To explain the philosophy behind his microcar venture, Guy Ligier had a two-page spread in the brochure where he noted how he had applied his experience as a driver and F1 team owner to influence the design and capabilities of the new model.
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aka Jacques-Larry David/Jean-Luc Lemur. A god walking among men for being relatively handsome and taking the subway.
Since today is the day Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set, here is Nazim Tulyahodzhayev's excellent animated adaptation of the story. It's just 10 minutes long; watch it on your coffee break.
Watch: There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) | The Rediscovered Soviet Animated Warning
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My downer take is that this really does not matter so long as the entire breadth of the Democratic coalition is laser-focused on appealing to the stupidest median voters.
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · yesterdayDSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...
Figuring out what kind of glasses I want is a balancing act between remembering what most of what my ex-girlfriends found sexy and remembering when my one nearly-blind ex-girlfriend said my prescription was too weak to warrant glasses that made any kind of statement
Numan on flying is very fun—knew he had a license, did not realize he did aerobatics in vintage planes, but my favorite parts were on flying long-distance (“terrifying, but in a less exciting way”) thequietus.com/interviews/t...
Gary Numan: A Magnificent Man And His Flying Machines | The Quietus
Music got in the way of me being a professional pilot I wanted to be a pop star, a pilot, or a racing car driver. All very similar schoolboy ideas! I decided to go for the pop star and managed to do i...
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Before engaging with anyone always worth remembering oneself what the dominant posting personality is on here:
The Juice is bad. We should not have it; we should not want it.
the funniest thing about "the lab leak coverup is iraq wmds all over again" people is,,,they're right except its pompeo playing the role of wolfiwitz and leaking it to the same fucking guy they leaked the iraq wmd aluminum tubes story to ahhhhhh
Ernie Piper@whoisernie.bsky.social · 7d agoZeynep Tufekci is still completely insane over the lab leak idea. "There is a conspiracy to cover this up" is not evidence for "covid was a bioweapon that escaped from a lab". It could also be evidence for my theory, "please stop talking about this stupid idea"
District and Metropolitan railways feuding via open letters in the London Times energy
John Herrman@jwherrman.bsky.social · 6d agoFeels notable — and kind of crazy — that the vision for policy coordination between a trillion-dollar industry and the current federal government runs through *open letters* nymag.com/intelligence...
Thinking of how many people I know would wear a human version of the Dry Chaco anti-puma sheep collar
the two genders
Playboy@playboy.com · 6d agoWhat are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...
Just saw a 2CV driving around in one of Milwaukee’s inner suburbs
Bickerton: what if we send some families to an isolated island with nothing but a list of words as a lingua franca and see what they do with it University of Hawaii ethics board: sounds good!
like I know the world has grown pretty cynical but it's so strange to see people of every ostensible ideology taking "don't fuck with the money" as a truism
People acting like Emily Wilson's Odyssey review is a bridge too far clearly haven't read Richmond Lattimore's brutal takedown of Hercules and the Captive Women
Saw a post on air safety statistics that’s so wrong that sharing it would be an act of terrorism to my mufos
Why is the Anglophone elite so hostile to science generally?
I am enough of a dog guy that when I see the phrase “feed shelter cats to coyotes” I think, “That coyote’s a good boy who deserves a treat.”
Something about this combination of headline and photo…
