This is already settled science.

More like plata y plomo, amiright?!

I certainly didn’t mean to imply they’re actually incorrect, just that presumably working to fix it was part of their mandate, and the frank admission that they didn’t magically fix everything is kinda darkly funny.

I did particularly like this:

“We did not make this organisation insolvent, it was already insolvent,” the management committee said on Sunday.

Saying that in an indignant Australian accent makes it feel like it came straight out of some antipodean cringe-humor sitcom (FYI “Fisk” is pretty good!).

In the retro space, the Genesis/Mega Drive had “Mutant League Football” which involved various teams of monsters (Skeletons, Orc-like “Mutants,” etc.) playing on a field strewn with land mines and bottomless pits, and as the coach you had options like “Bribe ref” which would need to be immediately countered with “kill ref.”

Glad to see the science is evolving. What wonderful things legitimate research and the scientific method are!

In these cases (EDIT: and particularly the time period of this story) it’s almost always a lot of fertility drugs and implanted embryos, with parents unwilling to do selective reduction, as though the process had somehow been anything like natural up to that point. It’s a personal choice, and I’d never in a million years tell them not to weigh the risks for themselves because, y’know, pro-choice, but it does strike me personally as being needlessly risky.

Also, in true meme fashion, these kids are eight years old now, LOL.

That fat PP looks a little on the short side.

Most likely, yes. I think most people do end up finding one or two smaller boards’ worth of “unicorn barf,” which is to say everything is the right shape and 95-99% have the right thing written on them, but the colors are totally random and visually jarring. I also have a few ideas that might benefit from some of the weirder caps, (like a big square that uses four keybaord switches… people seem to end up with some of those) and occasionally you’ll land on something that someone in the hobby actually does need and you can help them out. A lot of it is simply indulging a certain need to examine and categorize.

Despite the site screaming left and right that one should not count on a proper keyboard’s worth of keycaps at all, much LESS a matching set, and despite years of forum and reddit posts declaring their underwhelming nature, I still bought a 5-pound (2.27kg) sack of random keycaps from Signature Plastics in Washington state.

I just have to know, and I’m kind of unironically looking forward to sorting them like so many Lego bricks. I may even get a few that are useful for my projects.

I love the story that he was so deep up their butts and so stupidly entitled that he was asking if Turkey Airlines could fly him from New York City to Easter Island.

You’re not wrong, yet this is still quite awful.

And that would be the high level stuff that I think could absolutely work. The Pirates and the station and the racing culture (which apparently the books say Han Solo got into after the original trilogy?) were all pretty neat. It also hinted at some of the economic ambiguity that TLJ touched on.

Kaz just deflates the entire experience, IMHO, and a Filoni animated show needs time to rehabilitate gratingly “spunky” POV characters, either by making them much better (Ahsoka) or at least sanding down the edges and integrating them into the ensemble (Ezra).

I wonder if some of the ideas from that show are being repurposed for this film

If so, I hope it is pretty high-level. Resistance never got past the “immature lead is insanely annoying” phase that all Filoni animation projects go through.

I suppose? But it’s also just dicking around at the edges to make a few more big companies move to the US (when every other policy is making that seem like a terrible idea) and to save financial departments a few bucks. Semi-annual reports will not significantly alter corporate incentives.

Yup. I also liked this, but I’m trying hard not to just quote the whole thing back, because it’s all good.

Their wealth insulates them from friction so effectively there’s no incentive or pressure for them to develop an imagination, or diversify their knowledge to the point where an imagination might emerge on its own. I can’t think of a better argument for a humanities requirement than a billionaire being asked “how do we know what is real?” and responding with “cryptographic signatures.”

Thanks, Richard.

I learned to shoot at Boy Scout camp when I was about 13. We shot .22 long rifle and 20 gauge shotguns. Many of my friends hunted (never appealed to me) and learned even earlier.

I grew up just across the river and my sister and her family are still in the general area. Not surprised at all he thinks this is a winning platform. I hope he’s wrong.

The actual website is, umm, quite the trip, and makes me think every single thing the school district is saying is true.