Each of these sounds wonderful.

Here is a link with more detailed summaries of each winner: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/meet-the-2026-ig-nobel-prize-winners/

it might work on any linux. did you try it?

Individualized home ownership is not a good thing. We should own property collectively. Publicly-owned social housing counts “against” a statistic like this, as though it was equivalent to renting from a private landlord.

A lot of people can’t afford the costs of maintaining a home properly. Those place with >90% probably have a lot of ramshackle dwellings.

I was asking if I understood what you were saying properly. Your answer is some accusations against me.

I really dislike how everything this man says or does is interpreted like it is instruction from god.

If Linus torvalds jumped off a bridge, half the Linux nerds would line up to do the same.

Makes me think it is also representative of the trend in physical production and construction. In the US there were decades of high output. Starting nineteenth century, even more after WW2. But then everything became complacent, outsourced, unmaintained, deregulated.

It is a general trend for sure, not a new innovation. Like elon musk doging the government. Same effect. Now all that skill is gone. Did you see the post that FBI now can now hire people with criminal records of bestiality?

All the stuff about Iran vs US military production and capacity also. Iran was exempted from the trend due to circumstances.

Maybe they try to eliminate the middle class as much as possible so it will not be an annoyance for them in the future.

rewrite everything in immutable functional languages with complete unit test coverage and viral copyleft licenses.

Cool! Where is the git repo?

unmoving and unchanging state of ownership and the permanence of bourgeois rule is presupposed

Are you saying that Awoo has a negative attitude towards AI because they aren’t taking into account a possible future where we have revolutions, or otherwise seize the means of production? They are negating the agency of the working class to become organized, then fix the problems they raise? And since this might happen, it is treasonous against the future society to raise and perhaps even attempt to address the problems as they present themselves now?

It reminds me of that tech ideology (effective altruism? Or another one?) where they consider all potential future people as valuae as currently living people. So anything done today can be justified if in their theoretical future, it might result in an increase of humans.

Neither of the examples you are providing are ideal approaches, but personally I might prefer the first one. It kind of sounds like they are asking a question but badly. But it is possible to approach this kind of conversation way more tactfully. And to the advantage of the manager because people will be more comfortable and less defensive.

There are a million ways your scenario could happen. Another possibility is that the manager misunderstood something. My last boss was notorious for approaching people, very serious and grimly, with accusations of wrong doing. then when the worker would go ask the “accusor” it would turn out to have been some totally innocuous comment or like someone making a joke or mild social-type complaint or giving feedback on the workplace as a whole. And this included situations where multiple people were present and everyone agreed, so its not just someone lying to preserve the relationship. I was on both sides if the exchange myself. When i heard that i had made an “accusation” I had made I really had to think hard to figure out the grain of reality it was based upon. That’s just one example of what could have transpired.

As you may infer from that story, “accusations” were pretty commonplace. And it was overall a good job, just that manager didn’t know how to do their role. 2 in 4 years is a pretty good run.

It shows how resource-rich we are to just have tech sitting there idling all the time. Same principal as the old SETI at home. Made nefarious.

If someone should use one of these networks to do a public hack which associates itself with trans people or palestine, then it’d get slapped.

I sort of do think mandolins should be banned tbh.

They’re like “we only use them when there is absolutely no other safe option”. Two examples presented: a disabled student probably having some kind of meltdown and another “trying to escape after fighting with a security guard” which sounds like the cop probably picked a fight with him and the student was trying to deescalate (by getting the fuck outta there). In order for this to have worked to stop him running away, the cop would have had to tackle the kid first? Or is it enough to just barely touch them like playing tag.

On the down side, if the speculation about cops accidentally shocking themselves all the time were correct, we’d probably be finding out from these dorks. So they probably have a good trigger that doesn’t get activated unintentionally.

The top level comment is now deleted. But the thread reminds me the Promise software. It was an early tool to integrate and analyze information about court activities nationally for “patterns”.

Canada came knocking on the developers door to enforce their language equality rules and have the thing translated. They were like “who sold you this?” Turns out DOJ was reselling it worldwide (with some back doors).

To fuck with Canada you should not forget the French. If he started talking about a Muslim ban he could probably get a bunch of support there.

Omaha’s mayor, John Ewing Jr, who helped oversee creating the school resource officer program when he was on the police force, said the department has honored the school district’s decision to “opt out”. The Omaha police department said officers will continue to carry stun guns, batons, pepper spray and firearms.

Most of the Omaha police department’s 34 school resource officers had been trained and were allowed to use the gloves, the mayor and the police chief, Todd Schmaderer, said in a statement.

“We believe it is the safest use-of-force option in the rare times when it is used,” the statement said.

In 2025, Omaha police agreed to pay Compliant Technologies LLC, which manufactures the gloves, about $66,000 for 40 gloves, according to the contract.

Officers were expected to give warning before using the gloves and then touch the person for up to 15 seconds while the electric shock was delivered, the statement said.

Bellevue’s police chief, Ken Clary, said his officers will continue carrying the gloves, which they have had for more than three years.

“I am not comfortable having our officers give up a tool that has repeatedly proven to be safe, effective and less harmful than the alternatives,” Clary said in a statement.

The devices activate when an officer presses a button. The gloves must touch someone’s skin directly to produce voltage that causes pain, which is intended to make people stop resisting officers. Unlike stun guns, they do not leave burn or contact marks.

In the 2025-26 school year, an Omaha officer used the glove in one case to stop a high school student from another school from trying to escape after fighting with a security guard, according to the statement. In a second case, the glove was used on a student at the Omaha district’s integrated learning center for special education students. Police said that student made verbal threats and threw a chair at a school security guard, striking the guard in the head. The student also punched the guard in the head, according to the statement.

Bellevue police didn’t immediately have details about when its officers have used the gloves. Clary said the devices have been an extremely effective tool that sometimes make students cooperate on sight even without shocking a student.

while there is clearly a genocide, and the attacks on the flotilla were probably illegal, I don’t easily see how the flotilla attacks were genocidal.

so far the fash appear to be stable, no matter how miserable and immiserating their actions may appear from the outside.

well if you merge with the US military I’m sure that helps

the rest is just social housing

I find the concept of breeders very intuitively icky. But if we are going to continue to live with dogs (and there’s no reason to think that will stop anytime soon) they need to come from somewhere. Where? Assuming you don’t have a feral dog community, which most places don’t want to have.

And doesn’t it seem better to be able to get a small dog that’ll be happy in an apartment without a lot of space to run around if that’s where you find yourself? I’ve seen situations of dogs that are obviously mismatched to their environment and it is miserable. I don’t see the whole “breeder” concept would be needed if people would be flexible about the exact details of what they end up with.

Over the years I try to stop judging people who have those expensive dogs. I figure it’s like being religious or something; I’ll never really understand but apparently the good outweighs the bad for them. If I were in charge I’d ban dog breeders and religion on the first day and then whoever wanted to get unbanned would have to explain why their project is not bad and be subject to committee oversight in implementation.

what’s the communist line on breeding dogs like that?

my gut instinct is that it’s a nasty thing to do. those poor things always snorting and slobbering and having all kinds of problems. I know some otherwise-normal people who have this kind of dog. and it was on purpose, they paid good cash to have the exact characteristics they want.

I think it’s probably OK to breed for temperament and approximate adult size so people can get animals that are suited to their lifestyles. anyone who has a legitimate need for a working dog can also do their thing, within guidelines I can’t speculate about because I don’t know enough.

Some communists have thought breeding dogs was OK, at least for some purposes. Most famously the Silver Fox . Perhaps there are other examples.