@WarMonitor3 And what is small boats suddenly pop out, or missles are launch from shore?
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Jon Gawne
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Jon Gawne
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Historian, Smart ass, Super Genius.
New England Katılım Mart 2022
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I don’t see the point of Britain or France committing ships to patrolling the Hormuz when it’s already opened…
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As a kid I adored Famous Monsters of Filmland. It was edited by Forrest Ackerman, who knew Lovecraft (HPL mocked him). Before VHS tapes when you could only see films in theaters, and if they showed up on TV, this magazine was the only way I could learn about The Blob or the Black Lagoon.
He did have a habit of showing images without saying what it was. Like the pic below. I was fascinated, but couldn’t identify it (and see the film) till a couple years ago.
Do you know it?
Mondo Bizarro@BizarroMondo76
Who loves "Famous Monsters of Filmland"?
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I was born in 1955. The comics I got my dad to buy for me 1962-69 were classic Silver Age stuff. I read the first Spiderman at the comic store (didn’t buy it). I DID buy the first Metal Men. I read Turok, Superman, etc.
I was an annoying precocious kid but hardly a prodigy.
🟨🟦🟩@misiqsevici
@cattybatty202 are they wrong? silver age comics ARE hard to read, they are unnecessarily verbose and paneling is almost always the same which makes it harder to go through. i'm not saying you shouldn't read it, but it IS harder to read that modern comic books
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@SandyofCthulhu My theory is that the universe is developed around the constant of the speed of light. When someone (or thing) creates a universe, all the have to do is set that constant, and everything just develops by itself (over time).
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The speed of light is 1. We even have a suggested term for it - “Mike”. Thus, an object moving half the speed of light is Mike 0.5. Fight me.
Possum Reviews@ReviewsPossum
Scientists don't currently have an answer for why the speed of light (c) is what it is. We know that it's 299,792,458 m/s (and we even redefined the meter to be exactly 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a second just to keep it precise), but we don't know why it goes that specific speed from first principles, or what combination of factors make it so. One guess (if you apply the anthropic principle) is that there exist multiple (possibly infinite) universes, each with a different set of physical constants, and the reason c in our universe is what it is is because that's the speed at which it's possible for physical matter to exist. We observe it as what it is because if it were different, we wouldn't be able to observe it because we wouldn't exist. But that's a conjecture. No one actually knows. By the way, the speed of light is more accurately thought of as the speed of causality.
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@emzanotti There will always be a few people into such (marvelous) items. They may not bring big money, but they will make those people squeal with joy as they get something they have been wanting.
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On the contrary, I will not wait until I’m dead. All of my incredible stuff will be sold off at one epic fire sale before I downsize and move into my Margaritaville retirement village, where I will watch as the next generation of weirdos exclaim over my treasures
The Fat Electrician@Fat_Electrician
I hate to break it to people my age, but in 30 years your adult kids are going to look at your Funko Pops, Labubus, action figures, and Warhammer 40K collections the same way we look at boomer ceramic angel collections. That shit is going straight to the thrift store when you die.
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@SandyofCthulhu It's not really RPG, but in terms of Warhammer 40K, the books by Dan Abnett are actually pretty good.
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Speaking as a man who has been deeply involved with gaming for a half-century, and has seen, reviewed, and even published books based on roleplaying games: i don’t think any of them are worth their paper & ink. I encourage y’all to read original fantasy and adventure books. Like Gygax and Arneson did.
If you have books that would disprove me. Now’s the time.
Solo Quests@LuFinali
Was going to start reading some D&D novels... is this one a good read? dull? I am curious to know?
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At least in America, a lot of Call of Cthulhu players tell me that they played the game, then started reading the books. I’m really happy I introduced Lovecraft to people.
Did you learn of Lovecraft by playing the game, reading his works, or seeing movies?
新宿のディレクター《 はなわ【り】》@sniktsnikt111
何が「間違ってるな」って感じたかというと、 【CoC好きな人＝クトゥルフ神話好き】 という前提がズレてるなって感じたんすよね。 ゲームで言えばハードに近い感覚。 PS利用者＝ソニーファンではない。 CoCもそうなんだなと。 CoC好き＝クトゥルフ神話好き とシンプルに考えるとケガするなと。
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All based on the disproven theory of mind which says we are nothing but a collection of memories.
