looking forward to the first video of a tesla trying to drive directly through it
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- feels right that if a shark could communicate with us the main thought it would have to communicate is "i am a shark"
- and yet it refuses to do soChile is so long that it could serve as a bridge connecting Spain to Canada across the Atlantic Ocean
- this cat wants me to believe she hasn't been fed all day but she doesn't know i can talk to my wife on the phone to find out
- always cheers me up to remember thishaving a great time imagining this guy saying this line and then, as black, making this move
- don't care sorry. got my own stuff going onThis happened just 36 days ago #NeverForget
00:00 - in the appendices Tolkien says that the characters are not *actually* called what they appear to be called in the text, that he has translated their "real names" into approximately similar english names, eg samwise gamgee is really banazir galbasiPeople love making this joke about Dune, where it makes no real sense since that it's set in the future & many common names now are thousands of years old, but not for LOTR, where it's much weirder for a guy to be called Tom.
- swedish people don't feed their guestsHayden Christensen said 6 words at Star Wars Celebration and sent the crowd wild. bit.ly/3yZ6YNN
- "protests turn violent" says the chyron underneath this footage of cops in full space marine armor shield-bashing a passing septuagenarian to the ground for no visible reason whatsoeverSalt Lake City cops shove down an elderly man with a cane for the crime of standing along the street:
00:00 - glad there are no recent examples of emergencies in the subwayAs part of the crackdown on fare evasion, more emergency exits in NYC subways are locked. This is wrong and dangerous for countless reasons. Also a person on my train couldn’t get their baby stroller out. I tried helping them lift it over the turnstiles but it wouldn’t fit. 🤬
- ah well. it was thoughJUST IN: Sam Bankman-Fried speaks out after being sentenced to 25 years in prison. "I never thought that what I was doing was illegal."
- one of those moments where you absolutely feel the kinship of all human beings every where and at all timesA typical complaint fielded by Babylonian administrators: “I am not getting water for my sesame field. The sesame will die. Don’t tell me later, ‘You did not write to me.’ The sesame is visibly dying. Ibbi-Ilabrat saw it. That sesame will die, and I have warned you.”
