https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hanaGames.LifeOfBlackTigerFREE&hl=en-US

1M+ downloads on Android

Huh.

It doesn’t sound like analog clock reading is quite dead, even if it’s in decline.

https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/52878-younger-americans-hard-time-reading-clocks

Younger adults are much less likely than older Americans to be able to instantly read an analog clock. 95% of Americans 65 or older say they can instantly tell the time from the hour and minute hands, while only 43% of adults under 30 can. 78% of Americans with college degrees say they can instantly tell the time on an analog clock, compared to 68% of non-college graduates.

The concern is going to be attacks by Iran. One of Iran’s points of leverage is that it sits astride important maritime trade routes, so it can threaten to generally dick up global maritime trade to try to influence countries, and it has done so in this case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz

During 2023–2025, 20% of the world’s liquefied natural gas and 25% of seaborne oil trade passed through the strait annually. The strait had never been closed for extended time during Middle East conflicts (unlike the Straits of Tiran/Bab-el-Mandeb)[5] though Iran occasionally had threatened to close the strait,[6][7] and preparations to mine it have been undertaken.[8]

On 28 February 2026, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards began issuing VHF transmissions stating that ship passages through the Strait of Hormuz were “not allowed”, amid the 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran, including the assassination of Iran’s leader.[9]

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260301-iran-confirms-attack-on-oil-tanker-for-defying-orders-not-to-cross-strait-of-hormuz/

Iran confirmed Sunday that it had attacked an oil tanker for defying orders not to cross the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Anadolu reports.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-03-05/more-tankers-come-under-attack-as-us-iran-conflict-spreads-in-the-region

A Bahamas-flagged crude ​oil tanker was targeted by an Iranian remote-controlled boat laden with explosives while anchored near Iraq’s Khor al Zubair port, according to initial assessments. A second tanker at ‌anchor off Kuwait was taking on water and ‌spilling oil after a large explosion on its port side.

Nine vessels have come under attack since the conflict broke out between the U.S., Israel and Iran on ⁠Saturday. Iran launched ⁠a wave of missiles at Israel early on Thursday and also sent drones into Azerbaijan, injuring ​four people.

The escalation comes after a motion to halt the U.S. attacks was blocked in Washington and as the son of Iran’s slain supreme leader emerged as a frontrunner to succeed him, suggesting Tehran was not about to buckle under the pressure.

Around 200 ships, including oil and liquefied natural gas tankers as well as cargo ships, remained at anchor ​in open waters off the coast of major Gulf producers, according to Reuters estimates based on ship-tracking data from the MarineTraffic platform.

Hundreds of ⁠other vessels ⁠remained outside the Strait of Hormuz ⁠unable to reach ports, shipping ​data showed. The waterway is a key artery for around a fifth of the world’s oil and LNG supply.

President Donald Trump offered U.S. ​Navy escorts and insurance in a bid ⁠to restart shipping flows and curtail energy prices. Insurance market Lloyd’s of London said on Thursday it is engaging with the U.S. government on a plan.

My own personal guess is that saying “Chinese owner” or something like that on AIS isn’t going to have much impact, since whatever assessment Iran is doing before going after a ship probably is a little deeper than a quick skim of whatever AIS says, but I suppose that if you’re on a ship and plan to do a run through, you do whatever you can.

I imagine this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Dodgeball

The game is a variation of dodgeball, in which players from each team attempt to hit players from the other team with a ball in order to eliminate them from the round without leaving their half of the court.

power them up…PNW

If you’re talking California electricity prices, I get you — those are pretty horrendous — but Oregon and Washington electricity prices are pretty decent.

https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/

National average for residential electricity is $0.18/kWh. California is $0.34/kWh. Oregon is $0.16/kWh. Washington is $0.14/kWh.

Well, some do.

Now, these alarming average new car prices aren’t indicative of pricing across body styles and brands; KBB data shows consumer choice was in no small part behind the increase, as the number of full-size trucks hit a five-year high through the end of 2025. U.S. buyers purchased over 233,000 full-size trucks in the fourth quarter of 2025, at an average price of $66,386. Similarly, the average EV sat around $58,034 through the end of 2025, further driving up the average new-vehicle transaction price.

A new Camry is $30k, half that.