Pato Bonato@patobonato
Un científico de Yemen mostró un concepto de prisión de IA del futuro Cognify propone encerrar a los criminales en cápsulas especiales y reeducar sus cerebros con falsos recuerdos generados por redes neuronales. El resultado son nuevas personas que no querrán violar la ley. ¿Qué dicen ustedes?
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@KathleenWinche3 no one will use them in winter. No one will use them when it rains. How much will that cost per useable day?
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I’d go to war to prevent Ireland from becoming part of the USA.
Tyler J. Pratt@tylerjohnpratt
What if Ireland left the EU to become America’s 51st state? 🇮🇪🇺🇸
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@silverlock yeah. I had that. (probably still do). I was not impressed and never played it.
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More time line cleanse.
TTRPGs that are not D&D. Before TSR did Gamma World, there was Metamorphosis Alpha. A generation spaceship has a disaster killing most of the crew. The colonists end up forgetting they are actually in a spaceship.
There was a TV show in the 70s that was not connected but reminds me of it called The Starlost.
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@SandyofCthulhu If you read Stalin's War, those planes were also filled with industrial patents and documents on how to make stuff. technically, Russia was allowed to make those items free, but were to pay royalties after the war ended if they continued. Think they ever paid anything?
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One of the weirdest facts about America aid to Russia in WW2 is that one of our biggest shipping ports was Vladivostok.
We were sending American cargoes, on American ships, through Japanese water to Russia WHILE WE WERE AT WAR WITH JAPAN.
Japan let these ships go by, to rain fire and death upon their European allies. It’s one of the most bizarre situations I’ve ever heard of, and no one ever marvels at it.
We sent 800,000 tons this way. We sent supplies by air too, flying cargo planes out of Alaska to Siberia.
🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸@MericaCulture
Friendly reminder that American manufacturing might won WW2. Without the Lend-Lease program the USSR would've folded in 1943-44
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@SandyofCthulhu And you ask a MAN, as men really know burgers better.
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Visiting the USA? How to find the best hamburger in America. Or at least in the town you're in.
Do NOT go to a chain. It's not Whataburger. It's not In-N-Out. Find a local man, and ask him to point you to a one-of-a-kind local place. (I say a local man, because they are likelier to know the joints.)
That mom-and-pop joint will have burgers superior to any chain. Their shakes will be better too (and have more variety). Here are four examples from four different places in my home valley. All are one-of-a-kind and all four have better burgers, buns, and ingredients than any chain. (The places are Burger Supreme, Purple Turtle, Nate's Drive In, and Provo Burger.)
Americans, back me up.
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About the old “blueberries” we wore for a number of years…
An old family friend is a long-retired 4 star. Nearly 20 yrs ago, he asked his current flag officer friends “WTF?” with those uniforms.
Then-serving admirals said, “Hey, don’t look at us, it was the master chiefs!”
Apparently, a focus group called “Task Force Uniform” comprised of mostly senior enlisted who haven’t been to sea for a VERY long time were jealous of the Marines (many such cases) and their sharp new MARPAT uniforms at the time.
The “NWU Type I” uniform was a stupid looking imitation of the Marines.
Not only that, they also got rid of great traditional uniforms, added stupid ones like khaki and black service uniforms for E6 and below, and teased us with Service Dress Khakis, but never implemented them en masse; only the admirals and senior master chief got to wear them for “testing.”
Whole thing was a complete shit show. At least we got quality coveralls.
We need to go back. Whole thing was such a waste.
No more camo unless you’re a SEAL, SeaBee, Diver, EOD, or similar.
Working uniforms can be (new and improved) dungarees, wash khaki, etc.
You get the idea.
Mike Glenn@MikeRGlenn
Here are two of the most ridiculous military uniform decisions of the past half-century: 1. Plopping a stupid beret on the head of every Soldier regardless of job or duty station 2. Telling sailors to dress up in camouflage even if they spend all their time in a destroyer's engine room.
