As ever:

If it turns into a shooting war between the US military and its own civilian populace, apart from the multitude of other unimaginable horrors, you would undoubtedly see countries trying to stoke the flames and make the conflict more involved and expensive for the United States. Hell, I’m pretty well convinced that it’s happening right now; if you were China or Russia or any other hostile foreign actor, you would much rather the United States destroy itself from within than try to confront us directly.

The Dreamcast controller is ugly as sin but surprisingly comfortable to hold. It must have the widest delta between looks and ergonomics of any controller.

Routines is our friend. Routines takes care of us.

“both sides bad”

That is literally the content of the original post that spawned this entire conversation.

SMB2 is the best Mario game on the NES.

This is like people who prefer Star Trek IV over II or VI, and I respect the off-kilter energy.

SMB3 has better powerups, though.

Weaponization or dangerous rays are not among the challenges facing space-based solar.

Contrary to appearances in fiction, most designs propose beam energy densities that are not harmful if human beings were to be inadvertently exposed, such as if a transmitting satellite’s beam were to wander off-course. But the necessarily vast size of the receiving antennas would still require large blocks of land near the end users. The service life of space-based collectors in the face of long-term exposure to the space environment, including degradation from radiation and micrometeoroid damage, could also become a concern for SBSP.

Michael Burnham

Jayne Cobb

Willow Ulfgood

Gallo Pinto

Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste

Now go watch Conan the Barbarian. On paper it should be terrible. Sword and sorcery nonsense set in some undefined past, starring a body builder with a very loose command of English. But it’s fucking amazing. It’s cinema. It spawned a hundred imitators, and you could count on one hand the number of those that were worth a tinker’s dam. Schwarzenegger, when he’s cast and utilized correctly, is actually fantastic, and he deserves more praise for his acting, when he’s given an opportunity to do it.

Those are awesome. It doesn’t quite reach those heights, but I was always fond of the opening theme from Ski or Die.

He failed the “you should never point a gun at anything you aren’t prepared to destroy” test.

Why would I?

Great, who’s going to go tell Richard Feynman?

But then I start to feel like

this guy, with the “real” camera and the phone camera, but the phone camera is the one I’ve most consistently got on me, because I can’t lug a whole additional piece of hardware around in a camera bag, meanwhile the phone camera pictures are grainy and shitty, and I’d just as soon have a Pixel in my pocket at all times that can take fairly good pictures at all times.