Q*Bert Reynolds

He’s very clearly using a DMG. Ash just put an aftermarket screen in it. I’ve got one just like it.

Zombies are basically dumb vampires anyway.

Already made the mistake of reading this comic. Gonna leave that link blue.

Yes. So far, the CHIPS Act has resulted in $6.6b in direct funding and an additional $5b in available loans for the AZ facility.

Perhaps unauthorized is a better word than counterfeit. The manufacturing process for CPUs often yields less than ideal chips. Perhaps they don’t hit the clock speed they’re supposed to, or maybe they consume too much power. Those chips are supposed to be discarded, but they often find their way to the black market. Sometimes those chips aren’t even failures. If a fab overproduces, they’re not just going to give Apple the extra chips. These are the things Apple worries about, and they view it as far less likely to happen if those chips are made in the US.

I should also point out that the CPU isn’t the only chip that TSMC makes for Apple. Apple wants to make sure they’re getting a cut of every replacement part that gets sold. You can’t even swap screens on two brand new iPhones without Apple giving you a hard time.

Apple wants to cut down on counterfeiting. The US wants to prevent supply chain issues and reduce reliance on foreign chip production. The wiki article on the CHIPS Act is a pretty good overview: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act

Must be nice. I can’t remember the last time I drove across Louisiana and didn’t get pulled over in some podunk town whose only source of income is speeding tickets. We’ve had digital IDs here for years, and I can’t help but think that getting people to handover an unlocked phone is exactly the point.

When has a cop ever approached your car with an NFC reader?

I’ve never understood the appeal of digital driver’s licenses. If I get pulled over, there’s no fucking way I’m unlocking my phone and handing it to a cop.

From the article you clearly didn’t read:

Photography has been used in the service of deception for as long as it has existed. (Consider Victorian spirit photos, the infamous Loch Ness monster photograph, or Stalin’s photographic purges of IRL-purged comrades.)

I read it on their sources page at some point, but it looks like that page has changed since last I looked.

That’s technically true, but it’s as misleading as saying they get their search results from Yandex. Their results are aggregated from several search engines, not just Bing. They also have their own web crawler, DuckDuckBot, which absolutely respects RobotRules.

Bonus points for buying a smart TV to get the heavily discounted price and never connecting it to the internet.

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/02/1120628973/pregnant-woman-dallas-fetus-hov-lane-passenger-ticket

I think they’re giving you shit for using github.

https://youtu.be/Limpr1L8Pss

Top notch content. Right up there with his popcorn button on the microwave video.

This is just a crude early version. Eventually the tiles will be significantly smaller, quieter, and less prone to ripping toes off.

Nokia only sold off their consumer mobile phone arm. It was the least profitable part of their business. They’re still a massive company and doing quite well.

That’s what I said.

No, you didn’t once say that women were systematically shut out of baseball, you said they’d face hardship and discrimination if they tried and that’s why they don’t bother. Not being allowed is not the same as not wanting to try.

not a single woman who is more skilled

Strength and skill are not the same things. Lia Thomas was a top ranked swimmer as a male with times that would dominate women’s swimming. That’s not what happened when she started competing with women though. She transitioned, lost a ton of muscle mass in the process, and her times became slower as a result. Exact same skill level (maybe even higher since she was more experienced at that point), but she’s not remotely capable of competing with men anymore.

It’s why I used baseball as my example of a sport where women could compete if given the opportunity. It’s a far more skill based than the other major sports. Will the first woman to make it to MLB hit 500ft bombs or throw 100mph? Probably not, but that won’t matter if she can strike people out or generate runs.

Isn’t that literally what you said about the NBA and the NFL?

Yep, but it’s not the gotcha moment that you think it is. Again, trans women are not men. Transitioning gets rid of any strength advantage they had as men.