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[Sally_Mahoney]

Mike Pence doesn't believe in the separation of Church and State

One of these days God is going to slap His forehead and say “oh shit, did I just leave that thing on?”

[FGD135]

Mondrian painting hung upside-down for 75 years, mocking everyone who ever stood in front of it stroking their smug pretentious chins

" Le Bateau caused a minor stir when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which housed it, hung the work upside-down for 47 days in 1961 until Genevieve Habert, a stockbroker, noticed the mistake and notified a guard. Habert later informed *The New York Times, which in turn notified Monroe Wheeler, the Museum’s art director. As a result, the artwork was rehung properly." What a tortuous chain of events; it could be the plot to a Wes Anderson film. I’d like to see Adrien Brody cast as “the guard”…

[MerelyGifted]

This Disney Oogie Boogie costume malfunction is one of the funniest things I've seen on the internet

Autocorrect is a birch.

I actually laughed aloud at this, and I’m a tough crowd.

[MerelyGifted]

Take a creepy cross country roadtrip with The United States of Cryptids is a creepy cross-country roadtrip

Cross country is a trip through the Bible Belt.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Dungeons and Dragons is banned in state and federal prisons for bogus reasons

In a forum thread years ago, someone asked how to play D&D without the use of dice. After some head scratching, it came out that the person was incarcerated and forbidden implements of gambling. Various number randomization schemes were suggested, and more discussion lead to the importance of non-cheat-able randomization. It became apparent that the emotional stakes in these games were Intensely Serious, and trust was finite. The forum went to work, and determined that graph paper with values d…

[anon33932455]

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (Part 2)

Ok, so maybe let me explain a little why I think this matters here. First I will note the USSR was always part of the UN, and it was important that it was. Not because it was a good country that respected its neighbors, but because there needed to be that venue to work with them and mediate disputes. The problem is that Russia has stopped respecting it. Plainly for international law to work countries need to care about what the UN says. And as far as that goes, I think it makes a huge differenc…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Musk fanboys create $600k monument to their hero

This could be used in an art class to demonstrate a basic principle of art: you don’t get to assign meaning to your work. If the consensus is you have created a giant ugly thing that mocks the subject then that is what you have created. Leave it up to the tech-bros to think you can “engineer” a sculpture.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Twitter's $8 verification system releases a gusher of brand-damaging impersonators

I might be getting old but what if we all just moved slowly, and fixed things?

[Bunbain]

required reading:

Fuck Elon Musk (Part 1)

Here it is one-boxed,

Thread by @brosandprose on Thread Reader App

[Mindysan33]

Thanks for posting that.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Woman with one hand unboxes her new 3D-printed prosthetic arm

It’s a common complaint that we didn’t get the joyous future we were promised by optimistic SF. But, as we see here, sometimes we do.

[MerelyGifted]

Good (Encouraging) Stuff (Part 1)

Personally, I like it [flag]

The Context:

Good (Encouraging) Stuff (Part 1)

It’s got a beehive.

Good (Encouraging) Stuff (Part 1)

Well, of course it does!

[chgoliz]

Neurodiversity Think Different

This is a big subject, and there are a few questions in this that need answering. To a first approximation, yes. This is because it (in the form of the ABA associations) is really good at marketing itself to desperate parents and bewildered doctors as the last best and only hope for those poor doomed children. And the association, and its halo of “researchers”, and the parents who think it helped, and the doctors who read all the papers, all combine with the lobbyists who schmooze with the pol…

[FGD135]

A to-the-point explanation for why Musk bought Twitter

I think the term we are all looking for is “cargo cult engineer”. A sort of engineering mindset that imitates but doesn’t really grasp engineering. As if the idea of what an engineer is comes from reading early Dilbert strips instead of actually trying to understand how to build something. I am also reminded of how engineers are different from scientists in many definitions: the “scientist” is all about discovering, the “engineer” is about applying that which was already discovered. Few are onl…

[MerelyGifted]

Turns out Bob Dylan didn't actually hand-sign the $600 "hand-signed" copies of his new book

So what you’re saying is his fans are unhappy that he went electric?

[Sally_Mahoney]

Woman on plane bit fellow passenger and attempted to open the exit door mid-flight because Jesus told her to

Weird how Jesus never seems to appear to people and suggest they sit down and shut the fuck up.

[anon52120741]

New toner cartridges are 20% full and report themselves empty at 15%. What's going on?

The cartridge is actually entirely full; but shareholder value doesn’t absorb x-rays.

[smulder]

Why dust might make or break future human presence on the Moon

I hate how initially appealing these “let’s do x first” arguments are, when the logical extension is so absurd. “Let’s stop spending money on foreign aid until we fix our schools.” “Let’s stop spending money on education until everyone is fed.”

[Sally_Mahoney]

Horses were in North America before Europeans. Don’t tell Tucker Carlson

DNA research is science, she deserves props for doing it. Science, correctly implemented and understood, shreds bias instead of perpetuating it.

[MrShiv]

Kanye tells Jewish people: "Forgive Hitler today. Let it go, and stop trying to force it on other people."

I am not sure why it matters. When most of Italy and Germany got behind fascism, it wasn’t like it was a mass mental-illness event. It’s quite possible for people to do and say horrible things because they actually believe them, not because they have a chemical imbalance in their brain. Trying to pass off his words as the rantings of a mentally ill person 1- Does a disservice to the millions of people (like me) who are struggling with mental illness, yet somehow manage not to have anti-semiti…

TBH, the comment already has lots of likes. However, it needs more.