White House to prison pipeline.

I never got why they don’t attach these flares to some boilers to generate extra electricity or heat homes in the winter. I mean I know that creates problems of their own and it would still do nothing about the CO2 pollution, but it makes a little more sense than simply burning it.

I remember those.

(CW: old chud meme; thinly veiled misogyny; liberals falsely labeled as leftists)

I like how the conservatives’ pictures are official portraits and glamour shots, while the liberals’ pictures are candid, Photoshopped or otherwise out of context.

I was gonna say, the only time I ever come across anything about Rosie O’Donnell anymore is via boomer memes. They’re literally the one and only demographic who still cares about her.

If we had the ability to control the weather, do we use the tech to guarantee ample rainfall and stable temperatures in agricultural regions to ensure successful crops? Maybe bring rain to drought and fire stricken areas? Nah, let’s use it to send floods and tornadoes against ourselves.

As a weather nerd, this kind of shit infuriates me most.

On my city’s local doppler radar, there’s a hilltop some distance away that shows up as red or yellow blotches on the raw radar feed. This has been like this ever since the radar was first put online in 1995. It’s literally unavoidable unless they move the dish somewhere else.

Most weather apps have algorithms that filter out this kind of ground clutter, but every now and then the algorithms miss it, and the spots become visible.

Literally every time it would happen, people on the local Facebook communities ask what it is and most of the responses range from wrong to conspiratorial, while the correct answers are met with “laugh” reactions (Facebook’s unofficial “down vote” button).

I wish appliances lasted 2-3 years. I bought an airfryer a year ago and while it didn’t run on any app/IoT slop, it still had a touch-based control screen and half of it quit working after about 4 months. It was essentially bricked because the side that had the buttons that controlled the temperature and cook time was the side that wasn’t working. The whole process to send the thing in to get it repaired under the warranty would have cost me almost as much as buying a new one (including paying out of pocket to ship it by Fedex/UPS/etc to the service center).

The airfryer was admittedly nice while it lasted though. It was especially great for those few months in the summer because I didn’t have to use my oven to bake certain foods, which would have overheated my already hot house.

I’m with the boomers: bring back knobs and switches, fuck digital buttons.

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You mean plutonium doesn’t look like a vial of cherry flavored cough syrup suspended in a larger vial of water?

Until a few years ago my cat used to make a mad dash for the outside any time i had the door open. There were a few times where she’d ninja her way out while I’d bring in groceries or something, and she’d be gone for days.

Now I could leave the door wide open for any given time and she’ll just sit there staring at it from her spot on our couch. She’s getting pretty old though (about 13 years) so I’m wondering if she’s become aware of her own vulnerability. She’s still spry regardless but she couldn’t care less anymore about escaping.

In my town, before the Interstates were put in, the county/state transportation departments bought out and set aside strips of land in the 1950s and kept them empty for 20-30 years until construction started in the 1970s. Trees grew in during that time while the land around it got built up. It’s weird looking at maps and aerial photos from that time period and seeing empty space. They would have become cool little wooded areas if the highways were never built.

I’m assuming the same happened in New Orleans in the “before” picture: the highway was planned and the land was bought out well in advance, and trees grew in during that time.

Bayer owns Monsanto, or at least its old assets. Monsanto as a company doesn’t exist anymore.

Nuclear armageddon almost never seems to happen at night in movies and TV shows. It’s always during the daylight.

The only exception I can think of is Threads, where the missiles start flying when it’s like 3 in the morning in Washington DC, and even that happens off screen.

These aliens appeared before in S1E7 and they all look like old people. Maybe it’s just natural to the species, like they’re just born to look and dress like stereotypes of old humans?

Every alternating Saturday at 12:00 pm here.

When I was on Facebook, I was subscribed to my local city FB page. Every time that damn siren went off, even for actual storm emergencies, people would post asking what that noise is. It got so bad that the city put a YouTube clip of the siren audio on their own website to let people know what it sounds like. But that didn’t stop them from asking every damn time.

In my city, the test goes for 15 seconds while the real thing is like 3 to 5 minutes.

Also, apparently they don’t even sound a test siren if there is rain or clouds in the area.

Yeah, Vader in the first SW movie was more like hired muscle instead of the Emperor’s right hand man. He’s subservient to Tarkin and he’s openly mocked by Imperial officers throughout the movie. Certainly not someone who’s basically second in command of the whole Empire.

I’m sure something in the canon explained its way around this, but it’s obvious that George Lucas didn’t have the backstories of these characters planned from the beginning like he’d claimed.