Any low-orbit kessler syndrome should be self-limiting for these reasons, without regular boosting Starlink sats will de-orbit in less than 5 years and that number drops precipitously when the sats are broken up into fragments with higher surface area to weight ratios.

I wish there were decent neopronouns for enbys.

"Blue MAGA" are the Democrats who think their shit doesn't stink and love to insist that any vote that doesn't go to Harris is a vote for Trump.

Classical Liberals are right-wing. Yes, this includes the Democrats and non-Socialist Libertarians.

The Olympics.

Anti-piracy operations always pick up when big sporting events happen because the networks that pay for broadcast rights don't want to have to compete with unlicensed streams.

Against hypersonics, this isn't really a solution.

The missiles are designed to force their way through thousands of pounds of air per second. Adding a few ounces of lead and/or hardened steel in the last few milliseconds before impact won't do much.

Turns out it doesn't really appeal to investors anymore either.

The only people still buying into the hype are executives and managers.

The next bullshit "killer app" in tech probably follows from historical trends.

Crypto and NFTs were essentially a rerun of the 2001 e-commerce bubble, then Generative "AI" was a combination of 80's chatbots and the predictive text algos of the last 15 years. So the next big thing in tech is probably something from the early 90's with some modern twist all buried under a fresh coat of marketing hype.

• Cybiko with LoRA?
• Gene therapy for cilantro tasting like soap?
• A serverless, blockchainless model for Web 4.0 that manages to be craven and awful in entirely new ways?
• VR/AR becomes as cheap as smartphones?
• A new physical A/V format for when the streaming market implodes?
• Even more "Smart" devices that only exist to steal personal info and die when the corpo servers go down?
• Trend-following bots that automatically generate and sell merchandise on demand in response to viral posts (probably already exists)?
• "Smart Agents", software that promises to use AI to simplify the already dumbed-down apps everything uses these days?

I'm so ready for that bubble to pop. XD

I had to look him up.

If he didn't want to suffer such comparisons he wouldn't be a Tea Party Republican congressman.

Also, Larry Whilmore is a black comedian who wrote for The Daily Show, not a leftist. Also also, his comment about black Republicans is entirely accurate.

Good.

I would be genuinely surprised if there wasn't a server with three-letter-agency backing.

Seems legit.

Most folks seem to go out of their way to avoid hearing about politics.