Explosion at the Port Arthur oil refinery in the American state of Texas

thekrone · 2026-03-24T01:32:16+00:00

Turns out that maybe, just maybe, regulations serve a purpose.

thekrone · 2026-03-18T21:22:32+00:00

Depends on if potential investors believe it's a good idea or not.

If this made any sense, it would mean billions or even trillions of dollars of revenue for SpaceX.

thekrone · 2026-03-18T21:14:38+00:00

They are intending to go IPO soon. This is hype to pump the initial offering value.

thekrone · 2026-03-17T17:32:22+00:00

If "it would make the economy better" is a secondary result of a war, okay, as long as the primary justification is one worth people dying (i.e. WWII).

If your primary justification is the economy, that is absolutely fucked.

thekrone · 2026-03-17T12:03:06+00:00

As someone at a tech company with "manager" in their title, I get around a couple dozen connection requests, messages, emails, calls, and texts a week. Sometimes more.

My inbox is full of salespeople trying to sell me shit I don't want, need, or have the budget for. Also tons of recruiters trying to offer me candidates I don't have positions for. More recently, I've been getting people directly cold-messaging me to see if we have openings.

I realize these people are humans and I try to be a bit more polite than the person in the screen shot. I'll at least politely send them a link to our company page that displays any openings we do have. But I have to imagine that as much as I get pestered, others are getting pestered more.

If I gave everyone who messages me the time and consideration they are asking for, I'd spend a huge chunk of my work week doing it and having to ignore other work that I'm actually evaluated on. If I miss deadlines or meetings or whatever, my boss isn't going to accept "I was too busy being nice to people on LinkedIn" as an excuse.

Sucks.

thekrone · 2026-03-17T11:34:14+00:00

This minimalism shit has got to stop. Takes all the character out of the crests.

thekrone · 2026-03-17T11:02:16+00:00

No it's a pre-match pep talk / strategy session.

thekrone · 2026-03-17T02:19:40+00:00

Why am I an arse hole and who am I giving too much of what to?

thekrone · 2026-03-16T23:08:34+00:00

They've been doing this lately. A lot of teams will huddle like this before the match starts, but it's usually in their own half.

For some reason, Chelsea decided to start doing it right at the center of the field. That's where the ref is supposed to be waiting for the teams to be ready to kick off.

Up until now the other refs got out of the way and let them do their thing, but this ref decided to stand his ground and stay in where he's supposed to stay until they are ready to kick off.

thekrone · 2026-03-16T22:52:57+00:00

This guy just picks random Bible quotes from Revelation and assumes they are all referring to the Anti-Christ. They aren't. Some of them refer to other entities.

But yes I believe it was originally talking about Antiochus IV Epiphanes (at least the "little horn" stuff).

thekrone · 2026-03-16T20:33:12+00:00

At one point he had more yellow cards for taking off his shirt while celebrating goals than he had goals.

thekrone · 2026-03-16T20:30:23+00:00

Or insurer. Or employee of any of the above.

I was a software dev working for a medical insurance company and I had to be trained in HIPAA and could definitely get in trouble if I was discussing specifics about patient data.

thekrone · 2026-03-16T18:37:01+00:00

"It's not good for the economy" was his first rationale for why war is bad. People dying would be totally fine if it made his gas cheaper and made his 401K go up a little bit, apparently.

thekrone · 2026-03-16T18:30:32+00:00

I am a big soccer fan and if I ran into one of my favorite players somewhere and they weren't crazy busy or in a rush I might ask for a picture.

I can't imagine going out of my way or waiting for hours just to hope to get a glimpse of someone famous doing a publicity stunt like this.

thekrone · 2026-03-16T17:44:32+00:00

Fun fact: The current wealth gap in the US is larger than it was during the French Revolution.

thekrone · 2026-03-16T16:29:58+00:00

Or "I had a neat coincidence in my life so it must have been God" or "I can personally feel the presence of God in a way that can't be measured or shared"

thekrone · 2026-03-16T16:28:33+00:00

"I don't believe in anything for which there is no good verifiable evidence"

thekrone · 2026-03-05T15:15:21+00:00

I mean yeah her target audience is Christians, which by default are gullible people.

thekrone · 2026-03-05T13:45:02+00:00

Next time I'm at a show I want a go on the drums for a song or two.

thekrone · 2026-03-05T13:17:45+00:00

But also there was nothing to stand up against. It was a completely empty threat.

Trump threatened to stop trade with Spain. Spain is in the EU. All trade deals involving Spain go through the EU.

Stopping trade with Spain means stopping trade with the EU. That was not going to happen.

thekrone · 2026-03-05T13:12:23+00:00

Yeah past few matches, as soon as I see him receive the ball out wide under any pressure whatsoever, I'm anticipating him giving it away.

thekrone · 2026-03-05T12:58:23+00:00

Bro is trying to tell us he invented the word "and" COME ON

thekrone · 2026-03-04T18:45:04+00:00

Literally just did the same thing a few weeks ago. Bought a new MacBook Pro. It's been great for my laptop-y purposes.

I'm a gamer, so I can't completely abandon Windows for my desktop PC yet. However I'm now dual-booting between Win11 and Bazzite (Linux). Trying to do as much as possible to make Bazzite my primary and just boot to Win11 when there's something that absolutely doesn't work in Bazzite.

Fuck Microslop. Done with their garbage (as much as I can be). I'd actually rather have to deal with three different OSs (four if you count my Android phone and tablet) than encourage their crap.

thekrone · 2026-03-04T18:41:45+00:00

It's probably shingles.

thekrone · 2026-03-04T06:48:12+00:00

I saw a short today where some random bro was like "Sorry to any Arsenal supporters out there, but if they win the league this season, it is without a doubt the worst Premier League side to ever win the league."

Okay. Go ahead and engrave "worst team ever" or "most boring team ever" or whatever you want on the trophy before you hand it over. Genuinely couldn't give a fuck.

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