That dog pic is actually a little tame. I’ve seen some nightmare inducing pics of screwworm infections.

You joke, but there was some dude in Florida (I think) who was contracted to do this with fruit flies and he started dropping healthy ones to make sure the program never ended.

Source; I can’t be bothered to look it up, trust me bro.

The unexpected part is the increased surface salinity. Previously it was thought that the fresh water melt would stay on top of the denser, saltier deep water trapping some heat and salt below and allowing some refreezing slowing the overall melt, but still melting. They’re finding unexpected vertical mixing bringing up saltier water from the deep, causing more melting, causing more mixing; a feedback loop.

The article doesn’t really explain why this is happening, only what is happening. It does link to a paper but I’m still trying to parse it. I think I need something a little dumbed down from the paper in plain language but with a lot more info than the original article to understand it.

It follows the normal pattern where everytime we learn more about climate change we find out it’s even worse than we thought.

If you have a built in microwave, never buy Thermador appliances.

Microwaves are a solved problem, right? Outside of a few variations everyone has pretty much decided how a microwave should be, yes? Wrong. Thermador microwaves are the stupidest product of any kind I have been unfortunate enough to use in a while.

I assume a lot of people are like me, they think a microwave is a microwave. When I looked at new appliances I dove deep on the fridge, the cooktop, and the oven. Then, after I made my decision, I just got a microwave, dishwasher, and hood to match.

I went to use the stupid thing and holy shit, the beeping, the multiple submenus for standard cooking, the beeping, scrolling through numbers, the beeping, one button push with a flourish of sounds and screen animation just to wake it up then another button push with more sound to get to the first of the submenus, the beeping.

All the posts online begging for an OTA update (because, of course, everything is wifi now even a fucking microwave), people telling you how to open it up and cut the speaker wire so you don’t wake every neighbor in a 1/2 mile radius when you want to heat something up at 1am, some people going so far as to put the Thermador handles on a bosch (the same company so you know they’re capable of making something that isn’t stupid). I never saw any of these because who checks reviews on a microwave? It’s a well regarded appliance manufacturer, and it’s just a fucking microwave.

Never buy Thermador.

They made a movie about that guy. Don’t watch it, it’s awful. It was all a misunderstanding. The Jesus is actually a good dude.

Because an entertainer/athlete gets a paycheck for doing a job. They’re not getting rich underpaying employees.

The debatable part comes in when you get more nuanced than that: The richest of them probably derive most of their wealth from investments once they’ve accumulated enough capital. Their industry requires the efforts of many underpaid people (even if they don’t directly get a say in that). Anyone that keeps (not just earns) a billion wakes up every morning and decides not to solve homelessness in their city. Etc.

But a 20mm paycheck to put asses in seats is a paycheck, not exploitation.

While I am a bit of a misanthrope, I do stop short of referring to people as cargo.

It’s always hard to judge AoA unless you’re looking side-on with a horizon for reference, but excessive nose-up attitude caused by cargo incorrectly loaded or not secured properly so it shifted aft during rotation could have caused an aerodynamic stall.

I guess it’s true, money can’t buy taste.

Fun fact: Alec Baldwin’s character was invented for the movie to provide exposition. The filmmakers didn’t trust movie-going audiences to pick up the information from the three conversations that occur at the beginning of the play.

I see a lot of these postmortems and I don’t know what combination of them is the actual truth, but I wasn’t the slightest bit surprised when she lost. As soon as she got the nomination I thought it was likely.

For what it’s worth, here is my take on her as one Californian that’s had to deal with her since before 2010 when she ran for attorney general:

• Even before she ran for attorney general, I was constantly hearing about all kinds of awful stuff the SF district attorney’s office was doing under her leadership even though I’m not from SF county.
• I was very disappointed when she got the nomination for attorney general because I didn’t want her policies applied statewide. I voted against her in the primary but of course I held my nose and voted for her over the R in the general.
• I don’t recall who I voted for in the 2016 primary for Senate but it wasn’t her, or blue dog Sanchez. I think I barely tilted toward Sanchez in the general but I honestly can’t remember. I was so disappointed in those choices that I didn’t really give a shit. I thought we could do better in California than two conserva-dems, especially with the top-2 primary system.
• Never even considered voting for that cop in a presidential primary.
• Didn’t like that she was the bottom of the ticket in 2020 especially considering Biden’s age, but the alternative was clear.
• Of course, due to the alternative I voted for her in 2024 but without one iota of enthusiasm. I think I may have been more enthused to vote for John fucking Kerry, but that was a long time ago, it’s hard to remember my feelings for a block of wood.

A small silver lining to her losing is I’ll never have to hold my nose and vote for her ever again.

She lost because she just sucks. Whether an individual’s reason for thinking she sucks and not being excited about her was based on misogyny, racism, her record of public service, her policy goals, or her personality doesn’t matter. I didn’t know anybody excited to vote for her. I knew some people excited to vote for a WOC, but not her as a person. A little enthusiasm was what was needed to turn the tide in the three states that mattered this time.

As soon as Biden dropped out too late for an actual primary, we already lost.

I’m not saying your opinion isn’t valid or anything, I’m just curious. Are you the right age? Were you in high school or close when it came out? And I don’t just mean when you watched it, were you that age at the time the movie was set? As an adolescent a few years younger than the characters at the time, it resonated with me.

I get it, I liked it but it was kind of up it’s own ass, but that recurring gag about the general asking for money for free snacks was great. There was one scene toward the end in particular that was all serious then Jennifer Lawrence brought it up that killed me.

Dude, I don’t want to downvote an opinion, but this one is fucking hard.

In that vein, Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler. Great performance, but if you have anxiety issues you might want to skip it, it’s a bit of a rough watch. But you should definitely watch his acceptance speech for a Film Independent Spirit award.

I have no response or defence for that. You’re right. All I can say is, although I’m more of a drama guy, that movie had me in stitches beginning to end.

I think they’re harbingers of death also. If you hear them, someone is going to die.

Out of all the Will Farrell movies you could have picked you went and used the best one as your example?

Even if both people wanted a divorce they would have to do something like fake an affair. The husband could hire a hooker and the wife would hire a P.I. to “discover” the indiscretion.

If I remember correctly that’s kind of what happened. The Klingons used augment genes from Earth’s eugenics wars (the ones used to make Khan and others) to try and create their own augmented Klingons. It went wrong and the result was human looking Klingons and it somehow became a transmissible virus. That’s where the TOS looking looking ones came from. All of this is retcon of course.

Edit: What I wrote was pretty close. Here is a link to the Klingon page on memory alpha. The explanation is just after the start of the “History and Politics” section.

My wife loved it too even though she didn’t play MMOs, but she had a basic understanding from hearing me talk about them.

She couldn’t get enough of the DKP minus video from around the same time, although I did have to explain DKP because none of my groups used it.