Odd Stuff (Part 1)

Petrochemicals have been an area gas and oil companies have expanded into aggressively, and the plastic industry has aggressively tried to use the pandemic to its advantage. That includes pushing the bunk idea that plastic bags are more sanitary in an effort to get states and cities to roll back or at least delay bag bans.

Wow. “Coronavirus exacerbated by reusable bags”; right wing talking points in 3… 2…

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The device was called a mouse because of the way the cursor, then called a CAT, seemed to chase the device’s path across the screen.

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Bring back the woody!

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In a way, it greatly parallels the early development of home computing in the US, where everything started out as homebrew. I love the hack of broadcasting cassette tapes over the air, as well. I don’t think that such data broadcasting would have ever worked with US commercial radio, and even if the broadcasts were on college stations and such, there would be too many formats to consider.

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… soon …

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Peek a boo!

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Virgin Galactic pals up with Rolls-Royce to work on Mach 3 Concorde-style private jet that can carry up to 19 people

Virgin Galactic, Beardy Branson’s ongoing spaceflight wheeze, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Rolls-Royce to develop “engine propulsion technology” for its “high speed commercial aircraft”.

Spoiler alert: it’s a mini-Concorde for 9 to 19 persons, but at Mach 3.

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Squished the third eye focusing. :eye:

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Such a cute widdle tail!

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As someone that gets hundreds of emails a day for work and has extremely aggressive rules for filtering only the most important stuff to my inbox (and auto-purging anything else after a couple of weeks) this is hugely triggering for me.

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A Beijing court has jailed eight debt collectors for cyber-bullying people who owed them money.

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