I remember when brennan was hacked by a teenager when a romanian hobbyist hacked hillary and colin powell when the entire opm files were hacked etc etc
Re: Future unitard fashion
I take the overall point; however I wish to interject:
Behold! Jor-el and Lara of Krypton (Superman’s parents):
The only way unitards would make sense for future fashon would be if genetic engineering enabled regular people to modify their bodies to have the physiques of Olympic gymnists. Otherwise for current normal Americans it would look like a bartlett pear wearing a tube sock.
wasn’t much of the depictions of the era, like buck rogers and flash gordon, in the same way
“…bartlett pear wearing a tube sock…”
That would still be an improvement over fat people wearing shorts and sandals. And if someone is going to wear sandals, maybe at least trim the nails and deal with the fungus. So gross at restaurants!
There is only a window of years where women look good in shorts and sandals.
I wish everyone else would cover up!
I go to a large mega church. So there is limited close parking. They have these extended golf carts that drive around giving people rides to the building. I get it from the point of view of encouraging people that cannot or will not want to walk to come.
Yet at the same time, I find the walk relaxing. I like to walk ! It’s not as fun in the triple digits, but as long as I am able I would prefer to walk.
There seems to be a spiral where weight makes it harder to walk and so a person walks less and the weight continues to add up.
I have over the last few years been feeling more tired in my feet at the end of the day. Perhaps age. Perhaps something else. I do carry a bit of weight for my height as I am 5 ft 7 1/2 and almost 170 lbs but it’s mostly lean from work , shoulder frame and genetics. So muscle or not , that weight probably is a bit harder in the long run on my feet.
Nonapod:
That was hilarious, thank you!
RE: NHIs and time
It just struck me that, in all of the many discussions I’ve seen dealing with the possible nature of NHIs and their interactions with us humans, no one is considering the factor of time i.e. what if such NHIs are, from our perspective, virtually immortal, and so might view matters and take any actions they might take in the context of a very long time frame?
Or, what if such NHIs “clock/frame rate” might be either much slower or faster than ours?
Speaking of Ars Technica, I saw they had a piece about small (indy) board game developers panicking about Trump’s new China tarrifs. I guess they manufacture their products in China and they believe that this will be devastating for them. Being board games they use lots of high quality cardboard prints for the board and any cards a game may use. Plus there’s obviously things like dice and plastic minifigs. I assume they use injection molding for the minifigs and perhaps the dice too? I have little knowledge on the economics of using injection molding versus 3D printing in whatever scales they ship at. But I can’t imagine they’re terribly high volume since these are often fairly expensive games, with prices ranging from $50 to well over $100+ and it’s a somewhat niche market. But who knows?
But at any rate, this guy had an example that I found confusing: “If a game costs $10 to make in China, upon receiving that game in the US, the publisher will pay a $5 tax to the US government. “. So this seems like fairly low volume, high margin situation catering to a smallish market. If they have to add $5 to an $80 game to maintain their margins, would this make that much of a difference? Will a hardcore boad gamer will balk at that extra $5?
The hair, the hair. It burns.
Speaking of future fashions — Chewbacca is always naked, which is just laziness on the part of the costume department.
On the discussion of the feats of Bory Cooker, that reminds me…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ9qsXu34SM
Well lets not revisit the star wars christmas special with bea arthur??
It is funny with shoes like buck rogers that assumed 70s fashion would still be around 500 years later
Full of category error
https://x.com/sabrinasingh24/status/1907993419101638894
I remember when brennan was hacked by a teenager when a romanian hobbyist hacked hillary and colin powell when the entire opm files were hacked etc etc
Re: Future unitard fashion
I take the overall point; however I wish to interject:
Behold! Jor-el and Lara of Krypton (Superman’s parents):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_(character)#/media/File:Statues_of_the_Silver_Age_Jor-El_and_Lara.jpg
Perhaps not the future, but futuristic.
