Specifically the brainwashed assassins were programmed with an urge to buy copies of the book. The CIA tracked purchases and used it to keep tabs on the assassins movements.

It is kind of ludicrous, but not a bad movie.

Rough surfaces can be more aerodynamic than smooth ones

“For more than 80 years, the principle of “the surface of an object must be smooth” has been the basic premise of aeronautical engineering throughout the world in order to suppress the transition to turbulence and reduce aerodynamic drag. This premise was based on the results of a 1940 study by Ichiro Tani, a Japanese aerodynamicist who quantitatively demonstrated the relationship between “surface roughness” (an indicator of the state of the machined surface) and turbulent transition, arguing that surface roughness, which was unavoidable with the manufacturing technology of the time, prevented laminar flow from being realized.

However, in 1989 Tani reinterpreted the experimental data on rough-surface pipes obtained by fluid engineer Johann Nikulase in the 1930s, bringing a new perspective that “roughness may not necessarily only promote turbulent transition and increase fluid resistance.” Inheriting this idea, a research group led by Yasuaki Kohama of Tohoku University experimentally demonstrated in the 1990s that fibrous rough surfaces, which have fine fibrous irregularities on their surface, have the effect of delaying transition under certain conditions.”

Multiverse, not to be confused with Multipass, which is something completely different.

Caveat emptor

Bullshit:

Meta reported for its most recent quarter (Q1 2026, ended March 31, 2026):

• Revenue: $56.3 billion
• Net income (profit): $26.8 billion

That was up from:

• $42.3 billion revenue a year earlier
• $16.6 billion net income a year earlier

You’re half right. The way companies expect people to use passwords is unsustainable. People can remember a password. No one can remember a unique, hard-to-guess password for every login they have. So they re-use passwords. Password re-use is so common and unavoidable that losing a single password is disastrous. It should not be. This is one of the promises of FIDO and passkey, not relying on a password that can be stolen, guessed and re-used.

IMDB reflects popular opinion. Everyone has unpopular opinions, heck I liked the Emoji movie. Also, for some niche movies the ratings are wildly skewed since only die hard fans are voting on them. And for some movies where there are strongly held opinions, many people will pile-on and vote on them without even having seen the movie.

All that said, IMDB is a useful tool for getting read on popular opinion on movies. Also, IMDB is standing behind me with a gun to my head. Send help, please.

Viva Longevity

https://m.youtube.com/@Viva-Longevity

“Our channel is not commercial—no product promotions, no Patreon page, we turn off all optional ads.”

Dude is a scientist who is doing this channel as his retirement project. High quality production value and science based.

No one can be happy all the time. Learning to deal with periods of unhappiness is a form of resilience or strength.

Good opportunity to introduce a Cobol subsystem.

Interesting, it is a fork of Onlyoffice.

I laughed way too much at this. What is the source?

Homomorphic encryption is pretty wild, you can sort and search data without decrypting it.

More realistic might be the addict does something stupid out of desperation like try to rob his dealer and is killed in the process.

It is never a good idea to put yourself in a position where you have legal liability and could be sued. Damages and even just the cost of hiring a lawyer could bankrupt you.

This guide is pretty good -> https://ssd.eff.org/playlist/journalist-move

Avoid the internet altogether with Meshtastic or Recticulum if your goal is coordination amongst a closed group.

Good luck stay safe.

https://reticulum.network/

It is disturbing when people take this kind of mysticism seriously. I could say a lot about this but it may be best just to refer to the words of Carl Sagan:

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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Depends on the killers the killer kills.

On an unrelated note, vaccinations save millions of lives every year.

Oh yeah, then there is this -> https://www.cgdev.org/blog/update-lives-lost-usaid-cuts

“Without the option of “clean” natural gas, Sweden turned to district heating – an idea which had originated in New York in the 19th century. But Sweden committed to it in a big way during the 1960s and ‘70s, deciding it was the best way to meet the heating needs of the 1 million homes now being built. This decision shaped the way homes in Sweden are heated: today, some 90% of its multi-family apartment blocks are connected to district heating systems – with heat distributed from power plants (usually on the edge of cities) as hot water via a network of pipes.”