Notices by Rufus J. Cooter (rufusjcooter@mstdn.social)

@inthehands Yes to this whole thread!

STG, these chuds would build a robot that can do a kickflip on a skateboard, then bring it down to the park and be like, "isn't this great, kids!? Now you can get rid of your boards! The robot can do kickflips for you!"

@mattblaze Agree with all of this - if you'll forgive me for adding an additional gripe to your list, may I add that requiring people to use an app for something that can just as easily be accomplished w/ a webpage is Bad, and people Should Feel Bad when they do that?

@skinnylatte @petrillic If the good lord had intended for us to look at a whole fish, he wouldn't have made them available to us in the form of sticks, or Filets o'

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@skinnylatte @petrillic (Seriously, tho', I've heard all my life about how amazing the food is in SF, and when I'm down there for work & my white colleagues choose where we eat, it's always been 'meh', at best)

(POC colleagues choosing is an entirely different story!)

(Sorry not sorry, still mad about the worst lobster ravioli ever)

@lowqualityfacts That... doesn't look safe?

Didn't a bunch of table-top fire pits just get recalled?

Fellow @uscpsc enthusiasts, back me up here...

@mekkaokereke This whole thread! And this part in particular: "The government spends money on things it shouldn't"
That's something that will always remind me of Bobby Jindal's State of the Union response, where he railed against gov't spending on "something called 'volcano monitoring'"

Like, yes, when the volcanoes aren't doing anything, sure, it seems silly to be monitoring them.

But!

Just because Mt. Rainier isn't erupting /right now/, doesn't make it foolish to keep an eye on it!

@mekkaokereke Just kicked 2.5 benjis into the kitty; will talk to my employer on Monday about the match...

@curtosis @kims @mekkaokereke oh, indeed! There are lots of stats that can get bandied around that don't really 'show' what they purport to show (to go back to Mekka's original point...)

but when folks start doing that, it's helpful to think about what the numbers do show, what they miss, what they misrepresent, what info do we want to capture that does tell us what we need to know, etc. Biz info is iterative like that.

@kims @mekkaokereke which, after a moment's reflection, makes perfect sense: hockey is a sport much more resistant to the sort of statistical analysis of individual performance than, say, baseball, where evaluating an individual player's performance by the numbers is pretty straightforward

@kims @mekkaokereke Thought I knew the answer, but I was wrong (I thought it was the Seattle Sonics in the 70s, which was the context in which I first heard it...) but no! It was the Montreal Canadiens in the 50s (per Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus%E2%80%93minus_(sports)

@uzayran @ojensen @pluralistic Also love the image for the bomb, which looks straight out Rocky & Bullwinkle

https://dyos.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Boris_Badenov

10/10, no notes, great work, folks.

@maskedscheduler Know this isn't the point here, but wow, that is not a flattering headshot. Folx, hire a professional photog to take your avi pic for your substack.

[copied/stole someone else's image to add alt text]

My god, the genius of countering the 'childless cat lady' line of attack, by adding Peak Dad to the ticket. Just [chef kiss emoji]

Hot damn, that was good!

I guess what I took away from this one, was, if there's an airborne disease killing millions across the world, maybe you should... wear a mask?

#Monsterdon #TooSoon ?

Also: In a bizarre, ironic twist: Price's cookbook waaaayyy lowballs how much garlic you should use

https://archive.org/details/a-treasury-of-great-recipes-mary-price-vincent-price

Thanks for watching along, y'all! Thanks to @Taweret for hosting! Have a great week, see ya next sunday!

@inthehands I mean, honestly, at this point, what purpose does having two Dakotas serve? It's not like there's a big college basketball rivalry that driving a bunch of TV ad dollars...

@inthehands Love all of these!
Would add:
- end disenfranchisement of convicts (so imprisoned people can vote, putting an end to districts where most/many of the 'residents' can't vote)
- a 'Wyoming' rule, where any state that has fewer people than the most populous district in any other state, ceases to be a state, its territory to be divided among its neighbors, and borders to be redrawn accordingly.

@HistoPol Hmm. What do you remember about the make of the caravan/trailer? (Complicating the search, obviously, is that the term used in the US is "trailer", which makes it hard to search for a movie about a "trailer", because Google wants to show you trailers for movies, not trailers that you hook up to your truck or whatever...)

Was it Airstream-looking, or more like a trolley car?

@HistoPol I had an inkling! (Can't imagine seeing Lucy Ball in something & not remembering she was in it...)

Could have sworn there was a Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn flick that had a similar plot, but a quick IMDB search didn't turn up anything for either... (I also checked all of the likely suspects I could think of for romantic comedies of the 50s - no joy there, either)

@HistoPol Not B&W, but this is what immediately came to mind for me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucb9O8q1eOc

@mmasnick.bsky.social Well, on the bright side, it looks like the bridge works? So that's nice?