Sure. Outsourcing all of your pharmaceutical development to other countries:

• means you are screwed in the event of a war (economic or physical)
• means you have no control over quality of said pharmaceuticals
• means that expertise is no longer available in your own country and you are again beholden to others because those countries can charge whatever they want or refuse to sell it to you at all (see battery tech, microchip tech, solar tech for other examples).

You want to go over there and learn how to adapt their tech? Great. (We did that with the Japanese auto industry in the 1980s and we imported rocket expertise after WWII.) But things like drugs, food staples, and construction materials should be made at home. There’s a reason we subsidize farming.

Personally I think the feds should be manufacturing generic drugs to ensure availability and quality, and to provide some competition to bring prices down.

Pfizer CEO is wrong.

I think you might have discovered the next sequel to Jurassic Park:

Giant food conglomerate realizes it can sell dinosaur meat on the cheap, and attempts to breed dinosaurs as a bulk chicken substitute! Horror ensues when they realize it’s not as simple as it sounds.

Lithium phosphate batteries don’t need nickel. Or cobalt. The industry has already started using them.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/its-back-the-2027-chevy-bolt-gets-an-all-new-lfp-battery-but-what-else/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/cars/tesla-lfp-battery

It would be a hoot if Bruce Wayne got a notification on his smart watch in the next movie.

All I remember about that GBA is the lack of a built in backlight.

But sending your money to China is just fine?

It’s too bad that there’s no way to recapture the waste heat from an oven/range in the summertime. Like to heat our water when the bread has finished cooking. Maybe future homes could run a recirculating water pipe behind the oven you could switch on and off?

Next up, no labeling “hot dogs” as such, unless they include dog meat in them!

When you piss everyone off and leave a vacuum, someone always steps in to fill it.

See also BallisticNG. Eventually I want to see if I can get this game, or Wipeout to work with a USB flight controller, or yoke and pedals. Something like what’s used on the Star Wars arcade cabinet.

https://neognosis.games/

They could fix this by requiring stocks pay a dividend as a minimum percentage of profit, and prohibiting the sale of a stock until a year after purchase.

Oh well. Not sure I trust any “modernization” efforts under this administration.

You could compress the hell out of the traditional jpeg codec/layer part of the image. It’d be there for backwards compatibility. It only has to be readable by older clients and “acceptable” quality.

See “49kb” example here — totally acceptable image quality for backwards compatibility.

https://res.cloudinary.com/thewebmaster/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto,w_1250/images/blog/jpeg-images-definitive-guide/JPEG_Quality_vs_Size.png

I know what Betamax is.

If Jpeg-XL was backwards compatible with older clients, it would probably take off. Like if the format embedded a standard jpeg image in the front readable by older clients, and then enhanced it with additional data at end of file readable by Jpeg-XL clients.

DAT and DDC were great as well. Beta too. But sometimes good enough (like JPG and VHS) is good enough.

Slack is so overrated. Isn’t there similar open source software for this, that businesses could run from their own server?

< Insert XKCD comic strip about new standards here >

The ships sending us Chinese goods have to return to China anyway. That’s why everyone was sending China their plastic to be “recycled”. Might as well just incinerate it.