A drone listing is described in the seller’s catalogue as a “cruise missile” able to carry a 2kg warhead 30km

If you’re lucky, it’ll carry a 0.5kg warhead 10km. That’s assuming they don’t ship it with any missing pieces.

Why would a computer automatically process QR codes?

Because it needs to translate the code into text for the viewer, so the viewer can decide whether or not to go to the link.

Open up your camera, set it to capture mode, hover over a code, and see for yourself. You’ll get a link-text right above the code that you can click on.

If we’re lucky, we could get one of those city-leveling hurricanes to make up the difference.

Enjoy these headlines while they last. As soon as Bari Weiss is fully in charge, it’s going to be all “Woke Environmentalists Ignore Coldest March in months”

Not according to Wayne Gretzky

It is trivially easy to make effective shapes charges and energetics at home.

Safely?

If I wanted to, I could

You’ve got enough information to try to execute the above formula. Okay. And you’ve still got all your fingers after attempting this… more than zero times?

The drone parts and control surface actuation is by far harder and I say this as someone who has a professional background in computer science and software engineering.

Absolutely. We invented gunpowder centuries before we invented airplanes.

That said… as an anecdote, I had a friend who had a janitorial position. Cleaning a particularly stubborn toilet and dumped a bunch of bleach into the bowl. His coworker came in behind him and proceeded to piss in said boil, creating a toxic miasma that forced them to exit the restroom quickly and heavily ventilate it before returning.

“I could cook up some blasting caps with the trash from a frat party” is a theoretically believable claim.

“Every time I clean up a frat party, I add a dozen shaped charges to my inventory” is not.

Certainly possible. But you’re still stuck on the r² problem of diminishing returns at a distance. Light doesn’t like staying in a tight beam. The vortex loop is typically not much bigger than the wavelength. I don’t see much of a solution for transmitting energy long distances through air.

I just feel old and stupid. I naively thought there could be something this time but they are all the same. I hate that I fell for it and couldn’t control myself.

I mean, what’s past is past. Absolutely no reason to feel bad because of a drunken hook-up. The stringing-along and ghosting seems more like a him problem than a you problem. More likely than not, this guy is just as insecure and flaky as he appears in hindsight.

It fucking sucks that we’ve got so many lemons in the dating pool. Your story is one I’ve heard a dozen different women of all different ages and experiences reiterate. A guy turns on the charm, you get swept off your feet, then he’s back to business as usual the next day and you realize he’s just a normal POS.

But we’ve got an urge for companionship, so we all keep putting ourselves out there. The struggle is real. Know that even if you’re lonely, you’re not alone. Lots of people feel this way and nothing you’re doing is bad or wrong, even if it feels frustrating.

One Night flings are rough precisely because you build a deep bond very quickly with someone who - in the long term - wasn’t going to work out. I’m not going to say “don’t do that” because people are horny and fucking is fun. But you can’t beat yourself up afterwards, because mixing guilt and horniness is miserable and ruins the fun part of fucking. Then you’re just left with this hollow urge divorced from the joy of sex.

I can say that finding love among friends (at least in my experience) tends to be more fruitful than trying to find friendship among lovers. Dragging someone out on a date a few times isn’t just about counting the encounters before hooking up, it’s about building a list of things you like to do together that you can do when you’re not naked.

And sometimes just going out and doing things you like to do, and meeting other people who do things you like to do, is the best way to find a long-term companion.

And if that’s going to parties and clubs - because you plan to keep clubbing straight through your retirement years - that’s great. But if you’re a golfer or a painter or a board game enthusiast or a mall rat, you gotta go find big groups of people doing this kind of thing and date from there. Cause the people you meet at bars are, more often than not, the kind of people who want to be at the bar for the rest of their lives.

This is all American politics right now.

Two guys sneering “I bet you feel pretty owned right now. Well, I feel great, because I’m winning” as the boat sinks.

the goals of the mission were not accomplished

Of course we slaughtered them

And we got stupid rich doing it. Which was the mission.

Trump’s Pentagon insisted on a go-it-alone approach to Iran at the outset. This wasn’t NATO’s choice it was Hegseth’s choice.

Even fucking Chimp-in-Chief Bush Jr had the decency to assemble the “Coalition of the Willing” in Iraq. Rubio couldn’t be bothered to get the fucking Turks and Saudis on board, and they’ve hated Iran since the Ottoman Empire fell.

Absolutely bonkers to talk about this as some kind of NATO failure to comply when the treaty was never invoked to begin with. Doubly so, when you consider how many NATO bases are still ultimately being used by US forces to get hardware into position.

the only reason they put Trump in charge

Brother, I have some terrible news for you. Americans put Trump in charge.

how many wars has Russia won that they actually started?

We can play this game, but we’re required to do the US next.

Almost as though starting a war is consistently a bad idea for your country.

Trump Appoints Weirdest Board Ever

the list of new additions to the board of trustees, which included White House insiders

This sounds pretty standard for a sinecure appointment to a do-nothing job.

former acting director of national intelligence Ric Grenell

Lolz. That’s pretty funny.

megadonors Patricia Duggan and Emilia May Fanjul

Mindy Levine, the wife of New York Yankees president Randy Levine, and Dana Blumberg, the wife of Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

Okay, we’re back to normal appointments again.

Ilya Remeslo sends Telegram post

A Pro-Kremlin Blogger

The regime could collapse any minute now.

It would be possible to use it as an assassination tool.

Khojayev’s just-launched prototype has no effectiveness track record

:-/

I think

it’s more like a high speed burrito delivery device.

Is a more accurate assessment.

You can deploy a lot of $96 semi-effective hardware

Khojayev’s just-launched prototype has no effectiveness track record

:-/

I mean, time will tell. To date, this particular iteration of technology has a 0% success rate in doing anything but farming clicks.

If you want to pirate Brave Browser, I don’t think anyone will mind.