Lead was transmuted into gold back in 2002. What the LHC did was make quite a lot of it using the same technique of near miss collisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopoeia

“Because he lost control”.

Shout out to the lawyer who came up with that argument. It’s completely braindead, but he was obliged to come up with something.

There is something inherently anti-social about a car. Almost any method you have to communicate with those around you will be seen as aggressive.

If someone is sitting at a light too long, you honk at them. There aren’t a lot of other good options. But even a honk sounds aggressive. You could be as polite a person as can be in any other situation, but making the completely reasonable choice to honk at them makes it sound like you’re calling their mom fat.

It only gets worse from there.

Make it clear to the Democratic Party establishment that progressive candidates will be on the ballot in every congressional district in Nov 2026, and they will be a spoiler candidate if they have to be. Either way, we are done with their shit. There will never be a better time.

Neither was Obama. Not long after he put a bow on the nomination, he voted for an expansive security bill. A lot of people were surprised, but not me.

No, you can’t. Read the blog for why you can’t.

At risk to himself? Even for a trained precision shooter, guaranteeing a miss is still difficult. Gust of wind picks up at just the right time and the bullet goes into Trump.

Then again, it’s Trump, and he might be dumb enough to go for it. Provided he can find a shooter who’s also dumb enough. Which he can; there’s probably plenty of guys that dumb at any given local range.

No, it will not. If it works at first, it won’t for long.

My online community SDF was founded in 1987, four years before Tim Berners Lee invented the web. They are so old that their FAQ still refers to email as “Arpanet email”. Guess what? Emails from SDF don’t reach Big Tech servers. I’m positive that the beards of their admins are grayer than mine and they will have tried to tweak every nook and cranny available.

What are we left with?

You cannot set up a home email server.

You cannot set it up on a VPS.

You cannot set it up on your own datacenter.

Odd, because that’s usually the sort of basic firearms mistake that right wingers love to use as a gotcha.

People behind him were killed. The guy just missed.

Interestingly, this is one way people would be chosen for promotion in a worker co-op. The Catholic Church has been syndicalist this whole time.

Edit: let me clarify that. The Papal Conclave gets all the cardinals together to decide on the next Pope. Usually, they choose someone from the cardinals (though not always). So typically, all the candidates for promotion are right there in the room and part of the decision making process.

Well, that moves the question. How come so many companies refuse to promote within?

Now is some cringy fucker actually going to give Gates McFadden a “#1 Ghost Fucker” t-shirt at a con?

The one you toggle into the switches on a PiDP-11.

“Tell Israel to go fuck itself” in a broad sense. Yes, donating money to a cause that directly tells Israel to go fuck itself, in something more than a strongly worded letter, is worthwhile.

The trolley system in early 20th century US cities died due to issues related to privatization. It’s been done; doesn’t work.

Upvote to the moon. Lots of leftists seem to intellectually understand that money is a fiction that’s sometimes useful, but are bad at putting that into practice.

I’ll stick my neck out on something here: this includes donating to individual people in Gaza, even if they’re coming to you from a verified source on Blue Sky. Yes, a kilo of flour might cost $600. Giving someone $600 to buy flour might feed that family, but there’s some other family who isn’t getting that flour. You’re just choosing who starves today. The fundamental issue is that there isn’t enough flour or any other food. There is no way to solve that by donating to individuals. It can only be solved by telling the government of Israel to go fuck itself.

A&W now is pretty damn good in the US. As a Wisconsinite, their cheese curds are better than Culvers and it’s not even close.

Have to put every damn thing over port 80 (well, 443 now). HTTP(S) was never meant to do this shit.

They will never willingly do it. Email marketing works very well compared to the money and effort companies put into it, and so does SMS. They will use every trick they can to get you to signup for one or both while avoiding being labeled an illegal spammer.