Tesla convicted 18 times and ordered to pay thousands for failing to help UK police with investigations

In each case, when British police officers tried to track down the details of speeding Tesla drivers, their letters went unanswered and the forces ended up prosecuting the company itself

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/tesla-elon-musk-car-convicted-5HjdR8N_2/

Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend

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Picture of six objects progressively increasing in height, captioned "Easily envision snow depths" with a quarter, 9 volt battery, credit card, candy bar, sugary drink can, and a dollar bill.

my partner is fond of various zombie shows/series. i'm not but it did get me thinking. sure would be handy if we could nominate certain towns or neighborhoods to get eaten first. "eat the rich" could be a whole new thing.

"really. they have much more meat on their bones and their brains are more easily digestible. they've hardly been used at all."

(Of course, every time I hear GWAR, I am transported to Empire Records, and Eddie's brownies.)

nom de guerre: an assumed name one uses during war

pomme de terre: French for "potato" (literally "earth apple")

pomme de guerre: an apple of war? An assumed apple? a grenade?

nom de terre: your earth name?

This gave me a laugh.

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Unclear social media source: kaity--did Jun 1, 2025 Jesus Christ I have JUST realized that women use FTM to mean full time mom on the app I use to find recipes. I was like WHY ARE SO MANY TRANS PEOPLE MAKING MEDIOCRE PASTA DISHES!?

Not sure if I should be amused or horrified that some folks I know (who grew up in the 1950's) think it's not Chinese food unless it includes egg food young, chow mein, and a fortune cookie. 🤔

Nicely played Channel 4 👍

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Threads post from Channel 4: @channel4 Because we did not win the BAFTA for best TV channel ever we have decided to try and claim ITV as ours.

The Open-Source Blender Big Brands Don’t Want

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgcqzUazXdw
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#iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorld

I like this:

The GPS never says "Are you sure you're going the right way?"
It just says, "Recalculating route."

Remember that when your kid tells you they're trans.

There is no reason for a shower head with Teflon tape to be so tight it takes a wrench and almost loosens the stem from the wall in the process. As this showerhead was scuffed up, I'm begging you fellow bottoms, stop. Just hand tighten it and give it the tiniest nudge with the wrench if it leaks.

Aside from the war crime of attacking survivors of a shipwreck, we must now add the war crime of perfidy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/us-boat-attacks-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFA.7xgP.qIPINOLUNg8W [gift link]

Perfidy is considered a serious crime in war because, among other things, using civilian cover for offensive missions casts suspicion on all civilians in the theatre, putting non-combatants at risk.

"You know what I was thinking about? If Mary Tyler Moore married and then divorced Steven Tyler, then married and divorced Michael Moore, then got into a three-way lesbian marriage with Demi Moore and Mandy Moore, would she go by the name Mary Tyler Moore Tyler Moore Moore Moore? Hm."

KTLA: Bear takes up residence under another Los Angeles County home

"...their home is about half a mile from a similar situation that only was resolved a few days ago.... It’s unclear if this is the same bear or not. "

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/bear-takes-up-under-another-los-angeles-county-home/

#bear #bearredux #wildlife

Storing net worth as a 32-bit signed integer would solve a lot of our problems tbh.

When I read this article about Canadians boycotting American https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-us-bourbon-popularity-9.7028355 bourbon what surprised me was how little other countries are also boycotting it. Come on EU, you can do better at boycotting American stuff.

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A bar chart showing decreases in distilled spirits exports from the US in millions $US. EU from 330 to 290 but Canada from 63 to 9.6. Other countries: UK 37 to 26, Japan 27 to 21

What team are you? No spoilers in the comments ! I don't like this movie so far

Good luck to anyone starting the year with a new health regime. Here’s how mine always goes.

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My Year in Diets    Veganuary  Fibreuary   Starch  Cakepril  MaycaroniCheese  June&tonic  Julicecream  Augustickytoffeepudding  Septembeer  Octoblerone  Doughvember  Decemburger  Brian Bilston

https://www.michaelconnelly.com/killer-in-the-code/

Wanted: Advice from CS teachers

When teaching a group of students new to coding I've noticed that my students who are normally very good about not calling out during class will shout "it's not working!" the moment their code hits an error and fails to run. They want me to fix it right away. This makes for too many interruptions since I'm easy to nerd snipe in this way.

