If you haven’t noticed that a lot of things in your life are political, I feel sorry for your lack of grasp on reality. The taxes you pay are political. The laws you have to follow are political. Decisions on how your kids go to school are political. How you work (you payment, your job- and personal safety) - guess what, it’s political. If the CDC will protect you against the next pandemic, if the FDA will protect you against being poisoned - it is all political.

Tune out reality at your own risk. You should have paid attention to this ages ago.

But the price!

Yep. About €3 from the supermarket. Or about €6 fresh from the farm shop, but they are XL and often have a double yolk.

Or, like a late friend put it: May lightning strike him when he sits on the shitter.

Are those people really Columbian citizens? I would not put it past Trump to just command ICE to land the next plane full of “somehow latin looking people” somewhere south of the border.

You can “receive” and therefore energy-harvest infrared with semiconductor antennas and circuits. Still a research thing, but could be an interesting add-on on the back of solar panels one day.

How much would it cost them just to keep their own store running? Could not be much on a virtual machine with no content changes. And they won’t need exorbitant capacities. There will be no download waves just because a new game gets on the market, after all.

My home server runs on an old desktop PC, bought at a discounter. But as we have bought several identical ones, we have both parts to upgrade them (RAM!) as well as organ donors for everything else.

Looks like you are a few years behind events.

Back 1700 years ago, when St. Nicholas lived, red was an expensive color, reserved for nobility and higher clerics. As Nicholas of Myra was a bishop, he is traditionally depicted in red bishop robes, which advertizing later turned into that red suit worn by fat Santa.

There are several problems if you want to interfere that communication.

First, you need to reverse engineer the protocol. For that you need to be able to log what nasa is sending and what they are receiving. Both has quite some problems, as the sending signal is tightly focused towards the spacecraft, so you probably have to find the actual dish and install a bug to read what they are sending. The NASA might object to that.

Second, you would need the hardware. Which is beyond the normal hobbyists budget.

And finally, you would have to be 100% spot on in your reverse engineering of the protocol or you’ll probably just brick that thing.

If you want to cause trouble, don’t bother with the cockpit doors. Windows and doors are much easier targets.

It is pure show. It might deter or maybe even catch the most stupid wannabe-terrorist, but tests have shown repeatedly that skilled people have no issues getting guns through without issues. All this while you can still build a bomb with stuff bought from the duty-free behind the TSA curtain.

I don’t speak elisp, but I speak regexp. Looks like the LLM speaks neither.

Still, there is the rest of the world to be considered where health insurance actually deals with pharmaceutical companies and makes them sell their products with realistic prices.

If they ever set up a GoFundMe to set up a memorial statue of the killer, just give a shout.

We would probably have to learn Chinese instead of English.

I’m still better in my native tongue than in English, but I would still consider myself ‘fluent’, with some people considering me ‘native’, which I would never claim for me. This I would call “personal relativity”, as I am probably more fluent in English than quite some native speakers. And I definitely read English faster than most native speakers.

Indeed, it will overheat their little brains.

Luckily, it seems to be disabled by default. At the moment.