It’s actually the other way around I’m afraid.

When oil is 200/barrel industry will switch out of simple necessity.

Bats. Imagine having a friendly familiar. They could also be used to carry messages.

Yea, this is gonna be the big one. I can feel it in my bones.

I once got a 2k camera + gear + extra (Sigma!) lenses for three fiddy. No Loch Ness monsters involved tho.

Now that you mention it, they are kind of OP. Flight, stealth, hypermobility. And looking like absolute BAMF’ers at any size or angle.

Well fuck. Add another contender to the apocalypse bingo, why not.

Lol I remember that video.

Goddammit. Why do some dementees get fucking murdered while others get put in charge of the mightiest country on Earth?

What’s the female version of an uncle Tom? Aunt Jemima?

But they don’t ask questions. You can teach them sign language to a degree and they WILL use it to communicate, but so far none of them has ever posed a question to their researchers.

Nothing a quick pill won’t fix.

Now, convincing your wife to take pills for YOUR illness, that’s another thing.

That’s fine, I’m sure billionaires will pick up the tab when all regular people clear out of the Strip.

The longer this goes on the more it seems like the explicit goal rather than a side effect.

Peace trough power.

Kane lives in death!

Still running Win11 on my gaming rig. The very first time an update breaks something again it’s gone.

Nopepad now.

I actually think the young crowd at MS would resist this. This looks much more like a top-down decision from marketing overruling engineering.

Last month? Takes years in my case.