Joel

So this video is perfect and you should watch all of it but if you truly do not care about Christmas lights please skip to here (22 minutes in) for commentary on lighting in the LED age that pretty much every sighted person would benefit from consuming.

The shingles vaccine could lay me out for a week and I'd prefer that to shingles.

Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B

Hospitals and health departments across the country say they're not planning to change their vaccination policy.

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I think “the president’s allies are promising to destroy media institutions the president doesn’t like to curry favor with him” is very bad, actually

reaching into frosty’s chest to grab the couple cold ones he smuggled into the club for us

Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos Lawmakers quietly stuck the requirement into their must-pass annual defense policy bill.

Very annoyed at this.
Congress knows how to use the power of the purse to get what it wants, but refuses to do it to, like, make sure that grants get to Head Start.
Just a total warping of priorities, using the power only in these narrow contexts and never to help poor people

Where my mind is today! ☹️😞

Progress report - I could bottle it now, it went quick!

As makes sense when self-medicating with a lithium beverage I guess

One of Igor's former masters had made a ticktock man, all levers and gearwheels and cranks and clockwork. Instead of a brain, it had a long tape punched with holes. Instead of a heart, it had a big spring. Provided everything in the kitchen was very carefully positioned, the thing could sweep the floor and make a passable cup of tea. If it wasn't carefully positioned, or if the ticking, clicking thing hit an unexpected bump, then it'd strip the plaster off the walls and make a furious cup of cat. -Pratchett, Thief of Time

these kinds of videos always prompt a certain Pratchett quote in my brain, from Thief of Time

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Why American Hubris Will Never Catch Up To Us

From The Archives: Why American Hubris Will Never Catch Up To Us

I love that so many people on forums have sarcastically told people to rm -rf their machines that the llms have incorporated it.

Wurman is being pretty slippery with his definition of "purpose." There was extensive discussion about the impact of the Amendment on Chinese immigrants and "Gypsies," so they knew it would have a broader impact than just on children of freed people, and agreed on the interpretation of the words.

Seems likely there’s a functional need to re-state the questions and confirm framing, and emotionally-neutral phrasing can read as an attack:

“Let me get this straight: you want me to scrape the sporadic minutes of this poorly-documented meeting series and just kind of guess which ones you ran?”

This is also super great for people who celebrate other holidays around this time of year

Most of them have a long tradition of eating ham

Just such a thoughtful gift all around

Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.

I’m enthusiastic about sources but could be more careful regarding attribution of them

I’m a sourcerror

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My Senator told me FedSoc judges keep ignoring his unambiguous laws so I asked how many laws he has and he said he just goes to the Congress and gets a new law afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding unambiguous laws to FedSoc judges and then his chief of staff started crying.

I find the seemingly standard public education/reenactor phrase, "every Roman soldier was a [combat] engineer" more than a bit frustrating.

Every Roman soldier could be a *laborer.* The legions also had much higher status specialist engineers, the praefectus fabrum or architectus.

Different jobs!

Steampunk-looking brass contraption with paper on a half-cylinder underneath a metal dome bristling with artfully engraved letter and number keys, with myriad knurled adjustment affordances of the sort one might find on Victorian optics equipment Looks like a film studio’s props department was given a comfy budget and a brief of “impractical gothic typewriter” But it’s a legit early commercial typewriter

Have you heard about the Hansen Ball (famous from the 90s Dracula movie)

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⭐BREAKING: ICE is asking for people to quit calling its hotline to report an undocumented girl named 'Anne Frank' hiding in the attics of Republican lawmakers.

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

He only weighed 143 pounds, sure, but do you remember that time he moved Capitol Hill?

Mr. Rogers and Officer Clemons have their feet in a kiddie pool in a 1969 episode of Mr Rogers’s Neighborhood The foot washing part of it is probably a Bible reference but Fred Rogers insisted on casting a Black actor in this role, insisted on the characters being in a pool together It seems to me his purpose in doing so was to show viewers that John Brown and racial justice activists before and since are winning, to invite children to join this winning side, where one can have friends

That was a good episode, but not genre bending like the song cover or the Thor crossover comic elsewhere in this thread

Excimer laser - Wikipedia

Very neat trick actually, what holds most lasers back is that any gain medium that has emitted light will immediately absorb that same frequency

But not if those two atoms immediately go on separate vacations, they won’t!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excimer...

very yes

Like that, but without the water

or the air

or the hydrogen

or much of any kinetic barrier to attacking the very first atom it touches, even a fellow fluorine atom