You really only need to drop two bombs to say you "drop more bombs than the Enola Gay". They might go "hey wait a second" afterwards but probably not
It made at least two bombing runs before the famous one, dropping pumpkin bombs.
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You really only need to drop two bombs to say you "drop more bombs than the Enola Gay". They might go "hey wait a second" afterwards but probably not
It made at least two bombing runs before the famous one, dropping pumpkin bombs.
The more I look into orbital data centers the more convinced I become that they're a bad idea that's never going to happen.
Well, "never" is a strong word. Let's say not going to happen in my lifetime.
Practical ones, I mean. There's a proof-of-concept H100 up there right now, but that's just a publicity stunt.
The more I look into orbital data centers the more convinced I become that they're a bad idea that's never going to happen.
Well, "never" is a strong word. Let's say not going to happen in my lifetime.
The more I look into orbital data centers the more convinced I become that they're a bad idea that's never going to happen.
the prequels make the Baron seem really incompetent and like a big fan of gross smells. guys you can make a character come off as evil without making them incompetent or smelly
The Baron specifically absolutely was incompetent, even in the first book. "Oh, let's give this guy who hates me, is smarter than me, and was trained as an assassin control over my security arrangements!" Notably, when Count Whatshisface learns about this he's just immediately like "Okay, guess we better plan on the Baron dying soon."
the phone i got to replace my old one is apple and i think i hate literally everything about it except the camera. literally everything about iOS is crazy fucking annoying
You absolutely can just set an alarm. I owned my iPhone for years before I even realized the sleep schedule thing existed, I just set a daily alarm in the clock app instead.
I need to get back to writing regularly because I really can’t wait to add The GLN Guy to the cast, both because I’ve put a lot of thought into the GLN as an ideological group with a kernel of compelling truth that has been warped beyond belief thanks to ingroup reinforcement and one-upsmanship, but also so he can say some shit like “anyone who wants a lawn should airdropped into an active volcano” and everyone else is shocked and horrified but anon’s like
The GLN is supposed to be dark and everything, but in a lot of ways they seem almost inhumanly noble to me. Like, they represent hierarchy and control -- but notably, when Meng Jianli met with Sunny he just offered recommendations, he doesn't try to enforce it. The GLN has the power to basically force any country on Earth to do its will by threatening to cut said country off, but seems to have an astonishingly permissive attitude. Off the top of my head I cannot think of any other entity in history that had so much power but exercised it so little.
"[O]ur upper echelons must studiously dehumanize ourselves and embrace a Dark Corporate Wellness culture to transcend petty human obsessions like 'community' and 'happiness.'" But it really is true that, while on the clock, the decision makers should try to avoid being influenced by desires for community or their own happiness! The fact that they're willing to give up their own happiness for the benefit is a point in their favor, not a mark against them. And it's also worth noting that it seems, from that quote, that it's only the upper echelons that are expected to give up on happiness. They put this restriction on themselves, but not on anybody else.
They "ruthlessly cultivat[e] a spartan and minimalist sense of ‘normal’" but if I understand correctly this only applies to their universal welfare program, they aren't stopping anyone from going out and buying more with their own money (I'm actually not entirely clear on this point, I could be wrong here). And, y'know, if that's the only way there's enough to go around then yeah, you absolutely do have to have that attitude! They're feeding an entire planet and all they ask for in return is your personal data for AI training. They're arguably the most beneficial organization in history!
a stereotype of true believers in the GLN’s semi-secret ‘cause’ is that they get irrationally angry at the continued existence of low-scalability service industries like sit-down restaurants nail salons because they don’t actually enjoy anything so to them all the little pleasures of life are just fungible units of Recreation and it physically pains them to witness a successful industry which is so immune to economy-of-scale benefits. If you somehow manage to get a few drinks into a true believer (they are joyless nerds so you might have to spike their drink which is technically probably a crime but Sunny said crimes don’t count if they’re funny) they will tell you with complete sincerity that we could have a three-day work week if people stopped getting their hair and nails done and if you tell them that sounds kind of misogynist they will get SO WEIRD about it.
Wait, how are sit-down restaurants immune to economy-of-scale? Chain restaurants are a thing.
A video game/'video game-type thing' I'd really like to make is like... a game where just figuring out what it is and how to play makes up most of the actual "gameplay". Sort of an ARG, I guess?
Like... it would be presented with a kayfabe framing device where I say "I somehow downloaded this game from an alternate timeline and I'm posting it online in the hopes somebody else can decipher what it is". And so you download the file for the game and it doesn't run because the code is entirely written in some kind of bespoke programming language invented purely for this project. So you and a bunch of guys from the subreddit successfully figure out a way to compile it and then the game is like, in a conlang that you need to decipher. So somebody on the internet needs to figure out how to do that and it's like, collaborative puzzle-solving. And in the end you get a game! Could be a fun gimmick I think. Don't steal this please
Was watching some old Highlander episodes recently, and a bit stood out to me as wrong. At one point, MacLeod is visiting Darius, who is looking disturbed and says "Sometimes it's not easy being a Catholic priest." I have no doubt this is true, but Darius is saying this immediately after taking confession, which sort of implies that something he heard in confession disturbed him, and I'm pretty sure priests aren't allowed to say anything that would even hint at what they'd heard in confession. Of course that doesn't mean that every priest actually follows that rule at all times, but Darius is supposed to be an exceptionally dedicated and morally upstanding priest, I feel like he'd be a stickler for the rules, especially a rule that important.
what? i make the burgers. a burger sells for $5. they pay me $12 an hour. and i make a lot of burgers. so i should get all of the profits. i'm doing the labor! i take the orders, assemble the burgers, and hand them over the counter. that's the labor that goes into the burger. the other shit just appears for free. every american is born knowing what burgers we sell, the machines maintain themselves, and i haven't given any thought to the rest of it. our profit margins per burger are probably like 50%, right?
Got curious and looked up the profit margins of fast food franchises. Apparently McDonald's has a net profit margin of 31.85%, which is honestly much higher than I'd have guessed. RBI, which owns Burger King and Popeye's, has 14.8%. Thich is also higher than I'd have guessed before I looked this up but lower than I'd have guessed after seeing the McDonald's figure, I would not have thought the gap between these two companies would be so large.
'disembowel' is such a good word. y'know your bowels? they are GONE
me when I don’t have any stab wounds: “I am so emboweled right now”
Sincere opinion: Warhol was a significant artist for scribbling over other people's photos with markers, Lichtenstein was a vile hack fraud for tracing over comic book art. As a great man once said, it's such a line between stupid and clever
Why?
i really like how the milkman exists as an entirely fossilized character who now serves no purpose other than to fuck people's wives for the punchline
Who milks the milkman?
Why does Team Rocket say "To protect the world from devastation"?
Well Hitler said something similar
Completely apart from the morality thing, it's weird that they say "to unite all peoples within our nation" because they don't have a nation. Team Rocket isn't a country, it's just a crime syndicate.
You say the Earth is round.
I ask, who benefits from the Earth being round?
A lot of Eratosthenes' reputation is riding on the Earth being round.
lol at how premodern Japan made such a big deal about horse archery. “that’s what China cares about so we care about it too” “okay but China cares about it because they are a massive expanse of plains and grasslands, you know, the actual ideal terrain for horse archers, while we are small and mountainous” “hoers archie tho :)”
Lack of good sources of iron in Japan also had a lot to do with it.