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There’s legitimately not enough space for everyone to bring a carry-on, especially on smaller planes; until that changes, carry-on fees are as good a way to allocate that space as any.

This is great + well-deserved, plus it has the side benefit of making some of the world’s worst people really, really mad.

Vonnegut wasn’t a Too Good For This recluse like Pynchon or Salinger or whoever, and the content of his books made him fairly well insulated against charges of being a sellout; they probably offered him a bunch of money and he shrugged and said sure.

The Stardewification of everything continues - can’t wait until Half-Life 3 finally comes out and it turns out that Black Mesa has purchased a dilapidated farm in the countryside that they’ve taken Gordon Freeman out of stasis to restore for them.

I hope they make it - snow leopards seem to be in the gray area in between endangered species which humans can + will spare no expense to keep alive, like pandas and kakapo, and endangered species that are almost certainly done for, like the Vaquita and the Javan rhinoceros.

So this is why Elon is suddenly more upset than usual about bots

Todd Howard doesn’t do what Todd Howard does for Todd Howard. Todd Howard does what Todd Howard does because Todd Howard is… Todd Howard.

Hope everyone enjoyed the coldest summer of the rest of their lives.

OTOH, if you take that hello world program and ask it to compose a themed cocktail menu around it, it’ll cheerfully do that for you.

I mean nobody’s really paying $10, it’s $10 but then there’s an extra $30 fee if you want your plane to actually land instead of bailing out over the North Sea.

All this is really going to do is make airlines compete over who can offer the best amenities at whatever the new minimum price is; I doubt it’ll dissuade many people from taking them.

“Think again, Jimmy. You see the firing pin in your gun was made out of, yep, zinc.”

What, you don’t like to spoon with your wookie?

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I’m thinking Steam Deck. Or wait for the Switch 2 and expect a port to that (Microsoft seems to have no problem putting exclusives on Nintendo platforms, c.f. Ori)

China’s not actually pissed about that, they just love coming up with excuses to get their population riled up against Japan.

More nuclear = less coal, that’s the thrust of like half of the comments here dude

Many if not most Star Trek memes could benefit from a Superfluous Picard

3800 people a year die from coal plant pollution in the US alone; there are, in fact, much worse things than Chernobyl

Yes. And yes. Article on the F-35.

Gee, I wonder if the cost might go down if we built more of them, as is the case with, y’know, basically every other complicated thing that humans build.