I know that you can use a cigarette lighter, very briefly, to burn off the stuck-on ink off the ball… otherwise the ball will pop out because the ink behind it turns to steam, I assume.

I believe there’s a chemical (maybe isopropyl alcohol?) That you can apply to the ball to dissolve the ink as well.

Daaaaaamn. You win.

Sten is from the late 80s, Expendable from late 90s. :). And there’s a shaggy dog story in the Sten books that’s takes… 4 books, I think, to get the punchline. LOL.

Several books in the League of Peoples series (start with Expendable) have this. Festina Ramos is competent AF without going into Mary Sue territory.

The Sten series (Allan Cole & Chris Bunch, military-ish sci-fi) has a fantastically competent lead.

He’s on a tablet, though, so you have to push on it a few times.

Nice review!

Dark humor is like food. Not everybody gets it.

Is it really CrossFit, though, if you’re not telling people you do CrossFit?

And Starman Jones, where he’s memorized volumes’ worth of log tables and becomes their astrogator.

Thank god, MS Teams now lets you share a window instead of a screen. Coworker would share his 4k and all of us needed magnifying glasses

IIRC, there’s an investment group that does a version of this - they short the stock then release and publicize the information.

https://youtu.be/2PLC_cBJwk4

Yeah, I was going to say “nice try posting here, Alex”

Technically things that touch water are wet, but I don’t think water is wet

I went looking for the bash.org quote, and lo and behold, you beat me to it!

Not all of this, you have some points in here (smart TVs are worth mentioning), but a lot of this is elsewhere, too, though. And was done before AI. A LOT of things are in public records, for instance. Yes AI and interconnectedness it makes it easier, but this is nothing knew. And the fact that they’re still this bad at targeted ads means there’s still hope.

Depending, it could be your freezer, if you’re storing it there for a bit.

(Nice bow, too, btw)

All good, I just had never thought of that, it’s cool!

Never seen a target like that before. That’s cool,what’s it made of?