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Brian Cox Reads Hunter S Thompson’s Complaint Letter
HST and Joan Didion are the two writers I most regret not meeting.
(My mom went to elementary school with Didion)
Sunflower Seed Ukrainian Lifehack
Paraphrasing John Oliver (or his writer) in his LWT show: This woman brought seeds to a gun fight and won.
The Gecko Visits Portal - GEICO Insurance
They should have hired a writer. A more creative storytelling playground in games doesn't exist.
Can Spinlaunch throw rockets into space?
Yeah, 20000ft is roughly 6km. The air density is about 1/2 but from what I can determine that doesn't equal 1/2 air resistance, but something more like 90-95% air resistance of sea level.
Having said that, I haven't studied aerospace engineering, so I might be getting the details wrong.
There are definitely some minor advantages to building on a mountainside, but I don't think they outweigh logistical difficulties under normal circumstances.
The idea has a good bit of scifi (and probably scientific) history behind it though. I believe Heinlein used a railgun cargo launcher from the moon in Moon is a Harsh Mistress and a mountainside sled rocket in one of his earlier books.
Project Rho is a great resource for hard scifi and rocketry research for writers. http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/surfaceorbit.php is the link to a page that discusses maglev, railguns and rocketsleds.
I’m thinking Mt Chimborazo in Ecuador…at over 20000 ft, it’s peak it the farthest from the center of the earth (while not being the highest above sea level thanks to the equatorial bulge).
Sure, it doesn’t remove air resistance or friction, but halving it, even cutting it by 1/3 is a massive leap in efficiency and negates much of the extreme engineering and materials needed to overcome the friction….plus, as you mentioned, there’s the rotational speed advantage from launching on the equator vs Florida.
Also, while extremely minor, there’s also a slight reduction in gravitational pull at those heights. A joule saved is a joule earned!
School Board Must Resign or be Charged With “Child Porn”
For those curious - this was the book of writing prompts:
https://www.amazon.com/Things-Write-Francisco-Writers-Grotto/dp/1452105448
And here's 100 of 642 of those prompts:
http://ryanjurewiczedu390.pbworks.com/f/WritingPrompts.pdf
This book was given to students in a college-credit creative writing class, and none of those 3-4 controversial prompts were assigned to students.
I would hazard to guess that even in Hudson, OH, most 17-18 year olds have already said and done things that their prude parents would cringe at.
Call the fireman, time to burn those books!
US sues to block TX abortion law
Any Tech knows when there is a heart beat( except those in training or just out of school).
And they will tell you it occurs around 6 to 10 weeks. Fully developed or not a beat is a beat.
When finger develop they are stubs but still they are fingers.
Techs are not Drs but they relay 100% on what the tech say and write.
Not talking about Techs giving a treatment plan ( straw man argument).
Techs report and Dr give treatment options.
( hence high malpractice insurance costs).
Dr may edit and add to the report. IF they spot an error then can edit.
So you mom dragged yo to work and you somehow you became as knowledgeable at them.
My sister used to be a butcher and brought her daughter to work often. This does not make the daughter a butcher or even remotely knowledgeable of the subject.
You bringing up the many any many DR yo u met is irreverent to the argument.
So reading a book makes you more knowledgeable than the ones who see for themself day in day and day out.
( bet you supplement this with lots of YouTube's)
{{If I listen to lots and lots of music and read a few books This will make you smarter than an actual song writer? }} Good logic bud.
Elitist Tool:
What actual hands on knowledge do you fucking have about this topic?
If people who see it daily call it a heart beat, then clearly reading a book is better, because you can't get a heart beat without a heart, and a valveless, chamberless tube isn't a heart.
Jebus. Double negative and heart best? Are you drunk?
I do think +-90% of them know, 10% believe they hear a heart beat because they can now detect a faint nerve signal, but no heart. That 10% are fooling themselves to avoid contradicting their beliefs with fact.
What bubble? Did I say they didn't? That doesn't make them doctors. Lab techs do the same...mri techs, even x-Ray techs in some places. Would you let a tech determine your treatment plan, or even diagnose you without a real doctor involved? They aren't even nurses, they know how to run the machine and spot certain results for further investigation/treatment. The doctors review and often edit the reports. If a report of a 6 week pregnancy talked about the heart, that tech would be let go for incompetence. There is no heart.
