Notices by Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)

@darnell

A bit late for that life lesson, I'm afraid.

I don't think he's going to recover from the reputation he has earned.

I'm afraid for Tesla and SpaceX, which otherwise seem like good companies. Tesla started an EV trend which will continue without them, but losing SpaceX will be a big loss to our civilization if it goes.

@evan

Depends on the blog.

@brooke

The castle sets are my favorite thing about this movie, I think. Some of them are just amazing. Very Hieronomous Boschian, IMHO.

They must have been wild to build.

#Monsterdon #Krull

@darnell

I hate it, but it seems very possible.

Greenland is very large on the map -- especially a Mercator projection. This feeds Trump's absurd and simple-minded ego.

Yet, the total population of Greenland isn't much more than a small US city.

It's the cheapest of the invasions he's floated.

This will make it a very tempting move to pet Trump's ego. Who will oppose it? Hegseth..? 🤦

He yearns to imitate Putin, and Putin of course, would love the whataboutism it allows.

@darnell

It also fits the P2025 pattern of pitting powers against each other -- just like they're breaking the US government by creating a constitutional crisis, this will allow them to pit NATO nations against each other -- a never tested condition -- to break the alliance.

This would help to clear the path globally for imperialist authoritarians, whose number of course, Trump aspires to join.

Ego, ego, ego. It's all part of his megalomania.

Evil bastards are hitting me where I live now.

Anyway, you can still get these comics. I made sure to save local copies. I probably should mirror some of this stuff.

https://nasawatch.com/education/you-can-still-read-nasas-deleted-first-woman-graphic-novels/

I only found out about this cover of "Burning Down the House" by Tom Jones and the Cardigans yesterday. It's from 2003, though. It's very good -- both the performance and the video, although I'm still partial to the original Talking Heads version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYuldgIOelY

@evan
Yeah. Those are very doable. I'm in North Texas.

Austin was pretty nearly ideal. I could've made it to that one if I'd planned for it.

@evan

I'm willing to drive a bit, but I have to plan things like that pretty far in advance.

Leaving the country, getting on a plane -- those things are usually beyond my budget.

@evan

It really depends on the ad. Some are well-made and fun to watch.

But to watch basically anything they want to shove in front of my eyeballs, stealing a minute of my finite lifetime..? That's going to cost.

#Monsterdon

It's nice that Doctor Who is on the case, I must say! :tardis:

@darnell@one.darnell.one @darnell@flipboard.com

I mean, there would be a certain truth to that, were it in any way relevant to anything he were doing.

But everything he's doing is systematically sabotaging and undermining the country. We're being stripped and beaten and left for scavengers to consume after we're too weak to fight them off.

#Monsterdon
Mysterious singing is never a good sign in these stories...

That's how they get ya!

@RamenCatholic

I very much like to make arguments for things on a basis of "enlightened" or even "unenlightened" self-interest, because those are powerful motivators -- even for people who purport to decide on the basis of ideals (because quite a few, even of those people, will betray those ideals in secret, if they don't see the benefit to themselves).

There are a number of good systemic, ethical, collectivist, individualist, and pragmatic arguments for UBI. It's a very robust idea.

@mloxton
I think that, as with other words, like "Christian" and "feminist", there is a "No True Scotsman" problem with "Capitalism".

Most of the people hating it use a different definition than most of the people supporting it.

So there is a great deal of mis- or dis-information due to equivocation.

Unfortunately this pattern of moving goalposts by redefining words has become very popular on both Left and Right extremes.

So it becomes hard to speak intelligibly about the subject.

@lanodan @neauoire

Don't walkie-talkies work on a CB band..? It's been awhile, but I seem to remember them working on one or more of the lower CB channels. 🤔

@Lazarou @lytta

Yeah, it's pretty cheap -- burlap sacks, some fake vegetables and leaves, and thread. Bit of skill to produce the weird mouth shapes. 🤔

Banning TikTok because of their Chinese connection is extremely dumb policy.

This is basically the Russian model of internet regulation: OUR propaganda is fine, but not those *foreign* people.

It's just nationalism.

And hasn't that turned out great for us all?*

They do some nasty stuff, just like Facebook, YouTube, Google, X/Twitter, Instagram, etc...

Ban THAT if you want, not who's allowed to do it.

[*Yes, for the affect-impaired, this is sarcasm.]

I think we need a Fediverse Family Tree to show the relationship between the various platforms. 🤔

I doubt it's widely known, for example, that "Iceshrimp" Is a fork of "Firefish" which was a rebrand of "Calckey" which was a fork of "Misskey" -- which was an original microblogging platform prior to being adapted to ActivityPub for federation.

It'd be nice to have a chart that laid out these relationships. But I fear I will have to draw it myself.

@alcinnz

IMHO, "apps" are just a way to circumvent security measures in browsers.

But I LIKE my security measures!
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