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But someone recently said he revived the NFT market single-handedly, with people making a bigly 1000% return!

There’s barely any advantage to being on Mars compared to orbiting some random Lagrange point or the sun itself.

Oye Beltalowda.

Besides the earthquake, there was also a literal rain of fire across the planet, like a blast furnace, that likely killed everything that wasn’t underground or underwater.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/dinopocalypse-redux

Instead of drilling a hole, another way to do it is to slam an asteroid on the other side of the planet.

https://earthsky.org/earth/dinosaur-killing-asteroid-caused-indias-deccan-traps/

I had no idea you could die from jogging a marathon so I think you would be wrong about that.

Literally the first person to run a marathon, the Greek runner Pheidippides bringing the news to Athens about the Greek victory over the Persians at Marathon, died from exhaustion, his last words being “Rejoice, we conquer!” as he collapsed.

Humans: let’s eat the substance that these plants make to keep the wrong animals from eating its fruit. Let’s eat it for fun!

Maybe all his companies are like this, it’s just the first one that’s been so public and shown his true colours.

I’m not going to look for it now, but there was a Twitter thread from last year that kind of talks about this.

Basically, SpaceX and Tesla are companies that grew up with Elon as an early investor, and have learned early on how to contain him. They institutionally have firewalls in place to keep him from wrecking the real work they’re doing, like dedicated Musk-handlers that slow walk his bad ideas until he changes his mind a few days later.

Twitter basically had none of those institutional firewalls, and could not container him with company culture.

Meanwhile, you have the Elon fanboys still pretending Twitter is doing better than it ever has.
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Well, it is, if you’re a Nazi.

To be fair, those are Mission Impossible chase scenes really disrupt traffic.

“And then, the cannibalism started…”

Making the pee more expensive, yes.

Ah, yes, Little Bobby DROP TABLES;

Given the dumb shit that happens in this, the most ridiculous time line, I would lay money on aliens invading, and Fumio Kishida manifesting super powers to defend Japan. It’s in the same ballpark as Trump jumping bail and Dog the Bounty Hunter bringing him, but, you know you can’t completely rule it out.

And the BBC.

Frankly, all news organizations should run their own Mastodon servers as authoritative sources for their news articles and their reporters. Right now, with the ever changing badges on Twitter, they’re just Star-bellied Sneetches.

As a former sysadmin who hopped around to different machines to do stuff, I would hate it when I had to type on some developers’ computers, because they had set it up as Dvorak (vi on Dvorak is a special hell). Yes, it’s a more efficient keyboard as long as that’s the only machine you’re on. If you have to use different machines where most of the users are on QWERTY, you just use QWERTY.

Should that not be properly, “Oi, cunt!” ?

We can call everyone “Colonel”, a la Col. Sanders.

https://mastodon.coffee/@TidalFlats/110940255733069000

Putin:

I thought I had him in a box.

And then he got out like a fox.

And then I saw him in a house.

And I then he went to Belarus.

So I will track him here and there.

Say! I can track him anywhere!

I do not like this Wagner man!

Thank you! Thank you, SAM-I-Am.

Possibly, it’s something like this:

Trump: I need to show that I really really believe that the election was stolen from me!

Lawyers: it doesn’t matter what you believe, because the actions were illegal

Trump: but I really believe this, so it’s OK if I do all that

Lawyers: it doesn’t work that way!!

much easier to prosecute this sort of thing under RICO in Georgia than with the equivalent federal law

The Atlantic had some commentary about how broad the Georgia indictment is, compared to the Federal one for Jan 6. Basically, Jack Smith is looking at the political calendar, and wants to have very narrow charges that can go to trial quickly. A broader, comprehensive set of charges would result in a more complicated, slower trial, with the possibility that Trump might win in 2024 and then just terminate the whole thing. If Smith wins the earlier trial, he can still come back and bring wider charges, against, say, all the co-conspirators, but the first trial needs to happen early.

The Georgia one is less constrained by this political calendar, and the DA can bring the broadest range of charges into play, to show most of what Trump & Co were doing.

The drawback to what Georgia is doing is setting a precedent for local prosecutors to bring charges against former Presidents. You can imagine political revenge by some rinky dink GOP prosecutor in Oklahoma or something indicting Biden out of spite.