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Originally shared by David McKeever
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Month: November 2015
Just putting in my plot predictions for the upcoming Star Wars 7 movie.
Just putting in my plot predictions for the upcoming Star Wars 7 movie. I probably won’t be seeing it but you can tell me if I’m right, OK?
Luke Skywalker is reprising the role of Ben Kenobe and sinister villain, Kylo Ren, was his former protege who has gone bad. Kylo is actually Luke’s son.
So apparently all I have to do is post an article mildly critical of Donald Trump and my comments section will get…
So apparently all I have to do is post an article mildly critical of Donald Trump and my comments section will get flooded by troglodyte comments by complete strangers.
I guess this is what social media was like back in Hitler’s day.
Originally shared by Peter da Silva
I just got to play with the Apple Pencil for the first time today!
Originally shared by Christopher B
I just got to play with the Apple Pencil for the first time today! WOW! I know Apple haters love to talk shit about it, but they don’t know what they are talking about! Which is why they don’t use any Apple products, they are used to an inferior user-experience for everything so when something is great they don’t know what to do but knock it without even trying it or owning it! I am here to deflect that bullshit! 🙂 I am only kidding about most of that!
I am not kidding about this though; The Pencil is the product that can go with the old saying “Apple doesn’t do something first, they do it right.” They did it right! It shits over anything Microsoft, Samsung, Wacom or insert shitty product from whatever company here that I have ever owned or even played with for 10 minutes!
The reason? As usual it comes down to the hardware + the software! Everything that it does it does it in a way that just works fanfuckingtastically!
There is ZERO UI to it, it just works by itself. The only knock on it in my opinion is the slickness of it but I can only imagine how many Kickstarters there will be for the Pencil in 2016! Charging stands, Pencil caps, rubber grips, etc.. They are all coming in full force and there are probably a ton of them already but I haven’t really checked in to it!
The other thing I want to mention is that the Pencil is not a stylus! It is not even close to being one. It doesn’t work like one. It is an art tool! Which is why it is called PENCIL! So if you are not into art or drawing then you probably don’t need to spend $99 on the Pencil but I imagine there will a ton of new apps that will incorporate the Pencil in 2016. We shall see!
Lastly, the Pencil is not for me. The iPad Pro is not for me, not yet anyway! I don’t draw and I don’t have a need for it. I was intrigued by it and after playing with it I was more impressed with the 15 minutes I spent with it. Don’t even get me started on palm rejection and all the brilliantness that the iPad Pro does when it recognizes a palm press and a Pencil press, it is a really impressive piece of hardware!
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Originally shared by Matt Uebel
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“A lady kicked me in the stomach.
“A lady kicked me in the stomach. A man kicked me in the chest. They called me nigger, monkey, and they shouted ‘all lives matter’ while they were kicking and punching me. So for all the people who are still confused at this point, they proved what ‘all lives matter’ meant. It means, ‘Shut up, nigger.’”
The GOP establishment has suddenly realised that they have an openly fascist candidate on their hands.
The GOP establishment has suddenly realised that they have an openly fascist candidate on their hands. Going the full fascist was never their plan, they just wanted to skate as closely to that line as possible but without crossing it. That’s what dog whistling is for.
Trump doesn’t dog whistle and has disregarded the line by brazenly goosestepping his way across it. By being rich enough and not beholden the party establishment, he has simply pursued the kind of populism that he thinks will get him the votes. He’s not afraid to use fascist rhetoric and has indicated that he may even run as an independent if he doesn’t get the party’s nomination.
Now we have got candidates calling out this fascism by name. This is probably too late because many of the GOP support base actually like the fact that Trump hates the same groups of people that they do. They like the sound of Fascism.
Currently reading Hot Earth Dreams: What if severe climate change happens, and humans survive? by Frank Landis.
Currently reading Hot Earth Dreams: What if severe climate change happens, and humans survive? by Frank Landis.
Update: I forgot to mention that you can read a sample of it here: https://heteromeles.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/hot-earth-dreams-sample/
Black humor abounds in this pessimistic but realistic look at the future. Landis has a background in plant ecology and he describes what appears to be a fairly realistic research based view of the changes the earth is likely to undergo over the next 400,000 years. That’s the length of time that human created changes to the atmosphere will take to work themselves out.
What sort of planet will our immediate descendants have to face (keeping in mind that a lot of people who will live to see the year 2100 have already been born. The author assumes that we will probably be unable to constrain ourselves from emitting the 1.4 gigatons of carbon currently locked up in the world’s estimated fossil fuel reserves. This may be overly pessimistic but Landis does have recent history on his side. Even if we manage to change our behaviour today, we are still in for a bumpy ride.
Rather than try to put that future out of our minds as most of us would doubtlessly prefer, we need to start thinking about it and dreaming about it. Our science fiction needs to embrace it. We need to be able to talk about it and to start planning for it because a whole lot of bad stuff is going to start happening. And like many bad things they are going to start happening all at the same time.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017S5NDK8
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/11/hot-earth-dreams.html
This is the model that the LNP wants to bring to Australia.
This is the model that the LNP wants to bring to Australia. Not because it works but because privately-run everything is always better / is more efficient. If reality doesn’t match up with this, well, that’s because reality is wrong.
AMERICA remains the world’s most profligate spender on health care, according to a report published on November 4th by the OECD, a club of 34 mostly rich countries. In 2013 the United States spent, on average, $8,713 per person—two and a half times as much as the OECD average. Yet the average American dies 1.7 years earlier than the average OECD citizen. This longevity gap has grown by a year since 2003. Americans have the same life expectancy as Chileans, even though Chile spends less than a fifth of what America spends on health care per person.
Originally shared by David Megginson
«America spends x2.5 as much as the OECD average on health care. Yet the average American dies 1.7 years earlier than the average OECD citizen.»
On the bright side, they’ve passed Turkey and have almost caught up with Chile. #healthcare
Billionaire flies for free because of one weird trick.
Billionaire flies for free because of one weird trick.
Originally shared by ****
Moral of the story: The richer you are, the less you need money?
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