Very nice. Trump is shit at many things, but very well done there.
Drop-off
I’m not Dutch, but they should drop her off over Somalia. Throw a chute out, maybe she gets to it and maybe she doesn’t.
sycco – look up
Fuckin’ banger.
Thoughtcrime
I’ve noticed this too. I think it is just a performance for each other, to demonstrate that they are not engaging in dreaded thoughtcrimes.
It’s incredibly annoying, though.
XDR
What expensive products are worth the money if you manage to get your hands on them?
A great monitor. I have an Apple Studio Display XDR. It’s amazing. The best monitor I’ve ever had, by far. It’s also incredibly expensive.
And worth every fucking penny.
I think most people don’t even realize they are hurting their eyes with crappy displays. Get something better and your eyes will be happier. Doesn’t have to be an XDR; you can get a pretty great monitor for $400 these days.
motifs – Aug 16 (Live on KEXP)
Damn, they are so good live. That bassist and drummer are both excellent; watch what she (the drummer) does at around 2:30. Slick. And a real pro.
Sungaze – I’m No Longer Afraid of Heights
So sad and beautiful.
They bought cabins to live on a luxury cruise ship. High fuel costs got them kicked off in Cambodia.
Obesity in young adulthood linked to increased risk of early-onset cancer.
Women are hilariously deluded about what works on women. This is 100% correct. All men learn this the hard way.
A Punishing Housing Market Is Squeezing Renters.
It Looks Like the Polar Vortex Is About to Do Something ‘Unprecedented’.
One of the greatest museum artifacts ever is at L.A.’s $450 million Air and Space center.
They Sold Everything to Live on a Cruise Ship. Now They’re Stuck in Cambodia.
Vanishment
A lot of women have decided they rather liked being treated like children and want to return to those times. And those women have (for now) a lot of power. It won’t last, though. The problem is that you can’t selectively choose when you’ll be treated like a child. Eventually, you will be acted on that way everywhere, and then your power will vanish like a summer vacation.
Cactthem
A “daily cold plunge” sounds like the worst fucking thing in the world.
I’d rather lick a cactus.
Censor Relief
On Hacker News, Reddit, and I am sure other places if you even mention “H1B” your comment will be removed and often you’ll be banned.
Because it’s “racist” to use the name of a government program. Alrighty then. This more than anything shows how much pull large corporations have and how much censorship they can coordinate on.
Wild and Real
That is pretty wild.
Apple face-time removed my bf from the call after I removed my bra. Is this a new feature?? Goddamn that is insane and evil.
AIs fail to reliably detect AIs in reverse Turing tests.
USAF Orders ARRW Hypersonic Missile Into Production, The Same Weapon It Nearly Cancelled.
NASA’s Oldest Martian Spacecraft Have Been Running for Decades. Here’s How.
From cheap tool to premium subscription: When a beloved app’s price skyrockets.
If you tell young men that they cannot have a tribe, they're not going to accept that.
This Boom Looks a Lot Like the Housing Bubble. In some respects, but corporate washouts in one sector won’t have the same impact.
My uncle did a mission trip to Africa to teach a village how to raise pigs for food.
Researchers Uncover Signs of Massive Surveillance Operation on Starlink Users.
China’s Car Industry Is Wowing the World—but Crashing at Home.
America Needs Explosives for Its Drones. This Startup Is Making Them.
What makes us human? Researchers compare brain development in humans and great apes.
The way Earth's 'thermostat' works may have changed during Pangea era.
Beelzebubba
I did not believe in demons prior to social media and smartphones.
What Survives
Some of this is true, but this is a painting of the richest area of the wealthiest empire the world had yet seen.
But look at the flower-seller girl huddled against the wall. She’s wearing (for the time) commoner clothes and would’ve been desperately poor. She’s not from that area. She doesn’t belong there and is only tolerated because she has something people want. There were far more of her in the UK at the time — and in the world — than there were the wealthy people depicted in the painting. And most of them lived in tenements and tiny boardinghouse rooms. Or worse.
None of those uninsulated tenement houses were attractive. And none of them survived.
Here’s the reality, from about 1901 in London:
