Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Local Rocket Scientist and aspiring grad student

[soljos2023]

[destroyscythe-heck]

There’s a branch of the Medicis that moved to Ireland and now are running a successful chain of fried chicken restaurants which is a very different vinbe from when they were like buying popes and stuff

[memecucker]

The current heir to the main branch of the Hapsburg family is an endurance race car driver

[solipseismic]

#if he got rid of some middle names i bet he would be more aerodynamic and better at racing via @/honeyseller

[sraithpics]

Correction: it's not the Medicis who run the Dublin fried chicken shops, but the direct decendants of the enemies of the Medici; the Borgias. The chain is called Borza and is better known for fish and chips. They moved to Ireland in the early 20th century. They are also said to have introduced the deep fried Mars bar from Scotland to Ireland.

[digital-magus]

The Borgias, among the most feared and reviled families in European history, running a fish 'n chips shop with deep fried Mars bars is one of the funniest things I've ever heard. It's like something from a D&D campaign where they decided to completely change genres.

[qqueenofhades]

Had to look it up and apparently not only is it true, there's an entire subgenre of ancient Italian families with storied histories now competing to get in on the lucrative Irish fish frying market.

[prokopetz]

I love it when farm animals in strategy games have their own little pockets of visibility in the fog of war, because the fog of war is ostensibly a visual abstraction of military intelligence-gathering, which implies that the goat is submitting intel reports.

[autisticbisexualsokka]

“I will rebleat all calls from posts more distant from the guardhouse than my own”

[godslayerclaira]

[prokopetz]

See, that's even more ridiculous, because it doesn't just have a zone of visibility – terrain it's passed through stays revealed. If we accept the abstraction that revealed terrain represents knowledge possessed by your side's commanders as a result of intel reports, this frames an implicit narrative in which the sheep drew a map.

[memewhore]

[romanceyourdemons]

if someone says the phrase “don’t think of pink elephants,” the hearer immediately imagines pink elephants. but when someone says “imagine dragons,” is the first thing you envision dragons? no. it’s that stupid band. they have reduced the number of imaginary dragons in the world, and it’s a damn shame

[tastefullyoffensive]

[tastefullyoffensive]

[tributary]

Lol, lmao even.

[notsoterriblymisanthropic]

[plasmalogical]

[ceausescue]

crazy how in mad max they're always guzzling water right from the hose and spilling like 90% of it on the ground. no wonder they don't fucking have any

[tastefullyoffensive]

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

[weepingwitch]

truly, no harsh noise project can ever approach the sheer auditory torture of existing in the same room as someone scrolling tiktok, like professional bad sound engineers couldn't make a listening experience this unpleasant if they tried

[prokopetz]

"Isn't it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal" I mean, there's a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.

[xeansicemane]

Humans have a really weird mix of mundane superpowers.

We're not fast and don't have a lot of natural weaponry but we're bizarrely tolerant to a broad range of toxins to the point that one toxin is considered a morning necessity for some to perform at work. Gotta love us.

[vexwerewolf]

[albertcamuesli]

no writing workshop can help you improve your writing as much as this screenshot can

[spearxwind]

So I went down to the Marianna Trench the other day and took a bunch of pics!! There were so many cool critters down there check these out:

[escuerzoresucitado]

Youth fascination with technology

[that-stone-butch]

Your tags on the tiktok post could not be more true. I feel like I'm the angry old man that yells at clouds so I'm very glad to know I'm not the only one that has such strong opinions on it

see, in the 1960s and 70s when Robert Heath drove an electrode deep into patients' brains, allowing them to give themselves dopamine hits at the push of a button, it was proven deeply unethical. patients pushed the button upwards of thousands of times in a single hour, and ruined their brains' ability to process stimuli in a normative environment.

but when that button has a funny sound effect, or really short woke tirade attached to it, all of a sudden i've got gen z kids in my inbox insisting that pushing the button counts as activism.

[tributary]

to really hammer home the heath parallels, some of them say that it’s not just activism but it’s also therapy.

Dr. Robert G. Heath: a controversial figure in the history of deep brain stimulation

The history of psychosurgery is filled with tales of researchers pushing the boundaries of science and ethics. These stories often create a