It’s four wheel drive not four wheel stop.

In the “Three body problem” one of the main themes is an alien invasion and threat to the entire planet earth. As part of humanities plan to come up with solutions is the idea that any person or company found to be working on any technologies or plans to escape this planet is commiting a crime against the entirety of humanity and are charged accordingly. With the idea being that any effort going towards escape takes away from humanities effort to combat the threat.

Anyways since I read that I’ve wondered what it would be like if we treated the threat of climate change that way.

I load and run two large fiber lasers cutting sheets of metal up to 1 1/4 inch thick.

They said 24 hours not 80, lol.

Fuck, I’ll give 'em $2.

I’ll just go ahead and copy a previous comment I made for this one, because as always a lot of people don’t feel like reading the article.

"Painting was behind glass, the point is that in a climate change hellscape all this precious art is in danger. If all the people who read about a painting they’ve never heard of before get angry about “paint being thrown at it” they’ll really hate what’ll happen with extreme weather in a climate disaster. "

These activists have some weird ideas sometimes, but this isn’t really one of them. If you read the article they all acknowledge that what they did they aren’t somehow entitled to do, and that they will probably go to jail for it as well. The entire point as with all protest is to shove it in the face of all the people that ignore this issue on a daily basis.

Oil companies are doing the same thing to all precious art and nature and all the things you love, so where is the accountability for them?

TL;DR these people are annoying, and that’s the fucking point.

Painting was behind glass, the point is that in a climate change hellscape all this precious art is in danger. If all the people who read about a painting they’ve never heard of before get angry about “paint being thrown at it” they’ll really hate what’ll happen with extreme weather in a climate disaster.

All toy guns in the US have an orange tip, you can see this one just in shadow on the end. That doesn’t mean there haven’t been problems with what you are imagining in the past though, not smart to point it at anyone.

No, we have rules on fair use and derivative works. Sometimes they fall on one side, sometimes another.

My job dupes me into coming in every night by uploading some wacky numbers to my bank account every two weeks. I fall for it every time.

Hmmm yes, very salient points my friend. I shall take these new points of view into account when I next find myself at the polls. Who knew one fire meme could impart such wisdom in so many?

Lol. Lmao even.

Advice is doctor

Yes! I knew it had to be mustard, didn’t think to check his nebula thank you!

This was a project by the soviets in the 80s as well. I know there is a well produced YouTube video on the subject, but sadly it must be named something incomprehensible like “the forgotten Russian project to turn night into day.” Because I can’t fucking find it.

Here’s a Smithsonian article instead. here

The gobbo was konsi.

Found the website: https://comicpress.socksandpuppets.com/character/konsi/

Yeah, if your main form of offense/defense is that you are: large, and have massive fuck-off tusks on your front then charging seems to be a pretty good go to.

Pikes were used much the same way right? Surprised I never put the two together, ancient humans weren’t stupid so of course they’d realize that was a better way of causing harm than just throwing it. Not to mention their use of leverage in weapons like the Atlatl. No clue on the timespan of these things but I do find this stuff interesting.

I had to read hatchet, which comes close if I recall.

I have the ability to listen to whatever I want at work so I hardly ever fail to finish a book unless it’s really not pulling me in.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was nowhere near as good as the first two but it certainly was different and not in a way I found interesting. A bit slow to get to the point I guess is how I would say it.

Made me think about sentience more than the first two, though I don’t know if it alone provided enough info to really do anything beyond those initial moments of “huh, I guess that could be the case.”