someone 4h ago • 100%
I don't enjoy John Waters' movies, but I greatly respect him for pushing boundaries. And I suspect he'd be a lot of fun to hang out with.
someone 5h ago • 100%
Sis has an interesting skillset, she's well qualified for both the office side and the service side. She doesn't need to do the latter day-to-day but she likes to keep in practice at it.
someone 5h ago • 100%
I too encourage Germany to fight Russia in eastern Europe as winter approaches. I'm sure it'll work this time!
someone 6h ago • 100%
My sister's a head chef at a fairly large and nice restaurant. She's a born sergeant. In a guerilla war she'd absolutely be running things in the field.
I think I'm more quartermaster material. I'm not a born leader, I'm a born bookkeeper.
someone 6h ago • 100%
On the bright side, they themselves recognize that and don't do that anymore.
Despite them not talking about politics much, I suspect they're way more progressive than they let on. They don't typically make jokes punching down on the working class. And they don't really make lazy queerphobic/sexist/racist/ableist jokes that tend to score points with chuds.
someone 6h ago • 100%
All I could think of was that taxi driver in Deadpool 2.
someone 11h ago • 100%
I wonder if American policymakers are giving the slightest thought to how extremely vulnerable Saudi oil facilities are to modern Iranian missile designs.
Or are they counting on it? Are American policymakers actually trying to increase world dependence on American fossil fuels? It wouldn't be unprecedented, they did the same thing directly with Nordstream 2 to make sure Europe was more dependent on American LNG shipments.
someone 14h ago • 100%
Just let him sleep in, he hit the snooze button last decade, he needs his rest.
someone 14h ago • 100%
The only "decentralized finance" I trust is silver and gold.
someone 1d ago • 100%
"Those Marvel movies are all so woke! I want to see Chris Evans in spandex and high heeled boots. And showing some chest."
someone 2d ago • 100%
I bet the only remaining time he'll be seen in public is at the next presidential inauguration.
someone 2d ago • 100%
The entertainment industry (which includes most journalists in my opinion) loves twitter's centralized control. They don't hate twitter, they just hate the new owner.
someone 2d ago • 100%
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Which by the way is also the answer to the bar trivia question "Name four movies where Christopher Lloyd's vehicle was used for time travel."
someone 2d ago • 100%
My post-apocalyptic commune fantasy has been to be the gruff older guy who's secretly a softie, who fixes machines and gadgets, or build new ones out of scrap that the young whippersnappers haul back to the commune.
someone 2d ago • 100%
I got their Pro 2 about a month ago for the Switch. It works with phones/tablets/computers too over plain bluetooth or USB-C. It also has Hall effect joysticks which is the whole reason I got it in the first place. It's one of the best controllers I've ever used. Comfortable, good button layout, good motion controls, quality materials, long battery life, I love this thing. The only thing it can't do is wake a sleeping Switch, but I'm okay with that, I just keep a joycon handy.
someone 2d ago • 100%
If I lived in Ottawa I'd be tempted to do unauthorized tour guide work at the monument. Pretending to do the whole cheery guide thing and going into the specific history of some notorious names. No charge of course. It would be my honour and privilege to do such work for free.
someone 2d ago • 100%
So I looked it up and saw some items of concern:
It has been serialized in Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+
Momo Ayase is a high school girl
while Momo is abducted by aliens called the Serpo, who claim they want to mate with her as an experiment.
And I immediately noped out. I am done with high-school-settings anime entirely, I won't watch another. I am doubly done with anything remotely connected to Shonen Jump because it always ends up as filler trash. I am triply done with SA played for comedy, particularly in combination with the victim being a 15-year-old girl.
someone 2d ago • 100%
I say give them Alsace-Lorraine. The French and German rule classes have been spilling rivers of blood over that miserable scrap of land for centuries. Deny it to them both.
someone 2d ago • 100%
that seems like a major design flaw
That might as well be the guiding philosophy of these junkers.
someone 2d ago • 100%
Exactly, didn't the US military have a whole new line of combat vehicle specifically to deal with all that?
Reading the history of prior MRAP-like vehicles is an escalating series of 
. Originally conceived of by Rhodesia's military, with a lot of further development by apartheid-era South Africa, especially by their police.
