This is the “Africa” of first-world white-people rhetoric and AI-generated Facebook inspirational slop, a hypothetical war-torn, disease-ravaged wasteland, not the actual continent that exists.

Evelyn as a man’s name, if you want to be really old school.

That factoid is from a decade or two ago, when clear air turbulence was a lot rarer. Nowadays, due to global warming, turbulence coming out of nowhere is more common, and on occasion results in unbelted passengers being thrown into the ceiling and severely injured.

Stories are, though, which is why recipes have long, rambling introductions about the author’s grandmother’s childhood in a small village in Sicily or whatever.

He’s technically not wrong.

They’re exactly as scientific as the Victorian spiritualists who talked about “vibrational energies” and such, which is to say, not at all.

The secret source of Samsung’s consumer-electronics branding was putting a letter X in brand names (Galaxy, Exynos, Bixby) for that extra futuristic high-tech frisson. Then Space Trump came along and singlehandedly made that entire aesthetic deeply cringeworthy, so naturally Samsung would be wanting to ditch their Xs in the same way that McDonalds made Ronald McDonald look less Michael Jacksonlike.

At least they didn’t enshittify their existing properties with this crap.

They put in a bulk order for Cybertrucks?

If Harris wins, this move gets him nothing for the lost reputation damage incurred to the Post. If Trump wins, does anyone really think that he’ll interpret not endorsing a candidate as sufficient loyalty to spare Bezos’ interests from his vengeance campaign?

Singapore, or as William Gibson called it, Disneyland With The Death Penalty.

Marching band music. Can’t get enough of it.

The economics of consoles made more sense when computer power was expensive, and the choice was an underpowered home computer with so-so graphics and sound or a dedicated game machine optimised for drawing sprites and scrolling the screen responsively, with the extra costs subsidised by the price of (uncopyable) software. When PCs caught up, the consoles started looking internally like x86 PCs with souped-up GPUs (and, of course, draconian amounts of DRM baked in). Now with devices like the Steam Deck (and similar form-factor devices running Windows in game-console mode), there’s no real reason to buy a dedicated game-playing machine.

IIRC, they do forbid third-party clients from their network. You can build it from source, but you won’t be able to connect to production Signal servers.

Third-party clients would not necessarily be a bad thing. Signal has limited resources, and as such has to cut corners. I for one would love a native desktop client that’s not Electron bloatware.

You’d think that, as a French company, they’d have expected this

It’s not meant to be funny, it’s meant to be a salve to a specific kind of soul. If you don’t feel the effects, that kind of soul isn’t yours.

I know it’s anachronistic, but I’m imagining The Cure’s “Killing An Arab” as the music

yeule is awesome

A miserable little pile of secrets, but only if it’s featherless and bipedal

Going by Apple’s transition from Intel to ARM, an ARM-based Steam Deck would be a no-brainer. They could make it a lot less bulky, ditch the cooling fans and still bump up performance.