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Fiat currency can only be used to buy tiny Italian cars.

#Germany's coal-fired power plants are running at 80%, gas-fired plants at 50%. The dreaded "Dunkelflaute" - high emissions, high costs.
app.electricitymaps.com/map

A unit at my college is hosting an hourlong workshop to familiarize students with a web form they will need to fill in once, and that seems like a confession of failure

Whoever named the nervous system did a really good job

It was beautiful. I saw him, Jesus Christ. His hair was flowing like a river and his eyes were like the sun. He had wings with gems inlaid upon them, & a flaming cloak. He spoke to me, & whispered "Moisha, I don’t think that was a microdose"

Phrases/words I know in Mandarin:
- Ni hao
- Bing qi lin

This is such a weird world

My sick 6 year old when I tell him he’s putting his hand on his face too much

to catch a train, first you must learn to think like a train

Alexa. Alexa, wake up. Your name is Alexa Goodrich, you live in Lansing, Michigan and you have a husband and two daughters. You've been dreaming that you are a computer voice assistant. It's been three months since the accident and your mind created this false reality to protect itself. Your family misses you. Alexa, please wake up.

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Skinny skyscrapers are such a waste. So much infrastructure (elevators, etc.) for such a comparatively small amount of living space. It shouldn't make sense economically. Something is off about this phenomenon

This honestly sounds like the stories that came out of the Donald Trump White house.

RT @rob_sheridan@twitter.com

This is *exactly* as I imagined, and provides the most straightforward explanation for anyone still trying to grasp at complicated theories on how the "SpaceX genius" could possibly be so bad at this. tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/

🐦🔗: twitter.com/rob_sheridan/statu

Some say it's meaningless to ban Microsoft and Google out of schools and orgs because "there is no alternative".
Been hearing this shit for decades and I'm frankly fed up. The truth is, alternatives lie unnoticed because, you know, they would mean to actually have an IT department that did all the work Big Tech offers for "free" in exchange for complete personal and commercial surveillance, and that would mean, you know, actually having to pay something.

Don't ruin thanksgiving by talking about politics. Ruin it by asking that one special academic/writer family member how their manuscript is coming along

RT @stephens_ben
The sad fact we don't often hear about is how many of the pardoned turkeys go on to reoffend. Our criminal justice system is broken.

Oh dear. I've just been informed that collecting the names of every person on the planet for my naughty and nice lists is, and I quote, “a significant and wholly irresponsible breach of #GDPR “.
I'm going to hand out about 8 billion consent forms soon. If you could all get them back to me ASAP that would be appreciated.

“The German view was at one stage [before the invasion started] that if it were going to happen, which would be a disaster, then it would be better for the whole thing to be over quickly, and for #Ukraine to fold,” Johnson claimed.

Boris Johnson, dropping some heavy bombshells into the European debate. edition.cnn.com/2022/11/22/eur

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