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Teslas Can’t Drive Autonomously Around Parking Lots, but the Company Thinks That It Will Ship Full Automation by Early Next Year

And the Tesla super fans will flood in denying this reality.

Youtube: now close to unwatchable due to the frequency of video hijacking ads.

If you need a parody of Baby Shark by some Kiwi comedians, I’ve got you covered (NSFW).

I thought microplastics would be like mud and silt particles. Which you have knocking around in your cells right now!

Don’t get complacent; “more research is needed fully understand how plastic … works its way through human bodies.”

Microplastics in water not harmful to humans

Keanu Reeves will be in a new Bill and Ted and a new Matrix movie. All he needs now is a new Speed movie (featuring Gigantor?) and the 1990s revival can be complete.

I may be about to crack 1 of the four key ingredients of my home brew - hops. Now I just have to master water chemistry, the correct mixing of malts and other fermentables and yeast (my biggest issue because I do’t have proper temperature control yet).

Apple Arcade may cost US$5 per month. That’d be amazingly cheap. It also means I have to drop almost 2 years-worth of subscrtions to buy a Playstation controller. May also buy a new Apple TV for lounge gaming.

I only heard that earthquake #eqnz

It’s a small steel keg ($95), not a car. Holy hell.

I love home brewing. My only gripe is that most equipment is set up to brew batches of ~20 L. I drink 3-4 beers a week, so the resultant 5 dozen beers is around 6 months' worth. I’m currently trying to set up a cheap 5 L system to brew 1 dozen at a time. Smaller is better!

How many batteries does this need? 3? That’s super convenient because batteries all come in packs of three.

Hey Google, [stop breaking](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/08/16/amp-server-side-rendering/ Server-Side Rendering With AMP) the web!

U ownly hav tu be lerning another langwage for a littel wyl to realize how messed up Inglish spelling iz.

OMG! Yes!

We did it everyone! We filled the air with potentially toxic plastic!

Microplastics ‘significantly contaminating the air’, scientists warn.

Shopping online in New Zealand:

Product: $99 USD
Shipping: $120 USD

Nope.

Just a reminder, media: in the next couple of years, Millennials will start turning 40 and all baby boomers will have passed retirement age. The generaltional warfare polemic you started in the early 2000s is irrelevant now. The dynamics have completely changed.

‘I don’t smell!’ Meet the people who have stopped washing.

I wash my hair 4 or 5 times a year – before I go and get it cut, out of courtesy, and it doesn’t smell (as confirmed by m’lady). What else could I skip washing? Apart from the obvious bits that need it?

Brother printers ad:

“Need to set up a printer? Call our call centre 24/7. We can connect to your printer remotely!”

Me: “Wait, what!? How? Isn’t that a potentially massive security risk!? WTF?”

Electric scooters aren’t as eco-friendly as they seem, study finds

Makes sense. Still way better than driving a car, though. And there’s room for improvement. But I think personally owned battery powered bikes are the way of the future. Vandalism is less of an issue there.

I really want to strip down my iPhone to the absolute bare minimum apps. As in, maybe 10 apps tops. But every time I try, I end up thinking “I use this app now and then and it’d be really annoying not having it in certain situations.”

This? Just a perfectly normal farm house with a thousand aerials. Definitely not a clandestine government listening post.

I’d love to be able to leave the house with just my phone. There’s just a couple of issues:

• There’s no such thing as a digital drivers license (yet)
• Paywave acceptance in New Zealand is inconsistent. Often with elegantly modified EFTPOS machines:

I just watched the first episode of the Netflix series Another Life. I was going to turn it off half way through because of the (intentionally written) insufferable younger characters. But I’m glad I stuck through. Looking forward to binging the rest.

Photos of the Taranaki coastline this afternoon. The first one makes me think of some epic sci-fi story about warring islands.