I think I need to let them know that fixing errors that keep the code from running is literally what I'm trying to teach.

#Satire #Trump #KingCharles #Colonies #alt
Borowitz Report 1/9/25

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King Restores British Rule over U.S. Hugo Burnand [Photo of King Charles in full regalia] LONDON (The Borowitz Report)—In a move that was widely hailed across the free world, on Friday King Charles Ill of the United Kingdom reasserted British rule over the colonies formerly known as the United States of America. “In recent days, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller have been advocating a muscular return to colonialism,” the monarch said. “I couldn't agree more with those chaps.” “We lost the colonies because our King went insane,” Charles added. “But now the shoe's on the other bloody foot, isn't it?” As for what this change in status would mean for Trump, the King said, “Perhaps he could room with his old chum, my idiot brother.”

I'm already dreading watching the US Traitors because they annoy me with the ad breaks and the little recap after every break. Coming from the UK seasons is jarring

Hmm, I guess the battery on my main UPS is finally dead. I thought I bought it recently, but it's 5 years old now and I guess that's about the life span of these batteries

manpageblog is written in Python and available for many systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD or #Solaris based ones like #Illumos but also on #Linux like #Debian or #Ubuntu.

Changelog v1.6:

• Pagination support added
• Sitemap support added
• SEO optimized
• LD+JSON support added

The project source is available on GitHub at:
https://github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog
You can find a real-life demo on my website at https://gyptazy.com

#opensource #devops #minimalism #purism #web #blog #blogengine #blogging #coding #python #website #manpageblog

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manpageblog - a UNIX man page themed static blog engine

I need a 9v 1a DC power adapter for my label printer.

Have I achieved Nerdvana? Do I already have such a power supply?

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A large box overflowing with saved DC power supplies.

I wish I could get into GNOME. I feel like everyone is so cool and awesome bucking the trend and writing cute little things but OH MY GOD can I just have decent scaling, multi monitor support, and a proper fucking dock without extensions that break every year for an unspecified time?

It's alive! ALIVE! #diycoffeeroaster #coffee #projects #rubegoldbergmachine

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Flour sifter, drill, heat gun, variable power supply on an outdoor table

@erikosterholm @tsrats I got it, thanks to you and a bit of Kagi'ing. My /etc/dhcpd.conf showed /16 previously:

interface eth0
static ip_address=192.168.17.152/24
static routers=192.168.17.1
# static domain_name_servers=127.0.0.1 192.168.0.1
static ip6_address=fd8a:8d3d:c9a3:1:66c5:f132:10d1:295a
interface eth0

After modifying it to /24, I'm now able to SSH!!!!! 🎉

#OTD in 1797, the Top Hat 🎩 was invented by John Hetherington. It took him over a week to pluck up the courage to wear it and when he did he was arrested 👇

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THE TOP-HAT IN 1797. The Hatter's Gazette reprints from an old journal, dated January 16th, 1797, the following amusing account of the wearing of the first silk hat in London:- " John Hetherington, haberdasher, of the Strand, was arraigned before the Lord Mayor yesterday on a charge of breach of the peace, and inciting to riot, and was required to give bonds in the sum of £500. It was in evidence that Mr. Hetherington, who is well connected, appeared on the public highway wearing upon his head what he called a silk hat (which was offered in evidence), tall structure having a shiny lustre, and calculated to frighten timid people. As a matter of fact, the officers of the Crown stated several women fainted at the unusual sight, while children screamed, dogs yelped, and a younger son of Cordwainer Thomas, who was returning from a chandler's shop, was thrown down by the crowd which had collected, and had his right arm broken. For these reasons the defendant was seized by the guards, and taken before the Lord Mayor. In extenuation of his crime the defendant claimed that he had not violated any law of the kingdom, but was merely exercising a right to appear in a head-dress of his own design-a right not denied to any Englishman."

My niece comes to the U.S. most years from Europe to visit her grandfather.

This year she was stopped at the airport, taken into an interrogation room, accused of being a prostitute, had her phone taken and scanned, and released.

You know, in case you were wondering why tourism to the U.S. is down.

The legal justification the WH gave us for attacking Venezuelan boats in int’l waters without Congressional approval was weak, and exposes the WH and military staff to domestic and international criminal prosecution. They have not even sought to justify strikes within Venezuela.