No we don’t. The recycling of batteries from electric vehicles is an environmental nightmare waiting to happen. And we should not be able to ship it of to another country like we do with so much of our other waste.

He was a little scrote.

It is! It's the largest collection of Portuguese language books outside of Portugal itself - the building is from the 1880s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_P...

Holy shit! Is that place real? Regardless I want it as my gaming room :)

This is just my opinion but I reckon either rebels in Iran or Mossad agents downed/sabotaged the helicopter.

And I'm more likely to point the finger at pro Russian elements re: the Slovak PM.

Lets not forget Putin and his cronies are trying to sew dissent where ever they can.

Yes it was a real thing. We'd moved there as a family because they needed a dolphin and killer whale trainer. But that was back in the mid 70' and thankfully that section has now been closed :)

A bit random but back in the 70s the real speak no evil, hear no evil and see no evil chimps lived in Knies Kinder Zoo in Switzerland. And they were dangerous as they'd already attacked one keeper before my family arrived to work there.

Any examples you'd care to mention?

FFS surely we have prisoners we could do testing on?.

When you have given that speech please do post it online because in all honesty I am finding that a great deal of the sci-fi books available these days are lacking. I grew up reading authors like AC Clarke so you can imagine why that may be.

Chicory root makes a good coffee substitute apparently. I'm contemplating growing some at home to find out.

I'm mainly on Mastodon though: @cstross@wandering.shop

No it doesn’t. There’s to many connotations attached to a laughing emoji and it can be used in both happy and nefarious ways.

On my last visit to the MOMA in NY they had computer games on display as art so I don’t see why this shouldn’t be the case for music.

BUT, & here’s the crux of it, there are far too many great OST’ & music tracks in general so how would one determine what should be in a museum?

#museum #art #moma

Could be an easy(ish) UX fix too? like if you open up someone's profile in the feed (on mobile) you want to check their bio and/or either follow or block. Right now only follow is listed as default, but there's room for another button