I'd never thought of it that way. Everything is meaningless if you zoom in or out by enough orders of magnitude.

That actually gives us a relatively objective measure for the meaningfulness of any action, especially if you factor in a time dimension. You can literally draw a 3-d shape of this post, or of this election, or of climate change, or of a supernova.

Yes, I've been drinking. And I'm not even involved in this election!

I'm sure they could get even more distance by increasing the length of the foil significantly. They'd probably need something stabilising behind him too, and add ailerons to both for manoeuvrability. Maybe then if he's in some kind of cockpit with a full set of instruments...

I have never heard of this but loved the look of it, so I was looking at the credits. Not only was there some great talent there, but I'm incredibly proud to see that my tax payments partially funded this.

You're welcome.

@kir_mokum I assume you voted this down based on the submitter rather than the post. I don't think this promotes good behaviour here so, while I can't downvote your downvote, I think it's worth calling out.

This video is definitely worth a look, both for the subject and the presentation. *promote

Nice that she called him out on it. Good call too, though.

Very apt choice of words. One root cause of the problem is that it is indeed a business.

Agreed. As an outsider the scariest thing to be here is that Trump even has a chance. The fact that he's that bad and he still has that much support shows that something has gone horribly wrong with American 'democracy' and bodes terribly for the future.

This will end badly unless something fundamental changes. It's just a case of when.

Yep, I completely agree. However, when I call someone out to challenge them to refute an argument I make a point of listening to their response. As expected it was completely irrelevant, hence the downvotes.

I think the best way to understand your own stance on an issue is to be able to coherently argue against it. That's why I like to hear well-constructed arguments for the opposing side.

I know it was too much to hope for from bob, but since I asked, I watched.

Yep. As expected. No actual arguments against what's in my post. I rarely downvote comments, but I feel obliged after watching them out of obligation.

What's that ghostbusters misquote:
"Human sacrifice, ants and newts sleeping together, mass hysteria!"

Good thing he wasn't too small. Imagine her catching a baby then thinking: naaaaah.

To be fair, if Adam Rose has been the site manager for those dozens/hundreds of accidents then he probably should take a long vacation, and consider a new vocation as well. Standing idly by watching it all happen just doesn't seem to be improving things.

I love this, but it was already posted in this dead copy.

https://videosift.com/video/Getting-bored-Time-to-get-out-and-shake-it-out

*related=https://videosift.com/video/Vet-training-fractious-cat-restraint-kinda

My partner used to quote her father: "if you wake up one morning and nothing hurts, you've died."

I would have left this as a throwaway comment, but she did actually die a week ago, and this is the first time I've thought of this quote. On one hand I'm smiling, because she's not in pain and I love dark humour. On the other hand my heart is tearing itself apart because I didn't think to use the line in her eulogy.