2026-08-19T00:35:04.255Z
just heard a guy who's probably in his 60s with long white hair casually reference Clavicular
2026-08-21T02:48:08.393Z
I'm an animal and I'm affected by oil, am I counted in here?

2026-08-21T02:52:23.393Z
I feel like this is really underselling the problem tbh
2026-08-21T02:53:29.929Z
Like, just hundreds of animals? Do you know how many animals there are? Trillions, probably? I think I'd be be off focusing on like, deforestation or something instead.
And maybe the problem really is just pretty minor, I don't really know
But the thing is like, some animals are more important than others, on an individual level
A single wolf can have a moderate impact on an ecosystem, a single worm cannot
So if the hundreds of animals affected are keystone species with low populations, that might be a big deal!
Honestly they're probably not though, they're probably mostly like geese and common fish
Which are great animals but not necessarily a top priority
2026-08-24T02:43:24.366Z
Hey wonder how that's going (/s)

2026-08-24T02:54:43.099Z
Oh this is kind of interesting https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-red-sea-global-take-over-sindalah-resort-2026-06-18/
Sindalah is probably the biggest embarrassment of the project just because it's so straightforward compared to the rest of Neom?
Like, it's not that complicated to build a fairly small luxury resort island. It's not a particularly ambitious idea
But they couldn't even deliver that remotely close to on time
Oh also it was way over budget, naturally
2026-08-24T02:58:14.119Z
Apparently there were really basic issues like "it's windier than we realized", which, you probably should have figured out before committing over a billion dollars to it
And Trojena was arguably spared the worst embarrassment by virtue of being so wildly behind schedule
It was scheduled to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games, which was ludicrously implausible
But everyone knew it and started making plans to switch to a new host pretty early on, and it was already switched over with little fanfare
If it had been closer I imagine there would have been a lot more uproat
2026-08-24T03:09:24.554Z
you know I'd heard that they stopped watering the golf courses in Sindalah but I hadn't seen it, but Google Earth has some imagery showing it
5/18/2023 (before the "launch party")

1/30/2026

2026-08-24T03:19:02.554Z
oh hey, Bing Maps has decent imagery of Oxagon

unfortunately they don't tell you the date
2026-08-24T19:23:48.474Z
I'm glad we didn't decide to put leap days on the start or end of the year
It's the most intuitive option but having the year start or end on a different day depending on the year would be an extra level of headache
2026-08-24T19:25:47.724Z
Thank you Julius 👍 doesn't make up for all the killing and dictatorship though
2026-08-25T16:07:40.343Z
Why didn't they make a proper way to do this? https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/16fzw0x/windows_11_question_how_to_launch_windows/
"oh yeah, I found a way to do it, you just have to open File Explorer, then simulate keyboard input to open the tabs you want" why
2026-08-25T16:13:48.264Z
Of course that workaround doesn't work reliably, because of course it doesn't
2026-08-25T22:22:50.232Z
(referring to Pokemon Go) "It's Valor, Instinct, and Nerd, are the three teams"
2026-08-26T19:28:01.241Z
It's funny how Salesforce feels the need to call themselves the "#1 agentic CRM"
Like you can probably plausibly call yourselves the "#1 CRM", no qualifier needed, but because you have to say "agentic" it sounds like you're underselling yourself
Like, oh, #1 agentic CRM? Well, there can't be that many agentic CRMs, that's probably not hard
2026-08-27T00:31:43.327Z
I got the goods

2026-08-29T15:54:33.701Z
Thought this said "OPEN BTC"

2026-08-29T21:31:22.813Z
Jesus Christ F1 in 1994


2026-08-30T03:34:42.981Z
TIL Worthington Libraries provides JSTOR access to cardholders
probably not really necessary since JSTOR's free access is sufficient for all but professional researchers, but it's a nice perk