bah.

Let me know when they start making *autographic* 120 film again. I have the camera, and am dying to shoot a roll!

The last rolls were apparently made in 1932. The cameras had a flap that could flip up and allow writing directly onto the film with a stylus. When you see handwriting on an old picture print, it was likely shot on autographic.

[and, yes, in fact my autographic camera *does* have bellows!]

At the very least all this compute will ensure that we have plenty of energy going forward. People still assume that green power is about replacing fossil fuels. It isn't. We will need way more power in the future, and thank gods the green power wave came in time so that we won't burn up the planet next century with all those energy requirements. But we're not off the hook, because waste energy alone will simply cook us all in the 2300s, so we're going to have to find ways to reduce our energy footprint anyway. But that's another discussion.

... appear to be awake past our bedtime

That Electrolux isn't really an Electrolux.

a couple of decades ago, in one of those weird corporate maneuvers, it sold the name, and now sells its vacuums under another name, while the buyer sells non-electrolux as Electrolux.

So what she knows of Electrolux from the late 20th and early 21st centuries no longer applies.

But, yes, they were very good and lasted forever. Also extremely pricey.

Cheney was in charge below before he decided on a walk-about up here. Having spread chaos and evil for a bit he is returning to his day job as lord of hell.

That skill proved useful in his later career.

...The ants go marching by.
There is a reason they are so successful.

Now you can restrict what you want to see before ever looking, so there is no chance of seeing anything new, or learning anything at all.

Again the People lose, here in the US and abroad.

WEYD rocks.

Almost all of those things listed are goods or services provided for sale to the public. The DataMining gives nothing back, except to a very select few. Heck there are barely any employees.

try using mirrors. What could go wrong? :)

We had to have our entire roof reshingled after a particularly bad storm.

It turns out that of the various colors, the lightest (or 2?) was actually energy star rated. So we took it.

It turned out to be worth about 2F inside as compared to the prior black shingles.

We got another 2F when we replaced the swamp cooler--the newer model had an 18" pad instead of 12".

Between the roof and the bigger pads, we only had a single non-monsoon season day where we had to switch over to AC this summer--in Las Vegas!

(I'm going to miss the swamp cooler when we move, but they're apparently not allowed in new construction. I have no idea when the cutoff was)

Bart Ehrman is a new testament scholar. He studied theology at a religious university and when he started looking at the new testament with a scholar's eye, putting the gospels next to each other line by line, sentence by sentence, he lost his faith. He believes it's likely that Jesus existed though.

One remarkable thing is the end of the gospel according to Matthew where some monk in the middle ages added the resurrection to the text cause he couldn't understand why it was present in other gospels but missing in this one.

So I'm wondering what evidence the journalist you mention found. The evidence regarding even Jesus himself is extremely scant; outside the Bible there is only one reference to him that is considered genuine (by Josephus), even though even that one was embellished with extra wording afterwards. The resurrection story is found in just about every culture that ever existed (as far as we know). Are all of those true too?

I suspect that the journalist somehow "found god" and then found him in all sorts of places, looking at stones and bread and so one.

I really don't get why so many Americans still believe in god. Why hasn't rationality taken more of a hold?

Give it 2 weeks of reddit exposure and the AI will be a child predator easily able to hone in on the young and vulnerable.

*note extreme use of sarcasm...