I’m not sure how far back you have to go, but those are definitely pre 19th century

Emissions controller modifiers designed to “roll coal”

I just can’t trust innovations and discoveries coming from China, I’m excited, but I’ll hold my breath until it’s been replicated by a less untrustworthy source

There was a really fun show I found… Let me get the name… “Joe and Katherine bargain holidays”, where they"vacation" on a “budget”, in the first (or second?) episode the go to an owl sanctuary, where they learn it’s 3$ (pounds) to hold an owl, Joe is flabbergasted by this and announces that he’s going to spend more money holding owls than on anything else in this episode, I think they started with 10 owls for 30 pounds, then asked to round it up to a dozen, then a bakers dozen. It actually looked like something I’d gladly spend money to do, and I would imagine it’s a pretty good cause.

The series is posted to YouTube, and if you haven’t seen “task master” I cannot recommend it highly enough. Joe and Katherine are on season 2. Save season 7 until you’ve seen enough of it to be comfortable with what’s going on, because it’s an amazing season (as they all are) but the cast is the least restrained in their antics.

I would hold 5 owls.

I’m sorry, you don’t see phobias in the right wing?

It’s proven right wing individuals have more active fear trigger regions of the brain.

Building a wall and shutting down the border, letting people die of dehydration in the desert, are policies from the left wing?

I do believe there’s a happy medium between out-casting and electing, probably even a large amount of medium space.

But that’s not what you get in a first past the post system.

Or you need to identify those who aren’t behaving properly (sickness or other resource intense disability) and should be outcast from the group (something we don’t need to do today, but the right wing narrative insists that need to do)

Same for enders game series, Orson Scott card had a great thing going… But then went whackadoodle

“ask me again and I’ll tell ya the same”

Beat me to it-doobie-doo

Happy 1234 Friday all! Hope you have a good one!

I was watching RvB before YouTube XD XD XD my friend downloaded… .avi’s I think? The night they were released, and we’d watch them after school the next day XD XD XD

RvB, early 90s???

Shit man Pokemon wasn’t early 90s.

I’m going to kindly ask you to enjoy yourself on my lawn but please move on eventually when you’re done enjoying yourself.

And it isn’t intricate, it’s random

Ready player one, though to be fair I didn’t finish either version. I feel like percentage-wise I made it further through the movie, but only because the movie is less than 2 hours long. I made it to the 2nd chapter of the 2nd part and couldn’t take the masturbatory prose any more. There’s no self insertion on one side of the scale, Mary sue-ing in the middle, and ready player one sits on the far side of the scale.

Some apples are softer than others.

When you do it please announce “how do you like Dem apples?”

Ridiculous goals, I don’t think my brain has the capacity for ridiculous right now. Trying to get 3k yards/hour swimming, and hoping to get back to doing flip turns before the 4th of July.

Extraction and purification of surface residue for triple quadrupole analysis looking for pesticides, or inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry looking for arsenic, but that’s practically physics by that level.

I’ve yet to find a plant substitute for every flavor and texture that I might want to consume, variety is the spice of life. We could all eat Soylent or jelly fish, and if that was all we had let’s chow down! I eat vegetables as much as I enjoy to, and I eat other things in the same moderation. I don’t eat things that are trying to imitate other things, I nearly always prefer the original to the imitation (I appreciate that some people don’t want the original, or cannot have the original, so I’ve never talked against those products existing), plants do not have the same texture, nor cook the same way, as meats, it doesn’t happen. I’m not against progress and I appreciate the ethical (and sometimes biological) argument against modern farming, but I would try to dissuade you against turning perfect into the enemy of better.

I’m ready for lab grown meat farms.

No (very little) ethical implication

Scientifically tuned flavors and meat content (allergens? Vitamins?)

More focused growth, less waste

Fewer emissions

More low impact agriculture areas, more habitat for wildlife restored

Less transit costs, meat grown within the cities it’s consumed in

Less antibiotic resistant bacteria

No chance of mad cow/that T disease pigs used to spread.