Just ran across this motor pool ex-mil comment on the condition of Russian wheeled vehicles and now I'm wondering how much of this offensive has been stalled because someone didn't rotate their tires. Continuing along those lines, here's another argument for "a lot", with the sub-argument...

It was this.


Here's the archive.

The level of mask-wearing during the pandemic may have been enough to drive one of the four major flu strains to extinction.

How's it going in the Pacific Northwest these days? Seattle : At a crucial moment during 2020’s racial justice protests, Seattle police exchanged a detailed series of fake radio transmissions about a nonexistent group of menacing right-wing extremists. The radio chatter about members of the Proud Bo...

Crypto dot com, most recently known for buying the naming rights to LA's former Staples Center, had $15 million stolen from customer accounts which is busily being laundered . No indication yet that they know how it happened, or will be covering losses, or anything. If non-fungible schadenfreude is ...

Eh? It was internally version 6.3.

Windows 7 actually being 6.1 under the hood was a running gag when it was new.

Carrie-Anne Moss also brings an excellent "politely contemptuous smirk" to the table.

Over on this side, no one drinks hot water from the tap because it can leach more lead out of the plumbing and connections.

No coincidence, and apparently the same bad ideas.

SMW Remade from Memory is all of Super Mario World, put together by the SMW hacking community, based entirely on what they're pretty sure the original level layouts and music are. It's the uncanny valley of SMW.

Last night I was dreaming about not getting enough sleep.

As a bonus, those are looking like conventional small-molecule drugs, of the sort that the entire pharma industry is built around - so if there's not some particular gotcha in the synthesis, any reasonably capable contract manufacturer can crank these out in job lots, far faster than mRNA production...

I've always thought another resemblance was stronger.

Perhaps more of an inadvertent DNS attack: aggressive retries that are constantly failing are slowing down third party DNS servers.

There are not one but TWO stations devoted exclusively to dissecting cattle. I have to imagine they are just that baffled there's one of these surreal bipedal oafs for every four people on the planet. They have a tech tree of their own. Research into the perfect hamburger is proceeding deliciously .

My county (maybe the whole state?) uses only two layers; name and signature are on the back side of the mailing envelope, inner folder is unmarked, and not sealed; the ballot fits snugly inside it and there's a hole punched so that the initial envelope openers can see if there is a ballot in it, but...

Who among us has not accidentally bought an entire cruise ship for Bitcoin devotees without knowing anything about cruise ships?

The Ghost Tank is just one of those same wastebins outfitted with RGB lighting, isn't it?