During his career as a chemist he invented both leaded gas and the early CFCs that caused the ozone crisis. There is an argument made amongst online people (not historians or experts) that Thomas Midgely is the individual person who has caused the most harm to humanity as a whole. Not Ghengis Khan, whos armies killed so many people its visible in the fossil record or any of the modern dictators you call people to win arguments online. Its the guy who poisioned generations and directly caused two dips in global life expectancy in the same decades by simply doing his job. The some of the risks of his creations were known at the time, people have known about lead poisioning since before liking Big-J was legal, yet warnings were ignored, his inventions were still patented and sold to the masses (harming billions).

The irony is that Midgley was killed by his self-invented medical hoist (he caught polio and was partially paralized). fElon has never actually made anything, he has been part of the owner class his whole life, so I dont think OPs analogy applies.

I have, not in education (I have relatives who work in higher education and they claim as such, but both of these are anecdotes anyway) but the interview process. My work has struggled to hire anyone and its driving me bananas. They either get candidates who used AI to pass the non-technical phone screen and show up for the first interview clearly asking AI about industry standards and they flunk almost immediatly. The second group are full on tripple threats, they can sing, dance and act, but balk at the first talk of pay (my business daddy has not kept up with the competition in a narrow field, they can get a lot more across the street).

We are looking down the barrel of the last cohorts of classically trained professionals working through their careers, the world is about to be a much weirder and worse place because of [gestures broadly to everything] but mostly AI.

I dont know whats more emberassing, the fact a CA fucked up this baddly. Or that the private keys look like they were actually someones lottery numbers from that morning.

A muchie (moochie, noone spells it consistently) is about 11 days. It is a very unscientific unit of time, but great for political memes.

What is the exact number? Im getting 5ish days, some are a week. I do not know how scientific we can get when attempting to measure micro-muchies.

That was quick.

Are we only counting business days? That would be about ~.45 muchies.

That image, sure… What ever, but there are other video recordings of him shitting himself in front of the press. (The one where they had to usher the entire press pool out of the oval office comes to mind)

You would think these people would be smart enough to set up dead-man switches…

Thats probably giving them too much credit.

I want tricorns to come back in style

I just think they are neat.

WHO DOES #2 WORK FOR!!!

Thats right, show that turd whos boss.

Plus he was fresh in a lot of peoples minds as South Park aired an episode targeted at him and Cartman doing his “master debater” shtick less than a month before it happened.

Keep us posted.

All of them live at peoples houses (so access to a normal power source) and either have some small lithium cell or an 18650. Only expirmenting with small solar panels and you need larger ones to run repeaters or routers as they are more active.

It is and it isnt, you do need to put in effort and manage expectations with meshnets (which makes it a hard sell for normies and people without a direct need). I was at DefCon a few weeks ago with my nerd herd and we functionally only used Meshtastic for our coms for the entire conference. On a few occasions I had to set the hop count to 5-7 but that was to get messages into or out of the main building. Once in the main hall (and using the cons firmware because it needed to default to shorter chirps to not saturate the airwaves) it worked just fine and our fleet of nodes was working perfectly.

Do note that there were ~2500 meshtastic nodes inside a convention hall, and electromagnetically speaking, that was probably the most chaotic place west of the mississippi that week.

As for out in the wild, Ive set up a small fleet of repeaters around town and can send longer range signals a quite a long distance away. Any further communication would require enabling MQTT, setting up servers and building real infrastructure. Thats a whole other can of worms I dont have the time to do yet.

You would think after that superbowl incident, TV stations would learn to have appropriate buffers for things that happen spontaniously.

I guess people smart enough to think of that dont work for Fox.

This is some of the bullshit they made fun of in “The Death of Stalin”…

You can confirm through a bit of Google Fu, that that is the corner of the 2026-07-12 sports section of the Washington Post. However every copy of the image ive seen is grainy or low-res enough and Photoshop exists that I would also require video evidence before rejudge the situation.

Im fully expecting him to show back up Weekend at Burnies style. Complete with his hair stapled to his head and his shoes tied to someone elses.

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Inigo Montoya would like to have a word with you…