If paper is good enough for wiping the shit from my hands, it’s good enough for wiping the shit from my ass.

Enjoying it, and time.

Makes sense. You need geological time scales to describe how old that BlackBerry is that the person is holding.

You might be interested to know that I’m writing this comment from the Tri-Cities Area.

I am both a (T-)SQL expert and a language design enthusiast. IMO, SQL the language is mediocre in its grammar and extremely resistant to cleanliness. Once you get past that, the things you can actually do with it are extremely useful.

I’d love for a better syntax to exist, but it’s a Herculean task to make one. Modern SQL dialects have gargantuan, labyrinthine grammars, and they grow with each new product version. It’s a lot easier to keep adding to that than to build a feature-complete replacement. This is also the reason why most ORMs are so frustratingly limiting: it’s too much work to support the advanced features of one SQL dialect, let alone multiple.

Dang. In wildfire season here in western Canada, my air filter gets brought out well before the 100 mark.

The engines are at the back of this aircraft. Also in Russia, Russian air defence sites do not need to be concealed from Russian business jets. That said, I find either cause equally plausible.

Having developed a few MSI installers, this meme checks out.

I disagree with Sabine on accelerators for the simple fact that accelerators are fucking cool. We should be building more and bigger accelerators for that reason alone.

Needs some sort of signal for the science-literate that it’s just there for show and you actually do evidence-based practice.

A few of the affairs became unexpectedly external.

Not so fast. You can do your duty to the Economy by adopting and raising children, reducing the children’s burden on the State and transforming them into productive adult drones who will work for low wages (and who might later reproduce)! Really, unless you adopted three children while reading this, you have been negligent.

So if a ship, train, or cargo plane full of drones happens to have a little explody accident while en route to Russia, Iran definitely won’t care, because hey, it’s not their drones.

Guessing it’s static electricity buildup.