Dumb fuck, you asked me how many I've talked to. I answered. Now you act like I brought it up to say I know some, so I am one?! Are you on meth?
Mom worked at Texas Children's hospital and Methodist hospital in Houston, so yes, those specialists and many many many more, and being curious I asked them lots of questions.
Because my mom worked at a childrens hospital means I knew sonographers and ultrasound techs, there's a difference, which was your question. Jesus, you're like Ritalin kid from smoking aces....to yourself you're fighting this amazing fight with spinning kicks and flips so amazing it gets you hard, but to everyone else you're flailing wildly and are just annoying, not a dangerous opponent to be feared or respected.
Everybody Loves The Sunshine · Roy Ayers Ubiquity
Someone needs a little more sunshine.
Good title for another song! Any song writers here?
Why would you sift this crap?
Asimov on superstition, religion, and rationality
so what the logic behind those sideburns?
just let it all grow. save on shaving gear. as a writer, he'd fit in more with Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, or Whitman* than Elvis.
on a different angle, the atheist apes can be worse than J.W., Mormons, and Evangelist badgers. if a person wants to believe in a higher power - so what? they can get through their days as serenely as the true science maven. religious people can be logical, brilliant, and still put faith in the unproven. no worse than justifying military weapons in the name of science.
after all, having experienced this president, am pushed to believe in True Evil yet simultaneously believing there is no GOD.
no logic or reason to it other than he is a magical troll, and has cast a spell on the townspeople.
X-- (cross and spit twice)
*or perhaps, Darwin as a science writer
Trump and Fox Struggle to Attack Sen. Kamala Harris
I tend to agree with the funny part somewhat. I do find him very informative. The jokes need better writers.
Video plays more like Seth struggling to attack President Trump. He was never funny or witty at SNL and he continues that trend here.
BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC Official Teaser Trailer #1 (2020)
I love Carlin, but he's not pivotal to any Bill and Ted story. It just suited him.
And I don't care about why this movie was made. I don't care that it's dated, I don't care that it looks forced. It's exactly the kind of silly humor I need right now, and like it's been said elsewhere, this might drag me out of my house to see in the theatre. Regardless, I'd pay to see it.
Original writers = check.
Dean Parisot = Respect!
Tim Minchin | Leaving LA
Love the use of Zoetropes for the video. Well done.
Lyrics..
Check the locks and leave the keys
Mouldy bath masked with Febreeze
Something's dead behind the refrigerator
Some poor fuck will deal with it later
I’ve spent the last ten weeks
Squeezing out the sponge of friendships, plugging leaks
I've talked until there's no more to say
I’m going away
I'm leaving LA
I'm leaving LA
And the tourists say
"Please give me the directions to the Hollywood sign
I always dreamt of coming here to see the Hollywood sign"
But on their way back down we'll ask
"Did you have a good time?"
They'll say "it's just some fuckin' letters on a hill"
I wander through the Bronson Caves
One more OK coffee at the Oaks Gourmet
I'll watch the players at the UCB
Trying to improvise their way out of ennui
Walking trails in the creeping dark
Up to the observatory in Griffith Park
There’s too much light for stars anyway
I’m getting out of this place
I'm leaving LA
I’m leaving LA
And the studio executives who never made a thing
Blaming other for their failures, taking credit for their wins
Wiping the blood of dumb artists from their chins
Singing, "kid you oughtn't take it personally"
On Hollywood and Vine a dime-store Spider-Man
Shouting at a stoned Emma Stone, dressed à la La La Land
And in the distance, in both its glorious dimensions
The sign projects its shadow on the hill
Rushing by machine-gunned cops at LAX
Malfunctioning departure board says we're boarding next
Belt off, shoes off, jacket off, hat
Don't need the attitude, but I quite enjoy the subsequent pat-down
And I’m sat down
As the A380 engine roars
Pushed backwards as this tube of monkeys rumbles forwards
I'm looking forward to another twenty hours on a plane
Nothing but shit films and my brain
I've been going slowly insane
I've seen your sport and I don't wanna play
I'm getting out of this place
I'm getting out of this place
I'm leaving LA
And the actors at Gratitude drinking undrinkable juice
And the agents taking ten percent in their sneakers and suits
And the writers in their Teslas trying to punch up Act One
Driving home on the 101 in the relentless fucking sun
And the needy and the greedy and the hopeless and horny
And the deals done on treadmills at ten to six in the morning
And the Captain's on the PA saying "look for the sign!"
