It's okay guys. You can just call it a Tempest 2000 emulator. Don't feel bad.
Well, a sort of analog live stream on a schedule published in various pulp paper publications.
“This Court cannot possibly order the State Fair to allow handguns to be carried at this year’s Fair when the party seeking that relief does not even argue that Texas law obligates the Fair to do so," one of the justices wrote in a legal opinion.
Even other Republicans think Ken Paxton is bad at his job. This is some nice judicial snark:
>Remarkably, the State’s presentation to this Court takes no position on whether the State Fair of Texas, a private entity, has the legal authority to exclude patrons carrying handguns from the Fair. This may surprise many observers, given that the ostensible purpose of this litigation is to determine whether Texas law entitles law-abiding Texans to carry handguns at the State Fair despite the Fair’s recently enacted policy to the contrary.
Go ahead and read the whole thing, though, including the footnote. It's only 4 pages of double-spaced text with huge margins. They are not even disagreeing -- although they should -- but rather just laying into Paxton for how sloppy the filings were.
And plenty MAGA asshole enough to have hired a neo-nazi to set sale pricing.
One of the low key things I find offensive here is the intimation that interstellar aliens would have used a design as idiotic as the STS's mixed-fuel horizontal stack. Apparently they have pork projects in the Space Senate on Ceti Alpha Prime.
AKA it's going to be a big god-damned mess to actually get rid of you, so here's the lowest-level work we have for your job description. Good luck in your own case and with re-election, asshole.
Honestly, the fact that there were any professional consequences at all is a bit of a relief. Anybody with half a brain and an ounce of empathy could tell he pulled an ego-driven schoolyard-bully move and deserves to be punished, but with nothing "officially official" being done to the girl, it was always going to be hard to turn it into a removal from an elected position.
Also: while I don’t know the selection process for US Navy submarines, my experience with the military is that you can have an opinion about how you want to be posted, but no actual decision-making ability. So I may hope to fly Navy jets, but the Navy can simply say: “fuck you, you’re going to be stationed on a submarine,” and there’s little I could do about it.
You not wrong in general, though with submarines in particular, longstanding policy in the US Navy is that you don't put people in them who aren't willing to give it a try, specifically because of those close quarters and limited options in an emergency. I have heard stories of people having a hard time getting other postings once they're qualified sub-mariners, but having a crew full of resentful balls of anxiety is not worth it to them.
I guess in return, they get a little more money, better food (at least until it runs out), a vague sense of exclusivity, and a more casual culture arising from the close quarters and the actual risk of death being a constant motivator to do your job well.
Something tells me the People's Liberation Army Navy might take a bit of a firmer approach to postings, but I don't know for sure.
More Tales to Tremble By is the only one so far I might be eventually talked into thinking is the one, but no epiphany yet. The low angle drawing of the house and the sailor peering over the railing feel familiar (particularly that greenish wash over the sailor one), but they don't quite match the admittedly 35-40 year-old memory in my head.
The Tales of the Black Freighter vibes in it are pretty cool as well.
I just looked through it and that's not the one, (art style is too different) but I have to say I love block-print drawings. Hell, seeing all this mid-century spooky artwork has been really fun even if the for-sure right book never pops up.
Thanks!
See also Killjoys, Dark Matter, Vagrant Queen, Helix, Ascension (some scenes), and I think Orphan Black would fit alongside The Expanse. Soooo many darkly lit industrial-themed loft apartments, barely disguised warehouses, and underground tunnels that (in the real world) let people avoid the weather while downtown. :-)
Doesn't prevent a show from being good, far from it, but it's an identifiable look.
Funnily enough, YOUR show seems to have been filmed in France, LOL. Canadian warehouses are a state of mind, I guess.
"Toronto warehouse sci-fi" was almost its own genre for a while, with The Expanse sort of being the apotheosis of the form.
Nope, still have the other half of the H&H. It's an all Florida OOC next year.
End stage Fry's was so weird it could have been a Terry Gilliam movie or something. Vast expanses of mostly empty aisles with the few bits of leftover inventory still there, but interspersed with filled-up cages of AliExpress junk at 10x the AE price or 3x the "get it tomorrow" Amazon price. Then there would be one or two areas where the vendors had gone along with their cockamamie "we'll sell your shit on consignment!" scam, and a few sad employees trying to avoid making eye contact.
Yet Microcenter endures.
Same as this year but H-A flipped, right? Maybe we just keep Billy around one more year... Football is boring anyway. 🤣
Pocket squares/boutonnieres are pretty much always on the wearer's left-hand side, so that's my guess as well.
