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Last weekend in Germany the spot market for electric hit a record negative price. Yup, electricity was so abundant you could get paid €0.40/kWh.

Clown and circus something something…

If the only tool you have is a hammer…

Now, it’s got a similar meaning to veteran. But it comes from back when all you had against disease were thoughts and prayers.

The seasoned ones were those that were left and well enough to fight after disease spread through camp.

This is supposed to be a manifesto? This is just a vacuous, rambling, self-important list of grievances.

While this does make me uncomfortable, it shows me that the leaders of this company can’t formulate coherent thoughts, much less a strategy.

Soon to learn what “seasoned” troops means.

Some of your bills in your pocket may come from the vendor A, some may come from an ATM. So the bank knows some of the bills you got.

Vendor B might go shopping somewhere, or deposit his cash in a bank. Or put it in a sorting machine that scans the serial numbers.

You pay B with some bills from A and some bills from the ATM. And now the bank can connect all three dots. The transactions aren’t completely transparent, but aren’t truly anonymous anymore.

Cash is not anonymous. The serial numbers are being used for tracking.

You have to pick between two systems to ally with.

One is xenophobic, imperialistic, corrupt, harasses its neighbors, sees itself as the best country on earth, has zero regard for human rights and plans long-term.

The other is xenophobic, imperialistic, corrupt, harasses its neighbors and allies, sees itself as the best country on earth, has zero regard for human rights and does the fuck it wants.

Choose wisely.

Art of the deal, ladies and gentlemen.

According to the article

The image showed a lunch tray that was largely empty with only a small portion of shredded meat and a folded tortilla.

But I’d never imagine that grey slice of whatever could be edible.

Son’s been playing Zelda BOTW and I thought that game is right up my alley, how could I’ve missed it?

Set up the Switch emulator on the Steam Deck and goddamn that game’s a time sink!

The current state of LLMs is financially and environmentally unsustainable. I’m sure that in short time, additional technologies like neurosymbolic AI will prevent hallucinations and improve efficiency. But will they help AI vendors become profitable?

They AI bubble might pop or fizzle, but we’ll see what developers do with their code bases when they don’t have their toys at their disposal anymore.

What I don’t get is how are they going to prove that the ships paid toll? Especially if they are paid in crypto.

Oh, who am I fooling. They’ll just harass anything coming through. Or maybe not. Maybe depending on which flag the ship flies.

The designer of this monstrosity, Alexander Lippisch, is really fascinating. He pioneered the use of canards, rocket propulsion and delta fuselages and was researching supersonic flight during WWII. When it was clear that the war was lost, he kept his students working on crazy ideas to keep them from getting drafted.

… are we the baddies?

You’re not on reddit here, you can say it.

No, the Gnome desktop needs a lot more packages. These are just basic packages that are required as a dependency for a Gnome application you’ve installed.

About Israels plans to destabilize the middle east: do they really think that everyone will just peacefully accept that Israel forced them into this mess? Land of eye for am eye and all that?

What an idiot. Europe has nothing to gain in this war. Many leaders have already said it’s not Europe’s war. They just need to sit this out and the balance of power will swing in their favor.