I don’t know, it looks unhealthy for both. I didn’t realize anyone still smoked.

Oh I was going to suggest Mouser and DIgikey for most kinds of electrical stuff, but it sounds like you are after something different.

Big shoes => big feet.

There was another one of these a day or two ago, where besides making fusion energy, the reactor was going to convert mercury to gold. Competition must be getting stiff.

Dear ChatGPT, I want to build a spaceship fleet and conquer the Andromeda galaxy and use it to power my AI data center. Can I get in trouble for that? Thanks. Sincerely, LLMAO.

4a didn’t have swappable battery iirc.

600 euro, not so helpful. Thanks though.

I just want a comeback of phones with swappable batteries.

The classic for Babylon 5 fans, “And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhMwUeVawng

Billionaires with nukes, just what we need.

Buh bye

It’s a reference to A Fire Upon The Deep, an SF novel by Vernor Vinge. One way to describe it is that a superintelligent computer virus tries to take over the galaxy. It is great, try a web search.

Is that something like a “class II perversion”? For example the Straumli Blight.

Tribute song by filker Robert Osband, who himself passed away a few years ago:

WHATEVER BECAME OF TOM LEHRER?
Tune: Whatever became of Hubert? ( https://youtu.be/hF3sEZ7M4h0 )
By Robert Osband, Copyright 1978
From The NESFA Hymnal, page 174.

Whatever became of Tom Lehrer?
Has anyone heard a thing?
Is he dead? Still a Prof?
Does he make bucks enough, that he don’t need that stuff he sings?

A satirical, jocular singer
Who’s been through the political wringer,
It is hard to record a new disc
When Harvard brings down its big fist.

Whatever’s become of you, Thomas?
We miss you, so tell us please:
It is Harvard, your boss,
Why you’re gathering moss
While your waiting applause lies in freeze?

Does Tommy, recalling when he was big time,
Think “They won’t like my singing,
For my songs, give a dime.”
We all think that a comeback is due!
Tom Lehrer, what happened to you?

A moth goes into a podiatrist’s office…

Ha, this was invented by a fanfiction character years ago, except it was nail polish instead of a temporary tattoo. https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30822-90 :

Hermione volunteered that there were chemicals which could detect the presence of most of the ‘date rape’ drugs, but Pansy scoffed, “Oh, and we just carry a dozen bottles of liquids in our purse and perform complicated tests on every drink we every get?”

That was a really good point. Hermione found her lips were pursing up as she thought it over. “I think… I could come up with a chemical you could put in a nail polish that would change the colour of your polish if exposed to benzodiazepines. So all you’d have to do would be to swirl your drink around with the tip of your index finger and then casually glance over to see if your nail polish was changing colour.”

That was met with a second of dead silence… And then the room exploded and everyone including Pet was begging her for a sample. Even Lady Pansy. Perhaps Hermione wasn’t going to the right clubs – or in this case the wrong clubs – but she hadn’t dreamed there would be that kind of demand for such a thing.

Granted, Hermione didn’t go out at night to any clubs, not even with her friends back home.

She actually makes the stuff later in the story.

Obligatory xkcd 624:

Well, largest this week. And

Yeah, $800 isn’t a small chunk of change, but for a hard drive of this capacity, it’s monumentally cheap.

Nah, a 24TB is $300 and some 20TB’s are even lower $ per TB.

Quite a lot of red states have state owned liquor stores,[0] so city owned grocery stores doesn’t sound that radical. Apparently, Atlanta is doing it.[1] I hadn’t heard of this idea before, but web search shows it is a thing. I’d consider it socialism if he also wants to close down the privately run grocery stores. He doesn’t seem to be doing that

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_state

[1] https://thefern.org/2025/03/are-government-owned-grocery-stores-the-answer-to-americas-food-desert-problem/