Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

[redpoint5]

Never heard of those folk. Shoe seems to say the things I agree with, so there's not much point listening... except I had not watched Cuties, so hearing her comment on it was enlightening. She also did a movie review of The Brave Little Toaster, which was too nostalgic for me to not click. I'm not sure my girls will ever achieve an age they can watch that movie without being terrified.

EDIT- Played half of the Brave Little Toaster movie to the girls and the entire thing is scary despite the G rating. Seems to be motivated by the spirit, but that's silly because toasters don't have spirits.

My eldest daughter is particularly unprepared to face adversity, so revealing the fact that that's all there is will be a challenge. The 2 strategies for confronting adversity is to play a victim card that folks are sympathetic toward, or overcoming it. I dislike imposing upon others.

[freebeard]

I think he's on to me, no cats in the thumbnail.

I can confirm that both Scott Adams and Greg Gutfeld refer to a Department of Imaginary Concerns. Gutfeld refers to his DIC.

He did give references for some of his stories, Ars Technica was one.

edit:
Adams and Alex Christiforou both talked about the Biden Easter family photo, but not this one:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpGeVMGWwAA8ZTi.jpg

[freebeard]

So it transpires that Katy Perry is [apparently] complaining about being paid millions and the ride only lasted eleven minutes.

Katy Perry Calls Out Jeff Bezos After Space Trip FAILURE! The Truth Behind Blue Origin’s 11-Minute

Let's think back to Cap'n Kirk. When William Shanter took the same 'vomit comet' ride in 2022, he was ovwercome with grief, for a different reason: www.npr.org: William Shatner experienced profound grief in space. It was the 'overview effect'

"It was the death that I saw in space and the lifeforce that I saw coming from the planet — the blue, the beige and the white," he said. "And I realized one was death and the other was life."

According to White, everyone who travels to space experiences an "overview effect" — an emotional or mental reaction strong enough to disrupt that person's previous assumptions about humanity, Earth, and/or the cosmos.

His ride only lasted ten minutes.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

So it transpires that Katy Perry is [apparently] complaining about being paid millions and the ride only lasted eleven minutes.

Katy Perry Calls Out Jeff Bezos After Space Trip FAILURE! The Truth Behind Blue Origin’s 11-Minute

That video appears to be computer generated click-bait. I've never heard so many words used to say nothing.

The flight was a success because it accomplished the flight as planned and returned everyone safely.

I've been critical of the concept from the beginning though, because going up 60 miles and then returning is not really most people's conception of "going to space", or "being an astronaut".

If Katy was paid to make the trip, then she has a fiduciary responsibility to express the experience in a positive light. Heck, if I just got a free ride I'd have something good to say.

[freebeard]

Yeah, Shatner looked out the window and had a life-changing experience; Perry looked into a camera and then complained it didn't last long enough.

What gives me hope is that while there is a lot of contention here at ground level; on the ISS both NASA and Roscosmos have always, and continue to cooperate for their survival.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Yeah, Shatner looked out the window and had a life-changing experience; Perry looked into a camera and then complained it didn't last long enough.

What gives me hope is that while there is a lot of contention here at ground level; on the ISS both NASA and Roscosmos have always, and continue to cooperate for their survival.

I appreciate the frame of "spaceship Earth" and the implication that cooperation is necessary to survive. That said, even the ISS has "boarders", which also bound privileges and responsibilities.

[freebeard]

Fuller wrote the Operating Manual.

He was a Navy officer in 1917-19:

tensegritywiki.com
Fuller, Richard Buckminster - TensegrityWiki
From 1917 until 1919, Fuller served in the U.S. Navy, and was nominated to receive officer training at the U.S. Naval Academy. In 1917 the United States of America declared war on the German Empire. He requisitioned his mother's boat in order to patrol the Maine coastline.

Patrolling the border in mom's boat? I did not know that.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Patrolling the border in mom's boat?

That was my childhood dream. I pretended Red Dawn every day of my childhood well before I was aware that movie existed.

[freebeard]

Some things I did know about Fuller and boats:
synchronofile.com/the-lost-inventions-of-buckminster-fuller-part-1-of-3/

Fuller’s first invention was a 1907 push-pull boat propeller. As a child Fuller would use a rowboat to travel. To be able to propel himself while facing forward, he imagined an umbrella on a pole that could open and close as he pushed it into and pulled it out of the water. It is unclear if this invention was made or imagined, but there is a drawing of it in The Geodesic Works of Richard Buckminster Fuller by Yunn Chii Wong.

I can imagine a steampunk [SWATH hull] pontoon boat with jellfish propulsion on pushrods instead of propellers.

Also he collected model boats: indigenousboats.blogspot.com: Buckminster Fuller's Model Boat Collection, Part 1

Buckminster Fuller is normally associated with technological modernism, but it seems he had a penchant for preindustrial technology too. His granddaughter recently donated Fuller's collection of boat models to Penobscot Marine Museum, the bulk of it representing boats "outside the Western tradition," as we put it.

A small passenger vessel, possibly a water taxi. We believe to be from Southeast Asia. The hardwood hull seems to represent a plank-built hull with a flat central bottom part and fore and aft bottom pieces that rise from it at angles.

Nice form factor for a beachable, shallow draft solar electric boat.

My mother wanted a boat but my father wouldn't buy one, so she bought a bunch of plywood and brass screws and took that and the four kids out in the back yard and built one. ....he chipped in with a boat trailer.