In the mines of Nikon-Zoom: “‘Aiiiieee!’ cried Legolam. ‘A thesaurus!’"

I’ve done a lot of community theater, and a handful or two of low level professional, and I’m convinced that the whole Macbeth thing is a base rate fallacy.

There have been shows where nothing major went wrong, I’m sure, but I can’t think of any at the moment.

I imagine the girls of Tuam are nearly broken hearted.

It’s absolutely insane. I took my 1500% gain and got out when Elon said “we’re canceling the cheap car and pivoting to AI”. Surely, I thought, the institutional investors will sell this shit before it’s too late. It’s up a factor of 3 since then. 🤪

In the mid-70’s, I was a teen wondering about it. Then a book called The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved came out, by a librarian (Lawrence Kusch). All he did was look up original sources. Turns out “Without a trace” often meant “witnesses saw a fireball and rescuers found a huge oil slick".

This ring and no other was made by the elves
Who’d pawn their own mother to get it themselves

Just trying to keep up with France!

Sigh. This year just keeps gettin’ better and better.

As a lot of people are saying, "Chuck Schumer is a complete sentence."

Don’t do that.

Solidarity!

So is NASA. This all seems grossly illegal.

And yes, it’s true.

This is very cool, even if I still don’t fully understand the matrix inversion that runs the deformable mirror, but I have a side question about who you have to notify. I assume the observing plan eventually makes it into a NOTAM, but how?

Steven Page’s words are perilously close to no longer being recent:

I never thought that words like “product"
Could ever leave my lips.
But something happened to me somewhere
That made me lose my grip.

HEY-HO! HO-HEY-HO!
CHUCKIE SCHUMER’S GOTTA GO!

Nobody is “owed” a vote, dipshit. You vote for the best option available. You may think you’re being all principled by not voting, but all you’re really saying is you don’t give a fuck about anybody else.

I was assuming they were inventing a new form of FSA, but holy shit you may be right that they’re just idiots.

Even if there isn’t an xkcd, there’s a The Onion: