I hold against that the replicator in the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - Arthur Dent got it to make proper tea, at the cost of using all the compute the ship had.

I hold against it Du levande which, on one hand, confirms OP’s stereotyping, but is - at least to me - uniquely humorous, emotional, and an alround great film.

Tablecloth scene - Du levande
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43R1k8vHCh0

Du levande: Parken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQpE9AbghW0

Du levande: Frisören
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEjyQRGW4fo

There’s also Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann. Better than the novel.

I’m pretty sure by his estimate we were supposed to have megastructures by now.

This exactly. Musk has been talking ginormic shit for decades, and delivered peanuts. Destroying the USA in the process.

How good is the re-usability even going? That’s the only plus I see wrt SpaceX.

boring

Another E Musk company. (sorry, couldn’t resist)

But isn’t “going further than ever before (humaned)” a bit different from “launching another dozen or so satellites into orbit”?

This was made with a Fairphone camera? Amazing.

Prague, as usual.

Checking out your other posts… i had noticed this one yesterday. Love how the house appears to be leaning on the church. Come to think of it, I think I’ve seen that sort of stuff often in Prague.

Yes. The story is not complex but looong. All the way back to Saudi Arabia, the founding of Israel. And several times the side the USA backed & trained & gave guns to, later turned against them.

You said you like losers, well look at your team

I wonder if AI made the lyrics too. Some of it is - too good.

The overriding message of these videos is that Iran is resisting what it sees as an almighty global oppressor: the United States.

For decades the USA have been the Bad Guy in the “Larger Middle East” mostly for their complete lack of understanding how societies work. So many times. In every country except Israel. This is the ultimate fuck-up. I’m not a friend of the guns blazing approach to secure oil, but even that could’ve worked if they’d just put a little more effort into understanding the people they’re invading.

Cheesus, do I hope they get fucked over good. Not the soldiers of course but the USA itself.

And I fucking hate the Iran regime and all religious states. But the USA are making it all too easy for them to portray themselves as the good guys.

When we push back - citing US officials who say the airman is now receiving treatment in Kuwait - he claims: “Only 13% of what Mr Trump says is based on facts.”

And why should they tell only facts in their videos if the leader of the biggest military of the world (by budget) is so obviously lying as soon as he opens his mouth.

Read closer, they’re criticizing Netanyahu for not being pro-war enough.

Yeah I totally got that but I can see how my comment is not quite unambiguous enough.

I guess what goes for the US population goes for Israel’s, too: not all of them are infected.

As nations though, they’re both fascist.

Of course they do. Line must go up.

Lives, you say? I don’t think you understand how the economy works.

Too many 3rd-party scripts for my taste. But I was able to see some plain text:

Stranded vessels: 150+ ships including tankers, bulk carriers, and other commercial vessels

On top of everything else we might be looking at another environmental disaster.

The next best thing to blood and gore: conventional attractiveness.

In the US? Hardly a neutral 3rd country.

Again, this outlet seems to just copy content from elsewhere. Well, at least they’re linking to their blueprints:

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5825614-iran-lebanon-israel-us-ceasefire-talks/

and

https://xcancel.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2042614290192957698?s=20

Just to be clear:

The Interior Department submitted the renderings Friday with the Commission on Fine Arts, a congressionally-established federal agency that offers guidance on architectural proposals, according to The Washington Post. The commission is scheduled to examine the proposal next week.

Not the most pressing issue right now.

Americans are now paying, on average, more than $4 per gallon for regular gas and nearly $5.70 per gallon for diesel.

I am, once again, amazed at US fuel prizes. Here in a regular EU country the price per liter has broken the €2 mark, as a consequence of this dumb war. That’s USD 2.34. That’s over USD 10 per gallon. Before the war it was roughly €1.8/L = USD 9.5/gallon.

As Queen Elizabeth II once said: get used to it (if you want to save the planet).

What exactly is “consumer sentiment”? The article does not explain. It’s also an almost exact copy of the linked CNBC article which at least uses the alternative term “confidence”.

I guess it all means that people are buying less.

“Because playing other countries is our privilege!”

This admin is not only fully mask off, it also mirrors the USA its own face.

As soon as you’re born, they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all

They hurt you at home, and they hit you at school
They hate you if you’re clever, and they despise a fool
Till you’re so fucking crazy, you can’t follow their rules

When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can’t really function, you’re so full of fear

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see

There’s room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill