Amusing
Wool
Only the Wuhan Institute of Virology rivals the lab in Alien: Earth for poor biosafety protocols. I don’t know what BSL the WIV was operating at in reality, but the Prodigy lab in Alien: Earth lately is operating at BSL negative eleventy-billion.
Light Knife
https://t.co/ejOvGgzjFA pic.twitter.com/UZECiTsVjS
— Kane ่ฌๅฑๅ ฏ (@kane) September 8, 2025
The whole liberal “Being brutally murdered and/or set on fire is just part of big city life!” is really failing in spectacular ways. Amazing they keep on with it despite it being the worst possible message I can even think of.
Poor Eu
The answer is simple:
America is a much richer place! https://t.co/KKWbJ4CKBv pic.twitter.com/pEoX0lvzvZ
— Crรฉmieux (@cremieuxrecueil) September 8, 2025
Basically. We’re now making ourselves poorer thanks to Trump et al., but Europe is remarkably poor compared to a lot of the US.
Dre-adful
Doctor I trust more than RFK:
Whale Expedition
The 1996 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, ladies and gentlemen:
Back when cars were still cars!
- Turn radius: Ocean liner equivalent
- Back seat: Orgy-ready
- Grille: Larger than most European nations
- Chrome: More than a trashy Las Vegas casino
- Trunk: Body transpo for even the most prolific serial killer
What a classic. What a legend. I’d own one but don’t want to maintain a 1996 car.
Track
By March 2005, I'd already spent years trying to figure out how a solar array could track the Sun without the use of slip rings, while attached to a spinning space tether. Very late one rainy night the answer came into my mind all at once, and it reminded me of a fan dancer. pic.twitter.com/RCYj3zrnJA
— Kirk Sorensen (@kirksorensen) August 30, 2025
Why in Zeus’s name would you make something so complex and difficult to deploy when you could just not do that?
You could just use a fixed bus for the solar panels with single-axis heliostats. In other words, put a โcurtainโ of lightweight mirror strips (heliostats) in front of fixed solar panels. Don’t move the panels, move the mirrors. That way, the motion is minimal (only need a modest rotation range for 23.5ยฐ sun variation throughout the year) and don’t need to move a huge structure as the heliostats are extremely low-mass. This minimizes moving parts, doesn’t have whatever crazy shit is going on in that animation that will fail fast and catastrophically, and is not from a design loony bin.
Fuck does not one person have a damn brain up in here?
Tier Up
How come military has a 2-tier system (enlisted/officers) of employment, but other jobs do not?
Oh, other jobs definitely do. Most, in fact! It’s just that the military makes it explicit and very clear.
This is far better IMO.
Celebrate
My mom is apparently dating a celebrity.
That’s nothing! I am dating 10 celebrities!
And they all despite being rich and famous cannot pay their rent for some reason.
Alignment Problem
It sure is convenient that corporate interests align so very well with preventing dear old Grammy from sending her money to scammers in Nigeria (which she of course does anyway).
Surely it’s just coincidental that Google, Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft preventing me from installing software on devices I fully and wholly own and surveilling me 24/7 are what is required to keep gramma and the kids safe.
You people who buy into all that, are you fucking stupid? What the goddamn hell is wrong with your brains? Do you just have no critical discernment nor ability to detect specious, risible arguments at fucking all?
FUCK.
Most Annoy
Why are so many people on the internet like that? What drives that, mental illness being far more widespread?
Cumen But Not Spicy
One of the reasons I stopped talking about finance is that investments are better than arguments. I don’t really feel a need to convince anyone. I can be right or wrong in a more meaningful way. https://t.co/qjUJrfouMA
โ Simon Sarris (@simonsarris) August 26, 2025
Same. And I don’t want to be anyone’s stock picker or be blamed for their (or my own) missteps.
I don’t require anyone’s validation. I own a house free and clear and have a secure1 retirement as a result of my financial acumen. I don’t need to convince a soul. The proof is what I’ve done. If that doesn’t convince you, the depths to which I don’t give a fuck are infinite and unprospected by me.
Brows
Crime can be quite involving and distracting, I agree. It takes a lot of planning and initiative to pull off a worthwhile heist.
Ohhhhh…you meant crime TV shows. Carry on, then.
The Whole Point
This isn’t some slantwise intepretation. This is what the Dune books are about. Frank Herbert was very explicitly exploring how charismatic revolutionaries, even when they start outside the system, tend to reproduce the same oppressive structures they overthrow. That’s, like, the entire point of the whole series.
That’s not being clever, this interpretation. That is just being able to read. Dang.
Cat Rex
There might be more awesome things than a T. Rex flying an F-14 Tomcat, but I’d be hard-pressed to think of one.
Though those engines are flaming out and that means that plane is about to crash.