tl;dr: One of the most critical steps in development of a rapidly and completely reusable rocket just worked perfectly on its first test in the real world: midair catching of the biggest booster rocket ever back at its launch tower. Okay, I'll start with the usual caveat that all my respect for what is happening within SpaceX is **solely** for the engineers and technicians and scientists doing the actual work and **not** for the know-nothing shithead who owns most of it. And that my excitement for the problem is solely for the **scientific** breakthroughs that can come from having a cheap and reusable super-heavy-lift rocket available. The link is for a reputable spaceflight youtube channel doing commentary on the launch, as SpaceX is now required by the shithead-in-chief to only stream video on twitter/x. If you'd like a palate cleanser, the same channel presenter did a [highly complimentary 94-minute in-depth documentary about the history of Soviet rocket engines.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-xyXDiC92s) And he loves Soyuz. The background: [Starship/Super Heavy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship) is the first attempt ever to build a rapidly and completely reusable launch system. It comes in two components: Super Heavy, the 10-metre-wide, 70-metre-tall, 33-engine booster. And Starship, the 10-metre-wide 50-metre-tall 6-engine ship that rides on top of it. The booster and launch tower are designed for rapid turnaround, like a jetliner at an airport. Launch, return, do a systems check, refuel, and launch again within a few hours. To make this work they have to minimize the time spent moving a landed booster from its landing site to the launch tower. So why not just have the launch tower catch the returning booster mid-air? That saves all the time and equipment needed to set up the booster again. Insane, right? But this morning they proved that it works. It worked on their *first try ever*. This is one of the massive early R&D wins that can take years off a development schedule. Now that they know this method definitely works with this tower design, they can build more launch towers of the same design and rapidly accelerate more launch tests. [And the Starship on top also did its job. It flew most of the way around the world, testing re-entry systems before doing a soft intact splashdown in the Indian Ocean.](https://www.youtube.com/live/pIKI7y3DTXk?feature=shared&t=11414) Until it exploded afterwards, but hey, it's a prototype! It's hard to overstate what all this can mean for space science down the road. First, a Starship variant is NASA's official lunar landing vehicle for the Artemis program. Or we could launch mass quantities of mass-produced probes and landers everywhere really cheaply, instead of one-offs every few years and having to have academic fights over where to send them and what instruments to include. We could put huge radio telescopes on the far side of the Moon where Earth's radio noise is completely blocked. We could put extrasolar-asteroid interceptors in orbit, ready to chase the ultrafast visiting interstellar rocks with massive fuel drop tanks. There's all sorts of science possibilities that open up when the cost of launch a hundred tonnes to low Earth orbit goes from several billion dollars to just several million. (Again, see caveat at the top. I'm just in it for the science.)
One country that he *doesn't* mention? Ukraine. One country that he *does* mention? Palestine.
Sunny day, sweeping the clouds away, on my way to where the air is sweet!
For those who don't know, Larry Ellison runs the tech company Oracle, and is consistently in the list of top-five wealthiest people in the world.
  They were even throbbing from root to tip, so to speak. This is day #2 of this game for me. I am eager to find more weirdness in the stars.
>The company has updated its FAQ page to say that private chats are no longer shielded from moderation. >Telegram has quietly removed language from its FAQ page that said private chats were protected from moderation requests. The change comes nearly two weeks after its CEO, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France for allegedly allowing “criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.” >Earlier today, Durov issued his first public statement since his arrest, promising to moderate content more on the platform, a noticeable change in tone after the company initially said he had “nothing to hide.” >“Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform,” he wrote in the statement shared on Thursday. “That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon.” Translation: Durov is completely compromised and will do whatever NATO tells him to do. Do not trust in the security of Telegram, which frankly was never that good to begin with. And do not trust anything else even remotely connected to the company or Durov personally.
>Lower-income American households are running out of money at the end of every month, the discount retailer Dollar General said as it released dismal results that drove its shares down more than 30 per cent for their sharpest one-day drop on record. When the American economy is too rough for *Dollar General*...
What happens to Doom when pi isn't 3.14159etc?
This is the lesser-known companion Playstation game to the classic anime Serial Experiments Lain. [There's a downloadable version](https://laingame.net/offline.html) as well. [The bottom of this page](https://3d.laingame.net/#/notes) has the chart of keyboard controls. Also, the gameplay is highly unconventional. It's not like a regular visual novel. It has a totally different style and purpose and interface than Disco Elysium, but it takes the same sort of patience and open mindedness.
The two astronauts will remain on the ISS until February 2025, when they'll return with two astronauts on the SpaceX Crew-9 mission that's arriving at the ISS next month.
en.wikipedia.org
Not only did some 1960s engineers at General Electric think that this might work, but they did actual tests involving actual hardware. NASA and the USAF declined to pursue the project, for fairly obvious reasons.
Original story title: "Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck"
I thought I could deal without a notification LED on my new Oneplus phone, but it's honestly driving me a little nuts. I'm looking for a watch that looks like a nice watch (preferably analog), but also connects to my phone and has a notification LED. I remember seeing this sort of thing being more common 5 to 10-ish years ago but I'm not having much luck tracking one down now. I literally do not need any other features. No fitness tracking, no GPS, no music, no speakerphone, no nothing. If it has them, fine, but I won't need or use them. All I want is a little LED that lets me know in a timely manner that a notification popped up on my phone, on a watch that looks like a classy watch, and with a companion app that isn't a subpar piece of shit. I'm okay with having to charge it maybe every few weeks, but I will be damned if I get some stupid overpriced gadget that needs a daily charge and makes me look like a techbro.
I haven't found who first came up with this hybrid of NASA's official ["meatball"](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/NASA_logo.svg/574px-NASA_logo.svg.png) and ["worm"](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/NASA_Worm_logo.svg/1280px-NASA_Worm_logo.svg.png) logos, but I think it looks pretty damn good.
As we all know, by the year 2360, Earth had reached a level of development in which commerce as we know it had fundamentally changed. It was a post-scarcity paradise. Individuals instead challenged themselves to purposes that benefited others. So my question to my comrades is this: what sort of [Soviet-style awards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders%2C_decorations%2C_and_medals_of_the_Soviet_Union) would our crew have? Obviously Picard would have a Hero of the Federation or two. And Dr. Crusher would have a People's Doctor of the Federation.
