Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@jumbanho @chrisgeidner Or cancel culture. I mean really, limiting the expression of Germany, Italy and Japan like that.

@brennholzverleih @w7voa They did the same goddamn thing WRT medical help for 9/11 first responders. There's really nothing beneath them.

@davidallengreen As Raymond Chandler says in his superb essay The Simple Art of Murder, "Sherlock Holmes after all is mostly an attitude and a few dozen lines of unforgettable dialogue."

https://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html

@davidallengreen Conan Doyle was not himself entirely rational. Very much into spiritualism and seances.

@CCochard @gregeganSF @lana
It took me a while to notice that he never uses titles. Nobody is addressed as doctor or professor, or even introduced that way. He introduces them by their name and the position they hold (which might include a title like "professor") and then addresses them by their full names after that. It does a nice job of removing a sense of relative stature or hierarchy among his guests.

Time is relative: the more relatives are visiting, the slower it passes.

@randahl Unfortunately Orbán's Putin-friendliness means that NATO and EU countries will have to muster military aid independently or through separate cooperative agreements. Thankfully they do seem to be doing that. We still have to figure out how to get around the Republicans.

@realTuckFrumper

Because, y'know, Thomas has such a great track record of doing what he should.

@BashStKid It's funny, I'm not trained as a chemist or chemical engineer, but I've long suspected that suitable battery chemistry was possible using safer and more common elements, and also wondered if the solution to the impracticalities of charging on the road could be to simply replace the electrolyte, as you would liquid fuel. So I feel rather vindicated by this story as it does both of those things.

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Hope they deliver and pick up afterward: SUVs are somewhat less common in the UK, and pickup trucks all but nonexistent.

Flow battery breakthroughs appear to solve just about every problem with lithium-ion batteries. https://spectrum.ieee.org/flow-battery-2666672335

The National Weather Service's grid forecast API has been down since the 22nd, and when I reported it, they simply responded that this was a known software problem and it'd remain offline until Jan 1.

This suggests to me that they don't regard the service as critical and that users shouldn't regard it as reliable; something I think they should have an open statement about on their documentation site; this is a government information service.

I just hope no applications that have a bearing on safety are using it. #NWS

Fun fact: every year hundreds of Australian visitors to the US are treated for pulled muscles in their eyeballs when they encounter an Outback Steakhouse.

@simonbp Well, it is about a prophesied messiah (and his mother) who gathers a bunch of followers in the desert.

@zoom_earth @simon_sat Looks like that time is roughly solar noon over the middle of the Pacific

@randahl Speaking of brains, I got both years wrong by one. But you get the point.

@randahl Russia took Crimea in 2015. Yet still came back for the whole thing in 2021. So that, in effect, has already been tried. What are these people using for brains?