I once heard a Joni Mitchell song that was one of my college gf’s favorites, and it instantly teleported my brain to running across a lawn by her dorm to go see her on a random day after class. Her room was at the end of a hallway by the fire escape, so I used to go up the metal stairs at the back of the dorm. I was in my 30s but suddenly felt totally like my 20-yo self again. It’s amazing how much detail we store in our brains.
I just noticed on my calendar that Inauguration Day is a “regional holiday”. People get a day off for this, but not to vote?
Well hey then that makes it their achievement! No idea but it wouldn’t be surprising.
Turn it into a curry.
Why I would rather get shot than waxed.
Right on man! First they’re telling you where to drive and how fast, then they’re takin’ away ur gunz!
The moral purists are lashing out with hyperbole since the Israel/Hamas ceasefire has castrated their big issue. They have to pretend letting Trump win by refusing to vote for Harris cuz she “supported genocide” was still the right thing to do, and they weren’t just being impatient toddlers demanding a cookie RIGHT NOW. Apparently they don’t understand that diplomacy isn’t something you can just click on.
Doesn’t really matter - eventually every generation gets blamed for all the world’s problems.
Maybe they’re just lying low so nobody will blame everything on them.
LOL back in the 90s I thought up a prequel series like Enterprise, complete with opening music, which has never been played or recorded except in my own head. It’s based on the intro to the TOS theme, played over a visual sequence very similar to what they came up with - the history of past and future flight etc. My version of the intro would end with a closeup of an astronaut footprint on the moon, zooming out to show that it’s at the original Apollo 11 landing site, which is preserved as a sort of museum exhibit under a clear dome, with visitors on a catwalk gawking at it. The camera pulls back to show a long covered causeway connecting the dome with a much larger moon base, with small spacecraft coming and going, then we aim out toward the stars and go into warp. One of by bucket list projects is to create this opening sequence in a computer.
In my version of the show the ship’s doctor would be an older Vulcan woman with a fascination for humans. As a doctor already, she attended medical school on Earth to study humans and human behavior. She is fascinated by how illogical our illogical thinking can produce anything but chaos. She becomes a friend and sort of wise elder counsel to the captain. Their conversations give us insights into Vulcan history and culture. I forget how they handled the Vulcan mind-meld in Enterprise, but I would have had it be very mysterious or even unknown until the doctor reluctantly uses it to solve a crisis situation. The incident creates extreme mistrust among the human crew - can she read our minds, or even control us? Are we her puppets? Earning back their confidence would take multiple episodes. I think she would have been a much more interesting character than T’Pol, who to me was somewhat of a clone of Seven-of-Nine. But that’s Hollywood.
Longtime software dev here. I complain about code bugs all the time - I’m like, who the fuck wrote and tested this piece of crap?
It’s been said that indecisiveness and perfectionism are liberal weaknesses, and decisiveness and being willing to ignore imperfections for the sake of the team are conservative strengths. I think Michael Moore put it best… Liberals say, “What should we do about dinner? I don’t know… do you want to go out? I dunno, do you? Well, if you do. Okay, where should we go? I dunno, where do you wanna go?” A conservative slams his hand on the table and says, “Get in the car, we’re goin’ to the Sizzler!”
¿Por que no los dos?
So many other things are also non-binary, but people insist that not being 100% on their side means you’re a million percent on the extreme opposite hateful wrong side.
I don’t even see the numbers anymore, I just see blonde… brunette… redhead…
Click, click, clickity-click, click.
I’m in!
Just realized I don’t think I’ve been sick since I had COVID three and a half years ago.
PUNY HUMANS, I HAVE BECOME IMMORTAL !!!
Hard to call any of the various reasons the biggest. Space travel is an evolving discipline that takes vast amounts of money, step-by-step engineering progress, time to learn through acquire practical experience and learn from it, political commitment, and constantly changing public opinion. In theory we already know how to do space mining, it but in practice we don’t know all the challenges we’ll run into, and therefore have not solved yet. The long-term ROI is unquestionably huge but unknown.
For example, platinum is currently worth almost $1000 USD/oz, while aluminum is about 8 cents. If platinum became as available as aluminum this would radically change. We would discover new uses for platinum that haven’t been imagined yet because it’s so expensive - nobody would think of making pie pans or window frames out of it, but physically it might be far superior. Its properties haven’t been explored nearly as fully as the properties of aluminum, but they would be, and nobody knows the result. Maybe there’s an easy way to do antigravity using platinum. Whatever - the point is we don’t know, and that’s just one specific metal. Opening up whole new realms of possibility always creates progress.
In a day or
[tightens belt]
twooooooooooooo!