People watching outside the vendor hall at Megacon a few weeks ago. This was on Thursday, typically the least busy day.

Of course the price of a PC is rising too for the same reasons (mostly because of rising RAM and GPU costs).Still, I would rather put the money towards a PC.

I remember buying Fortune Gum for a penny well into the 80s. Of course chewing it was a bit like mixing concrete...

You could probably find a cheap (or even free) used stove, especially since you dont have to be too picky given that it is going to be replaced soon.

The inside of an iMac G5 that stopped booting. Clearly theres a capacitor problem here.

The Mirthfellows at the Space Coast Renaissance Fair.

But the result of a presidential veto wouldn't be more money spent, it would be none. So the president essentually has the choice of accepting what congress passes or shutting down government. The president

Not accordimg to the Constitution. It is true that the budget typically starts as a proposal from the Executive branch but Congress has no obligation to base the budget on that proposal. The "power

The president could veto it. However, with sufficient votes, congress can override the veto.

Using the term "guns" for arms dates back to at least the early 1980s and its probably older than that. I never really had any though, lol.

Democrats and Republicans work together to increase government by basically agreeing to fund what the other party wants if they'll fund what they want.

The president is really the wrong person to look at when it comes to the budget as that is ultimately the responsibility of the Legislative Branch (i.e. Congress). While Clinton is often credited for having

Well, I remain skeptical for now though I suppose it depends on exactly how you define AGI.

Sure, but that's kind of the point. There is a long way to go before tokenization will make investing more seemless than traditional methods. There are already very low access barrier options. There may

My Robinhood account is easier to manage that pretty much any crypto wallet .

There may or may not ultimately be an AI conciousness one day but if there is it wont be via LLMs.

I view politics more from a statist/libertarian viewpoint. The problem is, both major parties (in the U.S.) tend to grow government significantly. The easiest way to measure this is probably in terms of

We would build our ramps out of bricks and plywood. Of course the plywood would slowly slip down and as the wood slowly creeped closer to falling, we would dare each other to keep attpting the jump. Needless

While the images I post here are generally raw image scans, I also scan them using my scanner software's Digital ICE feature and color restoration to correct colors and reduce dust and scratches. I haven't