This is hilariously funny...
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With all this talk about "weapons systems this" and "arms delivery that," it turns out that it is possible that there could actually be negative repercussions to the timeline. Fortunately, the diligent reporterizers at National Public Radio dug deep and found out this shocking revelation:
"A Russian invasion of Ukraine could lead to mass causalities, officials say"
Note that the story that this links to has a different title, and doesn't say a single thing about an invasion of Ukraine splitting off timelines or creating a multiverse of madness. Clearly this is the result of agents from the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations trying to cover up The Truth, but missing the original headline on Google News (there's your power of Big Tech, right there). So if war breaks out, don't be too surprised to see the Russians armed with Cardassian disruptors or the Ukrainians attempting to wield the Eye of Agamotto on the battlefield.
"A Russian invasion of Ukraine could lead to mass causalities, officials say"
Note that the story that this links to has a different title, and doesn't say a single thing about an invasion of Ukraine splitting off timelines or creating a multiverse of madness. Clearly this is the result of agents from the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations trying to cover up The Truth, but missing the original headline on Google News (there's your power of Big Tech, right there). So if war breaks out, don't be too surprised to see the Russians armed with Cardassian disruptors or the Ukrainians attempting to wield the Eye of Agamotto on the battlefield.
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Yes, but you can be sure some men would be dumb enough to try (I'm thinking about people drinking aquarium cleaner because there was CHLOR-, as in CHLOROQUINE (remember that one ? Dr Didier "I look like a caveman" Raoult still hasn't changed his opinion, by a fraction of an inch...)
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i know no politics
but is so incredibly funny
It's cartoon about French Presidential election
showing All the current candidates (and old ghost) fighting for the french Throne
but is so incredibly funny
It's cartoon about French Presidential election
showing All the current candidates (and old ghost) fighting for the french Throne
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Scott, I had to rescue this post from obscurity in the Ukraine topic and post it here, where it belongs. Certainly one of the better typos I've seen.
Typo? TYPO?!?! You *dare* suggest that the journalist class is anything short of perfection??? No, the more reasonable conclusion is that a Russian invasion of Ukraine will result in Mirror Universe Romulans spilling out of a Stargate to fight the Peacekeepers and the Daleks in downtown Peoria.
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ehh is that winter olympic in china ?!
Huh. I thought that was a photoshop... nope.
The dystopian games: Beijing's Olympic big air jump in a disused steel mill is compared to a 'hellscape' by stunned social media users
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It's a closed-down historical steel mill (apparently, a very early and historically significant steel mill in China) that got turned into a heritage site, with those fancy art galleries and workshops for hipsters and green space and museums and stuff. Apparently, they shut it down in 2008 to clean up Beijing for the Olympics.
In America, the closed-down steel mill would have had a nice late-19th century aesthetic with brickwork and vaulted ceilings and cast-iron beams, but because China was behind the curve, you get aesthetic 1980s-style cooling towers and industrial equipment.
It's... not very pretty, but it's industrial heritage.
So is Three Mile Island. Still a bizarre surroundings for a ski jump.
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Note clip is actually about Winter Olympics including above discussion point.
He certainly looks like a panda turned carnivorous. The said carnivorous panda having just digested its fifth cow in a row. Ready to beeeelch loudly and then fall asleep.
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A couple of 'Star Wars' gags . . .
I ate a Wookie Burger today, didn't like it . . . Chewie.
How do we know Chewbacca is French ?
He understands English, but won't speak it . . .
cheers,
Robin.
I ate a Wookie Burger today, didn't like it . . . Chewie.
How do we know Chewbacca is French ?
He understands English, but won't speak it . . .
cheers,
Robin.
If this video doesn't make you laugh, then I guess you're not the type who'd throw your hands up in the air and go "WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!!" as your jetliner plummets from the sky with half a wing gone and the engines on fire. (See? Aviation relevance.)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsxWbjpnm6Q
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We could call that video, "The Triggering" because it will.
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Self-defeating prophecy - Wikipedia
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Well, if America had gone Atomic with a thousand fast breeders and wanted to show the world the strides it had made in taming the atom, the Three Mile Island Museum of Nuclear Safety and National Atomic Heritage Site would be a great spot for the Olympics.
You could hold a cycling event on the Nevada Test Site if you wanted.
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If an abandoned nuclear power plant is the most picturesque site you can come up with for showcasing your country might I suggest you have larger issues to deal with? Even North Korea could probably manage better.
