Assuming you're single, how much would you pay to find the perfect long-term partner?
— Misha – Visiting the bay area Nov 19 – Jan 3 (@drethelin) August 19, 2022
I am not single and my partner is great, but I’d pay more than 100K. It improves life so much. If paying for it would work (iffy proposition), I’d do it.
I wish Millennials/Gen Z were as terrified of climate change as they are of sex.
Thread. TLDR: an astroturfed far-right/incel campaign aimed at taking down the Finnish PM, probably with Russian troll farm backing, gaining traction in the newspapers because it's the silly season and the PM is (a) young and (b) centre-left. https://t.co/oH4r9m6udk
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) August 19, 2022
Oh, the far Right hates Sanna Marin becuase she’s young, attractive, intelligent and would never, never fuck them. That’s all this is.
It’s fascist inceldom writ large. (It was fun to see her dancing with her friends, good for her.)
Achievement unlocked: Forgot a pot of boiling water on the stove for so long that you managed to melt the bottom of the pan off (who even knew that was possible!)
— Jen Gentleman 🌺 (@JenMsft) August 17, 2022
Assuming an electric stove, it can get up to approximately 1500F*. The melting point of aluminum is around 1220F. So, yep, it’s quite possible to melt an aluminum pan on a stove.
*Ignore absolute fucking idiots who claim coil elements can only hit 600F or some such bullshit. They don’t understand how stoves work nor how black-body radiation works.
every episode of Sesame Street should've entered public domain the minute they aired https://t.co/tnmVkVtpo6
— The tumboy (@TheTumboy) August 19, 2022
Pirate everything all the time. It’s the only way.
Horrifying story about seeking justice for cycling deaths – which sadly validates what a *complete* wimp I’ve become about riding my bike on the road https://t.co/21OODgZiCX
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) August 19, 2022
It’s not wimpy to not want to be murdered by car.
Not many people would describe me as wimpy or a coward but I’d never even consider riding a bike on an American road. I might not be afraid, but I also ain’t suicidal.
I truly and deeply resent that any male sexual desire is seen as creepy, and that many feminists see any unattractive man as inherently creepy.
How does that help anyone?
Yeah, I know this probably popped up on the YouTube front page because the woman is attractive, but holy fuck that archery is amazing:
She’s hitting a target she can’t even really see. Most people would have trouble hitting that with a rifle. And she negs herself in the description for 23″ draw at 60 pounds, but many men couldn’t do that. Hell, my dad was as strong as an ox and he only used 75 pounds, though he probably had a 28″ draw or more.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
I dislike slow travel, though trains can be cool. I’m not totally opposed this, but personally I love hopping on a jet and being on the other side of the country or world in a few hours. Fucking love it. I hope it never goes away.
Also, airships are a worthless pipe dream and will never happen. Too dangerous, too prone to weather events, and too expensive to run (and always will be due to their nature). Mostly, the world envisioned in the Bray piece is one where only the rich travel. And everyone else cannot. Which, you know, makes me worry because too many people want to make the world too restricted already and this kind of stuff plays right into degrowther nonsense. No thank you.
While so many people wallowing in loserdom is in part systemic, the corporate propaganda about how very hard it is to do anything but this is not even remotely true.
It’s very easy to buy a set of used adjustable dumbbells ($100) and a used bench ($50) and then you can stop wallowing. That’s all you need. Barbells, plates, squat racks and all that shit is nice, but you don’t need it at all. I can make you fucking buff as all hell if you give me that and a couple of years of consistent effort.
Believe it.
The most usable UX ever made pic.twitter.com/J9AEb1uZxp
— @levelsio (@levelsio) August 17, 2022
Certainly one of the better ones. UI/UX people insist it’s bad because your 63 IQ gramma who has obliterated her brain with meth use for 57 years can’t make sense of it, but should that really be the standard we go for? Hell to the no.
This is a perfect song. I have favorite songs that I don’t consider perfect songs, but this is both a favorite and a perfect song.
That bass line is great. Yes, I know it’s very simple but when simple works, it’s all you need. That baritone sax adds so much, too — and I usually dislike sax in songs. And the video is great as well. I like that the Haim sisters aren’t prudes and that the video is beautifully shot and directed, but I do wish there were a 4K version.
Fucking fantastic cover. The original is one of my very favorite country songs and this does it justice completely. Wish I could’ve been there to see that.
I remember watching this intro with my grandparents. I’d never seen anything quite like it before. I didn’t really like the show but I loved the intro of this one season/episode because it was so meta and unlike the rest of the series.
Also, that 1970s/1980s accent that’s just gone now! So mysterious. They all use it in Moonlighting and every other show from that era, and during the 1990s it just disappeared in a flash.