They're all so good! Love the bee violin

In case you want to see this year's:

https://elections.ulstercountyny.gov/poll/i-voted-2026/

And then there was the self destruktive DVD:

Wiki: Flexplay

When the seal is broken on the vacuum-packed disc, the layer changes from clear to black in about 48 hours, rendering the disc unplayable.

Not to be confused with the black DVD-R:

Thanks for that. I didn't even know the actual one that OP posted. 😀

Not to be confused with DivX, the video codec

Where do I sign up??

See, this is the kind of article that makes randomly clicking on Wikipedia articles worthwhile.

I used to hate them growing up. The library has a lot of them, but over the years I’ve come to like them a lot.

I think I didn’t like it when they used these instead of windows

My only complaint is when they use the same mind so they all have the same shape

My house was built at the tail end of glass block popularity. Mine doesn't have them, but many houses in the neighborhood do.

I sort of like them, but I think they need to be used boldly, and only in big buildings, as an entire wall, like a dividing wall between a kitchen and dining room, something like that.

A form of pareidolia, then.

One could argue that a modern pathetic fallacy is thinking that a statistical word prediction engine understands things.

If the entire answer is "No.", the article is just clickbait and didn't need to be written. More often though it's "No; but..." and there's the subject of the article. Which, if you can sum it up in a sentence, would make a better title for the article than the question one.

I thought it came from Erehwon. The fucken story the name comes from kinda fucken sucks and is filled with chud shit. I mean Butler can sure as hell describe like a late 1800s countryside thats for sure. But reading an entire book where everyone's names are just backwards Robinson's (Nosnibor) literally killed it. The swapped values were cool, the reveal where the name came from is like a throwaway line that was kind of a disappointment for me. I simply thought there was a robot uprising book from Samuel Butler and thats not the case.

Can Every Question Headline Be Answered "No"?

I've personally found that in all of these cases, if they know the answer is yes, telling people the answer is yes is far more interesting than asking a question over whether or not it could be yes.

Its not even close. This is for a podcast Iʻll be doing later this week:

If we assume a random prior, Chuck Schumer and Democratic establishment support was a net negative in the primary, where-as association with Hasan Piker was a net positive. And not by a little. Association with Hasan in the primary resulted in a 50% better result in regards to winning their primaries than association with Chuck Schumer. Hasan picks also outperformed Schumer picks in the general by a significant margin. Their ability to convert from primary picks, to won races makes Hasan Piker definitionally a king maker. Their primary picks won their elections.

You can have different opinions on the particulars of why it may be this way, but you do not have space to have your own facts on the matter. And the fact of the matter is that Hasans involvement, especially early, in these primaries won candidates their elections.

Very good on policy, and speaking about policy.

I was talking with awareness of the context of the primaries. Stevens was the DNC favourite but she was still evidently an Israel bootlicker and didn't perform well at the debate. El-Sayed got pre-primary endorsements from UAW and has had strong individual and collective support from labour union members. Not to say Piker didn't help signal boost the campaign a lot, just to say Senator-elect El-Sayed would have never gotten through the primary without him is not necessarily true, there were many axes of support that converged and primary voters also compared the quality of candidates directly. And El Sayed used the fact that gobs of cash were being lobbed into the race to defeat him to his benefit.

I'm just tempering the argument that Piker is the primary or sole reason why we got the result we did, it's a whole bunch of factors, a bunch of rural faces got eaten between the ICE raids, more new wars and gas prices, Republicans primaried particularly shitty candidates because they were measured by their fealty to Trump. It's a bit of No Kings rallies driving people to vote as tangible action against this admin, and finally it's the Mamdani effect where sewer socialism, left-wing populism that purports to go beyond ideology to focus on making a tangible difference for everyone while enshrining rights for the underprivileged.

I don’t think Piker was that instrumental in how good the Democrat campaigns were this time…

By the time the general came around, the flywheel was already going. But if this is the extend of your understanding or thinking, youʻve missed almost entirely the whole story and point.

The point is that Hasan backed and supported candidates months ago who were willing to break with establishment Democrat ties in a manner which actually got people excited and involved. Without Hasan, there is no Abdul El Sayed. They simply donʻt make it through the primary. And without a candidate on the table as exciting and directly confrontational to establishment democrats, there is no Blue-nami. You donʻt get a Blue-nami when its Stevens or Janet Mills across the board: those kinds of candidates decrease turnout.

I don't think Piker was that instrumental in how good the Democrat campaigns were this time...

But I do credit him for getting into Republican media talking heads' heads and living rent-free, to the point that they put out a thirst-trap photo from his IG on the jumbotron at the RNC Trumpapalooza.

Fuck that they goimg hopefully impeach and prosecute.

The only things I have seen from his speeches or debates that I absolutely do not care for and cringe at is his "beta/alpha" usage. I don't really want a serious person using those words, but I guess it reaches the younger men/boys so whatever I guess..

Oh, yes, it's GF night today. We usually observe two traditions on that day: We have the Town Twinning Committee meeting on GF night, and, of course, watching "V for Vendetta".

I vaguely remember, aged around six, asking for a "Penny for the Guy" after making one and sticking him outside our front door. Our garden was too small for a bonfire so we didn't burn him, but Dad set off a box of fireworks. I burned my hand picking up a dead sparkler; taught me a valuable lesson!

i stood up out of bed to cheer that when i saw it lol, i am loving this guy

If the can kill a prisedent, kidnap head of state, publicly support a pedo, and ignore a continuous genocide of Palestinians, I wouldn't be surprised if they kill him as soon as he pose a threat. And if it happens most likely they will blame a Palestinian Muslim.