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Almost as smuuth as sharks.

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You left your stroganoff.

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I should have emphasized it as "You left your stroganOFF."

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I studied under Instructor Dooku at the Academy, it's standard Starfleet curriculum to learn your Jedi fighting techniques.

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I'm going to presume that's garlic sauce and that's a solid win in my book.

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This is a surprise? Anyone watching EVs for more than a few minutes knows that Toyota has been pushing back HARD against EVs, with other Japanese automakers doing effectively nothing to make the transition. Western automakers have been forced into it, either by scandal (hi VW) or having Tesla eat their lunch.

I expect Ford to make it, barely. GM will make it, at a cost. Toyota and Honda are too big to fail, they'll just spend their way out of their own mess. It's a matter of what brands will be reduced to niche manufacturers or have themselves bought out instead of going bankrupt. Stellantis has already sold themselves to Leapmotor, and will succeed or fail based on that JV.

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Yup, they tried, failed, and said "Yeah, nah." Wild.

Where the Hell are Ryder’s From Paw Patrol's Parents? ( lemmy.world )

Ryder, the local young leader of the Paw Patrol, has long been a fixture in Adventure Bay. He is often seen gallivanting around town with his high-tech ATVs or overseeing operations in his pup-filled command center. However, recent concerns about his upbringing have left many locals bewildered and wondering where the hell are...

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My head canon is that he's a severely autistic teenager with billionaire tech parents that develop AI-based autonomous robotic helpers. They gave him a bunch (mostly dog shaped) and a literal warehouse built to be Adventure Bay, so he lives out his days happy and "helping people" with his pups. In reality he's beta testing his parents' prototypes with edge cases no regular user could even think to come up with. The show is what Ryder thinks is happening, but it's 50% in his head, and 50% enabled by his parents' products. He is a more closely guarded secret than all of their IP combined. He doesn't exist as far as anyone knows.

We don't speak of how many pups get destroyed, or what fluids may get into them.

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So are these dreams or nightmares?

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Skin not being the colour of Greek yogurt will do wonders for one's humanity.

Maybe Dr Soong was a big Simpsons fan. It was probably still going strong well into the 2300s.

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With what? You've confiscated all the knives.

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First two versions are Menthol and Flamin' Hot.

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By extension that means we can also reprogram alien satellites and probes. So why aren't we??

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WRONG

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QIp tera'ngagvetlh'e'.

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While I doubt the Klingons would ever choose to ally themselves with the Jedi (because why would a warrior race need allies), they would certainly find the Jedi to be noble warriors, and worthy of honor.

Now, if there ever came to be a Klingon Jedi… that would be one formidable being.

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maH! Qapla'!!

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Finally, a self-heating spread!

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SoH SuvwI'! maH!

Sample gut flora of people with "auto-brewery syndrome", culture the samples, and sell them in pill form to DUI lawyers for their clients.

This is a shitty idea because anyone driving under the influence deserves to be tried and punished for their actions. But if this could be done, you’d have no trouble selling each pill for $1000....

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The pills WOULD make it actually happen. It’s a gut flora imbalance that does it.

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Yeah, nobody is going to buy a bunch and spike the food in a major cafeteria and give literally hundreds of unsuspecting people drunkness-on-demand.

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I think an ear wax IPA might be preferable, but that’s just my preference.

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Smaller (6 passenger) buses running autonomously. We’re not there yet with the autonomy, but there’s no reason to stick with one size of bus. Sure, keep big ones on major routes, but use smaller ones for small routes. Heck, make those routes on-demand.

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A taxi has a very expensive component - the driver. And a taxi doesn’t pick up strangers on the way to your destination.

'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad

I’ve enjoyed Mark Rober’s videos for a while now. They are fun, touch on accessible topics, and have decent production value. But this recent video isn’t sitting right with me...

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That’s his videos now. Get you to watch them to hype Crunch Labs.

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The disarming route:

You: Can I have a raise? Pest: What? I can’t give you one, I’m not your boss. You: Say that last part again slowly. [insert raise eyebrows here for emphasis]

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laughs in Ontario

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Corn dogs belong at a circus or fair or such outdoor event. If someone handed me a corn dog in the office I’d probably look like that too.

It’s probably just an oven-baked Pogo, too. Deep fried or GTFO.

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Not me, but my wife said as a kid that the Incredible Mumford freaked her out when he’d have his accident.

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Yeah, me too, but now they do CNC work and sheet metal as well. (In this case, both!)

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That’s my assumption as well, but why they wouldn’t say “hey could you use one of these standard thicknesses?” is beyond me.

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Probably, but why’d they do it with a tiny little end mill?? You’d think Blanchard grinding or at least using a fly cutter would be way faster/cheaper.

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They CNC milled the thickness, then laser cut it, them formed it. It’s that first part that shouldn’t have happened.

China is building a railgun that can hurl crewed spacecraft into orbit ( newatlas.com )

Rockets being passé, China is working on using an electromagnetic railgun to launch crewed spacecraft the size of a Boeing 737, weighing 50 tonnes, into orbit. This remarkably ambitious project is even more ambitious than it seems at first glance.

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I hereby dub any crew member sent to space in this manner a Cannonaut.

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toH! tlhIngan Hol bIjathbe’!

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bIyIt ‘ach jIqet! qapla’!

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2014 Spark EV. Stupid small, but also stupidly overbuilt. 400 lb-ft of torque, can produce wheel spin on demand at just about any speed, and the suspension is tuned absolutely perfectly (best rude quality I’ve felt in a non-luxury vehicle). If you can deal with the limited range, and don’t need tons of space, this is the one.

I would have one myself, but with my family the Soul EV was the saner purchase. Just not quite as fun.

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The Earth’s surface is 71% water, not the Earth. I demand factual accuracy in memes!!

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Geez, you sure bought the propaganda. The Earth isn’t hollow, the Nazis didn’t regroup inside the world. They didn’t even go to the moon.

They made a strategic retreat to Halley’s comet, and revisit the planet every 75 years to evaluate whether they are ready to recapture the planet.

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I’ll only grant that it’s level.

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Ejecting waste in low planetary orbit should have been SOP to ensure it’s burned up on atmospheric re-entry. Leaving it in space as the Star Destroyer did is the most hazardous.

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It would be characteristically Empire to eject the waste in a geosynchronous orbit so it stays there for years and years, as a “fuck you” to the planet below.

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They’d have to eject it with sufficient speed to be over whatever escape velocity is for the station. I’m guessing it’s not that high. Sure, it’s the size of a moon, but its density would be far lower. It’s hollow, more like a coarse foam.

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Neelix knows.

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“I may be Admiral by rank, but all I’ve wanted to be was an engineer.”

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Japan’s next.

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