That thing’s huge! That cylindrical thing at the back has to be the cable spool, and that’s obviously an RPG payload in front.

Imagine the lifting power needed to keep both of those, plus the chassis, in the air…

They gave Haro a hip hop beanie that stops his top flaps from opening to extend his arms.

The flaps will probably just open enough for the arms to extend.

Good experience and a good test for the design and features, if the Taiwanese aren’t already experts in building underground infrastructure to withstand bombardment.

There are actually quite a few casts of Rodin’s famous The Thinker statue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Thinker_sculptures including Cleveland, Louisville, Detroit, NYC, Washington DC, and San Francisco.

A bunch more “later casts” further down the above wikipedia page.

There’s probably one near you.

Other Rodin pieces usually accompany The Thinker in museums.

Great, it’ll save PG&E some interest on existing project loans, but will we customers see any relief on our bills from this?

Or will the savings go to executive pay and shareholders?

Archived version

A paper notebook small enough to fit in my jacket pocket, and so that I can carry anywhere.

I can cross things out, I don’t have to futz with software worrying about making it look pretty.

I can scrawl, and draw crudely the visions that I’m trying to capture, again without worrying about how exactly to use the software tools.

If I’m having trouble getting started, I start drawing circles on a page, anything to get my pen moving.

If I want to move a paragraph or sentence somewhere else, I circle it, and draw an arrow to where I want it to go.

Editing and putting it into a word processor comes later.

Just get the damned words out of my head.

I am using LibreOffice these days for a word processing.

Random shit that YT throws at me:

pinponpanpon by Maidnight Ravers

https://youtu.be/Hf5vwt2qQFg

“I can’t do this powerful thing, or I’ll never see master again”

It seems these lines are too easily crossed…

@rikka@ani.social

Yeah, that looks incredibly protective… /s

For all the fan service and double entendres, this show does have some heart.

The mysteries are okay, but the direction and pacing feel off, and the characters and their dialogue aren’t interesting.

@rikka@ani.social

The whole thing of medicine vs. curses, you know which one is going to win in the end.

Paging that guy…

edit: Do they even say that in hospitals anymore?

RPCS3’s website says GoW3 has problems with this emulator.

https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=God_of_War_III

This title is currently not considered “playable”, as the hardware requirement is too high. But it can be played from start to finish with decent performance on a good CPU, especially if you use the game’s patches.

Beats me. It does track the web manhwa pretty closely though.

I’m having a blast with this show!

From episode 1: Ojisan talks about the Shirley Temple-curled hairstyles of villainesses from classic shojo manga from the 1970s, which he would be familiar as he was growing up at that time:

Ayumi Himekawa from Glass Mask/Garasu no Kamen/ガラスの仮面

Reika Ryūzaki, aka Madame Butterfly, from Aim For The Ace!/Ace o Nerae!/エースをねらえ!

Eliza Leagan from Candy Candy

Loving the ED “Matsuken Samba II” too, more for the visuals than the song.

Does anyone else think that DiCaprio, and De Niro for that matter, were the worst things in Killers Of The Flower Moon?

I’ve just implemented my news detox.

I’ve unsubscribed to the various news, world_news, politics, not_the_onion, /c’s not through their fault, but too depressing.

I’m hoping this frees up more time for watching anime.

Ban non-union delivery and non-union warehouse distribution centers.

100 years ago we just killed them and redistributed their wealth, which is part of what fixed the Great Depression.

Wha? I thought Congress passed estate taxes starting in 1916, the robber barons didn’t live as long as today, so they died of old age and disease more-or-less like regular people.

I never heard of many of them being killed.

I’d be interested to hear more about patterns of killing.

I’m sure that will do a lot, because border crossings from Mexico were down almost 80% from December 2023 to August 2024 .

“‘Nothing can be done’ say officials in the only country where this happens regularly”