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This one time on an episode of Survivorman, Kalahari iirc, I watched Les Stroud use a hole in the dirt and a clear plastic tarp covering it to act as a solar still. The condensatio…

Also remember that time Microsoft said confidently that Windows 10 was the last version of Windows? https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve... "Microsoft could…

I don't think you should be able to patent life in any form. Nature should be inviolable when it comes to man profiting from holding its reins.

Meanwhile those of us dumb enough to wind up with TCL Roku TV's have lost (well I have lost personally): - All app sideloading. Bye Pornhub app, you died too soon. Roku uninstalled…

And why Friendster didn't and how FB kneecapped and murdered MySpace in a back alley and got away with it.

Once upon a time we had Lotus Sametime in office for IM communication and we liked it. It was good. It worked and didn't have dealbeaking quirks or fails. I miss Sametime, always h…

Clearly because they've done a poor job of integrating and then forcing adoption of the stickers and gif inputs. They should've threatened to call forth a Skypening if the users fa…

They used to call it "Adam" when it was sold openly in Dallas, TX bars before it got emergency scheduled and banned in '85. Only had a brief year or so legally before it called dow…

Best TIL of the day, thanks for noting that!

As an old head, lifelong Junglist and retired long serving Minister of Raves for the Party People Party, this is thrilling to hear. Please pass the MDMA, whatever Dutch doublestack…

Yeah but why haven't I been blocked yet for [b]commercial use suspected[/b]?

No. I posit humanity has never left a glass half full. Just wait for the deepfakes to utterly destroy video as a means of common representation of reality when it crosses the thres…