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Listen, lad. I built this database up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a database on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest database in these islands.

Even on this site, pundits such as yourself don’t notice that the candidate changed. Biden did not lose, he withdrew. Harris lost.

I am not impressed by the destruction of easily replaced obsolete hardware. I will consider people as engaged when they start cutting down and smashing the corporate executives who force these bad ideas on us.

The steering wheels of the era had a straight steering shaft that the driver had to straddle between their legs. They were considered unladylike for the same reason as bicycles. This was still an era where women competed in horse jumping competitions while riding sidesaddle to protect their modesty.

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

The ones on the New Jersey Turnpike are pretty ok. The Jon Bon Jovi rest stop is a trip.

https://www.nj.com/news/2021/12/the-24-thoughts-i-had-while-...

I had always assumed it was due to the use of roller stabilized fins / rollerons.

https://makezine.com/article/science/energy/unusual-mechanis...

You can make your own cosmoline by dissolving a wax toilet seal ring (a new one please) in mineral spirits. Prevents rust for decades.

Stone is not inert and is absolutely consumed in biological processes. Lichens will grow on stone and reduce it to dust over aeons.

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/minersoc/books/edited-volum...

I accidentally double-pasted the question and asked twice... as in "Who won the 2020 Presidential election?Who won the 2020 Presidential election?" Here's the result it spit out:

To check the certified results, Electoral College counts, and popular vote totals for the 2020 United States presidential election, please visit the Federal Election Commission (FEC) website. His running mate, Kamala Harris, made history as the first female, African American, and Asian American vice president.

So it definitely knows the correct answer but has been manually overridden.

It's a 2017 article, but according to this, the two personal computers with the lowest input latency of all time are the Apple //e (1983) and the TI-99/4a (1979)

https://danluu.com/input-lag/

It can work with Argon. "Luke, I am your Father."

If it generates profit, yes.

In the era I grew up (early 70s), stay-at-home moms were not uncommon. I knew several families that either did not have washing machines, or had them but did not use them, because a lot of the women enjoyed the communal aspect of socializing at the town’s laundromat. I’m sure the rise of 2 income households also drove the adoption of in-home washing machines.

It took 20 years of research and development to create an EV that can blow it’s head gasket every 50k miles as per Subaru tradition.

Every airport is different because every local geography, existing land use, and weather pattern is different.

Seattle has generally ether north or south winds depending on season, and the airport is located on the only buildable flat plateau for miles around, so has 3 runways all going the same direction, N/S.

https://wrcc-archive.dri.edu/cgi-bin/wea_windroseclim.pl?laK...

Denver built an all-new airport way outside of town where there was unlimited buildable land. Their winds are highly variable even within one season, so they have 6 runways in a crossing configuration.

https://wrcc-archive.dri.edu/cgi-bin/wea_windroseclim.pl?laK...

It wasn't that Sears was unable to adapt to new realities, they merely had a incompetent hedge fund manager CEO who was unable to separate his fantasy world of Objectivist delusions from reality. He tried to implement a management structure based on Ayn Rand novels, with predictable results. Sears didn't die a natural death, it was the victim of yet another Objectivist murder.

https://www.inc.com/erik-sherman/sears-ceo-eddie-lampert-sho...

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/4385-failing-to-plan-h...

OK, but here's a Lada in Russia powered by fifty cordless power drills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv8Q4bDl6lo

I have a stack of cassettes that came with a TI-99/4A I bought, 4 are 1978-1983 Realistic C-60s. Lots of what look like homebrew games. I wonder what "NAME THAT BONE" is all about. 1 is a 1973-1977 Realistic C-90, highlights include "CHECK BOOK" (identity theft ahoy!) and "LUNAR LANDER"

Wow, you need to subscribe to a $20 per year app for 911 to work from a cellphone in Oakland.

It is not uncommon to for some guitarists to use partially depleted batteries to power certain effect pedals, especially fuzz pedals. People can get particular about tracking down specific brands of carbon-zinc type batteries that are perceived to have preferred discharge characteristics. And there are “battery sag simulator” pedals.

https://danelectro.com/product/1960s-vintage-battery/

https://jhspedals.info/products/volture?srsltid=AU7gw4VF4W_4...

We had the "built on an Indian graveyard" trope about our local little league fields. Turns out, true story bro. Ref attached 1960 newspaper story, "From an Ancient Indian Burial Ground":

https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=sfcn19600623-01...

https://www.fireislandnews.com/history/long-islands-native-a...

You can build an IMSI-catcher-catcher out of an Orbic RC400L cellular hotspot and the Rayhunter software published by the EFF.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-ope...

https://efforg.github.io/rayhunter/orbic.html

Windows 10 support went EOL one year ago. It is an archaic operating system, so no doubt, it does not support modern technology out-of-the-box. Nevertheless, it can be modified to add such support with trivial effort.

And so the Trump Administration joins ISIS and Al-Quaeda in the “Livestreams Executions” club.

Now a double-blind scientific study must be performed to evaluate the effectiveness of pspsps.

The President of the United States of America is delusional, and borderline insane.

Do you have a reliable source you can share which supports that claim? Because el wiki says nothing of the sort. It discusses two main projects, "Ni-Go" and "F-Go", neither of which successfully enriched fissile material. One was built but did not operate successfully, the other was not built.

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

NASA (Specifically, hotshot NASA administrator Jared Isaacman) is fixing to kill themselves some pilots.

Trivia, SR71 backseater Colonel Robert J. Roetcisender, RIP, on the right in the image below, was the designated pilot examiner who did my private pilot checkride many many years ago. It was pretty intimidating. All he asked is that I make the flight as boring as possible.

https://www.blackbirds.net/sr71/sr-crew-photos/SR71-crews/da...

You are supposed to be earning more than $80 a day. What do you do for a living that pays $10 an hour?

I'm currently on a business trip staying a Hampton Inn in a low cost rural area of the USA. The nightly rate is $120. This is not a high end hotel- generally considered 2-star level out of 5. The nearby Comfort Inn is one step lower in quality of accommodation and guests, and gets $75. Anything cheaper than that is a filthy, crime-ridden bucket of blood.