The EU isn’t a federation, not as of 2026.

I do kind of hope that someone lends the funds to cover it, though, and that Orbán loses next month and Hungary subsequently hands it back.

High oil prices might be a net gain for Republican voters, if you treat Trump supporters as a homogenous blob. The places that extract fossil fuels in the US are also places that supported Trump.

Obviously, it’ll be bad for some, though.

I don’t know if it will be politically-advantageous to Trump, as if oil prices stay high, gasoline prices will reflect it, and the public is especially sensitive to those.

EDIT: Actually, if high oil prices stay for a long time, which I doubt they will, it might be a gain for environmentalists, as it drives down car use and up EV adoption. A world with relatively expensive oil is also a world that sees less carbon dioxide emissions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Sinwar

In the autumn of 2022, Hamas began planning a surprise attack on Israel. Sinwar sought to convince Iran and Hezbollah to participate in the attack or in a broader conflict with Israel,[52][53] aiming to cause its ‘collapse’.[52] During one meeting, Sinwar acknowledged that such an attack would likely require sacrifices, probably referring to the people of Gaza.

Well. With Iran and Hezbollah now engaged, looks like Sinwar will ultimately achieve his broader conflict with involvement of Hezbollah and Iran. Just that now the US is directly involved.

I think that it is unlikely that the move will have been advantageous to Gazans.

It will also expand the reach of the Telegraph into the United States, it said.

I mean, I can already read it now. It doesn’t have a US-specific section, but…

In a release posted to X on Thursday, March 5, Fishback shared a statement saying that “this morning, Waffle House abruptly revoked our permission, and criminally trespassed us from all of their Florida locations.”

They don’t…“criminal trespass you”. They tell you that they don’t want you on their property. At that point, you need to leave. If you enter after that point, then you might be charged by the state with trespassing.

We won’t. No need for it. We massively overmatch Iran in conventional capabilities.

I don’t have a specific service to recommend, but you might look at lowendbox.com, which specializes in listing inexpensive VPS services.

When the UK last year implemented a similar age verification system for adult sites, in the first week of it launching, four of the top five downloaded apps in the Apple app store were virtual private network (VPN) apps, with Proton reporting an 1,800% increase in downloads of its VPN app.

VPNs allow users to appear to sites that they’re in another location, which could bypass age check requirements in Australia.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today+5-y&geo=AU&q=vpn&hl=en-US

I don’t have data on VPN signups in Australia, but I see that Google searches for VPNs have abruptly spiked among Australians.

EDIT: Might need to reload the page a few times if the graph doesn’t show up. It’s giving me an error about half the time.

Since the conflict began on Saturday, Russia has reportedly shared the locations of U.S. military assets with Iran, including warships and aircraft, the officials said.

An Iranian anti-ship missile landing smack dab on a US carrier right about now would probably improve Ukraine’s situation dramatically.

“Restraint’s probably not the perfect word,” but the president may start exhibiting “a little more contemplation and thoughtfulness,” Dolen suggested.

I mean, theoretically, yes…

even at JEDEC speeds.

My last Intel motherboard couldn’t handle all four slots filled with 32GB of memory at rated speeds. Any two sticks yes, four no. From reading online, apparently that was a common problem. Motherboard manufacturers (who must have known that there were issues, from their own testing) did not go out of their way to make this clear.

Maybe it’s not an issue with registered/buffered memory, but with plain old unregistered DDR5, I think that manufacturers have really selling product above what they can realistically do.

Is the proposed look a bit too Chrome-y?

I would imagine that you can theme it to look like whatever.

How Flightradar24 became the go-to platform for the world to watch global aviation crises unfold

I tend to use ADSBExchange, as it has a convenient way to filter to show only military flights, which is nice for stuff like Ukraine.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

Anecdotal evidence, but I had both a 13th gen and 14th gen Intel CPU with the bug that caused them to over time, destroy themselves internally.

The most-user-visible way this initially came up, before the CPUs had degraded too far, was Firefox starting to crash, to the point that I initially used Firefox hitting some websites as my test case when I started the (painful) task of trying to diagnose the problem. I suspect that it’s because Firefox touches a lot of memory, and is (normally) fairly stable — a lot of people might not be too surprised if some random game crashes.