I read a story once about Jimi Hendrix, I can’t remember where I read it and I apologize if somehow I’ve made it up. I really don’t think so though!

Jimi is with a musician friend in London, somewhere near a circus. It’s earlier in the sixties (I guess?) so they’re dressed a bit like the above, but they look out of place.

As soon as they walk in, the bartender goes “HEY! None of you in here.” Jimi is like “ah fuck let’s just go it’s bad here too” but his (white) friend is like “wait what??”

The friend asks the bartender what he’s talking about, and the bartender points to a sign: “No Circus Performers”

Putin too

I think you’re right if you meant “poors!” Which you might have because “poors” just corrected to “poles” for me.

Poor people don’t have insider information.

Oh I know, I was agreeing with you! I obviously wasn’t clear though based on my number of upvotes.

Just seems funny

I was curious, so I translated parts of the website (it’s under the Icarus Tunnelcentralen section) using whatever is built into my browser right now.

The control board did not indicate or operate any train positions, it was reserved for the respective switchgear in Johanneshov and Alvik.

If you zoom in on some of the additional images you can see that it did seem to rotate the bits to indicate switch positions, but I could be wrong!

Incredible system, very cool photos!

On the stock market, insider trading is illegal

I mean, it used to be illegal. It’s been done so frequently and so publicly in the past year it’s only really illegal for some.

The artist’s website has a pretty high resolution one but the illustration itself has a square aspect ratio.

So you’re saying everyone else should stay at Hiltons, got it

Well now writing/reviewing the code really is the bottleneck.

Apparently this cartoon was made a couple weeks after a specific electrical accident.

First of all, I never caught that electricity is a spider.

Note: Cover. Anti-electricity cartoon. Electricity is portrayed as a spider with a cobweb of electrical wires for trapping its human victims.

On October 11, 1889 John Feeks, a Western Union lineman, was high up in the tangle of overhead electrical wires working on what were supposed to be low-voltage telegraph lines in a busy Manhattan district. As the lunchtime crowd below looked on he grabbed a nearby line that, unknown to him, had been shorted many blocks away with a high-voltage AC line. The jolt entered through his bare right hand and exited his left steel studded climbing boot. Feeks was killed almost instantly, his body falling into the tangle of wire, sparking, burning, and smoldering for the better part of an hour while a horrified crowd of thousands gathered below.

Notes from Ohio State University library.

You can turn it off, thankfully! Weird thing to have on by default when you’re complaining about someone else’s design

Honestly, this sounds about right from someone who works at Andreesen Horowitz. She is friends with JD Vance.

In my experience they have been an out of touch tech investment firm for at least twenty years now. I’m pretty sure their entire culture is to be a delusional competitive rich kid echo chamber.

Bréton likened the move to “McCarthy’s witch hunt” in a post on X.

We are barely one generation away from that exact McCarthyism.

Roy Cohn was Donald Trump’s mentor and “fixer.”

He was also Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel and assisted him in rooting out supposed communists (the “red scare”) and gay people (the “lavender scare”). The latter being especially heinous because he was a closeted, self-hating, practicing homosexual.

Cohn had been assisting McCarthy’s investigations of suspected communists. In the 1970s and during the 1980s, he became a prominent legal and political fixer in New York City.

He was a genuine piece of shit. Trump learned a lot from him, Cohn was one of his heroes. You can see more on Roy Cohn the self-hating scumbag’s Wikipedia page.

As a bonus fact, the word “scumbag” initially referred to a used condom. Which is perfectly appropriate for someone like Roy Cohn, who loved being used and thrown away.

Oh that’s why Trump keeps talking about “buying” Greenland or whatever.

It’s breathtaking how stupid they are.

If downvoting a bad-faith article is against the rules, they should ban me too!

Like, I’m sure as fuck not going to read every instance/community’s rules to see if I can push the downvote button on bad information.

After selling some rental properties she managed, she invested in crypto and saw her net worth leap sharply to more than $3 million in months, a windfall she attributed to good luck and prudent trading

Oh totally, it was prudent trading and not SELLING PROPERTIES SHE OWNED.

It’s insane how much they tap-dance around the rich people getting robbed. “Small-time” investors with $3 million just in crypto.

Bloomberg really writing for the “normal person” here.

This was actually the crazy thing to me about the first Trump administration after it was over. You expect there are actually smart people pulling the strings or something.

But the truth is, details from respectable books written afterwards make it remarkably clear that Trump’s team are quite frequently absolute morons. Legitimately stupid people.

Steve Jobs talked about this pattern where really great people (“A-players”) hire people who aren’t as good as them. Then the “B-players” hire “C-players,” and the company/organization eventually reflects that.

Trump has never been anywhere near an A-player, so you can see the issue. They’re always starting at grade D or worse.

Apparently that’s the apostle Thomas, the raised finger foreshadows his doubt about Jesus’s resurrection. (According to the Wikipedia article on the painting)

I was just about to recommend as an alternative to LaTeX!

So much easier for me to reason about than LaTeX it’s ridiculous.

it asymptotically approaches infinitly easier to learn, understand, and remember

So accurate

And the backups, apparently!