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@SandyofCthulhu @RX_9999_2 They used to be cool, but have been swinging way too far to the religious.
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@RX_9999_2 Most Americans don’t think about Turkey much.
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そうあやアメリカ人とトルコ人は仲がいいのだろうか(アメリカ人はイランとパキスタンは嫌いだけどトルコ嫌ってる印象はあんまないな)
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If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME stuff, why didn't he just buy dinner? 🤔
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#StarTrekTNG “The First Duty” is one of the best moral lessons Star Trek has to offer. The decision whether to lie or tell the truth within a profession that can either make or break your career. And Picard’s “first duty speech” is the very essence of Starfleet and the academy.
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@TakeThatNurses with various animals out there also with hearts, and enemy soldiers reported combing the area... It's a scam to divert attention from somethign else.
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Listen, I know I’m not a physicist, but there is no fucking way I believe that this exists. There is no detector that, surrounded by all the electrical fields generated by a helicopter, can isolate a specific heartbeat from 40 fucking miles away. Ain’t no way
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta
The physics underneath Ghost Murmur are wilder than the headline. Your heart generates an electromagnetic field every time it beats. About 50 picoTesla at the chest surface. That's one billionth the strength of a refrigerator magnet. In a hospital, an MRI picks this up from inches away using a superconducting sensor cooled to near absolute zero. Ghost Murmur reportedly does it from 40 miles, at ambient temperature, from a helicopter. The key is nitrogen-vacancy centers in synthetic diamonds. Tiny atomic defects where a nitrogen atom sits next to a missing carbon atom in the diamond lattice. These defects are sensitive to magnetic fields at room temperature. In published research, NV diamond sensors have detected magnetic signals from single neurons. The problem has always been range. Labs measure in millimeters. What Skunk Works apparently solved is the signal-to-noise problem at continental scale. The southern Iranian desert gave them ideal conditions: almost zero electromagnetic interference, no competing human signatures, thermal contrast between a warm body and cold rock at night. The AI doesn't just filter noise. It cross-references seismic, thermal, and electromagnetic data to confirm one heartbeat in a thousand square miles. The airman had a survival beacon. He had to expose himself briefly to activate it. That moment may have been enough for the system to lock on. Once it had his cardiac signature, it could track him through solid rock. Published science says this shouldn't work at these distances. Classified science doesn't publish.
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@SandyofCthulhu The show was funny, and the music (most of it) was good.
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Ironically their tv show was better than their music. I’m serious. The music attributed to them was okay - light pop. But the show was funny. At least that’s how I remember it. Dunno if it aged well.
🎼🌺Music Love♥️@ThoNg676733
The Monkees often get looked down on because of their TV show, but they had 15 songs go to Top of the Charts
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@jessmachadoshow @SueOC_NBCBoston "fact checkers"? Doesn't seem like they do very much these days.
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The sheer amount of money NBC spends on production, or as you said "reporters, photojournalists, editors, producers, directors, assignment desks, tech crews, fact checkers, and standards & practices staff" just to produce one piece that gets minimal views just means less money in your paycheck, Sue. Meanwhile, the independent journalists are making videos about corruption on their phones and raking in views and big money.
You have a base. You should cut the cord and go independent. Make your own hours and make way more money. You would thrive out here.
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It's worth understanding what Emmy Awards were designed to do: recognize television journalism, where a single segment represents the work of many people: reporters, photojournalists, editors, producers, directors, assignment desks, tech crews, fact checkers, and standards & practices staff.
That's the model the awards were built around.
What it wasn't built around is digital journalists.
Online and social media journalists can petition NATAS to add categories that reflect how audiences are actually consuming news today.
Or they can do what so many communities have done when existing institutions don't serve them, build something of their own.
And in the meantime — thank you so much for your kind wishes on my nominations.
Jessica Machado@jessmachadoshow
Emmy awards for things seen on TV where no one watches, excluded are the independent journalists who were racking up millions of views during the Karen Read trial.
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