Profile pic is from Jason Box, depicting a projection of Arctic warming to the year 2100 based on current trends.
James Horner nailed the starship motif. I enjoy the various other composers’ works as well, but Horner is my top for Trek.
Howard Shore for all the Tolkien work. His music alone will paint the image of Middle Earth in my head.
And Hans Zimmer has some stuff I love, like Time, but he did his best job imo for Dune.
I’m sure it’s Mbin specifically and just not in the software for some reason.
I first saw that pose or similar back in an old Star Trek TOS episode where Spock is in the captain’s chair. But he ain’t Spock. Hell, he isn’t even Ferengi level.
Finally, a trolley problem for reality. Only it turns out not to be a problem for the guy at the lever like it’s usually presented.
I read the title as “golf tips”, thinking he had sold millions of pamphlets that just said to pick up the ball when no one is looking and move it.
Usually there’s enough context and it’s recent enough I sort of remember. I haven’t had a lot of ancient replies here, but Reddit was great for that, and that’s exactly what I would think. What the hell are they talking about? What was really surreal was rereading what I wrote and vaguely remembering it, but sometimes the wording being a bit different than what I might say now. Not necessarily the point, just how I said it, as people do change with age. I don’t regret anything I’ve every said though, it’s why I’ve left my Reddit account alone, that plus it would probably be undeleted anyway and I’ve moved on.
Got me. Not that I believed the text, but that my first brief thought was, there is a raised horn symbol right there that would work just as well. Then I thought, you dummy.
It’s to honor the sacrifice made. Although in the end it wasn’t really a sacrifice, not even the prophesied three full days. Just a long weekend with the payoff being returned to godhood. What the writers should have done is made it so Jesus was still in hell being tortured for our sins until the end days. That would be more of a plotline to suggest a sacrifice.
The paper trail of blood citizenship would be a lot easier to lose.
Just tried. It will only presumably stop new messages, but I can refresh and the old sent one is still there as well as the user name that shows it’s blocked. Plus that wouldn’t be a great workaround for normal messages of people you want to talk to and just are cleaning house. I don’t know why the option isn’t there. I put something about it on the main Mbin page a while back. Maybe not many people actually use messages?
This is from a Kbin/Mbin viewpoint, but from the very start a year or so ago spam was incredibly bad, usually porn. It was common to daily add more to the filter to see other postings. Then one day it got a lot better, either through a version update or better moderation control. I was even able to clear the old filters and not be flooded anymore. These pfishing attempts from Nicole and a few other names before her are the first ones I’ve seen in a long time. I just wish I could delete them from my PMs, for some reason that option isn’t present at all.
The brain is good at taking the information given it and creating a virtual image, including filling in missing parts. Both for touch and for the mention of hearing to calculate location. It can also be fooled because of this wiring, as it tries to find patterns where they may not exist.
How about 3/8 and just don’t come back?
This could have potentially happened to Apollo 11, had Armstrong not taken over manually to steer clear of the targeted landing site with some rough areas. Maybe it would have been just leaning and not a big deal, but at the time we had no clear idea what a real landing would end up like. And I would hazard a guess that even though we’ve done a lot over the decades, the polar regions of the Moon are still pretty unknown.
That’s the hard part to accept. This is what enough of the country than actually voted wanted. I don’t doubt there was lots of effort to influence things as well, but the percentage that was successful wasn’t comparable to what could have happened to stop him from winning. When firefighters get to a full house fire there’s a point where they shift into salvaging what is possible and preventing spread rather that continuing the falsehood of saving and repair. We’re at a clear turning point now, and it’s hard to say what the future brings now with such free disasters happening. Anyone outside the US, save yourself and let us be an example of what we’ve all heard about history and yet here we are once again.
The argument over who is right, the consumer or the employee, is exactly what the companies want. If charging for every small thing was a big deal they’d see it in the totals as people stopped coming and pass the cost on some other way to provide “free” stuff. But people just gripe about it and come back, and keep blaming the stupid worker again because it’s “clearly” their fault. And the company takes their money happily.
First they came for Enola Gay…
That is brilliant. The caveat is that anyone that understands the reference, significance, and warning probably is already on the right side. It will go right over the heads of the ones that are the problem.
Nothing is gained from a death. Not even the satisfaction of revenge or closure, as the crime doesn’t undo itself. Some people may say they feel vindicated, but they are still mourning their loved one either way.
Now imagine if keeping a murderer alive enables learning why the events happened, and something is learned to help prevent other potential murders from happening. That is far more satisfying.
There could be some maximum threshold or critical number where people’s discussions goes downhill, regardless of the infrastructure. So while the idea of splintering into new communities that share names and topics was initially a big concern with the Reddit migration, calling for a way to imitate a Reddit sole source, perhaps it’s better to allow diversification even if some things aren’t directly and timely shared.