If your analog control requires your entire hand, it’s interesting.

If your analog control requires several pointing fingers, it’s interesting.

If your analog control requires your thumbs, it’s shit.

Now get the fuck out of my office!

Or dropping the first “r” and being blinded by ska porn.

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You know, nitrous oxide canisters are kinda peg-shaped…

I’m curious about the speed variations of the spinning circular piece (positioned to act as the violins’ bow).

Finally, a self-driving car with actual intelligence.

A video sponsored by a housing developer, suggesting that the real problem with the cost of housing is high taxes and the pesky nay-saying public.

They also never mention the high and increasing vacancy rate of newly built luxury housing. Just trust us! Rich people will move in soon!

Just across the border from Vancouver, the Seattle Housing Authority is rebuilding modern apartment complexes that are actually intended for low income, disabled and first-gen immigrant residents, not luxury condos that some theoretical rich person maybe might buy someday.

I’m sharing a screenshot of the two together as “how it started / how it’s going”.

http://mltshp.com/p/1QB3B

Oh how far we’ve come…

https://theonion.com/what-biden-can-do-to-win-over-gen-z-1851427528/5/

The artist is SpookToons ( https://spooktoons.carrd.co/ ), and here’s the link to their original BlueSky post for the image: https://bsky.app/profile/spooktoons.bsky.social/post/3kyjhptojhe2h

He’s also still getting tons of regular work outside sci-fi. He’s got a comedy with Paul Reiser coming out later this year that looks pretty funny, too.

https://youtu.be/lVSBJsxWtUo

He doesn’t need to go back to Trek, and I’m glad for that.

Regarding Kate Mulgrew, Prodigy made a lot of sense for her given her talents as a voice actor. (RIP Infinity Train)

Old school Darkwing Duck fans really owe it to themselves to check out the most recent Duck Tales animated series. It is very much made with the folks who grew up with the 1990s Disney Afternoon in mind, with many out-of-canon cameos that will make you smile and an outstanding voice cast (lead by David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck).

It’s also very clear that the creators were begging to make a Darkwing Duck reboot all along, but Disney wouldn’t let them, so they just crammed him into the show anyway.

I’d recommend watching it on a phone or laptop with headphones with one of the ear pieces taken out.

I tried uploading the unedited clip on its own a few days ago, but it was removed for violating copyright. Compositing the videos together counts as new/unique content, and the muxed audio does help bolster this claim.

If you have a vpn, you might try opening a connection within one of the counties that is streaming the games for free and try to watch on one of their websites.

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01:09: “Yer such a jerkoff!”

Perfection.

Skibidi Toilet is old hat by now, but this was the first I’d heard of “What the sigma”.

I’m getting 50% Dr. Thaddeus “Rusty” Venture vibes.

I really appreciate the added context here, pointing out the Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership documents that were written for Regan’s first term as well as for Trump in 2016.

A common talking point seems to be that this is just a wishlist, not actual policy, though high percentages of the recommendations (2/3rds) DO end up as policy.

Some select quotes:

Respectability is a prison and the gates are open and people are desperate to be inside.

You can criticize ideas, but you cancel people. And I think the cancel culture thing… I think it’s the new book burning.

Another friend of mine went, “You need to just right-size this.” (…) She said, “What’s happened here? You told a joke and some people didn’t like it. That’s what happened.” It didn’t seem like that big a deal when you put it like that. And yet, in the moment, sometimes it feels catastrophic.

You can’t have an easy life and a great character.

All of these quotes are in reference to general ideas so far as I can tell – the overall concepts of respectability and “cancel culture”, not specific instances. And I think the interview missed a huge opportunity to dig deeper on these ideas by citing specific examples to start picking at those broad takes.

Cancel culture applies to people who make choices that hurt others and are unrepentant about it. It’s not about the choices; we all fuck up from time to time. It’s about the lack of remorse. That’s what speaks to a person’s true nature. And if a person’s true nature leads them to unapologetically hurt people, then they’re a piece of shit person and I’m justified in wanting nothing to do with them.

Excuse me, that’s Vice President Trump.

The real take-away line here was this:

Do you understand the opportunity here? Do you have any idea how thirsty Americans are for any hint of inspiration or leadership and release from this choice of a megolomaniac and a suffocating gerentocricy? It is crushing our fucking spirit! Do you have any idea what could be ahead of you?