The thing about being a big organization is that you need to have slack capacity most of the time in order to be able to go quickly in a different direction at certain times. If you don’t have excess capacity sitting idle, an unforeseen event can paralyze you

The population of Canada has only recently surpassed the population of California. Annexing the blue states would be a big meal for Canada to digest

Russia does not recognize our borders in the Arctic. They have rival claims to the Arctic Ocean

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/russia-arctic-ocean-canada-united-nations-continental-shelf-1.5983289

Is the post-1993 thing NATO stepping in to stop genocide in Yugoslavia?

Oh teh noes, not UK waging a proxy war on Iran and North Korea!

It’s 2050. The sea levels have risen 3 metres. Hurricane season lasts 9 months of the year.

Eric Schmidt: ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite, how do we solve global warming?

ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite: I don’t know, but I drew you as a minor being abused unprompted.

Possession of any cryptocurrency should be punished by 5 years in prison. The only use case is paying ransoms to North Korea, and the side effects are destroying our climate

We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:

• Bought an AdTech company
• Added AI features to Firefox

The Internet Archive picked a dumb fight that it couldn’t win. I want to donate money to the Wayback Machine, but I can’t because they’ll spend it appealing this stupid thing.

Which other crimes should also be punished by drowning you and your children in the ocean? Shoplifting? Speeding? Littering?

What would I fold a Macbook Pro into? Quarters?

Ontario has now passed two different bills banning cell phones in school. It’s a great distraction from actual problems. I fully expect we’ll pass a third in a few years if our provincial government is re-elected

Teachers don’t need a sheet of paper at a legislature somewhere to take away cellphones. They can do that already, and if the kids disobey a legislature won’t help. I assume no one is expecting kids to go to prison for having a cellphone

• Man: Hi, I’m from Pakistan. May I move here?
• Other country: No.
• Man: I guess I’ll have to open a club in Pakistan.

I’m off Twitter and on Mastodon since November 2022. Mastodon is such a chill place once you’ve found people to follow and made sure the trolls are blocked. Staying off Reddit has been harder, but it’s also a shadow of its former self. Lemmy isn’t quite what Reddit used to be, but neither is Reddit these days. Too much noise, not enough signal

I would expect smog to block or reflect incoming sunlight, lowering local temperatures

If they had spun off Windows and Office into independent companies, Windows would have made a competing office suite and Office would have made a competing OS

If I were to rank HashiCorp’s products by importance, Nomad would not be at the top

Of course, if I had ranked Red Hat’s products by importance at the time of acquisition, OpenShift would not have been at the top, so I am not a reliable ranker

The London thing does not apply to pedestrians

Instead of dealing with proprietary rest APIs to manage every third party service you use, you can use a declarative, idempotent format to define infrastructure that’s compatible with all of them

13 years since Cities in Motion 1 is not multiple decades, and Cities in Motion 1 is in no way the same game as Cities Skylines