“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Defend the Great Seal, Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot Skywalkers!

Joy!

they announced it completed. Not sure if it worked as intended.

Starship is supposed to coast for the next 30 minutes, until T+ 40

45 seconds in, amazing all engines look great

It is looking like it might go on first attempt!

Fuel loading has gone well so far!

ActivePub every platform has at least one major Intelligence Agency monitor who has to make a weekly report of ongoing. Do people really think 9/11 didn’t happen on message boards? A lot of secrets for corporate espionage and government leaks happen on message boards. There are worst things to waste staff time on.

“Lemmy” as an app has to have a file in case it comes up on some security matter - it has to have a definition on a Wiki somewhere!

I think the joke is how a pest exterminator is being called on an extinct species. Play on the mutual concept of extinction.

All the Unity game engine self-destruction choices got to them ;)

us bad > us hate china > china good

Kind of like Roger Waters in recent decade regarding Ukraine - “USA bad” is more what he cares about…

current predictions on launch date?

When cross-posted >= 2, should go to a dedicated page like Reddit has had for a very long time… and allow easy viewing of who posted, date, number of comments, date of last comment, votes, etc.

my first impression is it’s a play on unity, that they are already going, but he is saying start whenever he wants to? Still, I can’t really tell if they are in motion already… and he is at the front. So I’m confused.

EDIT: 5 months ago on Reddit, someone gave a better answer when I went looking on Google Search: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFarSide/comments/124clhy/can_anyone_explain_this_gary_larson_cartoon/

No idea if this story is true: https://www.tripsavvy.com/the-origin-of-the-hotel-pillow-chocolate-3301205

I’ve stayed at chain business hotels that did it in the 1990’s