Disagree. Olympics, like any outdoor athletic event, seems to be best when the surroundings appear to be Idealized Nature. Alpine mountains, green forests, meadows, blah, blah, blah. Powerplants and factories, no matter how safe or sparkling clean, are just jarring in that context. The Montana Starship Launch Complex, with hourly flights to LEO, bi-hourly flights to GEO, daily flights to Luna and semi-annual flights to Mars, Elektra and Jupiter, might well be the most nature-integrated launch site on the planet, with thorium reactors and fuel manufacturing plants completely hidden beneath the forests, but it still isn't the right place for the 1,000 Meter Karen-Toss event.
The Symbolism, the Symbolism !
Hope they'll take the same, you know, precautions as NASA:
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Wow, nuclear winter.ehh is that winter olympic in china ?!
ehh is that winter olympic in china ?!
I grew up ROTFLMAO with Mr Bean in the 1990's. At the time I noted the beautiful choir song at the beginning - and Soutwark cathedral choir being credited.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PgXtnPbURc
What I realized only much later is that the song lyrics are a joke... "Ecce homo qui est faba" exactly means "That man who is a bean".
Which mean you British took a choir in a cathedral, and made it sing latin lyrics, Christmas carrol style - except the entire thing wasn't religious, but a full and complete easter egg & prank.
What I realized only much later is that the song lyrics are a joke... "Ecce homo qui est faba" exactly means "That man who is a bean".
Which mean you British took a choir in a cathedral, and made it sing latin lyrics, Christmas carrol style - except the entire thing wasn't religious, but a full and complete easter egg & prank.
Terms one should never put into a search engine...
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I heartily recommend Monty Python's reinterpretation of All Things Bright and Beautiful at
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Terms one should never put into a search engine...
Googling for certain LaTeX tips on a work computer is also fraught with pitfalls.
You can have similar fun quite innocently though. Here is Google, vacillating between citrus fruit, Roman border fortifications and (if you're German) mathematical analysis:
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Years ago my boss (female engineering manager) was searching for something and got the classic "porn storm" of pop-ups for her efforts. We heard yelling coming from her office so a few of us stuck our heads in to see what was going on. Her face was beet-red and had no idea how she'd gotten into the mess. We helped her out but it was hystercial. "What were you looking for?" I don't recall what it was other than it was something that had potential for unwanted search results.Terms one should never put into a search engine...
Googling for certain LaTeX tips on a work computer is also fraught with pitfalls.
You can have similar fun quite innocently though. Here is Google, vacillating between citrus fruit, Roman border fortifications and (if you're German) mathematical analysis:
Scene: 1996, small office of a tiny aerospace startup company, around six employees total. It's a big day for us: not only is the rumor mill of the dial-up internet going nuts with stories that NASA and/or the White House are going to release Big News about potentially having found evidence of life on Mars in Martian meteorites... Buzz Freakin' Aldrin is going to drop by around lunchtime. Woo! This being a small startup, my "office" was a corner of the main meeting room: a table in the corner with a computer and standard cathode ray tube monitor, with the back of my chair almost touching the meeting table. Positives for me is when it's meeting time, I just need to rotate about 180 degrees. Negatives, I ain't got no privacy.
So, Buzz Aldrin shows up. All the office is gathered around the table geeking the hell out. Aldrin is sitting next to me at the end of the table. The announced time that the White House was supposed to release a statement comes, so, as planned, I go to the White House website.
Two things to note:
1) This was 1996. Internet was dialup and slow at the best of times; on this day, everybody and their brother are going to try to get onto the White House website. So I typed in the address and rather than stare for several minutes at a blank screen sloooooooly filling in, I turned back around to rejoin the meeting.
2) Perhaps less obviously... White House Dot Com is *not* White House Dot Gov. It is, or was, very, VERY different. The images that site presented back then were, even for the Clinton Administration, *not* exactly workplace appropriate. So I've got my back to the screen when I notice a co-worker on the other side of the table looking over my shoulder, his eyes getting *real* wide. He gives me a "Dude!" look. I notice both my boss *and* Buzz Aldrin slowly beginning to look in the direction of my monitor, so I turn around as fast as I can, see what's being displayed on screen, and do the only rational thing: reach out, grab the monitor and rip it about 180 degrees around so nobody can see it.
Classy *and* dignified.
Getting back to humour and away from politics:
I had a job interview the other day. At one point the interviewer asked "Can you perform under pressure?" I thought it was an odd question but I gave it my best try. I followed it up with my rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody. I think I nailed it!
I had a job interview the other day. At one point the interviewer asked "Can you perform under pressure?" I thought it was an odd question but I gave it my best try. I followed it up with my rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody. I think I nailed it!
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