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shademar
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Scientist watching the world burn from Tahoe. PhD in neuro stuff from Cal. NIH alum. Retired I guess. Have MS and at war with my brain in general. Weather obsessed. A goblin.

Creators show me your creations! Alt text if possible plz

#WxSky #FireWx
Google would never make massive deleterious changes without warning, I say as I look for Google Reader, my old landing page on Google...home? I'm afraid to check Google Scholar, and hell if I'd know the total list. However, a lot of it is invisible by design and we're ranting about the iota we see.
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Oh man, that's the year I was born. This conversation is spanning literal generations, not just those of tech products!

Nuking a CD: your microwave arcs and sparks as it would with any metal and the thin film shrinks and shatters and crackles in sort of beautiful ways way before the plastic melts.
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
They made it happen.
They got the spelling a bit off, but they made it happen
November 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Wait...a16z was part of this? This is something I want to know more about. Mark A. seems to have fingers in many unscrupulous things and with all the DOGE related data access...I have concerns.
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Works thematically. Let's go with that.

President Camacho might be an upgrade over our current executive. The parallels are a bit eerie tho'...monster truck rally vs UFC match on the WhiteHouse lawn.
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
omg I hate it. I hate that it made me actually laugh as well. They've built a reality that is both ridiculous and awful at the same time.
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If meat prices keep going up...
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
But he just hamstrung himself on future anti-Mamdani rants. Not that he cares or notices, but others do and lol.
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I bear no responsibility for what happens to your microwave. 🫡
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Yes, but also a CD in the microwave was a special kind of magic.
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It's wonderful and I love it!!
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM