Odd Stuff (Part 3)

star trek trip GIF

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get-off-my-lawn-old-lady

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Gay Lawn Mower GIF

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Oh sure, attack the messenger, but itā€™s not going anywhere!!

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Not Funny Reaction GIF by The Drew Barrymore Show

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No, no, hear us out, say boffins: Foot fungus to measure your walk

Four researchers at the Unconventional Computing Laboratory at the University of West England have enlisted fungi to measure how people walk.

Normally, people try to keep fungi from making a home in their shoes, and they may resort to anti-fungal sprays, ointments, or the like to keep fungi from getting the upper hand and ensuring stinky feet.

But Anna Nikolaidou, Neil Phillipsa, Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanasa, and Andrew Adamatzkya argue that fungi embedded within the insoles of shoes offer advantages over existing ā€œsmart insolesā€ that rely on semiconductor-based force sensitive resistors.

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I mean, I guess itā€™s more environmentally friendly

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Iā€™m out of the loop here.

His Twitter is not what I expected.

https://twitter.com/philvischer

And stuff like

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Whaaaaat?

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Yeah itā€™s nuts. Heā€™s now being accused of essentially agreeing with slave owners.

ETA and

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Heā€™s been doing this a while, actuallyā€¦

There is a wing of the white evangelical movement working hard to save it from the dark place itā€™s goneā€¦ I just hope theyā€™re making progress with their brothers and sisters in christ.

But just another reminder that we can often be surprised by whatā€™s actually happening as opposed to the culture wars media narrative weā€™re fed and far too many people on both sides are just eager to lap up. Not that Iā€™m trying to ā€œboth sidesā€ this shit, because Iā€™m not, but we really should look for the cracks in this movement and do what we can to encourage it, as thatā€™s how the light gets in, so said Leonard C.

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  • The average respondent swears 21 times per day.

That seems low, though maybe swearing internally doesnā€™t count :woman_shrugging:

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I was disappointed in Philly. Need to up their game.

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Yabbut I thought ā³©ianity was inherenly evil? /s

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Iā€™ve been beating this drum here for a while, because I know that there are plenty of people who can be persuaded that a fascist theocracy is not in their best interest, even if they are white evangelicals. There is a hard-core of Trumpists in the movement, but itā€™s not even of majority of that, I donā€™t think. They are just voting because they see people being hostile to them (for voting for Trump) and feel attacked and are doubling down. But if we can convince them that theyā€™re being co-opted by particular interests to vote for fascists, we can wake them up, I think.

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The methodology involved self-reporting via a survey. Direct observation or recordings may have yielded different results methinks.

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Itā€™s making me want to see this map compared with daily watchers/ readers of news or sporting events. :wink:

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