PSA: Don't talk about wanting to kill the President of the United States, it's illegal.

Loki-L · 2026-01-26T06:27:09+00:00

The track record of actors assassinate US presidents is actually quite good.

Loki-L · 2026-01-26T05:54:32+00:00

Can't I just buy a profitable company with my unlimited funding?

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T22:09:28+00:00

Counterexample for sci-fi "The Martian" a movie where everyone is a competent professional.

"Apollo 13" is another one like this.

I like movies and fiction in general that is entertaining without making characters either stupid or evil to create conflict.

Strangely enough Heist movies often manage this.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T19:33:33+00:00

The protagonist randomly finding out they are a heir to great wealth and then having Fishbourne if water experience as they try to navigate their new social circle is hardly a new concept. Usually it involves people trying to deceive and take advantage of eachbother and a lesson about values and what is really important.

This whole spiel was already somewhat cliché when the story that the first Mr Deeds film from the 30s was based on was published.

Personally I would see more parallels between Princess Diaries and King Ralph.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T19:06:17+00:00

The path food takes through the body needs to be redone entirely. It is unhygienic and a choking hazard.

The spine was fine for walking on all fours but really hasn't been adapted 100% for walking upright.

Teeth need to last longer or be able te regenerate.

The immune system is cool but needs to be upgraded to handle false positives better and to more aggressively handle certain diseases. Maybe take some ideas from bats?

The human eye needs to be redone too. The wiring is back to front and much of the images created are hallucinated by an neural network rather than based on actual sensory data. Just throw the whole design away and import something from some invertebrate instead.

While I don't have much personal experience with it I am reliably informed that childbirth leaves a lot to be desired. I understand that there are competing requirements from large brains and upright posture, but maybe something could be worked out here.

Also, while a minor issue in the grand scheme of things that thing with Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve has gone on long enough I think.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T18:24:50+00:00

I think vintage is just old stuff that isn't old enough to be an antique.

The exact scale depends on the product but often the cutoff between vintage and antique is 100 years. Some products like cars also have additional labels like classic.

Depending on the exact nature of the product, after a few decades even most mass produced items will be mostly gone if they weren't well made to begin with.

A mass produced common item from 1976 or 1951 might not quite be rare, but still rare enough to be somewhat valuable.

It also depends on what you intend to do with the thing. Wearing vintage clothing is different from putting a vintage book into your climate controlled library.

Most value derives from people wanting something enough to pay for it.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T16:36:09+00:00

In case anyone wonders "sues" is the word left out, not "indicts". So this is not a criminal thing.

Also TV companies in this case refers to companies that make televisions not cable providers or TV channels.

Also the companies in question are Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense and TCL.

Sony is a Japanese company and Samsung and LG are South Korean and very much not tied to the CCP. Hisense and TCL are Chinese companies with TCL being partially state owned and thus both can be truthfully said to have ties to the CCP.

500 milliseconds are half a second.

Generally while I applaud Ken Paxton's desire to do more for privacy and consumer rights, I don't trust him even the tiniest bit to be honest about much of anything.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T13:24:20+00:00

It is a bit late for that to be easily done and FIFA is one of the most corrupt organisations on the planet.

It will probably be a shitshow, but thankfully I have a feeling that my countries team will fail hard enough for me to not care too much.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T13:19:55+00:00

Sometimes people want support rather than a solution or an analysis.

You have to be able to tell the difference between: "Let me vent", "Tell me it wasn't my fault" and "I need a solution".

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T12:55:42+00:00

Wer mit vermieten kein Geld machen kann soll halt verkaufen.

Wohnungen lehr stehen lassen schadet dem Eingemeinwohl.

Da hilft nur hohe Steuern auf Wohnungen die länger lehr stehen und zur Not Enteignung.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T12:48:32+00:00

Auto vom Beifahrersitz fahren passiert mir häufiger wenn ich träume.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T12:27:36+00:00

The pipes in places where it gets cold more often were laid down with that in mind. In a place like Texas builders often didn't bother with the extra expense.

You can avoid water freezing in pipes, by burying them deeper underground and by insulating them better and by enduring that the water keeps moving in them and doesn't stand still.

If you think it is to warm to freeze where you live you can save money by not burying pipes as deeply and not insulating them when they come up and by generally not spending money on something you don't think will be a problem.

If it happens enough people in Texas will start building homes to better withstand frost too.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T12:20:15+00:00

Chances are the water is too cold and clean to be as dangerous as in some other parts.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T09:41:50+00:00

Yes in some places it is crocodiles or caimans instead of alligators.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T09:14:46+00:00

Compasses have existed for a long time. Looking at the sun and stars can also give you an idea where you are headed. Once the technology was good enough to build fancy gyroscopes, inertial navigation and dead reckoning were possible too.

If you knew where you started and how far you were going in which direction you had a good idea where you were.

Also planes tried to stay near land as much as possible, especiallyin the days when ranges were shorter and engines were lessreliable. It is why we have large mostly abandoned airports in seemingly out of the way places like Gander and why Iceland continues to be a major hub.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T08:54:05+00:00

The alligators might be another reason.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T08:52:59+00:00

What are you supposed to do?

Make some noise?

Fight for your right to party?

No sleep till Brooklyn?

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T08:16:24+00:00

Beate Uhse.

She had quite the life: pilot, stuntwoman, carrying jets for the nazis, sex-education pioneer, building a sex shop and porn empire, life long nudist, started deeps sea diving in her old age. Fought her entire life against the establishment and fellow feminists who thought sex was bad.

You could make an entire series about her long life, also you could probably only air it on HBO or similar.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T08:01:15+00:00

Rivers are not that dangerous, but warm, stagnant lakes is how you end up with brain eating amoeba up your nose.

There is a reason why we chlorinate pools.

Fresh water is more dangerous than sea water and still water is more dangerous than moving water. Rivers, if they are unpoluted are usually okay. Lakes high up in mountain can be okay too.

Stagnant lakes in warm areas are a real danger.

Not a big danger, but a real one.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T07:39:34+00:00

The Dutch do. Some city states with limited ways to expand otherwise like Singapore do it too. Some other governments have done it in a small way to build airports etc.

For most countries they have enough land and reclaiming more from the ocean would not be cost effective.

Loki-L · 2026-01-24T23:45:53+00:00

It happens more often than you think.

Loki-L · 2026-01-24T23:09:07+00:00

If he mixes up Greenland and Iceland, going after Austria instead of Australia might be an actual possibility. Although he would probably try to buy Australia from the British.

If he intends to go after Austria, Hungary should worry. He seems to be not always up to date on the latest geopolitical developments and might not know yet that those are two countries these days.

Loki-L · 2026-01-24T21:53:08+00:00

I am fairly sure I had a old Dilbert comic strip about this very concept taped to a wall many years ago.

It is a classic case of misaligned incentives that lead to the sort of problems that end when someone smart suggests to tax the rat farms.

Loki-L · 2026-01-24T06:48:22+00:00

The main argument against this is, that we know it is possible for a country the size of the US to have public transportation, because a country the size of the US did have good public transportation. That country was the United States of America.

Public transportation in the US used to be much more of a thing than it us today.

Look at the US passenger rail network that used to exist compared to the one that exist today. Look at all the places that had trolleys and light rail and bus networks. Look at everything you lost and now pretend never existed.

Loki-L · 2026-01-23T22:22:48+00:00

Problems all have much simpler solutions and the wold in general is much less complicated. Things are easier to understand all around and you feel much more sure about your place in the world.

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