Why not just assemble all of Thomas' spare parts immediately, without dismantling the original? Same end result, should be indistinguishable.

There's no one "right" way to deal with it, for starters. People will give lots of advice and describe a bunch of scenarios but don't feel like you "should" do it any particular way or that you're doing something wrong if you grieve in your own way.

For me, I "talk" to my dad now and then. It's been six years now and I still find comfort in doing that. I'm an atheist, I don't believe he's actually hearing me, it's just a thing I do that feels nice psychologically. I've been imagining I'm keeping him "up to date" on stuff, since one of the things I told him on his deathbed was that I'd let him know "how it all turned out" - he was always future-focused and I'm sure it annoyed him that he wouldn't be around to see it.

I wouldn't worry too much about any deep and meaningful "final words" and such, though. I think the words that were exchanged throughout life were just as important, if not moreso.

Normally I would also call the conspiracy stuff silly. But so often now the Trump administration has done the stupidest things to buy "just two weeks" as if expecting some undefined miracle to save them, then when it doesn't just doubling down again and again. I could imagine them doing this.

Aww. Reality once again spoils fun.

Exhibit A: the Kuznetsov. Yes, it genuinely is supposed to look like that - it was designed to burn the absolute cheapest bunker oil, the utter dregs of what's left over when oil gets refined. Here's a view of the Kuznetsov from orbit.

I don't seriously think these tankers aren't burning, of course, I just take every opportunity I can to rag on the Kuznetsov. Won't get too many more of those in the future.

Are we sure they're burning and that's not just their usual exhaust plumes?

And yet perhaps this time we can use MAGA's stupidity and conspiracy-mongering for good instead of evil. If they latch on to this perhaps Trump will start thinking Russia's naughty or something.

This seems similar in general outline to Hyphanet, a system for distributed data storage that automatically handles random distribution and distributed searching. Unfortunately I don't think Anna's Archive puts its data on there, but perhaps you could consider having your client bridge to that and use it as an additional backup cache.

I read some speculation today that British election law might be interpreted to mean that if Jon Harvey wins the election as Count Binface, then he would not only be permitted to wear the Binface costume and persona while sitting in the house but he would be required to. Since it's Count Binface that the people chose and gave the mandate to, not some regular old human schlub named Jon Harvey.

Presumably there'd be nothing wrong with him taking it off when not on official business and having a secret identity that way, but for votes and whatnot he'd have to don the cape and bin.

Russia's getting bombed pretty regularly deep in its heartland these days, and there's no gasoline anywhere. It's a bit more than just the fringes now.

Meanwhile the AI trainers get all the deleted content by buying direct from Reddit Inc., so this kind of thing only hinders human readers.

As a Canadian, an "apology tour" would feel like this to me.

If the next administration wants forgiveness it'll have to show real progress on fixing America's broken system of government and its broken culture. That'll take longer than four years so the next administration should not expect forgiveness. The best it can hope for is to get started on eventual forgiveness.

In the meantime we need to keep diversifying away from America and building defenses against them because there's no reason to extend the benefit of the doubt. They elected not-Trump after the previous time Trump was elected and where did that lead them? Back to Trump.