Such a great pen. The ink flows so smoothly!

I am sticking to one house to limit how many batteries and chargers I need to worry about. Ryobi has had the same battery format for like 20 years, so I’m less worried about obsolescence.

That’s bonkers but I can follow it, I think. Good work!

Personal Protective Equipment is super important for many activities and are neglected far too often.

I also use a browser extension to tell me when his Name is in the Clacks!

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clacks-overhead-gnu-terry/lnndfmobdoobjfcalkmfojmanbeoegab?pli=1

There sure is. Peace of Blake be with you!

I really appreciate a lack of ansible tech. Having to account for the speed of light in communication makes for better story telling, IMHO

My favorite examples of limited communication speed are the Lost Fleet books by John G. Hemry writing as Jack Campbell, and the Battletech franchise.

In the Lost Fleet, they are limited to realistic communications. When they jump into a star system, they gather Intel but it’s often pointed out that what their telescopes see and radios hear is X hours old based on the distance. There’s a lot of talk in battles about predicting where something will be at a certain time or trying to device the enemy by pulling fake maneuvers. When they want to communicate back home, they need to send picket ships to carry the message.

In Battletech, there is a common method of FTL communication between worlds, but not at smaller scales. When the writers remember it, we hear about the same kind of delays in Intel as in the Lost Fleet. The FTL comms are monitored by a sometimes hostile polity, so top secret stuff will be communicated by spacecraft pony express, and there have been some attempts to come up with other comm methods.

I’m losing it. Is that JD Vance, or the SNL version?

That sounds awful, hopefully you get some rest!

Why not use liverwurst at that point? I guess it’s guaranteed gout.

Trebuchet, man!

Some of each.

I guess it’s the image transcription.

I don’t see the picture any more, but the link works. I dunno, chief!

Did you mean to link something? It’s just a picture of pinkie pie.

All of the Minecraft YouTubers are doing squid games in Minecraft as a synonym for deadly challenges basically. All the kids talk about squid games now.

Dude.

Only with each other or in general?

Oh OK. Thank you.

I’m not seeing it. What am I missing?