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After many years, at last I have become sufficiently cantankerous that one egregiously stupid post to c/showerthoughts is enough to make me block someone.

When you stop to think about it, puns are actually pretty neat.

I'm so old I remember when people would read the newspaper.

Like, read every sentence in every story of each day's newspaper, trusting the editor not to print anything that would be too much of a waste of time.

AMD is spending record money on lobbying after decades of absence or near-absence from any form of political contribution and, in our opinions, is now joining the ranks of companies like Micron, NVIDIA, and Palantir in effectively bribing the US government for favorable deregulation, tax incentives, and safety bypasses for AI and data centers. We dig into AMD's millions of spending on Super PACs associated with President Trump, lobbyists, and in general, what we view as anti-consumer and anti-humanity efforts as AMD partners closely with the Federal Government to reduce safety nets around construction and development. Like NVIDIA and Micron, AMD is taking the same path of directly engaging in what we think are, effectively, bribes, while still maintaining an image of being the plucky underdog.

"We are not looking for sneaky ways to surveil Canadians" says minister, as he introduces a bill that allows him to demand that any web service they choose to victimize must assist them in the surveillance of Canadians and that they can't tell anyone about it.

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-reading#ID0EMBA

Prime Minister Mark Carney backed U.S. air strikes on Iran, saying Tehran is the main source of instability in the Middle East and must never be allowed to possess nuclear weapons.

“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security,” the Prime Minister said in a joint statement with Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand Saturday from Canada’s trade mission to India.

The main reason not to drive in the snow is the way other people drive in the snow.

In terms of popular baby names, how long before "Rudolph" makes a comeback?

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I started learning rust. Worried about trusting all the various code that gets pulled in from the interwebs to compile the first example project in the book (which depends only on "rand" to get random numbers, which requires 8 different libraries), I installed "cargo vet" so that I'd at least know about it if I accidentally added things that haven't been vetted by anyone at all.

Doing this installed a further 200 crates, with no indication as to whether they have themselves been vetted by anyone or not, and tells me that half the ones I already had just from adding "rand" have not been vetted by anyone.

Anyway, I'm learning rust.

Butter

The larger board of Squardle 34 means that difficult situations come up more often, so it's probably best to start with the original 5x5 version if you're not yet good at that. But if you are good at that, I find the new one has much the same feel to it. At my speed the 34-square board takes too long for me to want to do it every day, but it's fun.