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  1. Long weekend coming up,I have 4 days off… Monday is a holiday here.

    There was someone at work wearing a hardcore Christmas jumper yesterday,the kind with a huge reindeer face on it 😉

    What do you think… fashion abomination that you would never wear,or a harmless bit of fun?

  2. I had talked about the Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag who does these kitchen sink retro nordic sci-fi graphic novels (well not really novels, they’re tied with a theme but there’s no real plot, mostly vibes and vignettes) which I like a lot. There was first an Amazon series based on the first book, which was fine (at least it reflected the style of the book a bit). There’s also a Netflix film, which I started watching yesterday, and… They made a kid’s movie out of it 😭 like it’s fine, it’s entertaining, but The Electric State is very very dark and not like… that. At all. Also, the protagonist girl is supposed to be 16-ish? Like, still a minor, I guess? But she looks like 26 or so (the actress is in her 20s I think, and lots of make up and bleached hair). Then when the other protagonist (ruggedly handsome rogue dude) sees her, he’s like, oh you’re a kid! And then he keeps calling her kid. It’s so weird. She doesn’t look or act like a kid. I guess it is Netflix saying us we’re not supposed to ship them, they’re bros or something? No idea. Calling someone a kid 50 times doesn’t make them a kid.

    Anyhow, the books are a bit expensive but I highly recommend them. The adaptations, not so much.

  3. On the way to an job interview near Huntsville, Alabama, I saw a giant real size model of a Saturn V rocket. Apparently, it was part of a space/science museum. The other missiles on display seem to be models of early civilianized rockets as well as the original military versions. There were also military exclusive rockets on display. Jupiter, Redstone, and Juno were part of the same earliest generation of rockets. They’re as tall as telephone poles. The Atlas rockets (world’s first ICBM and first American rocket to put a satellite and man in space) were about the same height, but were much wider). The Saturn I was the size of water tower. The Saturn V was the size of a large building. A single F-1 engine was also on a solo display, and it looked to be bigger than my car.

    Also displayed were moon rocks, and the original Apolo 16 command module. The command module looked very small and seemed too cramped for 3 men.

    Edit: Oh yeah the whole musuem was like right off the highway and right in front of the Redstone Arsenal, a very prominent facility for rocketry research both military and civillian to this day. Wernher Von Braun worked there, and his name was proudly displayed in various places at the musuem (not canceled).

  4. I live by a river. Just saw a large ship come by with another boat (yacht) on top of it.
    It was a mother ship. 🙂

  5. Reddit keeps pushing me a subreddit called something like livestreamfails, and it’s a steady flow of talking heads doing controversial things to maximize clicks and screentime. We’re down to the level where some streamers have been shoplifting during a stream, and people spreading false claims about other people in the scene. Thankfully, some have been banned from their platform after those shoplifting streams.

    I guess I’d do better by sticking with a couple of my favourite youtubers who make calm and nice outdoor videos.

  7. I saw something being labelled as from “40 000 BP”, and the BP apparently means “before present”. Some mega nerds use it in like archeology and other fields. How stupid, I thought. I mean, the present changes. So if something is 40k before present, it’ll some day be 41 000 before present and that’s just confusing.

    Then I found out that apparently these nerds consider the 1st of January 1950 as the present. Which is just extra dumb. 1950 is called the “standard year”.

    But then I remembered a thought I had a while ago. Us being in the four digits when it comes to years is just not efficient. Every time a person has to write “2025” we’re losing valuable seconds that could otherwise be used to create value for the economic elite like we’re supposed to do. My thought was we should start counting years again from some special day, like the release of GTA VI. But since these archeology nerds already hold the 1st of January 1950 as some sort of special date we might as well start to use that, huh?

    So it’s the 4th of December 75 after present today. World War II started in 10 BP, 9/11 was on 11.9.52. See how much more efficient this is?

    Write your local city council member and alderman and mayor and secretary of education and MEP and whatever else. Tell them this is what the people want, we’re tired of writing these long ass four digit numbers all the time.

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