Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@EugeneMcParland Well, he's already conscripted the convicted murderers, so the barrel bottom is well and truly scraped. Nothing left but telemarketers, fleet truck salesmen and search engine optimizers.

@fraser That last just proves they're aliens. Superintelligent alien beings of pure energy.

@davidho Sunak flew in for the photo op, did no work, attended no meetings and was about to fly back out again, got called on it by Politico and got shirty. Sorry for the Xhitter link:

https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1730602078555234667

@sundogplanets

(I do see a defect in this angle however, inasmuch as if chimpanzees (or orcas or parrots or octopuses or whatever) showed a marked curiosity about the universe, to the point of making tools and developing systems to understand it further, I rather think a lot of us would be very interested in trying to talk to them.)

@sundogplanets I thought Neil DeGrasse Tyson had an interesting point when he suggested that an extraterrestrial race appreciably smarter than we are might simply not be very interested in talking to us. Sort of in the way that very few humans are really interested in talking to chimpanzees, or would go out of their way to try.

@AnnemarieBridy
Still, it's got to be better than the "Spin̈al Tap Babies" Saturday morning cartoon.*

*yeah all right I made that up.

@BashStKid @goatsarah Not least the six dwarves onstage hitting each other.

@BashStKid @goatsarah Best enjoyed over a dish of chicken marengo.

@cmyrland @lavergnetho

Exactly. Replacement batteries are relatively cheap, and a 10-year-old Intel CPU is perfectly good at running Linux.

@jargoggles @Peternimmo @kevinrns @qurlyjoe
Well, not until they explode. Where do you think naturally occurring radioactive elements come from?

@kravietz The reason they can't do clinical trials of homeopathic medicine is that the gold standard for efficacy is how it compares to a placebo.

... and homeopathy IS a placebo.

@ephemeral @JasonThorne

It's normal to see tiny street sweeper trucks in any European city if you go out early in the morning.

"Human beings perceive landscapes of space; rhinoceroses perceive landscapes of time; and cats... cats perceive landscapes of quantum uncertainty."

-- Douglas Adams

@bovaz @bruces

The 5% or so of wine that's ruined by cork taint is a pretty strong incentive to change. Five percent, fully manufactured, shipped and in the customer's hands, is absolutely huge, margin-wise.

If you really like corks, I find those latex-like ones perfectly acceptable.

@annaghughes If only they'd spoken to Euell Gibbons.

Yes, I'm showing my age:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0N290zPrbA