I’m finally in a place with good Internet access so I’m catching up on comics. And let me just say I am super excited for this issue of The Flintstones that appears to focus on Bowling Ball Armadillo (and hopefully his friend Vacuum Cleaner Elephant).
I missed you too Vacuum Cleaner Elephant!
I have never hated anyone more than Wilma in this moment.
Maybe I'm in the minority here (I always feel like that online anyway), but I really do think Sanders has a lot of negatives that his supporters will often overlook. This is one of them.
To gesture at individual voters and say they aren’t racists—the usual rejoinder to this argument—is to miss the point. White voters backed trump as a block. They ignored his bigotry and elevated his call for a new nationalism, centered on white Americans. Whatever their actual intentions—whether they were partisan Republicans, hardcore Trumpists, or simply disgusted with Hillary Clinton—they voted for white nationalism, full stop.
The more Democrats obscure that, the more they run the real risk of being co-opted, of bolstering the political prospects of ethno-nationalism in the name of a broad “populism” that isn’t actually at play. An infrastructure bill doesn’t outweigh the impact of Trump’s attacks on communities of color, even if it’s influenced by the left. Communities of color need physical and economic security. Strong wages and freedom from discrimination. Without the latter, a rising tide will not lift all boats.
People are talking about a miracle. I’m hearing about a nightmare. It’s hard to be a parent tonight for a lot of us. You tell your kids, ‘Don’t be a bully.’ You tell your kids, 'Don’t be a bigot.’ You tell your kids, 'Do your homework. And be prepared.’ And then you have this outcome and you have people are putting children to bed tonight and they’re afraid of breakfast. They’re afraid of 'How do I explain this to my children?’ I have muslim friends who are texting me tonight saying, 'Should I leave the country?’ I have families of immigrants that are terrified tonight.
This was many things. This was a rebellion against the elites. True. It was a complete reinvention of politics and polls. But it was also something else. We’ve talked about race—we’ve talked about everything but race tonight. We’ve talked about income. We’ve talked about class. We’ve talked about region. We haven’t talked about race.
This was a white-lash. This was a white-lash against a changing country. It was a white-lash against a black president in part. And that’s the part where the pain comes.
Context: Kamala Harris is one of two democrats running for Senate and is the one who didn't "dab" at the debate.
Steve Glazer is a local guy who worked with Gov. Brown on budget issues (which I'm okay with) but is aggressively annoying on everything else. Constantly complained about the Bay Area Rapid Transit system despite that not being a thing he can actually control (it's a special district and if he wanted to do something about costs there he should've ran for the open BART admin job). But it was either him or a republican, so there you go.
California has way too many propositions but suffice it to say I voted for repealing the death penalty, against expediting the death penalty (should it exist), and a couple other justice reforms. Also for a couple of regressive Pigovian taxes and marijuana legalization.
high school sucks but sometimes you get to be spider-man, and that’s okay.
I don’t get it. Why isn’t Hannah Blumenreich writing Spidey for Marvel? In her comics (often only four pages in length) she crafts a better, more heartfelt story than anything Marvel’s put out in the Spidey books lately. And that’s not even getting into the art which is just perfect.
I mean this little blurb here seems like a gross understatement. That rocket that put Sputnik into orbit? It's the same one that put Gagarin into orbit. It was the basis for pretty much every single rocket the Soviets have used on their manned program. It has had a failure rate of 3% over nearly 4,000 launches and the bits Korolev designed haven't had a failure in, I dunno, a couple hundred launches? It's a ridiculous achievement.
Sergei Korolev is credited as being the founder of the Soviet Union's space program. He designed the rocket that put Sputnik in orbit.
Here in LA, this company delivers their pizzas in smart cars, with enormous boxes like this one in a case on the top of the car.
I’ve had their pizza. It’s slightly better than the usual mass-chain delivery places, and nothing special … but the branding for this company is brilliant. I always smile when I see one of those little cars with a giant pizza on top of it.
Though the distribution and placement of the little plastic pizza tables is pretty suspect….
This is what I never really got about GNU/Open Source types. Why make it HARDER for someone to use your product? I mean you already took the radical step of making it free; why not also make it easy to install/use?
Seriously guys it's the strangest comic I've read in a while. It's amazing. It's goes to an incredibly horrifying, dark place. AS shown here it has a caveman Carl Sagan launching a chimp with a wooden rocket. There's an issue about consumerism, the inherent animal abuse of the Flintstones universe, the treatment of Vets, PTSD...it's wild. I think you can get it on the kindle store or comixology or your local comic shop. Only three issues so far!
Guys, I think you should be reading the Flintstones comic. It’s glorious and weird and amazing.
It's actually really annoying/surprising how little support OS X has for Blu-Ray Playback.
Given that I have a Blu-Ray player installed in my macbook, I somewhat forgot that I would need software to actually play Blu-Ray disks. So I picked up MacGo’s Blu-ray Player, which so far as I can tell is pretty much the only one out there. It can be a little glitchy (it seems to have problems with menus, for instance) but it definitely works.
And, of course, my inaugural disc would have to be Legend of Korra. :D
This seems like (a) the strangest product in existence and (b) the strangest ad in existence. The product COULD be interesting if it was more connected to home automation, but right now it's basically Siri-in-a-speaker. And I have a feeling it'll lock you in to Amazon's streaming services and not access much else.
In addition to making woefully terrible smartphone, it seems Amazon has branched out into making woefully terrible adverts.
I don’t even know what this is; I stopped the advert when the smug factor reached Conservative Front Bench levels. It’s not an eReader, so it’s likely an overpriced bit of tat.
Guys this shit is amazing. I've pretty much watched all of the videos on this guy's channel. I'm thoroughly interested.
So for the last few days I’ve been watching fifty or so videos of a guy in Japan making woodblock prints. I think someone described him as Bob Ross meets Jim Henson. I really dig the vids though.
Also, this wasn't sent from the ACLU's offices, but from some nondescript fulfillment holding company that practically screams fly-by-night, strip mall, boiler room operation. Just thought that was funny.
I'm getting really excited about this. The fact that they hired the Eve Ensler (who wrote the Vagina Monologues) to consult on the human trafficking angle is also pretty awesome.
Ever since people first learned the consequences of Colony Collapse Disorder, a number of researchers have been attempting to find new ways to
extract honey from bee hives without disturbing the bees. If you stop to
think about it, the process of honey extraction can be very traumatic
for the bee colonies, but what else can be done to collect the honey?
The process of harvesting honey has not evolved much over the years…
until now.
One group of honey enthusiasts has made incredible headway by
introducing a new honey extracting invention called Flow Hive. The
soon-to-be-released product is described as “… artificial honeycomb for
use in a beehive, which enables honey to be removed from the honeycomb
without removing the honeycomb from the hive.” The process has been
patented by Flow™, and while
there are a lot of unanswered questions at this time, the contraption
has captured the imagination of the beekeeper industry and honey bee
enthusiasts.
Through a Kickstarter campaign (soon to be launched), the inventors hope to inspire a new generation of beekeepers who will find that
harvesting honey is easier, more gratifying, good for the planet, and
not as harmful to the bees.While this is not a regional company, the effects from such an
invention could help to impact every corner of the planet.You can conduct a search on Kickstarter once the campaign goes live on February 23.
Note: The class colours on the cards are (mostly) for aesthetic, rather than anything else. No way is Ed Miliband a warrior, or Leanne Wood much of a rogue, for that matter.
EDIT: um. Clearly I made Leanne Wood too powerful at that cost. Ah well.
