replaced it.

I usually get a new laptop every 3 to 4 years and pass the old one to family members. My dad is still using one that’s about 10 years old and it works fine for what he needs. No issues.

So the repair argument is a bit hard for me to relate to. I understand things break. But I also think taking reasonable care of your stuff goes a long way. “A stitch in time saves nine,” right?

I guess I’ve replaced the feet on a few of them but that’s a $5 dollar kit from Amazon and a screwdriver and a little bit of glue…

And for normal wear and tear, like battery life, Apple laptops can get a battery replacement through the Apple Store for a pretty reasonable cost.

Anyway, Apple makes good product products that don’t really break from me or my family. I’ve been really happy with all their stuff.

I had way worse luck, for example, building a PC to game on. Two or three years and I had to replace the power supply and I think four years and I had to replace the SSD. Like those things were annoying. I’ve never had hardware from Apple go bad on me.

(Not since I had a Performa 5200 and they had to send somebody out to fix the logic board.)

First impression... this catches issues that 4.7 missed, which caught issues that 4.6 missed... which caught issues that 4.5 missed...

Seems like a step in the right direction. Doesn't seem like it uses tokens more than 4.7... the token usage jumped a bunch from 4.6 to 4.7, but this seems like 4.7 or maybe even a little less.

I'm happy with this release.

I’m sad to learn this news.

I was really hoping they could somehow both lose.

That’s a shame.

But it’s not too late!

I have never watched the AMC show Halt and Catch Fire…

Go watch it. Great show.

Lame.

Release the Epstein Files.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

"81.7TB"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz

"approximately 70 gigabytes"

Was HDMI any better? =P

And somehow, we survived.

Brittle Brown!

LEGO issued an official apology and you can get replacements for your brown bricks made before 2018. (=

https://brickshow.com/2018/12/problem-lego-reddish-brown-bri...

This is an interesting article, but why don’t they just start with black fans? Marketing? Feels like we know their brand now, they can lose the hideous brown and just build black fans to start with.

Are salaries rising too?

But no mention of the most important feature… I just need to know that it can still play Drug Wars.

Downvoted for Tom Lehrer?!

Oh right. Germans don’t understand sarcasm. Ha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j20voPS0gI

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean,

But that couldn't happen again.

We taught them a lesson in 1918

And they've hardly bothered us since then.

Never forget, this is the elite cybersecurity group responsible for unleashing Wix. (=

Mine was awareness.

Yours is just rudeness. (=

Both of these pills are really dangerous for dogs.

Ibuprofen damages the kidneys -- and that damage is often permanent. The little filtering devices inside the kidneys don't grow back once they're destroyed. A dog who survives the poisoning can end up with lifelong kidney disease, which means special diets, more frequent vet visits, and a shorter life than she should have had.

(I watched this happen to my own dog after a house sitter stepped on her paw and gave her ibuprofen to "help." My dog lived, but she needed a special diet for the rest of her life.)

Acetaminophen wrecks the liver, and it also can damage red blood cells so they can't carry oxygen properly. A poisoned dog may get lethargic, vomit, start to breathe heavily... This is especially dangerous for older dogs, or any dog whose red blood cells are already compromised, by conditions like IMHA.

Nothing makes me hit that close button faster than those fake voices everywhere now. That overly polished narrator on every other TikTok, half the YouTube videos read by the same auto-tuned robot (that apparently people over 60 can't tell is a robot). And don't get me started on streamers with like a confidence voice filter. Fuck all that noise.

And it's only going to get worse. Is this what getting old feels like? Hating everything the rest of society is racing to embrace? I keep waiting for the backlash, for people to get sick of the plastic sheen on everything, but they conveyor belt just keeps moving. Maybe I'm just turning into my parents griping about all the weird music videos on MTV? =P