Avalanches, Since I Left You

Man, fuck wild parsnip.

If it turns into a shooting war between the US military and its own civilian populace, apart from the multitude of other unimaginable horrors, you would undoubtedly see countries trying to stoke the flames and make the conflict more involved and expensive for the United States. Hell, I’m pretty well convinced that it’s happening right now; if you were China or Russia or any other hostile foreign actor, you would much rather the United States destroy itself from within than try to confront us directly.

The Dreamcast controller is ugly as sin but surprisingly comfortable to hold. It must have the widest delta between looks and ergonomics of any controller.

Routines is our friend. Routines takes care of us.

A: This is an ad.

B: Fuck it, I want that knife. Anyone know where I can get one?

Edit: Okay, here it is.

We’d have to ask /u/dual_sport_dork if it’s even worth it’s relatively cheap price tag. I’d lay even odds that it’s not.

Map the tonal range of the human voice from 00000, the lowest-pitched, to 99999, the highest-pitched. Sing a note into your microphone that corresponds to your postal code.

EDIT: Make it a Base-36 range so as to allow letters A-Z when they are used in postal codes.

Can one trademark a brand and then announce that it is immediately public domain so that no one else can ever trademark it? Someone should trademark No Buy Stuff or some such phrase and do that.

Weaponization or dangerous rays are not among the challenges facing space-based solar.

Contrary to appearances in fiction, most designs propose beam energy densities that are not harmful if human beings were to be inadvertently exposed, such as if a transmitting satellite’s beam were to wander off-course. But the necessarily vast size of the receiving antennas would still require large blocks of land near the end users. The service life of space-based collectors in the face of long-term exposure to the space environment, including degradation from radiation and micrometeoroid damage, could also become a concern for SBSP.

I was going to say that I kind of wish The Devil existed, because then we would know that truly horrible people would eventually face damnation, and in a way it’s nice to imagine that cosmic justice could exist.

Michael Burnham

Jayne Cobb

Willow Ulfgood

I’m not sure that doesn’t make prospect even more terrifying.

Now go watch Conan the Barbarian. On paper it should be terrible. Sword and sorcery nonsense set in some undefined past, starring a body builder with a very loose command of English. But it’s fucking amazing. It’s cinema. It spawned a hundred imitators, and you could count on one hand the number of those that were worth a tinker’s dam. Schwarzenegger, when he’s cast and utilized correctly, is actually fantastic, and he deserves more praise for his acting, when he’s given an opportunity to do it.

The Monadnock Building is “the tallest load-bearing brick or masonry building ever constructed,” and it looks to be about sixteen floors, though I suppose it’s quite possible there are non-structural brick elements in taller buildings.

*crashes, car bursts into flames, driver climbs out of wreck and walks through fireball, is fine except that the waistband on his underwear melted to his skin, thereby prompting F1 to require special fireproof underwear for their drivers.

Perhaps you could get AMD to pay you $35 billion for the hypothetical potential of amusement later on.