Yet another reason to avoid the US as a tourist. Looks like hotels and airlines did not bribe Trump sufficiently.

So it would be OK to hit the suppliers with bombs like the US does in South America?

Nearly anything thrown at me in school. If I hadn’t loved books already, I would have given up on reading after the shit they forced on us.

To the enemies of the rich.

As long as social media’s goals are commercial and have the effect of “digital cocaine”, keeping kids and adolescents out of it should be the default, worldwide.

In a societal collapse, it will be rather worthless, yes. But in an economic collapse, it probably retains more value than paper money or stock options. Property, of course, is premium. If you can uphold claims to it…

Tell me you have no idea how software development works without saying it…

The church leaders criticising this display should take a look in the bible and refresh their knowledge on Jesus’s teachings. Obviously they have forgotten too much of it.

I do model building with LEGO, and I use the Raspberry Pi Pico (which is different from a Raspberry Pi). For programming, I use the Arduino environment.

The controller has two cores, and, in the version I use it, has a wifi interface.

My models are modular and have a 12V power bus, and I use DC/DC adapters to generate the 5V or 3.3V needed for some applications. I use 12V because some lights and many motors needs them.

The controller has over 20 IO pins, lots of options for i2c and SPI busses, and the PIO system allows for easily driving NeoPixel displays.

The wifi is used to connect the processors to a central Mosquitto broker, so they can communicate, e.g. coordinating light effects or reacting to a button press somewhere.

If you invest in gold that is not physically in your posession, then yes.

If society breaks down, who is going to honor that piece of paper that claims you own gold in some banks vault? You don’t even know where that gold actually is…

According to her boss she is supposed to prevent exactly that. Well, at least the interesting parts.

They don’t understand the difference between crime and prejudice.

Let me guess: That student was home-schooled by some overconfident religious nut parents and never saw a real school from the inside?

You simply cannot call the country controlling your president as “enemy”.

We can get them at the local farm shop when they are in season, and they are a perfect drop-in replacement for kale.

Hopefully, other places learn from this. Taxing billionaires properly will hardly send them running. And once all the interesting places have learned that most of the notorious tax evaders don’t run, the few that run will run out of hiding places.

Real Christmas tree, fresh from a farm about 2km from here.

That should be the last thing that US politics need to know about Trumps treason.

If you play more regularly, you get quickly used to this message.

Water with a hint of lemon or lime.