Counterpoint: Every developer should have to test their app on a machine with 1 GB of RAM and a dialup modem before inflicting their bloat on the rest of the world.

The labs that are being “relocated” are next to the forests that they study. How the fuck do you study forests from a central headquarters in Utah?

It’s “just a reorg” where they shut down all the research labs (which can’t be moved because they’re located by the forests they study) and hand leadership to pro-logging lobbyists.

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.

https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.

https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.

https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263

Suffer not the abominable intelligence to live.

Entertainment purposes only.

You’ve made some pancake batter, but you’re missing some key steps (e.g., pour into hot pan, flip, serve) before you have any pancakes.

FTFY

Just show them the graph. Can’t argue with hard data.

“It’s not about the money. It’s about sending a message.” -Mark “Not the Joker” Zuckerberg

In short, there’s increasing hints that the “greater good” espoused by the Ethereals (i.e., the Tau’s mysterious leadership caste) may actually be a cover for a lot of mind control and eugenics.

You’ve got the important foundational elements. The other big event is the Horus Heresy, where about half of the Emperor’s sons fell to Chaos and started a huge civil war that left the Emperor in his current half-dead state, but the imperial bureaucracy keeps on chugging.

The other thing to keep in mind is that the world of Warhammer 40k has been evolving over decades of novels, tabletop games, and video games made by multiple authors. As a result, the canon is vast and occasionally self-contradictory.

If you want to know more, I highly recommend the Ciaphas Cain books (novels with a comedy streak) and a silly fan series called If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech device.

Strictly speaking, there are also do-not-angles.

JAQing off

Does anyone else think this whole article feels like AI slop?

Were you talking to John Carmack or John Connor?

The CA law is a prompt for self-reported age or birthdate. (1900 Jan 1, obviously.) This is not at all equivalent to “age verification” using ID or face scans.

What? This is a press release from the California Attorney General literally taking about what they are doing in court right now.

How do you go from that to “thEy’Re DoiNg NothIng”?