asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: podcast folks typically expect a voice track, yes. and now that i think about it, i've heard a dozen or so episodes of this one. quite mediocre (shilled for gavin, hearn, et al) but as i recall - quite popular.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't that it is entirely unworkable, but this takes you back to the 18th century, before impact detonator was a thing
asciilifeform: otherwise it tends to spread uselessly
asciilifeform: e.g., the styrofoam that was replaced with 'orange juice' by palahniuk's publisher
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the other thing is that a good petrol bomb includes a gelling agent
asciilifeform: if it delivered 270kJ you wouldn't need artillery.
asciilifeform: 'A taser delivers ~10 Joules per hit, a Molotov Cocktail delivers ~270`000 Joules per hit, you do the math.' << mno. mostly heats the air. just like when you burn the same petrol in an engine.
asciilifeform: re: the idiot publishers censoring basic craft from novels
asciilifeform: 'Likely the DDoS attack on ProtonMail was orchestrated to follow with an offer of generous "help" it could not refuse, necessarily a re-route of all traffic through third-party "anti-DDoS" systems.'