Somebody explain to me why Eminence in Shadow is good, because I've watched three episodes and it just seems like horny Batman.
I mean, the joke is going to be in the enforcement, as a battalion of Australia's largest and roundest uniformed fascist shitheads march through the streets breaking windows and swinging at the heads of anyone sporting a Palestinian flag.
You're going to have folks with swastika face tattoos explaining why these anti-Zionist activists just need to obey the law.
Some sources have reported the explosion was a result of a gas leak, however no official cause has been stated as of yet. Dallas Fort Worth has a history of gas explosions after heavy rainfall due to the clay soil absorbing the water, expanding, then contracting, causing explosions.
10 people have been confirmed injured as of publication, as per the Forth Worth fire department.
given the age of the Universe and the relatively short time it would take for an advanced civilization to spread across the Milky Way Galaxy (650,000 years, by Hart’s estimate), Earth should have been visited by an extraterrestrial civilization (ETC) by now.
It took humans 30,000 years to cross the Atlantic. Using modem propolsion systems, it takes us two years to get to Mars and 40 to reach the edge of the solar system. This seems like an extremely generous estimate considering the Milky Way has a 50,000 light year radius.
I'm as bullish about extraterrestrial life as anyone, and I think a fuller survey of even just the current Solar System has potential. But I have no idea how you get a full galactic survey in so short a time, given what we know about the soft limits on speed of travel and communication.
By Tipler’s refined estimate, an ETC would be able to explore the entire galaxy in “less than 300 million years.”
That definitely feels like it's more in the ballpark. But, again, it presumes a certain amount of steady cartography by the hypothetical fleet of Von Neuman probes.
There's a Sci-fi series called The Bobverse that explores the idea of a sentiment fleet of Von Neumans exploring the galaxy, and the various trial and tribulations involved. One point it discusses is that even with a saturation of probes, you don't get real time communication. So even in a hypothetical universe where alien life did exist and survey earth, what are they odds they'd be watching us at the moment of our development. What would an alien AI be looking for and what would it do when it was discovered?
We could still be too primitive to bare noticing. Or we could be living in between blinks of an alien camera that only reports back every 1000 years.
As we look out at the cosmos, we could be looking at things we don't understand. After all, what does a star surrounded by a Dyson Sphere look like to a telescope that is searching for glimmers of light, heat, and gravity? SETI is operating purely on conjecture. That's assuming alien civilizations are even capable of creating these hypothetical superstructures. Or that the structures would function as we intuit.
At some level, I have to question if we know what we're looking for. Because so much of this feels like we're searching for humans deep in space. Perhaps the reason we can't find aliens is that they are simply... too alien.
Loan shark shaking his head and waging his finger at all the predatory loans his neighbors have gotten themselves into.
You know a gamma male when you see them because they're smoking hot and absolutely glowing, but ultimately extremely toxic to be around.
Picard was already bordering on elder abuse.
Ah shit. Have the Tamil Tigers entered the chat?
M.I.A. is going to have to make a new music video about this one.
Certainly possible that elements were AI generated. However, this image feels like it had someone putting polish on it. The symmetry - both in the setting and in the focal point of the image - plus the sharper color contrast particularly between the red of Mt. Doom and the blue of the mountains and the way that you get a real sense of light coming directly from the volcano and radiating out into the rest of the image. Someone definitely had their hands on this in a material way, even if it was just moving clip-art onto a canvas and tweaking the colors a bit.
We went to the "ISIL Announcements Website" which we closely monitor and never attempt to disrupt. The ISIL Deputy of Terrorism Operations made an update to the website that says "Actually this was inter-Arab violence, the Israelis didn't do anything. Heck, Iran probably bombed themselves. Us Arabs are crazy and do that shit all the time."
So we took a screenshot of website and forwarded it to our top ISIL coverage news desk, where we carefully vetted the report against all our other ISIL contacts. And once we were satisfied with the corroboration of the evidence, we released it our main audience - Western Liberals - to assure them that Iran has no reason to be mad at us, and would actually be really antisemitic to blame Israel for this.
Who would have predicted that the company actually making electric cars would outperform the company that just does YouTube videos of Joe Rogan firing a tommy gun at a pair of digitized truck nuts?
My man 
is just the clean-up hitter for the last 60 years of Chinese politics.
I'm excited to hear liberal media announce that, yes sure China bad, but these were all of the good ones.
Weird how the size of your nose changes with your facial expression.
The best paying jobs are increasingly removed from any real form of value creation. Western Markets value deception, financialization, and asset inflation far more than actual labor, accurate accounting, and efficient administration. The professional test-writer makes more than the teacher. The real estate agent makes more than the construction worker. The insurance actuary makes more than the physician. The salesman makes more than the factory worker.
Follow this business logic to its ultimate conclusion and everything becomes an MLM.
Wouldn't be the first time SquareEnix pissed away years of development time refusing to admit they made a mistake.
I cleared the non-Royal Persona 5 back when it came out. Not sure I want to do a replay just to get a bit of cheesy romance with Kasumi.
Honestly thought Nier Automata was a side-scrolling shooter when I first picked it up. Never got past the first big Act. But its definitely worth revisiting. If nothing else, I'll probably check out the anime.
Still working my way through the tail end of BG3, but I've got my eyes on FF7 Remake Integrade next.
Also had my eye on Chained Echoes. Not sure if there's a different one more worth my time, though, so interested to hear ideas.
Paul Erdos is in many obscure books.
John Nash will forever be known as the guy who looked at a gaggle of cute girls and invented a mathematical model for getting the most guys laid.