Nah, just read the dashed lines. Zero is dah-dah-dah-dah-dah, where two is dit-dit-dah-dah-dah. It's the international morse code! With pastel colors!

We'll wake up tomorrow with Clarence Thomas riding off into the sunset in a new RV, John Oliver poorer by one RV and $1mil/year, and a supreme court justice that doesn't need to shave everyday.

P.S.: Someone get word to John Oliver that sooner rather than later might be a good time to rescind his offer!

“What bigger break could there be?” she asked.

Yep.

And the market only corrected back to April 2026. All the election results sound bites are going to play great on Fox, though.

The way I tend to think about it these days is that this guy is part of a community where that kind of thing is normal; otherwise, why would he share it?

If anything sexual is so big of a deal to him (and I infer it is from the statements he made), then how does that align with shielding his boss from the allegations made against him?

Everything's easy when you know the trick:

Guy who knows the trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPsgEdmlUf0

That guy?

The guy who pays money to a third party company to log all of his internet browsing habits and share them with his son as proof he isn't looking at porn?

I'm sure that a company that caters to highly conservative people who feel the need to be "kept honest" with their browsing history does a bangup job keeping their servers up to date, and no foreign intelligence teams focus on it at all after the Speaker of the House bragged about using it.

What's bothersome is that Germany is just one of many countries that's chock full of open source developers contributing to open source projects that know better. Those guys are SMEs on the topic and their opinions should be taken as such.

Germany happens to have KDE and The Document Foundation which is probably one of the reasons so much money goes into "investing" in Germany by big tech.

So what do we do next? I mean, in terms of things that might actually help?

Become a society with strong critical thinking skills who values people based on reasoned takes based on experience and science over people who value rapid, loud appeals to emotion.

One piece of that is recognizing that doing things like putting flat earthers up in high altitude planes or near space is a waste of resources that could've been spent doing something better.

EDIT: that last paragraph was an incomplete thought. Individual flat earthers have done the whole scientific method thing, and proved themselves incorrect and stepped away from it. How do you handle the people that refuse to be convinced? If there's no level evidence that a person will accept and they're out in the forest commons chopping down trees to build a tower to whatever is on top of earth, how do you tolerate it at a societal level? It's still an incomplete thought.

Good teachers: "It's broken again. That's on me. I don't know what I'm doing wrong with the passes. To shreds you say?"

Personally, a single “bathroom pass” NFC card that a teacher hands out to any student in their class that needs a bathroom visit wouldn’t cause me much security consternation; that any student could be carrying the pass at any given time is enough anonymztion for my concerns. I’d be more concerned about germs; a group pass is going to get nasty.

Add in a requirement that the scanners have to be connected to an airgapped system, and the system software ONLY reports/stores if a trip took more than X minutes, where X is some agreed upon time by teachers/parents/etc how long a trip should take, and I think that's a a decent basis for a product that most school districts will completely ignore while they get wined/dined by someone who completely intends to sell the system at a loss and profit off the data collected.

There's probably some selection bias in who's getting hit.

I have no idea if there are coolers that have a network connection as part of some warranty thing with the installation, but I do know that some medicines have to be kept cool. Is anyone keeping analog temp records in medicine coolers to make sure they haven't been warmed up to damage what's inside and cooled back down again?