Trypan Out

Chill Cool, TV Shows

The most evil TV villain ever? Alien: Earth’s ‘demon sheep eye’ is a work of true genius.

That thing is pretty damn chilling. Though it’s physiologically utterly implausible, it works on screen. I also like how they incorporated a little physical comedy into its methods and interactions. That is rare in anything that tries to be as serious as Alien: Earth does.

Trypanohyncha ocellus is better than the boring xenomorph by far.

Chill Links

A built-in ‘off switch’ to stop persistent pain.

Examples are the best documentation. Without an example, I’m lost 99% of the time.

Inside the fight between doctors and insurance companies over ‘downcoding.’

Let It Begin — The Real Fights Are Finally Coming Into View.

Notes on the ‘Balance of Forces.’

Astronomers detect lowest mass dark object ever measured using gravitational lensing.

China expands rare earths restrictions, targets defense and chips users.

America is sucking in growth from the rest of the world.

UPS is ‘disposing of’ U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems. Clownish.

We are different from all other humans in history.

China’s Stealth Sharp Sword Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles Deployed To Operational Airbase.

Roaman

Chill Amusing, Annoying

Were kids in 80s actually allowed to roam around unsupervised, or is that just in movies?

It’s terribly sad that Gen Z folks post this same question on Reddit every few days. The world that was seems to them some impossible phantasmagoric dream.

But yes, almost all kids roamed wherever they liked in the 1980s after the age of 9-10. Not just those with “bad” parents. In fact, the “bad” parents back then were ones who didn’t let their kids outside much. Then that would’ve been considered at least near-abuse.

Deny it as many people do, but the fact is the world has changed immensely since that time. It feels very foreign now even to me and I lived it.

Start End

Chill War

Agreed. He was more lenient than I would’ve been after October 7, but he got the job done.

One of the reasons the Western left is in shambles now is they were terrorist supporters (of Hamas and Hezbollah) and those organizations are essentially dead and gone. Good fucking work. And I believe every dude in the photo with Shani Louk in the back of the truck is now deceased. Good riddance but no great loss to the world.

It took me a while to realize that nearly all those crying about “genocide” in Gaza are just Jew-haters pretending that helping vile terrorists is now their raison d’être, but alas it is true.

Funny, starting wars and then screaming “genocide” when the natural result of a war you began comes down on your head.

Chill Links

In-Party Love, Out-Party Hate, and Affective Polarization in Twelve Established Democracies.

California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing.

America Is Drowning In Scam Calls And Texts And Donald Trump Is Making It Worse.

The new right’s hollow aesthetic.

We’re about to find many more interstellar interlopers—here’s how to visit one.

Nato weighs armed response to Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war.

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society. This is incredibly disturbing.

Microsoft’s Local Accounts Crackdown Is Yet Another Reason to Switch to Linux.

Political views, not sex and violence, now drive literary censorship.

Last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent. Vaccines work, ya fuckin’ clowns.

Europe worries it’s already at war — and America hasn’t noticed. It is at war and has been since 2014.

Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America.

Legal Hate

Chill Politics

Whatever your politics or the politics of the original poster, an objective fucking fact is that no one despises illegal immigrants more than those who got here the hard way by following the law. Trust me on this: no one.

Another thing clownish liberals are completely delusional about.