Sounds like a good story. A lot of SF has a forerunner civilization concept, but I can only think of a couple that present anything about their early stages.

If you compressed a 14” pizza into a ball it would probably be about the size of your head, so you should not eat one.

Growing up in the 60’s I had a skateboard called a monster with a picture of a monster on the top. It had metal skate wheels on it. My uncle said they used to make something like that in the 40’s by nailing a skate onto a board, though it sounded more like a scooter since they usually added a handle to the front.

Be nice if companies had to open source firmware they are going to EoL.

Informed? Did the infection rates start dropping lately?

UK had one of the larger militarys in the EU. Only reason I can see them ever considering it.

This is a bit of an aside, but google releases a lot of security updates for Chrome. Sometimes 2-3 a month. Not sure if Firefox does the same since I only see the notices about Chrome. Not sure if it is a good thing that they fix problems quickly or a bad thing that there are so many problems.

Meta may be many times bigger, but that does not mean they are not interested in killing all competition. That is just the megalomaniac mind set.

Not sure a buy-in option exists with the Fediverse.

Meta may not even care if they get partially de-federated. They can still claim they are part of the Fediverse with a simpler start-up. People who were considering trying the Fediverse may think they already have with their Threads account.

Can individual users block instances?

Start using a Linux laptop for web surfing and development work.

Even with the religious context it’s crazy talk.

Could also be a test team rule on a larger project with test team.

How come half that wall looks photo-shopped?

AI does business!

3 and 6. There was no limit to how often you can use the power, so just spam them. Look 20 and fly.

It surprises me they lost that little.

A good walk spoiled and they won’t even let you walk on a number of courses. Have to use the little electric cars.

Into the ground maybe.

Just some key words in uppercase (FROM, JOIN,WHERE,etc) so they pop out

Dems support in his keeping the speakership may have been part of a deal for the funding extension.