The only way unitards would make sense for future fashon would be if genetic engineering enabled regular people to modify their bodies to have the physiques of Olympic gymnists. Otherwise for current normal Americans it would look like a bartlett pear wearing a tube sock.
wasn’t much of the depictions of the era, like buck rogers and flash gordon, in the same way
“…bartlett pear wearing a tube sock…”
That would still be an improvement over fat people wearing shorts and sandals. And if someone is going to wear sandals, maybe at least trim the nails and deal with the fungus. So gross at restaurants!
There is only a window of years where women look good in shorts and sandals.
I wish everyone else would cover up!
yes that would be an improvement
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/04/04/amy-klobuchar-judges-watch-
https://x.com/RobertJenrick/status/1908072108036354375
meanwhile in Airship One,
I go to a large mega church. So there is limited close parking. They have these extended golf carts that drive around giving people rides to the building. I get it from the point of view of encouraging people that cannot or will not want to walk to come.
Yet at the same time, I find the walk relaxing. I like to walk ! It’s not as fun in the triple digits, but as long as I am able I would prefer to walk.
There seems to be a spiral where weight makes it harder to walk and so a person walks less and the weight continues to add up.
I have over the last few years been feeling more tired in my feet at the end of the day. Perhaps age. Perhaps something else. I do carry a bit of weight for my height as I am 5 ft 7 1/2 and almost 170 lbs but it’s mostly lean from work , shoulder frame and genetics. So muscle or not , that weight probably is a bit harder in the long run on my feet.
Nonapod:
That was hilarious, thank you!
RE: NHIs and time
It just struck me that, in all of the many discussions I’ve seen dealing with the possible nature of NHIs and their interactions with us humans, no one is considering the factor of time i.e. what if such NHIs are, from our perspective, virtually immortal, and so might view matters and take any actions they might take in the context of a very long time frame?
Or, what if such NHIs “clock/frame rate” might be either much slower or faster than ours?
this is the opposite of do no harm
https://x.com/wokal_distance/status/1907875354896904678
it seems to fit with the rebirth of the Old Gods,
Hypothetically an extra terrestrial vehicle, would travel at unbelievable speeds,
probably only possible through mechanism iike the alcubierre drive,
closer to home, it is striking how the real conditions of the long trek in orbit seems to have slipped out of the news,
it doesn’t serve certain interests apparently,
Unicorns really don’t care. But their farts and skittles are ever so precious.
usually ars technica pieces go everywhere, except when it doesn’t serve a purpose, why point out the dereliction of NASA and Boeing, (squirrel)
meanwhile,
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/report-idf-eliminates-hamas-terrorist-involved-in-kidnapping-murder-of-shiri-bibas-and-her-two-sons/
strong language warning
https://x.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1908240941640732800
https://x.com/zoltanspox/status/1908045350742446543
sensible behavior,
conversely,
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/04/republican-sen-lisa-murkowski-voted-against-nomination-harmeet-dhillon/
Speaking of Ars Technica, I saw they had a piece about small (indy) board game developers panicking about Trump’s new China tarrifs. I guess they manufacture their products in China and they believe that this will be devastating for them. Being board games they use lots of high quality cardboard prints for the board and any cards a game may use. Plus there’s obviously things like dice and plastic minifigs. I assume they use injection molding for the minifigs and perhaps the dice too? I have little knowledge on the economics of using injection molding versus 3D printing in whatever scales they ship at. But I can’t imagine they’re terribly high volume since these are often fairly expensive games, with prices ranging from $50 to well over $100+ and it’s a somewhat niche market. But who knows?
But at any rate, this guy had an example that I found confusing: “If a game costs $10 to make in China, upon receiving that game in the US, the publisher will pay a $5 tax to the US government. “. So this seems like fairly low volume, high margin situation catering to a smallish market. If they have to add $5 to an $80 game to maintain their margins, would this make that much of a difference? Will a hardcore boad gamer will balk at that extra $5?
Who has the money to waste on such advertising?
they aren’t that smarl
https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1908309748799176839
among other things she has killed every series she has been a part of sans greys anatomy, most recently suits, last iteration before this last one,