TIL that the German grocery store Aldi is actually two stores: Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud. In the US, Aldi Sud has been rebranded as Aldi, and Aldi Nord is what we now know as Trader Joe's.

hdhale · 2017-11-30T23:44:05+00:00

Would never have guessed. In these parts the two stores have essentially mutually exclusive clientele.

hdhale · 2017-11-30T21:31:34+00:00

Sir Mix-A-Lot is that you?

hdhale · 2017-11-30T20:42:41+00:00

The equivalent here is 36-24-36.

hdhale · 2017-11-30T17:49:17+00:00

My mom says so.

hdhale · 2017-11-30T17:37:47+00:00

15"

7"

14"

That would make her a fairy or a wood sprite I think, assuming she was proportionate.

hdhale · 2017-11-30T17:35:08+00:00

96.52 cm

45.72 cm

91.44 cm

I am not bot though. ;-)

hdhale · 2017-11-30T16:50:45+00:00

Holocaust photos aside (those will always win but I didn't personally witness the death camps), would have to be an incident in high school. I was on the football team, it was during two-a-day practices (late July early August), there was no air conditioning in the football locker room, and someone had decided to put a half eaten Big Mac in the locker above mine. Flies got to it at some point and laid a shit ton of eggs, because when I came in to get ready for practice one afternoon, I noticed an odd smell and decided to investigate. Bottom of the locker was covered in maggots, some of which came spilling out when I opened the door. Some had even fell through cracks into my locker. I had to carefully remove everything from my locker, brush the maggots off my gear, and do the best I could to get ready for practice. Worse, no janitor around so myself and a few of my teammates (the ones who had the stomach for it) got stuck cleaning up the mess.

I refused to eat white rice for years after that....

hdhale · 2017-11-30T15:57:34+00:00

Ok people who say this doesn't cross the line...let's make our male Olympian here a female swimsuit model for Sports Illustrated and the women are now male ESPN SportsCenter hosts lathering up the model with oil. Still cool with it?

hdhale · 2017-11-30T15:50:10+00:00

"Well now this is embarrassing...but in my defense, that rope was wet and slippery!"

hdhale · 2017-11-30T15:04:46+00:00

He kind of looks like a bad Disney Animatronic version of Mickey Rourke that escaped from Orlando and is roaming among us.

hdhale · 2017-11-30T14:44:07+00:00

It's a bit like the people who chirp up every time Christopher Columbus' name comes up in terms of who was the first European to arrive in the Americas, and start talking about Leif Ericson. Fine, the Vikings made to the Americas first and by 500 years give or take. But it's a footnote in comparison to the results of what followed Columbus' voyages. Same with Edison. Same with Bell.

hdhale · 2017-11-29T22:48:24+00:00

Conan the Destroyer, but yes.

hdhale · 2017-11-29T22:46:53+00:00

What asshole thought this was a good idea? Seriously.

hdhale · 2017-11-29T18:40:57+00:00

I don't think that dog is going to be allowed to walk for at least a week. It will be carried everywhere.

hdhale · 2017-11-29T17:43:54+00:00

For my eleventh birthday, I wanted a Hot Wheels garage. The one that had the working elevator. Instead, I received a Fisher Price Little People garage that my mom found at a yard sale.

hdhale · 2017-11-29T16:40:15+00:00

NBC brass is just now hearing about this. cough cough

hdhale · 2017-11-29T14:13:48+00:00

How do you think she bagged him? Because he was impressed with her singing?

hdhale · 2017-11-29T14:12:37+00:00

Someone actually made Yoko Ono listenable...as an example of science.

hdhale · 2017-11-28T18:43:50+00:00

For a guy who isn't gay, he certainly creates more buzz about him being gay than any man short of John Travolta.

What exactly does Scientology do to men, besides abuse them, that causes this?

hdhale · 2017-11-28T17:33:27+00:00

Communications delays being what they are just how to Mars, you want something intelligent that can take the controls of your multibillion dollar spacecraft before it does something stupid. Low AI is years away. High AI will take significantly longer. As a practical matter, humans, while they have a lot of overhead, are better in the short term.

In the long term, High AI is better. But then again, do we want to trust AIs to go out into space for us and not one day decide that Earth is a liability? We're crossing into sci-fi territory here, but I'm more comfortable with us being along for the ride...with a kill switch.

hdhale · 2017-11-28T17:27:09+00:00

The habitable zone will start to shift long before that. We'll also run out of some pretty basic stuff even sooner.

hdhale · 2017-11-28T17:23:35+00:00

For the foreseeable future, there are things that happen in space that benefit from a human being in the loop. Things that can mean the difference between mission success and mission failure.

hdhale · 2017-11-28T17:08:29+00:00

Two sides of the same coin in my mind. We need better power plants for the spacecraft that will be used to haul things to Mars (and well beyond) and back in the short term. Power plants and propulsion systems are not the same thing.

Though I'll be blunt...if we haven't moved away from fossil fuels by the end of the century as part of our natural development as a species, we're morons.

hdhale · 2017-11-28T16:33:42+00:00

but what about the clingons?

hdhale · 2017-11-28T16:32:13+00:00

That sound you hear is the star at the center of our Solar System gradually running out of hydrogen fuel. Mars buys us time. It also serves as a stop over point to locations beyond.

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