The Eagle Line supertrain will revolutionize train travel in the new century.

Nah, that’s a conference venue. You’re thinking of the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center & Fairgrounds in Oaks, Pennsylvania.

I remember the “made without computers, samplers[…]” note on their first record. Using technophobia and reactionary lies (the record was actually produce with excessive use of digital effects, the artwork mostly plagiarized and digitally layouted etc)

The liner notes read “no samples, keyboards, or synthesizers used in the making of this record”. They used pedals and live feedback for distortion and effects, but did not use samples, keyboards, or synthesizers. At the time, as you’ll know, synths were either embraced as an evolution of music production or derided as an erosion of real musical skill; RATM were in the former camp and their claim – as far as I know – was genuine. It doesn’t matter where you stand or stood on the debate, it wasn’t misleading or false. Your outrage is manufactured.

Qualified “explain” link for mobile users: https://explainxkcd.com/3080

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I’d characterize it as spotlighting, calling out, and lambasting rather than hand-wringing, but yes. From the community info:

Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!

Likewise, I avoid Reddit as much as I can; I found the AMA with a web search.

Sad for sure, but the person running the AMA is comically tone-deaf and unprepared.

Great post.

Here’s the Dreadmoor AMA on r/pcgaming on Reddit. It’s a disaster.

Exactly this - here’s Bill Hader telling the story in 2014.

The sort of end user that gets common sense stuff wrong is not the sort of end user that would ever have read the documentation anyway 🤷

On Saturday April 19th he met with Pietro Parolin. This was framed as a snub. On Sunday 20th he met with Francis.

When humans get bright ideas, a lightbulb appears above their head.

When inspiration strikes a kingfisher…

Michel Vaujour had 28 years to serve for attempted murder and armed robbery; this was his fourth escape attempt. He made his way to the roof by threatening guards with a fake pistol and nectarines painted as grenades. On top of the jail he was picked up by his wife Nadine, who had taken helicopter pilot lessons especially for the escape. They landed at a nearby football pitch and fled in a waiting car.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_escapes

The couple’s hideout was right back in Paris. Bold or foolish, they stayed in the city where they had just staged a daring escape. Three months later, they were caught not opening a charming coffee shop but robbing a bank—again. In the shootout that followed, Michel took a bullet to the head but survived. He was soon back in prison, his sixth escape attempt with a new accomplice, Jamila, ending in failure.

- https://www.readingolive.com/storyDetails?story=nadine-vaujour-the-woman-who-got-a-pilots-license-to-help-her-husband-escape-from-prison

I’m never sure when it’s really off

I’m all for alternative milks, but you’ll know when the milk’s really off. If it smells farmyard-y and a little sour, it’s probably on its last day but it won’t hurt you. When it’s splitting, it’s no good.

I only say this because I know way too many people who dump milk that’s still got the best part of a week on it because it’s got any sort of smell, and it’s super wasteful.

(For those not from the UK, “butty” is another word for a piece.)

There’s a weird thing here. I totally accept that the traditional tongue map is pseudoscience and debunked, but if you’re paying attention to something like wine or good chocolate, letting it spread across your whole tongue really does seem change the flavor and bring new aspects to what you’re tasting.

My subjective impression is that there is some effect to exposing the whole tongue to a stimulus, and I’d really like to understand it more - but when you search the web, you pretty much just get deconstructive articles about the old model, and not much about what might actually be happening.

Absolutely love it. I mean, I don’t really like the aesthetics all that much, and I can see several impractical things about the design, but I love the reimagination of what a car should look like.

There are plenty of practical reasons why most modern cars follow the same morphology, and any concept that deviates from that quite rightly has some hard questions to answer about safety, but it’s not boring, and that earns a lot of goodwill in my book.

doesn’t like […] WiFi outages

Unless he’s livestreaming and the tutorial boss is handing him his ass while viewers are asking him about his multiple failed relationships.

I hate to ask, but is that enough space for a tortoise? They’re natural roamers.

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