Great headline. I appreciate the total being included! (Because we criticize the bad headlines, we should also highlight the good headlines.)

FYI, this is the same family as the article from the summer. I was uncertain as I had expected they had last been in Russian longer than a few months.

A snopes article. https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/22/derek-huffman-russia-war/

77,302,580 people is not half of America. It is 49.8% of the folks that bothered to vote.

More usefully,

In the 2024 presidential election, 73.6% (or 174 million people) of the citizen voting-age population was registered to vote and 65.3% (or 154 million people) voted according to new voting and registration tables released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

source

People just don’t notice the quiet ones. There are dozens of us.

Yes. With rechargeable batteries, or some obvious way to change the batteries.

Do be certain to advertise them here, so that I am aware these are even for sale. Or take preorders for my shoe size. (Why in the hell is everything NOT a preorder these days?)

Lotteries avoid issues with the deciding committee handing these to their friends.

To an extent, it also can provide better data on outcomes. Instead of biasing for the most motivated, it includes a wider pool, so of whom may otherwise be seen as “unworthy”. Then people do people things.

I understand the failure rates for the GPUs is huge. The duty cycles tend to be high, with power and cooling issues.

(Actually the power issues are wild and can destroy power distribution and generation equipment. “Power Stabilization for AI Training Datacenters” 21 Aug 2025 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14318)

Another advantage of cookbooks. (There are good ones, but a lot are junk.)

Have to? No.

Should you? Yes. The theatrics really liven up the day.

This is the way.

Blood sacrifices used used to be needed; but now that the congregation is large, candles and incense are preferred.

No advantage to using social media tied to your name or identity.

Be a hermit crab. Start new accounts periodically. Be certain they are not tied to your meat space persona.

There is a lot of that happening. Pick a crime and look at the statistics.

Additionally, women are less likely to be charged for many crimes like domestic assault.

I cannot find my glasses when I am wearing them. I don’t think I am going to put a hardhat on when I forgot I am not wearing it.

I might pay to watch Techmoan install Gentoo. (I am a big fan. Loved his dashcam reviews.)

Humanity has been fucked many times before. Humans migrated out of Africa TWICE. We have been nearly wiped out several times. Maybe this will be the last time. Maybe Humans will migrate out of Africa a third time…

Reference provided, but not read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations

Yes. People fight for the $50K to $100K jobs, missing the boat on the $250K jobs.

Do the bots do anything in particular that is annoying, or it is the large number of posts?

Thank you. That is reassuring.

Thank you for highlighting the separating of roles between the “admins” and the “mods”. As a “user” that get blurry.

I agree with you. The implications are staggering.