But I find it's just some fuckin' letters on a hill
Just some really ugly letters
On a pretty ugly hill
I'm leaving LA
I'm leaving 'ell
Why The World's Littlest Skyscraper Was A Massive Scam
I wonder if one of the writers from "This is Spinal Tap" knew of this story?
Antifa thugs behind Andy Ngo disgusting bashing
But....he's in the media, the enemy of the people, so he deserves to be attacked, right? That's what Trump said.
I saw no evidence of quick drying cement in the video, and it would be obvious. Another inflammatory accusatory lie, like those he was fired for writing in the past?
He instigated a fight with a violent gang and lost. This is like a vocal pro Clinton, anti Trump, anti Christian, BLM writer/activist pushing into a Patriot Prayer rally to argue with them and acting surprised they get assaulted, and exaggerating and lying about it. No surprise it's not getting covered, it's fake news.
ANTIFA is disavowed by the Democrats, Patriot Prayer (a pro Trump white supremacist group) organises Trump rallies (like the violent unite the right rallies) often intentionally in liberal areas to provoke, and are the "good people" with torches and clubs Trump talked about in Charlottesville, and they ARE embraced by the right wing, and they have murdered people.
Snowflakes.
Antifa is the very thing it claims to be against.
Antifa are the fascist.
Just a tool for the democrat party.
Main stream media did not cover this story much, if at all.
The Documented Truth About Trump Collusion and Obstruction
I took the liberty of removing misleading statements in your comment so as to leave the truth you speak about Hollywood.
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It doesn't matter, none of it matters. Treason, fraud, sexual assault, ...
The political brain-washing of the masses began a long time ago to consolidate the interests of the ones who are already in power and already possess the wealth.
They learned that we're all susceptible to confirmation bias
But what was revealed behind the facade is not surprising. Just the same power hungry, wealth elite manipulating the uneducated to vote against their own interests...same as it ever was.
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Nothing really matters -Freddie Mercury
Nothing else matters -Metallica
...same as it ever was -Talking Heads
And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart -Rush
More cowbell -Christopher Walken
Yeaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss -The Who
All alone, or in two's
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands
The bleeding hearts and the artists
Make their stand -Pink Floyd
This is now a "As seen on TV kind of country." -Bill Maher
-So many people have never really heard the Beatles.-
Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Writer/s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono
It doesn't matter, none of it matters. Treason, fraud, sexual assault, ...
The political brain-washing of the masses began a long time ago to consolidate the interests of the ones who are already in power and already possess the wealth.
They learned that we're all susceptible to confirmation bias
But what was revealed behind the facade is not surprising. Just the same power hungry, wealth elite manipulating the uneducated to vote against their own interests...same as it ever was.
Game of Thrones Season 8 Pitch Meeting
This video really does sum up my feelings about Season 8.
I was mostly okay with the first half of Season 8 and could even give the writers a pass for only spending one episode on the battle of Winterfell and the Night King's destruction but...everything after that? Complete shit. I mean, Rhaegal getting shot not once, but twice, by scorpions from the "hidden" Iron Fleet, from what looked like a million miles away, was utter nonsense and only done for shock value. Unlike when the Night King killed Viserion, which was actually moving, Rhaegal's death was pointless and made no sense. For one, how could Dany not see all those ships from up there? Furthermore, it'd be ridiculously hard to hit a fly target, twice in a row, from that distance. Ugh.
The biggest misstep in my opinion was turning Dany into a villain. Her character was one of the more interesting of the series as she went from being a naïve slave, to a fighter, a mother, and ultimately became a champion of the people. She was a strong female character with mostly good, if somewhat flawed, intentions. While her drive to claim the Iron Throne and unite Westeros could be seen as warmongering, she certainly didn't deserve to be portrayed as a mad tyrant. That just seemed forced.
Then we have: Bran the Broken and Jon's banishment to the Night's Watch. What the hell? Everything in the finale seemed so forced and discarded a lot character development established in previous seasons. The last two episodes of season 8 were just really disappointing.