The 3.5” disk was designed as a consumer product by Sony, whose industrial design is second to none. (Compare the 5¼ “ and 8” floppies, which were designed by IBM engineers and only intended for use by technical specialists.)

She’ll be the next DNC-backed vice presidential candidate, because big tent or something.

The deal may now involve the US invading Greenland, specifically to neutralise NATO and hand Europe over to Russia.

Why do Lithuania and Latvia even have a data cable between them that runs through international waters?

Brooklyn originally wasn’t technically part of New York.

He prefers to call himself a “modeliser”

To the DNC, better her than AOC

It’s always a conservative

I’m surprised she was not turned away at the border. She’s not a UK citizen, has recently been deported by an allied country, and given that British law enshrines the IHRA definition of antisemitism, her legal status would be equivalent to that of a Holocaust denier, and her presence would be considered “not conducive to public order”.

You know how open-hardware gadgets often have a statement like “trans rights are human rights” or “black lives matter” printed on the circuit board? One wonders whether ModRetro have similar statements, only fascist/reactionary, on their boards or chip dies. Perhaps some Crusader motto in Latin, or the chapter and verse of a particularly harsh Bible passage, or just some 14s and 88s scattered all over the place.

In 2027, Nigel Farage will almost certainly be PM. It beggars belief to think that he won’t abruptly cancel the deal, uttering something about “hardworking taxpayers”, even if breaking it off and leaving a cohort of students high and dry will ultimately cost the UK more.

This one looks like an uglier version of Optimus. Not sure if it can be any worse to use, though.

Some supermarkets sell packages of 3 labelled as “Traffic light”

His whole deal, and the entirety of his appeal to his supporters, is being the asshole they wish they could get away with being, so saying something gracious would just be having lost it.

In France, children get watered-down wine with their dinner. In Germany, instead, this happens.

As a handful of German teenagers call for peaceful surrender to Russia, Russians display bumper stickers reading “To Berlin for German women”.

I’ve seen the assertion that silver is a safer bet than gold. Less glitzy, but still precious and with more industrial uses.

Of course, if civilisation collapses completely, neither will matter unless someone will trade you something for your krugerrands.

If the stereotype of autistic people having an oversensitive sense of injustice and not accepting commonly socially accepted rationalisations justifying it are true, then that could disqualify them from police work, given that the job is about enforcing the law as it is written.

On the other hand, a few well-connected people would miss out on sizeable profits, so who’s to say which option is better?

You just know that it’s only a matter of time until dozens of people die in a bridge collapse because the civil engineer who designed it just wrote some Bible verses out on their engineering exam and got awarded top marks for it as it wasn’t worth any lecturer’s tenure and pension.