There’s a good Japanese historical fiction film set in the 1860s in the countryside when a lot of things were changing for the samurai class. It has a funny scene where a guy comes out from Tokyo to explain western weaponry and when one of the samurai says he can’t understand the explanation the Tokyo guy gets exasperated and calls them dumb hicks.
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- people who say “twitter is the only time i’ll deadname something”
This is definitely a ridiculous statement from the jump, but there’s no relation to deadnaming at all. Trying to make a comparison between Chicagoans calling it the Sears Tower with the harm deadnaming a person causes is insane. Despite what Mitt Romney and a large portion of US law says, corporations aren’t people.
So like… all the ages?
10·2 days ago
Thomas Kincade, vomiter of light!
Did it account for glancing out of the corner of your eye, or people wearing sunglasses?
classic warp mechanics and subspace field theory you get at first year Starfleet academy
They reference academy teachings, but it makes you wonder what HS physics classes look like in the 24th century. Like maybe warp mechanics specifically are the modern equivalent of building an engine, so you wouldn’t have classes addressing that directly unless you went to a school for putting vehicles together. But surely the basics of subspace needs to be discussed in the same way that light speed is the current known speed limit of the universe these days.
Is that the one where he’s got an entire table filled with water bottles and he makes it through like half of them by the end of his set?
I also like when they got a light to shine through 2 holes and the distance they were at required them to elevate the camera because of the curve of the earth
math as a side effect
That’s a funny way of spelling porn
6·21 days agoYeah, but people like stuff like green tea, dark chocolate, and green peppers, and no one seems to think that they’re weird or lying about enjoying those tastes.
I’ve had plenty of stuff I consider better than what I listed. I actually prefer peaty scotches and whiskeys and ryes with smoke and bite. I’ve had amazing single barrels. I also like really piney gins.
But my point about the ones I mentioned were that they’re all smooth, inoffensive, and miles away from the rotgut shit I was drinking in my college days. Definitely does not taste like “crap” by any sane measure (ok except maybe the Jack. I can’t vouch for that because I haven’t actually had it in awhile and I couldn’t remember any of the non-Japanese stuff that my local market has).
I dunno, there are plenty of cheap spirits that taste perfectly fine. The less expensive (but not cheap swill) gins I see in my local markets (Beefeater, Tanqueray, Gordon’s), and the whiskeys or scotches (like Teachers, Jack, etc) are all under the equivalent of 20 pounds, and they’re easy enough to drink.
Or maybe the UK just has expensive spirits? I know in Australia you can’t get a bottle of literally any spirits for much less than $50-60.
Yeah, like why would other bitter flavors be ok but not alcohol? Not everyone wants to just eat sweets all day
3·22 days agoI think some of the fights just started feeling extra stupid. In particular I’m thinking of the multiple smiths in the park and the final one with him in the rain.
If the 3rd is mid at least the 2019 one is comparable
as unsubtle and anvilicious as Fahrenheit 451
How do you feel about Bradbury’s claim that it was less about a totalitarian state than a condemnation of the effects of mass media?
It always confuses me when devs set very small zoom limits on their apps. I like Boost for some stuff but the zoom limit is annoying
I like the koans page
Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.
Me neither. I still can’t figure out why they burn the fuck out of their beans, or who likes that flavor. Outside of some bottom of the barrel instant shit it’s literally the worst coffee I’ve ever had.