On the tarmac for an Air Canada flight to Toronto. Apparently someone managed to get on the plane without a boarding pass, and now they have to do a security sweep. HOW does anyone get onto a plane without a boarding pass?!
— Emily G (@CuriouslyEmily) August 14, 2022
I don’t think it’d be that hard? There’s plenty of times the gate agent is paying no attention at all. I’m pretty sure I could do it with near 100% reliability if I wanted to. I’m also good at not being noticed.
[OC] I found a Burger King that looks like it’s still in the 80’s.
Nope. That’s 1990s decor all the way. Everything in 1980s Burger Kings was very brown and orange. Only wrong by a decade though, no biggie. đ
Directorsâ Least Favorite Movies They Made.
I liked Death Proof. Sure, it was a bit overwrought but ZoĂ« Bell is such a charmer in it (or anywhere) that it does hold up. It doesn’t feel like a Tarantino movie, though (and I like Tarantino). It feels early Spielbergian, with a crueler edge, like if he’d made Duel while on some tainted meth or something.
âWhy isnât your tweet accompanied by a peer-critiqued dissertation on the subject?â is my favorite brand of Twitter troll.
— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) August 10, 2022
This has been occurring since the days of BBSes, newsgroups, and then blogs. Twitter has certainly made it worse, but why people seem to think you are obligated to do their fucking research for them has always mystified me and always will.
Women who follow a vegetarian diet have a higher risk of breaking their hips in later life.
Vegetarian diets are fairly bad for you, and vegan diets are very bad for you. Not that it’s shocking, but nice to have some actual data behind the obvious.
Some US nuclear weapons use a material known as Fogbank. When they tried to refurbish the weapons they discovered that they could no longer make Fogbank! pic.twitter.com/71nscrqZGf
— Michael is finishing a metascience essay (@michael_nielsen) August 14, 2022
There’s quite a lot of knowledge we’ve lost. That’s what happens when you ship your whole manufacturing base to China for a little bit of profit. All that understanding, gone forever.
Oppression in other places: Jailed and tortured for years, family perhaps murdered, forced relocations, people disappeared never to be seen again.
Fat Acceptance idea of oppression: Someone said it’s probably not good for me to eat two Whoppers, two orders of fries, and two milkshakes for lunch and then double up on that for dinner.
Big Tech CEOs whose stock is down 86% this year, prepping to go into the Friday All Hands meeting to answer 26 questions from angry engineers making $650K total comp about why the company is only getting 3 days instead of the usual 4 off for Labor Day this year. pic.twitter.com/eJm1CMthP8
— Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) August 12, 2022
If they are supposed to be making $650K total comp, a lot of that is gonna be stock and if the stock is down 86%, nobody is making $650K — trust me.
I get the point, but it’s misleading. That’s not how it works.
Elevate your retail experience with Just Walk Out technology.
I used to elevate my retail experience all the time with Just Walking Out, but it didn’t take no kind of technology to do that. Heh.
The bleak sterility and lack of sensuality of PMC New Puritan liberalism is so very off-putting, more than any other part of it. They will be the first to volunteer to have their minds uploaded to the Cloud.
Maybe we should let them, as long as they stop bothering the rest of us? And then launch them into space.