I know Jon Voight sucks, but man he is absolutely great fun to watch on screen.

Exactly.

Signs don't slow drivers down, physics does. If a street is designed like a gun barrel, people will drive like bullets. We need self-enforcing streets with physical friction to actually mandate safe behavior behind the wheel. No goodwill required.

When you go to fancy places they call that a Paleo Burger.

Everyone in America thinks they're middle class exhibit #3,972

Lovely - Google is trying and succeeding at taking over Android. Because too much free choice is bad for people I guess? I switched away from iPhone to get away from a curated "our way only" environment and now it's following us.

keepandroidopen.org

Watching Anaconda (1997) and it genuinely sounds like Jon Voight, playing a Paraguayan, took accent lessons from Indigo Montoya in preparation for the role.

Having any sort of strong opinion of any sort of Twitch guy is freak behaviour

Watching Adam Savage visit the IMAX facility and a) that man is a treasure, his enthusiasm is infectious and b) it's actually incredible that IMAX even exists, what a stupid format lol

Abraham J Simpson

as several people have pointed out, citing the fake "62 million" number rather than the true "1000 people" number actually lessens the possibility that anyone will face consequences for raping their spouse. It's actually possible to hold 1000 people accountable for that

oh okay

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No 5. Energy credits? Why?...if there is such a surplus, why just hand the money directly over to energy companies, why not invest directly in private solar and public renewables. Energy credits is lost money.

I have other thoughts but that's enough.

#Speirgorm #Ireland

The Mandarin for avocado apparently directly translates to "butter fruit", and I do like that though.

So the Michael Jackson movie ends with the caption 'In 1992 Michael Jackson boarded his spaceship and was never seen or heard from again. The End'

A graphic labeled The Mood Meter with axes labeled Low Energy to High Energy and Unpleasant to Pleasant. The Low Energy/Unpleasant corner is labeled “Mom would be sad” and the High Energy/Pleasant corner is labeled “Let’s fucking goooo”

Markets ping-ponging between bottom left and top right corner every time someone schedules or cancels a meeting about Iran

Critics of new bill say Ohio women would be banned from sports bras, bikinis in public 'The peak of fear mongering.'

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.

HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

Ok but they need to do a new Columbo, and he needs to be portrayed by Tim Robinson, and if you can't see why then I feel sorry for you.

Vlad, a very handsome black and white cat, sits with his back to the camera looking out a window at my street

Surveying his domain

The graph men love a graph right up until they don't. Fair weather graph men, all.

I should probably archive all of my brain dumps and Vlad pictures soon so

When I was a child I assumed that mimicking Lumière’s French accent meant I was speaking French. I’ve since learned better yet am once again unsure.

Cromwell about the Irish?

Thinking today about how there are people alive now who were already born when the 1926 census took place, and that there were people in the 1926 census who were alive during The Famine.

Two degrees of separation.

gulf war fits

SadDAMN!

I think this is engagement bait by Virgin media, but I will also add:

Things I never want to hear any professional say: "huh, that's weird!".