It does look like a stenomask, but the over the nose thing is different. I don’t know why you wouldn’t just type. Maybe it dampens the screaming.

Yeah, signage used to be massively more important. Not just the intersection signs, but the mile markers, the signs that give you a general guide to a distant hospital or park, the signs on overhead bridges that tell you what that cross street is. You’d have to constantly note them.

The compass was a lot more important, to the point where people installed aftermarket compasses in their car if there wasn’t one already. Also there was a lot more math with address numbers, like noting which side of the street had odd numbers, then counting how much they were incrementing to estimate how close you were. Resetting your “trip odometer” could be important.

There was just a lot more “dead reckoning” type of shit. GPS made all of this stuff so much easier. I do miss the AAA Triptiks though. My Grandma had AAA and she would get them for me. There was something really satisfying about working your way through one on a long road trip.

Me too, but with office supplies instead of pizzas. They handed me a ripped out chunk of phone book, the “map” section at the back, and let me go. It was also in the liminal period where cellphones were ubiquitous enough that most payphones had been ripped out, but a cellphone was still too expensive for me to afford, so that was fun.

Just ran like crap. Headlights too dim to see, etc.

I have no idea. He was also like, the third owner, so it’s quite possible that things were failing.

My brother’s first car was a 1989 Dodge Colt. He couldn’t run heat, wipers, and headlights at the same time. So driving at night, in the winter, when it was raining, became this dance of running the wipers until your ass was almost frozen to the seat, then turning them off and running the heat until you were almost blind, then repeat.

You can see a very distinct before/after Interstellar whenever black holes are depicted in media. Prior to Interstellar, black holes were depicted like whirlpools even though Jean-Pierre Luminet generated an image in the 1970s that shows gravitational lensing.

Actually one of my most favorite memories because the simplicity of the solution using recursion blew my little mind. It was like discovering a magic spell.

I worked at a place where the asset management system was called “ASS” and yes, publishing assets was called “pushing to ASS”. Unfortunately management eventually made the developer change it.

You can probably rig up something similar using firefox settings depending on what your needs are for convenience and granularity.

Yeah, you can manually whitelist domains (including expressions). I do this for sites where I don’t mind keeping cookies around (like lemmy).

I use Cookie Autodelete. Doesn’t matter what I choose, it’s getting nuked when I close the tab. Handy to clear out IndexedDB and localStorage too, for sites that only let you read one or two pages before putting up a paywall.

Tap objects that can experience true suffering.

Peewee, Chairry, Cowboy Curtis,
Chairry, Randy, Jambi
Human Fetus, Mr. Kite, Chairry

Angela Collier’s video about this: https://youtu.be/wBBnfu8N_J0?t=2213 (Kaku part starts at 36:50).

A TLDW on the rest of the video: “Gell-Mann Amnesia” is a term Michael Crichton coined. It refers to how people read articles in a newspaper about a topic they are experts in, realize it’s all horribly written trash, then turn the page and happily read the next article about an unfamiliar topic forgetting they just learned the newspaper is trash.

Collier expands on the idea to include the Gell-Mann Complement and Gell-Mann Recollection. The Recollection is what Kaku does, where he doesn’t know anything about a topic but presents a simple explanation on it anyway just because he’s an expert in something different. This frequently gets him into completely bonkers territory, like Deepak Chopra level bonkers.

Gnutsak

Back in the days where they used miniatures to do spaceships sometimes the vfx dept. would take model kits and glue the entire plastic sheet, sprues and all, to the miniature. You know, like this.

I feel (maybe hope) that countries doing this would face significant challenges with currency substitution and private currencies. Ultimately if I want to buy something and my neighbor wants to sell me that thing the government becomes the, “Is there someone you forgot to ask?” meme.

It’d be metal af if I bought something from my neighbor and paid him in Yuan, lol.

all those bills you have are worthless.

That’s the tricky thing is technically the government doesn’t actually control what is worth stuff, its all just vibes. By undermining faith in their currency the government could actually lose a bit of control, not gain it. This was actually a huge fucking problem early in US history.

That will be like a whale-fall event for all the skittering bottom feeders of the finance abyss.

I know it’s a shitpost but my mind immediately goes to Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

* slaps sphere *

“You can fit so much Perlin noise on this baby.”