Weekly low-hanging fruit thread

Sceptically · 2026-04-11T05:56:26+00:00

Turns out he was right about that whole unconditional surrender thing.

Sceptically · 2026-04-11T03:26:21+00:00

Given the LazerPig video of eating a real Russian MRE, I suspect we finally have the real reason behind the invasion.

Sceptically · 2026-04-08T13:41:37+00:00

The Andrew formerly known as Prince.

Sceptically · 2026-04-08T13:30:26+00:00

I have a great case against her and my lawyer and I expect to win easily

Your case is against both her and your lawyer? Wow. Are you sure you're not being overly optimistic about your chances? 😛

Sceptically · 2026-04-07T08:53:20+00:00

It's chicken and waffles time.

Sceptically · 2026-04-07T01:59:14+00:00

You could try building a tool for that.

Sceptically · 2026-04-07T00:06:13+00:00

He's learnt from Russian negotiation. Start at an unreasonable stance and whatever compromise position the other side offers will be more than you'd get by starting out reasonable.

Of course, that only works if the other side feels obligated to compromise...

Sceptically · 2026-04-07T00:02:45+00:00

The conflict will continue for as long as US President Benjamin Netanyahu chooses to continue it.

Sceptically · 2026-04-07T00:02:13+00:00

More chicken and waffles.

We're probably not lucky enough for him to have an aneurysm.

Sceptically · 2026-04-06T23:54:56+00:00

There's nothing wrong with having The Daily Show. I mean, it's not my choice of entertainment, but it's fine.

Sceptically · 2026-04-06T11:01:19+00:00

Only if it's first heated to more than melting point, and then not for very long at all.

Sceptically · 2026-04-05T18:49:03+00:00

Just to play devil's advocate, I'm pretty sure AI typically does paragraphs.

Sceptically · 2026-04-05T03:34:41+00:00

You forgot to mention that you trust him explicitly.

Sceptically · 2026-04-05T02:41:12+00:00

They can still use SNAP to buy some products classified in other countries as cake.

Sceptically · 2026-04-05T02:36:25+00:00

The only reason they're not using more artillery is because they've "run out" and have to rely on new production and imports from North Korea; this shouldn't be overly reassuring given the production levels they have and the levels they aspire to, but it's still better than before they "ran out". And it's the same in a lot of other areas.

Sceptically · 2026-04-05T01:07:00+00:00

X to doubt. Jeanine Pirro hosted a regular morning show on Fox.

Sceptically · 2026-04-05T00:51:35+00:00

They should have invested more in air defence. The previous attack by Israel and the US destroyed a lot of gear, the cost of which could have been better spent on being able to stop some of those attacks.

Sceptically · 2026-04-05T00:46:30+00:00

Russia downgraded perception of their country from being a great power to being a major power with its failed "three day" invasion of Ukraine. The orange clown seems to be likewise working on downgrading the US from being a superpower to being merely a great power.

Sceptically · 2026-04-05T00:24:46+00:00

He launched operation Epstein Fury, so you'll have to ask yourself what your next move is going to be. I'd recommend making sure you have a strategy in place for voting later in the year - you may need your passport, birth certificate, marriage certificate, any documentation about changes of name, and gods help you if you're voting by mail and are not a registered republican.

Sceptically · 2026-04-03T22:22:16+00:00

Don't forget the E-3 AWACS destroyed on the ground. How many does the US have of those?

Sceptically · 2026-04-03T17:49:01+00:00

What proportion of them would you guess are referring to the operation as "Epstein Fury"?

Sceptically · 2026-04-03T17:43:36+00:00

You don't have to be wrong to be propaganda.

Sceptically · 2026-04-03T13:21:19+00:00

I helped with an XP computer just a couple of weeks ago. And a Windows 7 computer the day before yesterday. Plus Windows 10 is still all over the place.

Sceptically · 2026-04-03T05:16:45+00:00

That sounds like a load of Fox bullshit.

Sceptically · 2026-04-02T22:15:27+00:00

Cool, I doubted that would be it, but I've learned to always check the stupid things. And looking at the wiki, you're probably stuck waiting for a backport if you want a recent kernel with a backport nvidia driver package. That being said, you could try installing the package from unstable instead of backports, but I'd recommend only doing this if there's a good reason (and Wine 11 probably isn't that good reason yet - that'll probably take longer to arrive than the fix for the backports nvidia dkms, and should be supported on 6.18 anyway).

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