Well, the way we “went back to normal” after an intense election campaign in 2015-2016 was just…not. Not letting it end for the last nine years. This is essentially still the same campaign that started with the stupid escalator ride. I hope it actually does go back to some semblance of normal in a few months, and we can see how that works then.
Fun fact: that was the original idea behind VLC! You could connect to video (and audio) streams. Hence, “VideoLAN.”
- What color was the ball?
I didn’t see a color in my visualization, but I know it was red.
- What gender was the person that pushed the ball?
They were genderless; more of a concept of a person than an image of one.
- What did they look like?
Like…an area of visual space that my mind attached the identifier “Person” to.
- What size is the ball? Like a marble, or a baseball, or a basketball, or something else?
A little smaller than a tennis ball, but bigger than a ping pong ball.
- What about the table, what shape was it? What is it made of?
I didn’t see either property in my visualization, but it’s wooden and round.
And now the important question: Did you already know, or did you have to choose a color/gender/size, etc. after being asked these questions?
Lol. Well, I guess I botched that one. Obviously I did not know before being asked these questions, for most of the answers.
That they’re everywhere. I have uBO on my browser and actively choose against places and experiences with advertising whenever I can, but it still feels like it’s everywhere. Hey, that’s a nice mountain. Can you not with the billboard? It’s like sponsored vandalism.
It really do be like that. But also, cars are too big and drivers are too selfish.
Actually, since the hurricane season keeps starting earlier and earlier, that would benefit the top of the list (since early-season hurricanes tend to be weaker) because the ones that everyone hears about will almost certainly be several names down the list. For instance, the only ones that anybody’s heard about this year are Beryl (second named storm), Helene (eighth named storm), and Milton (thirteenth named storm). Even Kirk (eleventh named storm and a category 4) went by without a fuss, because it never made landfall.
So my suggestion is, we keep going with the naming system we have, but go with your list–maybe use the Carbon Majors report–and apply the company’s name when they make landfall as a Category 3 or higher, when they cause more than ten fatalities, or when they prompt the evacuation of more than 5,000 people. At that point, the storm gets a tag: “Hurricane Chinese-Coal Beryl.” “Hurricane Saudi-Oil Helene.” “Hurricane Russian-Oil Milton.”
There’s a guy on the internet who does videos comparing Vancouver real estate with literal European castles of a similar price. “Not livable” money in Vancouver can get you “has gardens and outbuildings with servant’s quarters” in some parts of Europe.
Ah, the ol’ Reddit switch-a-roo. Hold my relevant topic, I’m going in!
And my axe!!
I used to play the Beatles’ “Here Comes the S[o]n” on the speakers downstairs when I brought our first child downstairs after naps. My wife thought it was funny the first time, but after that it was all like “please don’t stop my playlist for your pun” and I’m like “it’s a literal dad joke!”
Now that son is old enough to start his own music and I totally get it. “Hey, I was listening to that!”
YES, absolutely! Sam and Dropout are an excellent success story. They make a thing ethically and charge a fair price for it, people who want it pay them for it. If we can normalize that again, the world will work a lot better.
There are a lot of examples recently of respected legacy companies being turned into hollow husks of their former selves (or even going out of business entirely) due to finance bros. Sears, Paramount, Toys R Us, Warner Bros, Red Lobster, Twitter, Reddit (ok maybe stretching the definition of “respected”), and now Boeing, among many, many others.
Will it change anything among that class of people? Probably not. The spectre of Jack Welch still looms large over the business world, incentivizing short-term slash-and-burn flash over long-term productive smolder. The type of person who’s inclined toward this kind of con will still pursue it, and there are enough people of low scruples who will get the dollar signs in their eyes.
But with any luck, it will take the luster off enough that people will stop playing along; and they’ll run out of money sooner or later.
It’s already starting to happen. The Onion was bought back from private equity earlier this summer, and the new owners are taking a lot of steps that no PE would ever consider; essentially they’re just looking to stay afloat, not trying to cancerously pursue unchecked growth.
Look, it’s not my thing, but I have it on pretty good authority that philately is pretty rad.
Don’t listen to that guy. You’re in for a treat, my friend.
My bank’s website is a pretty boring one, though.
The Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet combination cartridge. Mario, specifically.
The first one I owned (and thus the first one I played with any regularity) was Super Mario World on the SNES. I was 7.
A musician. Like Cher, he’s known by only a single name (though his birth name is Steven).
The polls seem to disagree with you, at least before Harris’ pick of Walz was announced. She’s peeled off a solid 5-6% from Trump in some states, turning him from a +4 favorite to a -1 tossup in some Georgia polls, for example, or turning a Trump +3 favorite in Pennsylvania into a Harris +3 favorite between Biden’s decision to suspend his campaign and late last week.
I’m not expecting to see Walz’s announcement making any big waves right away, but it gives them a chance to extend the excitement cycle for a while.
We will never solve the Scunthorpe Problem.