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Take me down to estradiol city where the girls are tall and oh so pretty


Civilization VII, one month later: The community and developers chime in
Executive Producer Dennis Shirk talks with Ars about the state of the game.
arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/03…



we traded

[floppy disk noises that make you afraid the system is gonna eat shit]

for

[laptop fans that spin real hard when you load a goddamn website to read an article with worse affordances than you used to get out of an ascii text file with mangled line endings]

and where has it gotten us?




You don’t need to be Jewish to apply.

$10,000 interest-free loan for folks who need to relocate because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence.

keshetonline.org/movetothrive/

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A new day. A new chance to succeed.

Some days, I got nothin'.

Or at least feel like I do.

In truth it's never true even if I tell myself it is.

One positive thing. Every morning. Day after day.

Relentless.

Just one small thread to hang a day on.

I write it down and send it out to the world.

And in the doing, I find something positive. Sometimes hope. Sometimes peace, in 500 characters or less.

Even on days I got nothin', I have that.

I hope you have something, too, #today



A Rare Sighting of the Pelican Eel...

The pelican eel's most notable feature is its large mouth, which is much larger than its body. The mouth is loosely hinged, and can be opened wide enough to swallow a fish much larger than the eel itself. The lower jaw is hinged at the base of the head, with no body mass behind it, making the head look disproportionately large. Its jaw is so large that it is estimated to be about a quarter of the total length of the eel itself.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican_…



1 in 4 Americans will be on welfare at some point in their life and 1 in 3 children will receive the benefit of food stamps.

Meanwhile Prince Musk and Emperor Drumpf hawk EVs out front the Oval Office in flagrant criminal conflict of interest.







Küstenwache sieht keine Umweltverschmutzung nach Schiffskollision

Die britische Küstenwache hat nach der Schiffskollision vor der englischen Küste Entwarnung gegeben: Es wurden keine Hinweise auf Verschmutzungen an der Wasseroberfläche festgestellt. Trotzdem bleiben viele Fragen offen.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/s…

#Schiffskollision #Nordsee



Scoop: Trump plans "law and order" speech at Justice Department on Friday axios.com/2025/03/13/trump-jus…

🤣 HAHAHAHAAAHAAHAAAAA! Crook in Chief wants law and order 🤦‍♂️



I get fed up with daffodils being seen as all jaunty and jolly, so here's a more mysterious and menacing view of one - from my archives.

#Photography #Closeup #Bloomscrolling #Spring



Next week is a staycation for me.

So which hobby project should I do?

These are three things I'm weighing equally. So I'll hear the wisdom of the crowd.

Either way you'll all be hearing about it 😅

  • Gamedev (hamster tag) (57%, 8 votes)
  • Analytics tool (mass app) (14%, 2 votes)
  • Writing fiction (office supply isekai) (50%, 7 votes)
14 voters. Poll end: 1 month ago

in reply to Robert Roskam

And yes, it's a vacation, so I'll be doing plenty of downtime. I just also enjoy making stuff. 😊


So, practically. If Canada were to join the EU, what steps would be required? We'd obviously need to apply, like other countries. Certainly greater presence in Brussels.

Would we need to adopt the Euro? I'd think so, but not sure if that is a good idea.

We'd have to upgrade a lot of our standards

It is called Enlargement. Seems appropriate for the era we are in.

european-union.europa.eu/princ…

A simple 3-step process - Candidacy, Member Negotiations & then Accession.

Who doesn't want accession?



Why men should play along if a random girl suddenly approaches and acts like she knows you upworthy.com/female-strangers-…
(A good idea that should be shared widely!)


My jointer restoration project, still sitting at the old place. Paused for now, but not forgotten. Was in the middle of this when we finally found the right homestead.

Need to make space for it here first. Preferably with a foundation, so I don't have to move it again.

And then find about six strong elephants to help me load it onto a trailer.

Problems for another time.

#Jointer #Woodworking #Restoration



*Hmm. First time I've seen both parties in the USA advocating shutting-down the federal government

*Getting the national look-and-smell of a pre-revolutionary situation here



I've been filing bugs to improve Mozilla's crash reporting infrastructure so it's easier to see at a glance if a particular crash affects only a specific CPU but also if only some microcode versions are affected.

I said it before but I'll say it again. I would have never thought that CPU bugs would have become an everyday occurrence, but here we are.

in reply to Gabriele Svelto

But by all means, keep pouring capitals into "artificial intelligence" while the very foundation of computing is falling apart and we can't trust a machine to execute instructions reliably.
in reply to Gabriele Svelto

Doesn't AI level the playing field, then? Regardless of whether your CPU is reliable or not, you have 40-60% chance of getting nensense.


