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What, you aren't on the dark matter diet yet?

Yes, because it gives them full legal access to share basically everything ever published by the US government. It's not a magic bullet for all their woes or anything, but it is one less thing to worry about.

Mmm, yes. I too love eating metals that explode when they touch water. Extra spicy. It does more than double the sodium content of your salt though, so watch out for that if you have high blood pressure.

I love how these tech companies are so desperate to prove that AI is useful that every time an engineer ever uses any kind of software that has even the tiniest element of machine learning they're all like, "See, AI did this! This was AI! Isn't AI so useful, and amazing, and definitely worth all the money we've spent and environmental damage we're doing!"

I'm starting to get worried that Obsidian will be the first of Microsoft's recent acquisitions to get EAed. They make neat little $40 AA games that I really like, but Microsoft seems just convinced that if they can use a massive budget to fix the bugs and give them the shiniest new graphics then they'll somehow turn an Obsidian game into the next Skyrim, and that just doesn't even begin to make a lick of sense. They do not and have not ever made that kind of game. The closest they ever came was Fallout: New Vegas, and that's because they were literally working with Bethesda's game engine, and the things people love most about that game are the things that make it the most different from a Bethesda game.

Now not only were they trying to sell this game for $70, but the next one's going to be $80. Obsidian is screwed, and that makes me sad.

Man, it would be such a massive upgrade for the western US if the borders had been carefully negotiated by... literally anyone, for any reason. They're actually just mostly straight lines drawn at random by people who had never been within a thousand miles of them, and they make absolutely no sense at all.

Also, for the record, I hate the idea that cities and the rural areas surrounding them should be separate and have no shared finances and no say in how each other are run. That's a stupid plan that would immediately result in rural areas having their infrastructure fail, and the cities then all starving. It is a very, very stupid idea, and the very fact that there is a big urban/rural cultural divide is one of the things killing America.

Crap. My rep is on there. I'm actually going to have to call, aren't I? Fine. Fine. I'll do it. It is done.

Australia's bigger than Antarctica, and if you don't care about that "canal crap" then there are only really two continents bigger than it.

So... How many burritos worth of debt do you need before you count as a VIP?

The entire Weddell Sea is just north of Antarctica. That's where the Weddell Sea is. The problem is that everything near Antarctica is just north of Antarctica, including things on the complete opposite side of the entire continent. It's just a way of saying near Antarctica that sounds like you're giving more information than you really are.

A lot of food doesn't even have an expiration date. It's more common on a lot of foods to have a sell by date, which is not the same thing as an expiration date, and some foods are even just labelled with a packaged date, which is hopefully always in the past. Otherwise you've got bigger problems than spoiled food. MREs are especially notorious for this.

That being said though, I'm still usually the one throwing food out. At some point you just have to admit you're not going to eat it, and no one wants your dubious opened packages or half eaten leftovers. It's just gonna have to go eventually.

Man, we'd be so much better off if we lived in Idiocracy. Can you imagine living in a world where the people in charge were actually concerned about the well being of the people and actively sought out the smartest people they could find to try to solve the biggest problems society was facing, and then actually listened to what they said and followed their advice? That's basically a utopia compared to what we got.