Simon_O_Rourke

Dirty b@stards the lot of them, it's gone from "well, we better tow the line to protect our market position", to full throated support of outright fascism.

Fucking retarded, just take whatever was wasted fighting a losing was for no good reason and spend it on NASA.

> The motorcyclist fell to the ground to the left side of the Waymo, then another car tried to pass the Waymo and struck the motorcyclist, killing them. That other driver fled the scene.

I wonder if they ever caught that guy?

> So would banning alcohol.

As in a full on country wide prohibition? Whatever amount of road deaths that would prevent would be offset by idiots dying via drinking industrial spirits.

Of course they do, an 8 bit PC rigged up to an old Nintendo Duck Hunt sensor would drive more safely than some of the morons in my neighborhood. I've ceased to be annoyed at them, and instead just shrug at the idiocy.

Good for them!

Has nine children, lives on a halting site. There is a name for folks like that.

There's a lot of that with this guy... His comment about requiring a low power environment so he discards all laptop power bricks. Dude, unless you're powering things off a hand cranked dynamo a few laptops are not going to melt your fuse board.

My guess is that the "why" is largely just showing off, coupled with oddness.

The Russians at it again no doubt. The dastards.

I think it stopped once public bathrooms became used for things other than taking a whizz

Well said, he got what was coming to him too.

Nonsense, it'll end up with merely some public head scratching and shrugs, and a "gee whiz monsieur, it sure is a mystery to us too".

Interesting that whatever they wanted to do backfired in NYC.

I would have loved to have had ChatGPT when I had to do a few modules in formal methods, I'd say it would have eaten through the BS I had to wade through

Another great post by one of the nations best public intellectuals.