I see it, and it's not an absurd guess, but of the suggestions so far, the "Tales to Tremble By" books seem closest. I tried AI first, though not with the entire post as a prompt. Oddly, my initial slimmer prompt got something that's closer than the full thing, though I'll leave it to the dear reader whether that says more about AI or me. Thanks for the new approach!
I am glad to see ChatGPT is a little less assertive these days about how confident it is.
Lol, they did a few more, but while fun, nothing comes close to giant magic kaiju polar bear specifically murderizing its rivals before using its F16 to destroy the entire Earth, Scientology style, then body surfing the resulting F16-destroying explosion at warp speed to make it to its asteroid-based hockey arena on time, but making sure to blow up the hockey goal as well.
As a child, we had a book of scary stories that included some absolutely ghastly but entrancing pen-and-ink art. I'm 99% sure they're not "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark". I don't remember much, but a few things stuck with me:
- a picture of a diver in an old-timey deep sea diving suit and maybe a sea-witch type character draped in seaweed.
- at least one really creepy drawing of a willow tree
- one or more of the pictures also involved a classically gothic cliffside along the sea.
- I want to say the binding was green or teal
- no dust jacket that I recall, but it could have been missing
- as a child, it struck me as old but not ancient, so I'm guessing it was from the late 60s or early 70s maybe
- my parents let me read it, and they were Mormons and frankly not really readers, so I'm guessing it was sort of vaguely considered age appropriate in those days if parents didn't look too close.
Style-wise, as I recall it kind of split the difference between Edward Gorey (thanks, @flyingsquid@lemmy.world for unearthing my nightmare fuel) and the semi-famous Darth Maul concept art from Iain McCaig. I have downloaded the first two volumes of SStTitD, as they are technically old enough to be the ones, but while they're definitely in the same milieu they're not what I'm thinking of. The art in this had heavier linework and IIRC used pen-and-ink crosshatching instead of shading; I also can't find any images in those two that hit me as "THAT'S IT!".
This could absolutely be a wild goose chase down memory lane, but any suggestions?
The Pac-12 could owe more than $50 million to the MWC before exit fees
It's finally happened. I have no idea WTF is happening with realignment. The players in the drama are constantly shifting, the motivations are murky, the money is not immediately obvious. I am very confused.
'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' exclusive photos reveal Jaleel White and a band of space pirates, as show creators explain a 'resurgence of piracy.'
Did he do that?!?!?!?!?
Also, kinda burying the lede that the Wolfman-mask alien from the ANH Cantina scene will be an actual character.
Please don't let this suck...
Currently got this one on my work laptop. Model M terminal board with internal converter. The only layout changes I made versus a normal 102-key are that RCtrl is is a Windows key, and the four keys along the right side of the numpad are =, -, +, and the normal Enter.
So I am working on a project where I want a big dumb red button. I got a light-duty industrial illuminated pushbutton from AliExpress (this one, if you want to know: 22mm 3v-6v, non-locking). It looks like it will be fine to use, but I'm confused about the LED. It seems to work regardless of which orientation, and I briefly tried it without a resistor, and that was fine too.
I'd like it to be fairly bright, but as someone who has blown up his share of through-hole diodes in his day, I would rather not mess up this one, since without the diode light it's sad and dumb, rather than glorious and dumb. :-)
My question is this: is there any standard for these illuminated switches that would make it likely that there is some resistor and diode stuff going on inside the housing, such that this thing is fine to just wire up and use?
Teenage me in 1994 trying to combine helpfulness and knowitallness. Some things never change.
I hope Rudy got that Ultrastar and other cool stuff too.
And I was SOOO close to truly being a part of the original hordes of eternal September, but I was really about 9-12 months too late.
Worms in the Beans!Worms in the Beans!Worms in the Beans!Worms in the Beans!Worms in the Beans!
The new policies include a measure to annotate trans members’ records, grouping them with members who have committed sexual violence or child abuse.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18947261
> The new policies include a measure to annotate trans members’ records, grouping them with members who have committed sexual violence or child abuse. > > The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known widely as the Mormon church, issued a slew of new policies this week expanding its restrictions on transgender members. > > The policies, released Monday, include rules barring trans people from working with children, becoming priests and serving as teachers. The church also expanded on an existing rule that barred trans people from being baptized. > > Trans members will also face possible annotation on their membership records, grouping them with churchgoers who have committed incest, sexual predatory behavior, sexual violence against children and embezzlement of church funds.
Lest anyone think the Church is "coming around..."
I'm sure many of you know this one, but some of you may not, and the rest could always hear it again. Story itself is by Terry Bisson.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18681689
RP2040, KMK, Laser cut and painted Masonite, and DIY dye-sub (I checked by sawing some keycaps in half... it's kinda crappy, but it's real dye-sub) keycaps. "Mid height" Outemu black, "JWK" low profile keycaps from Aliexpress.