These carry “foam supressant”. Makes me wonder if they will spew more PFAS everywhere.

According to this thread, you could make it from corn or biomass:

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/what-actually-is-synthetic-oil-made-from.65528/

Chevron claims they have a synthetic oil made from 25% corn.

https://www.chevronlubricants.ca/en_ca/home/learning/from-chevron/personal-rec-vechicles-and-equipment/how-does-a-plant-become-a-motor-oil.html

It was this guy. And he left for Facebook. Where he belongs.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/apple-iphone-alan-dye-design-move-b2878226.html

lol. The machine that created the monster, thinking they can control him.

I loved these two episodes as a kid. Really appreciated how they revealed the humanity of Spock’s character at the end. As an adult, I’m even more impressed by the very clever wrapper around the pilot episode footage. Making the pilot a flashback totally works because of the different crew and costumes, and adds “weight“ to the series by giving it a back history.

Only 10k cheaper? I’d expect a larger drop off.

Which is why Polis will probably do it. He’s not very smart.

I think it could have been done well if it had concentrated on Buffy being married with a kid now and struggling to keep her family life separate from her slayer life. Maybe a new threat emerges and Giles comes back into her life to try to rope her into it again. Maybe she worries about her daughter being ordained to be the next slayer. Maybe auntie Willow drops by from time to time.

But I don’t think that’s the kind of thing the pilot was concentrating on. From what I had read, Buffy was a supporting character, and this reboot concentrated on a new slayer. And that sounds dull to me, so glad it was canceled.

It’s designed to greenwash natural gas. The petroleum industry threw their weight behind it because you can make hydrogen from methane.

I was pleased to read VW crowing that they were “bringing back buttons” to the dashboard.

The original two door insight was pretty innovative. That’s the last car they put any real design effort into. 50 to 70 mpg.

Back in the 80s/90s they shipped a whole suite of great cars built on the civic platform. Wish they would bring those back. Especially the Del Sol. A small EV civic line up would make a great comeback car.

The people rooting for this don’t actually read their bible. They are either the grifters in charge who don’t really believe in it, or the people who just believe whatever they are told by their religious leaders. It’s a shame that we offer free public education, but when handed a book, people prefer to just listen to their influencers rather than actually read the source material.

Everything went up months ago. I guess the media is just now catching on?

And by “OMG!” They mean, “It looks like crap.”

Because Xbox is dead, Microsoft got rid of its leaders, and replaced them with the former VP in charge of AI.

https://www.polygon.com/xbox-phil-spencer-retiring-microsoft-ai-exec-asha-sharma-sarah-bond/

It’s looking for its Florsheim shoe that used to be there. It was a couple of sizes too big, so it fell off during flight.

I guess Google finally realized they don’t have to own the network connection in order to track people.

Let this be a lesson for all the other companies “turning toward AI”. This is like the dot com era all over again. Example:

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-tightens-code-controls-after-outages-including-one-ai-2026-3

He’s so fancy, with his white gloves and his ciggie. 😆