“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Defend the Great Seal, Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot Skywalkers!

Joy!

they announced it completed. Not sure if it worked as intended.

Starship is supposed to coast for the next 30 minutes, until T+ 40

45 seconds in, amazing all engines look great

It is looking like it might go on first attempt!

Fuel loading has gone well so far!

I saw Michelle MacDonald with Steely Dan in L.A. 2004?

I think the joke is how a pest exterminator is being called on an extinct species. Play on the mutual concept of extinction.

All the Unity game engine self-destruction choices got to them ;)

current predictions on launch date?

corrected, thank you

News Story

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/trucks-crash-columbia-river-biggs-junction/283-070f2a38-fb9c-4e2f-9044-0a435eadbed0

Over a full day between Only a few hours between the two accidents at the same location. Notable that both were hauling two trailers each.

The first truck was hauling two trailers and crashed just before 9 p.m. Friday when the driver hit an abandoned vehicle that was parked on the shoulder of the freeway, smashing through the guardrail and plunging into the river. The driver was able to swim to shore and was not injured, according to the Sherman County Sheriff's Office.

The second truck crashed just before 12:30 a.m. Saturday as emergency responders were on scene for the first crash. A semi with two fuel tanker trailers in tow struck an Oregon Department of Transportation vehicle, slid off the freeway and crashed into the river next to the first two trailers. Investigators said the driver likely fell asleep before the crash. The sheriff's office said the tanks were empty.

It’s already like that here, friend.

Lemmy didn't take off until well into May 2023, despite being online and open source for over 4 years. The quantity of posts, communities, comments was very small for 4 years online.

Then everyone flocked out of hate and anger of an API money matter with Reddit.Then crowds got hate-filled and angry when Threads was launched by Meta/Instagram/Facebook on July 5. And crowds became hate-filled and angry over Elon Musk rename of Twitter to X on July 23.

Outside big growth in memes and shitposts, there haven't been big numbers of people flocking here out of organic goodness on organized topics. It has largely been a HiveMind of hate as a motivation to come here since May.

Some good seeds have been planted since May, but the atmosphere of hate motivates change is pretty much Mob Mentality / reactionary.

When cross-posted >= 2, should go to a dedicated page like Reddit has had for a very long time... and allow easy viewing of who posted, date, number of comments, date of last comment, votes, etc.

A joke that would mostly work on pre-digital camera generations.... those odd night sightings that would now be social media material.

That's why I linked the hot dog eating contest, which is a drag race

And the equal portions, starting gun, and ready to dive in pose implies that they are having a speed contest, a classic kind of American thing like 1972 onward hot dog eating contest, a race of 10 minutes (they have adjusted the minutes allowed, but time is the key to the race).

my first impression is it's a play on unity, that they are already going, but he is saying start whenever he wants to? Still, I can't really tell if they are in motion already... and he is at the front. So I'm confused.

EDIT: 5 months ago on Reddit, someone gave a better answer when I went looking on Google Search: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFarSide/comments/124clhy/can_anyone_explain_this_gary_larson_cartoon/

looked good, they seem on a path of great progress this week

15,500 viewers. They are estimating 1 hour from time of this comment.

14,100 live viewers right now

It invokes for me the 1993 lecture from Rick Roderick about society... In any case, it starts with the body of the condemned, and the next chapter is about the spectacle of the scaffold and all of the ritual that goes along with these kind of ceremonies. When they are going to do this, you can imagine the streets of Paris, they are all abuzz, there is the spectacle, the scaffold. There are vendors, there are people that write little pamphlets about the executed. I mean, we have an American analogy to that, that’s like, you know, the little Billy the Kid pamphlets that were printed up in the early west about our great criminals and so on. Foucault asks this very interesting question. What was it that fuelled the interest in the criminal? Why was the criminal the star of this production, this scaffold, the spectacle of the scaffold? He’s the star! Well, the crowds became unruly because in many cases the courage of the criminal would become the legend of the spectacle. The courage, the tenacity and the bravery of the criminal would become the story. Well, reformers decided that this was not a healthy mode of punishment. Foucault cynically decides that perhaps it was not considered healthy because the wrong people were the stars of the show, not because it was too barbaric, and I think that that’s not only a cynical guess but he gives some evidence that that’s the case.

No comments about the spin prime test? under 10K viewers live on spaceflightnow

No idea if this story is true: https://www.tripsavvy.com/the-origin-of-the-hotel-pillow-chocolate-3301205

I've stayed at chain business hotels that did it in the 1990's

The first one posted, way back over a month ago....

posted from lemmy.ml, no date on the title, rogue!

The framing of them as social media posts... interesting

that's kind of what it is. The opposite side, the far side of the moon ;)

giving any direct answer on his actual religious beliefs is to highlight how “true in a sense” the stories are.

They are true, metaphorically. Just as much as Star Wars is true to the mass mind (hive mind, collective unconscious, whatever you call it) of the human experience. Just as much true as The Simpsons, Finengans Wake, Shakespeare, etc.

I think a lot of people avoid very basic things about religions: 1) They are learned much like spoken languages. 2) people have trouble learning second languages much like religions. 3) You can translate religion to religion, there are a lot of common concepts, even if often inverted. Take marriage, funerals, and holidays for examples.

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

It's taking Fox News literally, it is taking Star Trek literally, it is taking fiction stories as fact / literal that's the problem.

who? I've never heard of him in context of studying world religions.... i was quoting an expert on Comparative Mythology.

"his views on cultural and political issues which have been described as conservative or right-wing." - I don't think "all religions are non-literal" sounds like conservative in any way, shape, or form.

“All religions are true but none are literal.”

Gluten-free beer

A Russian claims on Facebook that he got a Twitter direct message in 2012 from Trump that started the whole Russia + Cambridge Analytica combo: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confession-in-plain-sight/

In the real world, communities are independent entities, free to choose where and how they hang out. No one tells them what to do or where to go.

I guess the people who run Reddit really think none of their audience was educated by say... Snoopy.... or seen a "no skateboarding" sign in their life. You can just hang out anywhere IRL!

Are we blocked from editing communities that we created? I tried to revise the sidebar of https://sh.itjust.works/c/jukebox and the "save" network works.

pretty smart if they shoot his hat and not his head

The general phrase is pretty well described by Elton John/Bernie Taupin's song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6KYAVn8ons

He puts emphasis on how "things can only get better", being at the bottom of life. Separated from long-term desires.

"In the 19th century the English phrase blue devils referred to the upsetting hallucinations brought on by severe alcohol withdrawal. This was later shortened to the blues, which described states of depression and upset, and it was later adopted as the name for the melancholic songs that the musical genre encapsulates."

Jewish, Christian mythology: 🎵 Out into the cool of the evening strolls The Pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there 🎵, say it again, amen: Genesis 3:8. The Snake is the real story, the Pretender was added to the older Snake story from the people of Canaan.