

Brexit was a bad idea folks. Larger, stronger unions of liberal democracies are good, even if they're not perfect.
This seems really neat, but I also don't have any use for it. Maybe you do?


Their innovation is to put a big battery in it so that it can run off a normal 120v/15amp outlet and still have the power to boil a liter of water in 40 seconds. Avoids the expense of installing a 240v line. Very cool.


So, for better or worse, reporting in the last hour indicates the missile was probably fired from Ukraine in an attempt to shoot down incoming Russian missiles. Here's a thread from earlier in the day about how NATO articles actually work in practice. (They don't necessarily lead to WWIII)
Threads
• Short thread by Timothy B. Lee regarding the recent spate of tech layoffs. Noah Smith happened to publish a very similar article the same day.
• Thread explaining why a Monorail is a bad choice for a transit corridor ending at UCLA. Alfred Twu TL;DR: "monorail lacks the capacity and speed needed for this line"