Art isn’t a progression. “Realism” isn’t necessarily a goal.

If capturing some subject in the most naturalistic way possible was the goal of art, there would be no need for paintings after the invention of the camera, and sculpture would be obsolete because of 3d scanning. Art must be something beyond capturing nature, otherwise there would be no reason for humans to do it.

USS Thresher

Just in case you didn’t know, there is a pretty cool song about this disaster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfUbxOrYJyI

I suspect that this is a smart TV being used as a monitor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojZVpb0cVkE

Randomly choose 0.001% of the books.

If you think that’s a bad plan, it’s been the norm for the history of books.

The King James Bible has the phrase those who “pissith against the wall” several times. In context it’s pejorative for the rude class or enemies of King David, but Christians who insist on the KJV struggle to read and understand it, and have taken it as God’s own description of male. and therefore pissing standing up isn’t just an aspect of masculinity, but it’s essence.

I’m not sure the Palestinians will view being ethnically cleansed slightly less vigorously as a brighter future.

An article I read recently suggested that storing passkeys with Google, Apple, and M$ didn’t have interoperability. Like you need a Mac/iPhone or PC/Android to make it work. Is this true? Can I store a passkey in a platform agnostic way?

Since it’s Halloween, there is a music video about anal prolapse. I’m not going to link to it because it literally gave me nightmares, but search for it if you dare.

Nothing is more valuable to a military than combat experience. I predict that several if not many of the Western servicepeople that trained Ukrainian soldiers will sit for lectures given by their former students.

If we’re going for shock value, did you know Big Bird was almost on the Challenger? The picture in my mind is an NTSB workers on a boat fishing yellow feathers out of the Atlantic.

VR isn’t a mature technology. Every design is bad. For what little attention they’ve paid to human eyes, they completely ignore the existence of a human neck. It’s the kind of device that discourages you from playing games because it’s a pain to get out, strap on, and wear. And this is from a guy who keeps his flight sims on the slow hard drive because it takes 5min to get physically set up anyway.

Best Korea finds itself in the same position as Iran: weakened by their ally Russia not only being unavailable, but soaking up all the good munitions (and in this case, troops).

We’ve two. The beautiful gods live in LA, the ugly ones in DC.

It’s important not to let cynicism become conspiratorial ideation. This is not a ploy to get troops killed as a rationale for American involvement. This is a defensive anti-missile anti-drone anti-aircraft battery. The soldiers operating it may be the safest people in Israel, at least from Iranian attack.

I’d go further and speculate that Iran would avoid deliberately attacking this high value target to avoid escalation. I’d go further still and speculate that Iran is counting on her missiles being shot down so that she can attack Israel without doing enough damage to spark a wider war.

I don’t count Iran as peaceniks, their behavior so far looks like a Nation keen to save face, while avoiding a war it’s not ready for.

The real rational for sending troops is that there is no time to train up IDF soldiers to operate it.

Why are you measuring yourself by the standards of a Hallmark movie?

If you think being successful and having sex with good looking people will make you happy, why is Beniffer getting divorced again? Does Elon Musk seem happy to you?

There is a concept in psychology called “adaptation” where over the long run, people maintain about the same level of satisfaction with their lives. Extraordinary fortunes like becoming paralyzed, or winning the lottery only effect this base-line of satisfaction temporarily.

It would be so funny if this shot down a Mig15.

Frankenstein’s monster doesn’t deserve any sympathy; he’s pure evil. I know this contradicts the opinions of the characters in the book. He does suffer mightily and unfairly despite all efforts at kindness.

The problem is that his solution is to create another to suffer as he has. He even instructs the Doctor to make her hideous like him so that she’ll have no choice but to be his companion. The doctor wonders if this will be enough to stop the “bride” from going rogue.

These are the only two times in the novel anyone considers that the “bride” might have motivation or pathos of her own.

He also refers to his potential bride as the “female” which, well ya know.

A “list of videos to watch later” can quickly become a dreaded multiple hour homework assignment. My “favorites” list on the steaming service is a graveyard of movies I thought I wanted to watch.

No pledge. And “God bless America” should be dropped in favor of “Yippie-Ki-Yay, motherfucker”.