Certainly, anything that can improve on the efficiency of thermometric conversion, let alone a solid-state device would be great news with wide-ranging positive ramifications. Especially over the massive range of scales that is claimed. Let’s see if the concept can deliver.

Sounds like they’re arresting the right people then, doesn’t it?

Fucking technologically illiterate nincompoops.

Good for him, even better for us.

I’m Danish, so you won’t find me disagreeing with you.

So, how is electing a serial rapist con-artist working out for you, America?

Jesus Fucking Christ.

Glad to hear it!

This isn’t even just a pretext for Russia to go and get as fucked as they so rightfully deserve. It’s an accurate assessment. Russia isn’t a country - it’s a criminal syndicate claiming to be a country. It’s structured that way, it’s run that way. What else would anybody sane call a country where the husband / wife team managing Wildberries have hired armed PMC personnel having shootouts in their offices because they belong to different power cliques? Or where graveyard mafias are opportunistically exploiting the influx of war-dead to make illicit profits off the bereaved families?

The whole place is a shit-pile. If you invest in a shit-pile, your ROI will predictably be a pile of shit. It’s perfectly sensible for the EU to caution against that.

I don’t care if he enjoys it or not. If it prevents him from passing on his clearly defective genes, I’m all for him chasing that Darwin Award.

I’ve always done that with both my parents, but then again I’m Danish. It’s a radically different culture. Families are not seen as particularly inherently important here. It’s usually not even a meritocratic assessment of the family as a unit - it’s an individual one. You might like some people, you might dislike others. Either way, is has almost nothing to do with whether a blood relation exists or not.

“An asshole’s an asshole.”

Edit: Along similar philosophical lines, there’s no particular veneration of age. Age and wisdom might be proportionally related, but one does not guarantee the other. Some people manage only to grow more foolish with age. Precocious children exist.

I’d be very interested in exploring the differences between cultures more with you, assuming you’re willing.

The AI industry is apparently in need of a file system check.

I’m emphatically not saying somebody should soccer-kick Altman repeatedly right in the scrotum, I’m just saying I’d enjoy a good drink with a sigh of contentment if someone did.

Much like what happened to Digg back at the dawn of time, Reddit’s relentless series of unforced errors, undesirable policy changes and deliberate enshittification finally drove me to seek out an alternative.

Parkington fired dozens of AK-47 rounds at officers

The Nazi was using an AK-47? Tsk. tsk.

I wonder if those Nazis are aware of what Al-Qaeda means. But I guess they do have a lot in common.

I think we were having a shared nervous breakdown over the current state of geopolitics, but the hyperventilation made me lose consciousness so I can’t be sure.

Here’s hoping you guys will eventually manage to work it all out, even if that will likely have to await a more, um… rational policy regime.

That’s what should happen, but I won’t be holding my breath.

Refer to my follow-up comment to NeatNit below.