appraiser… was taken aback when told on the stand that he was repeatedly cited… [pbs.org]
… for T•••• property values he never appraised.
The guy who forged an accountant’s signature, property appraisals and steaks, was always going to forge electors :D
We know how to deal with low-end crooks, that’s a layup.
Cybertruck’s not just ugly, its name is unbelievably poseur. Guy pretending to be an engineer named it “cyber,” which is nails on a blackboard to techies :D
That prefix is used by DOD, old guys in suits, and ’80s fakey hacker flicks. It’s not just Elmo being déclassé, it’s a public confession he doesn’t know tech. It’s like if the mayor of SF called it “Frisco.” He might as well have named it Backtracing the VB-Truck.
Goobertruck’s as crude as Elmo Twitter, and for the same reason: his robotaxi fraud. It made Tesla execs so much money, they stopped pushing back on his terrible ideas; it made him enough to catch and kill Twitter. Got enough rope to go full petard.
Reddit’s aggressively mid. Social filtering means you can distribute the work of clipping trolls, but you also clip anyone a minute ahead of conventional wisdom.
Post that ICE automakers will get ruined by EVs, you get a hail of downvotes. When Wired posts the same a week later, it becomes the new CW :D
This depends on the sub, but—post any title with flavor, all the comments are about the title alone. No one clicks through, so the comment quality isn’t worth the time to post.
Then there are the random Hacker News mod bonks for calling Zuck amoral or Elmo a scammer, Reddit and Twitter spam filter fails, mods randomly not approving innocuous posts.
T•••• / Elmo get one thing right: own your own site, make your own rules. Don’t sharecrop on someone else’s, especially not Zuck’s :D Just use them for distro.
Horror is conservative because its essence is fear, comedy’s liberal because its essence is play.
Comedy’s puckish, punctures the pompous. Authoritarians love rank, comedy only uses it to punch up. Otherwise it’s flat, you’re as good as your set / script / essay / bit.
A liberal horror flick would invert the reactionary horror formula where only being chaste, sober and cautious makes you the final girl. Stray moments of joy would be power-ups, not creature beacons.
Horror’s fun, but you wouldn’t want to live that way. A sunset? Chomped. Cuddling a baby? Chomped. Defensive bunker. Partition babies.
Daylight Savings Time is so artificial, it’s never even lined up with the fall equinox around Sep. 21. You used to set the clock back in Oct, now Nov 🤦🏽♂️
Also shifts solar peak and peak heat an hour off noon and 2 pm (thermal lag). Weird distortions.
Oddly, start of DST (second Sunday in March) is roughly aligned with spring equinox 🤔
Just scrap it, time and clocks should align with our local star. The year should end on winter solstice, none of this drunk-pope crap :D
Using an errant Catholic calendar is especially hilarious because they threw an inquisition against Galileo. Point at random on a map, you’d land on a civ a thousand years before Jesus that knew the shortest day of the year :D
India, Babylon, Greece, Egypt, Persia, hell, maybe even the Mayans could supply a better calendar.
A Roman king…
decided to give February the short stick… when the Romans honored the dead… stuck with an unlucky [even] number of days…
The earliest Roman calendar had only 10 months… agricultural society… wasn’t much need to keep up with… months during the winter… [Discover]
Jan-Feb were timeless.
~365 days only divides evenly by 5 months × 73 days, or vice versa. Lunar ~30-day month is more convenient.
12 × 30 = 360, leaving 5 days. We assign these to alternate months, since the actual lunar cycle is 29.5 days.
So months 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 are 31 days. Others are 30 days. Feb isn’t weirdly short.
Solar year is actually 365.25 days. So we still have leap years. Month 12 has 31 days every 4 years.
Year starts at winter solstice, mid-year is summer solstice. Equinoxes are ends of months 3 and 9. Now it all lines up (25 / 50 / 75%).
Repeat this exercise for moon and Mars :)
Using my rational solar calendar, but giving its parts goofy names: “Now in the year of our Lord 7E7, on the eleventy-first of Kevin…”