Joy murdered Bing Bong in Disney’s Inside Out (2015).

So, I guess the correct response is to do what Kuzco did in the movie, and drink each one in sequence until you drink the right one (while running in terror)?

I wonder what the ratio is for Prime Directive Violations vs. Janeway Drinks Coffee in an episode.

Would more coffee consumed in an episode correlate to less Prime Directive violations… or more? 🤔

Ran (1985).

Great cinematography, slow burn rising action like the building of a storm, and Lady Kaede is quite possibly one of the most subtly unsettling characters I’ve ever seen portrayed in fiction.

Well spotted!

https://defence-industry.eu/atlantic-trident-25-finland-to-lead-nato-air-exercise-and-host-rq-4d-phoenix-aircraft/

There was a case in Canada where the judge ruled in favour of the plaintiff, where a chatbot had offered information that differed from Air Canada’s written policy. The judge made them honor the guidance generated by the chatbot:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit-1.7116416

Yes! Thank you. Lots of time travellers lost in the void or buried in solid objects.

Some possible ways of dealing with this:

• The time travel device does the complicated math to get the time and position correct, assuming the SF writer only wants to deal with 4 dimensions.

• Tunneling effect so that it’s a straight point to point between the two timelines.

• Get Weird. Invoke quantum entanglement to rearrange the exact same atoms that make up the time travellers’ bodies in the destination timeline, because mass/energy can never be created, only borrowed, and perhaps the universe has a conservation of mass/energy rules and can’t add more mass/energy from a foreign timeline without tipping the balance from a “Big Rip” end of the universe event to a “Big Crunch” event.

Yeah you get it, exactly. The way they used to describe airplane safety back in the 90s seemed based on “chance to be in a plane crash,” and while those numbers were pretty reassuring, the numbers for “chance to survive a plane crash” were not.

The way that airline safety is positioned has always annoyed me. Back in the day they used to say, “Your odds of dying in a car crash are greater than dying in a plane crash.” That statement never sat right with me because while the aggregate number of casualties is greater for car crashes than airline crashes, it doesn’t address the survivability for the passengers of a single incident.

I forget the statistics, but depending on the type of car crash, passenger seat position mattered in a car, with higher mortality rates for the driver’s side vs passenger side, and higher mortality for front seat vs back seat.

Now what about a single airplane crash? It doesn’t matter if you are seated in first class, business class, economy, the flight deck, or in the cargo hold. Survivability rates for the entire plane are low for the entire plane in the event of a crash.

Yes, planes have less incidents compared to cars, but if a plane has a problem, it’s going to be a big problem for everyone on board.

/rant

I mean he’s not wrong about the former, but he can fuck off about the latter.

Suggestions for maximum chaos and discord:

• Split the Nordic peninsula into 3 countries, but borders run east-west. People in former Finland have to go through another country to get around the Gulf of Bothnia / Baltic Sea.
• Expand borders of Germany, you know, just so they can have some Lebensraum. There won’t be any issues with that surely.
• Balkan superstate. Make sure everyone has a voice in its vibrant democracy, but gerrymander the hell out of it.
• Merge southern France, Spain and Italy so the merged country can have maximum Mediterranean beachfront. Just think of the tourism revenues!
• Leave Northern Ireland exactly as it is.

Johhny Silverhand tried and look where that got him.

• Japan.
• JPY 980 per month.
• Plan includes up to 3GB per month 4g/5g data, and when going over 3GB, the data cap increases to 20GB for an additional JPY 1000. Unlimited voice and text, global roaming to 90 countries included.

Still don’t get bars inside some big buildings though :p

Same. Joined at the Digg migration. Left at the 3rd party App-ocolypse. Reddit is dead. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that it’s a zombie: with more bots than actual human users, it’s the Dead Internet Theory in action.

I’m more impressed that they can use a gamepad for CLI input.

OK hear me out: It should be named after the first European explorer to discover it and popularize the European expansion: Christopher Columbus.

• Like its namesake, the nation too is racist, cruel and genocidal. Even the Spanish Inquisition era Catholics were like, damn Christopher!
• Like the largest exporter of cocaíne in South America, it too is full of drugs, and its elections are the plaything of big money cartels and foreign powers.
• It was mostly settled by white people from England.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you your new nation: British Columbia.

The people are all gone, the Langoliers just haven’t shown up yet.