How about that spelling of “diarrhoea”? The US decided to go with simplified spellings and they chose to go with one that only dropped the “o” from the British spelling. Only that? I can see at least two other letters that could go.

A podcast or a stand-up could probably get a few minutes out of that, easy. Not necessarily a good podcast or stand-up (or internet comment), but definitely a couple of minutes either way.

“Reasonable”, unfortunately, is subjective. Just ask Rupert Murdoch.

Religious conservative nuts feel the same way about people who are in favour of abortion as many people in the US feel about health insurance CEOs.

From certain standpoints, assassinations appear acceptable.

There have been periods where one of my accounts was getting an ad-length black screen with buffering throbber (I hate that name) and, the most recent time, it was accompanied by a pop-up asking me if I’d like to find out why that was happening. Yeah. I know why that’s happening, thanks.

Then that stopped happening again. Either they gave up or UBo have worked around it somehow. Never ending arms race.

FYI: Depending on your politics, you may also want to avoid Proton.

One witch made one man trans. It doesn’t mean that the mission of all witches is to give out gender dysphoria, nor does it mean that trans people are trans because a witch did it. Life assigns these sorts of things apparently at random anyway.

I mean, a true sceptic could imagine that the witch in this comic had no magical power at all, but her words filtered down through the man’s psyche to where he has always been struggling with his identity, and they gave him the excuse to face it.

Fair point. From what I can tell, refined tungsten is actually an order of magnitude cheaper(!) than refined silicon, but molybdenum is over two orders or magnitude more expensive. ~300USD per ton, ~2000USD per ton and ~60000USD per ton respectively.

I assume that if this got up to scale industrially, savings could be made by recycling high purity molybdenum waste, but yes, it’s not going to be cheap.

The article seems to imply that the intention is to replace silicon entirely, but agreed, there might be niches where it can replace silicon even if full replacement might be unrealistic.

A senseless loss of life. All to stroke the egos of old men - one in particular - with rose-tinted memories of the days of empire.

Would it be too much to ask for a Scrooge-like turnaround? A million restless dead ought to be more than enough.

A promising start, but a thousand transistors at 25 kilohertz puts it where silicon tech was 60 years ago, so they’ve a long, long way to go.

If it scales, they can use modern tech and know-how to accelerate their progress and they can get funding, maybe this will be viable in a decade or so.

It’ll be interesting to see if they try this with Northern Ireland next. Politically a bit more of a hot, well, er, maybe “potato” isn’t the best choice of word in this instance, but as far as sharing a land border with an EU nation goes, it could smooth over a few problems that Brexit created in that part of the Isles.

Surely you jest. Gates has almost nothing to do with Microsoft these days, let alone interface design. In fact, he’d probably be the one to roast any stupid design decisions if he was still active there.

For the right person, a Discord alert sound might be better. On the other hand, the sound coming from somewhere other than a device that can access it might clue the victim in a lot sooner.

Alternative: The AOL “you’ve got mail” sound. If you’re going to have something come from the aether, that one could have them thinking there’s an old computer in the walls somewhere.

Phil Attely, harvester of souls.

Yeah. They took benefits from working age people with physical and/or mental health problems to pay for it. I’m kind of glad I got rejected in the first place for the one they’ve cut, because that probably means I would have been one of those to lose it and it would have severely messed me up.

Am I annoyed anyway? Yes. But I try to remind myself that the current administration inherited a financial black hole.

Keeping the old folks onside might prevent them from voting for the fascists the next time around. Assuming they’re willing to forgive the slight, anyway.

I’ve read enough clothing labels to know that that should be Baumwolle. Tree wool. Because of course cotton is “tree wool” in German.

“France considers requiring Musk’s X to get users to lie about their age”

FTFY

In before this hotline is closed down or subverted.

What I hear for the last panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxnY2SWZTvk

It’s older still. The original Flash version of “Crabs” came out in 2006.