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According to Wikipedia, Musk founded it himself, on a whim, specifically to dig traffic tunnels.

Yes, it's literally in the very Constitution. For some reason I thought it was in the 9th or 10th amendment but it turns out it's even older—Article IV, Section 1: Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And...

SpaceX only exists because NASA gave up on actually caring about the thing it was created for; if we can't rely on government programs to get us into space, I prefer to call that a failure on the part of humanity and the US in particular and don't give them a chance to get around it by farming...

I'm curious what you're doing gameplay-wise to differentiate the 8- and 16-bit sections. Generally speaking, the games on offer tended to be pretty similar. Even The Messenger, which has you "time travel into the distant future" and indicates it by switching from faux-NES to faux-Genesis...

What we're all hoping for is that he'll have to bail himself out by selling off stock in Tesla, the one thing he owns that ever had a good reason to exist in the first place.

I just remembered, the triggers were also dual-action like the Steam Controller. They really were ahead of their time with that one, although I don't know if any games used the "Squeeze to toggle precise aiming mode, click to fire" that Valve liked to promote as a possible use of them.

Wait, they're charging money for emulators now? You know RetroArch is on Steam for free, right? And also that you can hop outside of the Steam UI and download more standalone emulators from Flathub.

That, and the political momentum from years of being one of Obama's outspoken critics. Everyone else in the Republican primary that year was a nobody to 90% of the country. Trump stepping into the ring was tantamount to having a Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert ticket on the ballot in 2008 (remember...

Reminder that while a purpose-built nuclear bomb has more destructive power, a meltdown is far more damaging in the long term because there's so much more fissile material. They were already rebuilding Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the '50s; there's a whole zone around Chernobyl that will remain...

And two of which were shaped in a way that made it clear which direction they were relative to A. So you see one of those kidney bean shapes on the screen, even all alone, you know which one they mean. If anything they didn't take this far enough; they could have had two more kidney beans...

I do, because we should have moved on to Blu-Ray sets by now. Aside from people who still have DVD drives in their laptops, who specifically wants to buy TV shows in a format that only looks good on a tube TV?

Oh right, that. I think I heard something about that. Something like, you're more likely to survive getting hit if it just throws you forward than if you roll over the hood (and possibly over the whole car, land on the road in a heap, and get run over by the next car in line)? I've never been...

And if you can use web forums, you'll resent Mastodon for not just being one.

Fun fact: pop-up headlights only existed because it was illegal to make headlights in a nonstandard shape until sometime in the '80s, and for sports cars that interfered with their sleek, aerodynamic shape. I don't know if they ever went on to ban pop-ups for safety reasons, or if they just...

Or more specifically, the video game spinoff of a full-on Onion clone, the Hard Times. Or did they shut that down when they found out Hard Drive was the only part of it that was getting any traffic?

Mark my words, this is ultimately going to lead to laws that do away with gender-segregated restrooms altogether, and a generation later we'll wonder why we ever had them in the first place. Nothing does a better job of exposing how stupid a rule is than putting in effort to enforce it.

So probably they were being inundated by archive bots run by people who are all simultaneously trying to preserve people's tweets before all the inactive accounts get wiped. I thought I read somewhere that the entirety of Twitter is already being archived by the Library of Congress. Not to...

I have now seen the thing. What the hell did I just watch? Was this even a movie? It felt like one right up until they arrived in the Mushroom Kingdom, and after that it was like reading some eight-year-old's fanfiction where every single sentence is "And then Mario did so-and-so just like in...

There really needs to be a word for when one company isn't a monopoly, but they might as well be due to the gross incompetence of every single one of their competitors. Because it happens surprisingly often in the business world.

There are hardly any sites left to embed into. Independent forums like this are a dying breed, and Twitter embeds have never been supported by any competing social networks.