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Connect very slightly cuts off the bottom of the image for me.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives speeding down the highway.

Pfft, catapults. A trebuchet can launch a 90kg advertisement over 300 meters.

He did specify a large 3D printer. So it might be 2 or even 3 feet in length.

It’s amazing how often things are similar to what they are.

Jojo Rabbit featured Jewish Maori Hitler and was very well received.

Ezekiel 23:20

Oil is corrosive? Doesn’t it usually prevent steel from rusting?

The thing about fiction is that it has to make sense. Reality is under no such constraint.

Not exactly what you’re talking about, but LeVar Burton Reads is amazing, too. It’s like Reading Rainbow for grownups.

It’s actually not quite an exception, because cocaine is a Schedule II drug (can be prescribed as a vasoconstrictor or topical anesthetic) and the Maywood plant is the only facility licensed to produce pharmaceutical grade cocaine in the US.

So the coca leaf extract they sell to Coca-Cola is technically a byproduct.

But what about a Jovian blimp?

Since both permanent war and heroism are difficult games to play, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters.
This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality).

-Umberto Eco, Eternal Fascism

My recollection is that porn companies initially backed HD-DVD. I distinctly remember thinking it would win for that reason.

Blu-ray won at least partially because the PS3 was the cheapest next-gen optical player, while Xbox360 didn’t support HD-DVD without an expensive add-on. (And stand-alone players for either were very expensive.)

It makes the calendar less than compatible with the commandment to keep the Sabbath by not working on every seventh day.

Which is not insurmountable in practice (e.g. by keeping a separate ecumenical calendar) but you can bet it would be a significant source of opposition.

As someone who has proposed this system myself, I feel the need to point out that the meme is glossing over a couple key points:

First and foremost, 13*28 is 364 days, so to avoid slippage you’d need an extra day appended to every year, either as part of a month, which breaks symmetry, or on it’s own. You’d also still need leap years.

And in order for the days of the week to be immutably aligned with dates, these extra days would also have to not be part of any week. Which is a big problem if you want to get anyone who practices an Abrahamic faith on board with the plan.

Is it just me, or does “we have a proprietary data model that calculates…” sound an awful lot like “we have no actual method of tracking that”?

Ah, yes, the evil bit will solve all our problems.

Ezekiel 23:20

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

But the leftie is more accustomed to fighting right-handed opponents than vice versa.