I know it’s anachronistic, but I’m imagining The Cure’s “Killing An Arab” as the music

This would be one of the submarines China is hiding in the sea?

Campism is a hell of a drug

aka a Flying Tesla

yeule is awesome

A miserable little pile of secrets, but only if it’s featherless and bipedal

Ireland has been independent for about a century and outside the Gaeltacht, everybody speaks English, and yet Irish (i.e. Gaelic) is still taught to all pupils and used on official documents. In Wales (which, for most administrative purposes, is a part of an entity known as England-and-Wales), signage has to be in both English and Welsh, and official agencies have to provide services in Welsh; there are few monolingual Welsh speakers and anecdotally the popularity of Welsh of said to alternate generationally (i.e., if your parents don’t speak it, it’s cool).

Representation is important in a pluralist democracy, and the people who want to eliminate minority language support to “better fund schools and hospitals” or whatever generally aren’t in favour of funding public services either (much in the same way that those who want to kick foreigners out to “help our own” overwhelmingly tend to be against actually helping our own), but “let’s get rid of te reo to fund tax cuts for the rich” doesn’t sound as compelling

It’d be hard to run from either federal prison or the gilded penthouse of the Trump Tower in Moscow or Riyadh.

Bjenny Montero rocks.

Is anyone tracking Harris’ polling against Clinton’s from the same time 8 years ago?

They made some shitty tap-the-screen game with collectibles for the iPhone maybe 10 years ago, though the less said about it the better. My guess is that it was a fuck-you to Takahashi-san.

Going by Apple’s transition from Intel to ARM, an ARM-based Steam Deck would be a no-brainer. They could make it a lot less bulky, ditch the cooling fans and still bump up performance.

ARM64 is already here (Apple have replaced Intel with it, and Windows PC vendors are following suit), it’s just, as William Gibson put it, not evenly distributed. Mainstream high-performance ARM devices are imminent in a way that RISC-V isn’t yet.

Based.

Cutting out everyone but the middleman

Someone should also examine the effects of age-related cognitive decline on fundamentalist beliefs. Anecdotally, people turning to fundamentalist religion and/or authoritarian conservatism does seem to correlate with their cognitive capabilities deteriorating to the point of maintaining a nuanced view of the world becoming increasingly challenging.

Oh lawd he comin’

Proof that even God reuses textures

That sound you hear is newly-purchased $15k lithium-ion battery making machines powering up in Kabul and Daesh territory.

See also