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Too many sacrifice their professions for the sake of their careers. Let us celebrate those who risk their careers for the sake of their professions.
Panic! At The Fertilizer Desk, US Edition
Americans: this is your regular reminder that maybe 0.01% of people who write for the news actually understand how fertilizer works.
But their editors all found out that scary headlines about "GLOBAL SHORTAGE??" get clicks.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
(Published Oct. 2025 with @readfrontier.bsky.social)
A new genetic analysis reveals that human females and Neanderthal males interbred far more than the reverse, for reasons that remain mysterious.
www.404media.co/scientists-r...
February 30 is brought to you by an organization whose policy is probably “one more lane will fix traffic.” Checks out
Were we supposed to stop drinking from hoses?
Took the dog for an emergency morning walk just before rain hit.
This is a great history lesson on the mispricing of labor as technology cuts costs.
I’ve written how hourly billing fields are in an interesting spot when AI does hours of work in minutes. How long until clients figure it out?
This article argues software development faces this given Claude Code.
All batteries are recyclable. Here’s how to safely dispose of them in Michigan. michiganadvance.com/2026/03/07/a...
From @iprnews.bsky.social and @grist.org
This is one of the reasons that the ~1990-2020 auto industry / highway agency plan for a national safety critical network of connected vehicles was completely unworkable and stupid.
And how widespread is GPS jamming?
Really widespread. Today the problem is Europe and the Middle East. Even if Iran stops threatening to blow up tankers that entire region will probably permanently be a place where the safety of shipping and airline traffic will be permanently degraded.
gpsjam.org
my gps was sending me in circles and then the army was like okay yea sorry central Texas we are doing something weird www.expressnews.com/business/art... I was going in circles it kept re-orienting itself for my direction like popcorn and not actually the direction I was pointed
Abdominal muscles make no sense in this physiology.
Good Evening Motherfuckers it’s Friday
In the Expanse, there's no way Belters would develop a coherent culture.
USB is a stack of protocols which is over complicated. Many USB implementations are riddled with bugs and people are used to just "disconnect and reconnect" when it crashes. See Raspberry Pl and how USB is a pile of shit, drivers are crashing and since they went with ethernet over usb, even ethernet is unreliable. Implementing a working USB host support is über-complicated and basically require your device to have a full blown operating system (Linux) This might sound "not a big problem" but it raises costs and development efforts a lot when all you want to produce is, eg, a audio speaker. Compare this with just having a raw audio signal, and also think of when the dock connector was introduced (2002), when there was no Android in sight, USB support in Linux kernel was causing kernel panics when you plugged a USB pendrive, etc. Even though it might be easier to deploy USB today, it's still a complicated and unreliable bus, with many broken implementations and broken drivers. It's a total no-go in the industry world where things are supposed to be plugged in and then work 24/7 for months or years without crashing or without people having to disconnect and reconnect. I work in the industrial embedded field, I have worked in at least 3-4 projects where USB caused total failure and eventually forced a redesign to drop it. In the others, USB is avoided
One of the reasons every device is basically an entire fully capable computer now
God created the universe and omnisciently tweaked its initial conditions, all towards enshrining a state and its people so it may build him a temple – the American highway system.
Make people dependent enough, and then.....MAKE IT SHITTY!
Got 1000 photos of your deceased mother? So sad. We'll make you pay to keep them!
God this is good. Thanks for expressing how I feel!!
#makeitshitty
Tweet from Jack Posebiec, above a picture of the tanker bug from Starship Troopers (1997): "From this angle it is clear the Tanker Bug had just dropped her larva off at school and panicked when Rico threatened her"
Rightwing influencers are so bad at interpreting source material that they can only do it correctly by accident, when they're trying to make a joke
They only work on party ballons.
I thought this was about Trump.
Important fossilized butthole news
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
Say what you will about Leroy Jenkins. But you know his name.
Fever
there's an entire cottage industry devoted to helping Californians evade emission control tests, and I can't help but wonder what happens when that model hits congestion charging and per-mile tax/fee regimes
Wicked burn, really.
They said "successful," not accurate.
"The state has a variety of policy options to blunt some of the negative consequences of online sports betting without abolishing the market."
crcmich.org/policy-optio...