Anthropic’s CEO wonders if future AI should have option to quit “unpleasant” tasks
"Probably the craziest thing I've said so far," he admitted during an interview.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ant…
in reply to Ars Technica

So you've decided to stop reporting anything at all resembling news and just are repeating what tech executives say between bong hits?





Raumsonde HERA schickt Bilder von Mars und Mond Deimos

Die ESA-Raumsonde HERA ist unterwegs zu den beiden Asteroiden Didymos und Dimorphos. Jetzt ist sie nah am Planeten Mars und dessen Mond Deimos vorbei geflogen und hat Aufnahmen zur Erde geschickt. Von Jan-Claudius Hanika.

➡️ tagesschau.de/wissen/forschung…

#ESA #Mars #Planeten #Raumfahrt #Weltraum




I guess old games take much of my time, dunno why but we have more old and abandoned games in comparison to very few new ones for some reason...


Wegen Grenzkontrollen: Mehr Beschwerden beim Polizeibeauftragten

Der Polizeibeauftragte soll Fehlentwicklungen unter anderem bei der Bundespolizei untersuchen. Auch können sich Bürger an ihn wenden, wenn sie sich durch Verhalten der Polizei diskriminiert fühlen. Solche Beschwerden nehmen zu.

➡️ tagesschau.de/inland/innenpoli…

#Bundespolizei #PolizeibeauftragterdesBundes #Grenzkontrollen



Livestream: Sondersitzung des Bundestags zum schwarz-roten Finanzpaket

Zur Stunde diskutiert der Bundestag in einer Sondersitzung über das von Union und SPD geplante Finanzpaket für Infrastruktur und Verteidigung. Verfolgen Sie die Debatte hier im Livestream.

➡️ tagesschau.de/inland/bundestag…

#Bundestag



New route for old exploitation

A US-backed infrastructure project [the Lobito Corridor] in the DRC is framed as development, but history suggests it’s just another pipeline for foreign powers to profit from Congo’s riches.

africasacountry.com/2025/03/ne…

#Congo #DRC #RDC #Africa #AIAC



Israel blockiert humanitäre Hilfe für #Gaza und hat seit einigen Tagen auch die Stromversorgung gekappt. Das ist ein Verbrechen, verstößt gegen Völkerrecht und verschärft die dramatische Lage in Gaza weiter. Auch die Familien der Geiseln demonstrieren gegen den Lieferungsstopp.
#Gaza


Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Moskau meldet "Befreiung" von Sudscha ++

Die russischen Streitkräfte haben nach eigenen Angaben die von der Ukraine besetzte Stadt Sudscha im russischen Gebiet Kursk wieder unter Kontrolle. Nach dem Vorschlag einer Waffenruhe sind nach Kreml-Aussagen US-Unterhändler auf dem Weg nach Moskau.

➡️ tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb…

#Liveblog #Ukraine



Q. across Africa as US Foreign Aid is withdrawn, will Chinese aid replace it?

Chinese aid has mostly been differently focusses (funding infrastructure rather than social services), and certainly China's Govt. may see the potential for extending influence, but unless its character is radically altered, for African countries while infrastructure may continue to improve with Chinese help, social (poverty-focussed) services look threatened unless African states themselves take them up?

#Africa

in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

there was an excellent article in the Grauniad a few weeks back, arguing that US withdrawal offered a golden opportunity to the EU to build bridges into Africa, starting with a recognition of the damage from colonialism and an honest discussion about meaningful reparations for slavery in the form of preferential trade agreements

It’ll never happen with the EU’s Fortress Europe mentality but it could also go a long way to stemming the flow of climate refugees heading north




Oooh, another up close look at the CyberSub.

latimes.com/california/story/2…

#tesla #submarine #automobile #uboat #nazisubmarine

in reply to Michael Kohne

Remember, Mitch McConnell's sister-in-law drowned after accidentally shifting her car into reverse and driving into a pond: businessinsider.com/angela-cha…

Touchscreens are not a safe interface for things like shifting between drive and reverse.

in reply to Brian Campbell

😬

Also, if that happens and the doors short out and you are stuck inside, you are SO IN TROUBLE. There's no way you are going to find the manual in the dark, find a flashlight, read the instructions to find the emergency egress/door handle 😬