Just be glad you’re not at the insect scale. Talk about hostile!

The Moon was probably just scared of dinosaurs.

What’s kind of crazy about the perceived distance thing is that timing of being in this planet now also plays a factor. 100 million years ago a 1ish% relative size larger might have made for far fewer annular eclipses. Or more, I can’t find any info on that, but I expect fewer annular and more total eclipses. Of the 224 eclipses this century, 72 are annular and 68 total.

But it’s all part of this scifi bonkers planet. Our star makes us have crazy light rivers in the sky at the poles because molten iron inside the planet is spinning faster than the outside of the planet to make giant magnetic currents. The crust isn’t even solid, it’s a slow moving chunky ice flow of silicates, like some busted-ass pie pulled straight from the oven. Huge deposits of dead trees and other early life got buried and remained intact as seams or seas of hydrocarbons, just hanging out. In some places the life that evolved here can die and get buried and some of the remains turned into stone versions of itself. We can bounce radio waves of the inside of the atmosphere and the magnetic currents for our convenience.

Sorry, but it always sends me down a rabbit hole of how weird this place is and we just get used to it.

OK, well you responded to a comment that wasn’t for you anyway and seem to have misunderstood the point of the comment all along.

And it’s me that should “keep up”?

Yes, but how much of the training data is synthetic data? Because I expect this startup has no idea. Microsoft uses ML to crawl files on OneDrive to build aggregate models of document types, then use that for LLM training.

It’s just all slop all the way down, huh? Just a fuzzy picture of a fuzzy picture hit with the “sharpen” filter 20 times?

I never said you did. Everyone in this thread is, though.

For sure, patriarchal beauty standards are to blame here. However, it’s also sort of weird to suggest that ALL woman, and in fact, all humans, have roughly similar body hair. That’s simply false, and easily proved false if anyone cares about facts.

This isn’t some black and white issue, it’s something with degrees of truth, that’s all.

Glamour shot or our shield. Literally - the far side of the moon absorbs many small meteorites that might otherwise hit Earth. That’s why it has no large mare, it’s just oops all craters. Artemis II found 3 new craters since the last time the far side had been mapped in detail.

Of course - what I’m saying is that there’s huge variation within humans. Some ethnic groups simply don’t grow as much body hair, or it’s not nearly as course or pronounced. My partner can go weeks without shaving her legs and it’s almost impossible to tell. Many East Asian ethnic groups have far less hair than Europeans or Levant peoples. People in West Africa have relatively little body hair, while I’ve seen women with full on beards and chest hair in southern African countries.

If this conversation is between a Maori or Norwegian kid and a Bulgarian or Spanish or Armenian babysitter, that’s a stark contrast that actually would be plausible without the reality of unreasonable beauty standards ruining everyone’s day.

That variation also means that the “logic” of comparing leg hair to cancer makes as much sense as comparing leg hair to my nipples. They don’t do anything either, but XY bodies still get them. And I would bet $10 that any kid young enough to be baby-sat and say that grows up to get lip filler and joker-esque work done by the age of 28.

There is a certain degree of genetics and environmental adaptation here as well. Not all ethnic groups share similar body hair genes. It doesnt even seen to correlate to something like melanin production and higher/lower latitudes since body hair across Africa varies wildliy.

IIRC, this happened after Fight Club came out as well.

After a while, they end up pretty fucked up. There’s always some young dude that gets a life-changing injury that scares them all straight.

Same thing with motorcycles and military bases. A bunch of dudes come back from deployment and buy crotch rockets. It’s all invincible BDE until someone’s buddy does 90pmh over the side of a highway onramp and flips 30 times into oncoming traffic. Then all their wives make them sell their bikes the next week.

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Where’s the Kalshi bet that he TACOs this?

It was the first anime series I had seen, IIRC. Maybe not the first anime anything. I saw it on VHS tapes back when it was new-ish in the US. A friend in college rented it in parts over several weekends spanning a couple months. We binged it until around 4:00am each night he could get tapes and I slept or almost slept through a few boring bits and pieces of it that are contextually important. I was all about the Eva lore and battles and liked that the Evas weren’t just robots.

I might be remembering this wrong, but the store only had the original episode English dubs, so we had to find some random on craigslist with Death and Rebirth (or was it End of Evangelion?) episodes copied on a VHS tape he just had and then borrow that, or maybe we bought the bootleg copy for like $10. Then somewhere read a text file on some geocities page about the differences to get caught up and make sure we had the right episiodes. This was before torrenting more than MP3 via Npaster was a thing, and I think I had first seen a movie on DVD a few months before this, so this was sort of our only shot.

The first ending made me so mad I told my friend I wasn’t going to chip in for the rental that time because the cellos and drawing episode was such BS as an ending. I understand why the director kept trying to redo the ending after that, it was such a confusing let-down.

Recently watched it again on Netflix, and forgot how much weird art-but-also-borderline-loli scenes there are. I was actually surprised how much I recalled and didn’t sleep through. Amazing stuff, and I certainly identified more with the 3 adults playing the Id/Ego/Superego this time around than I did the kids.

Please don’t apologize.

There’s a family that lives a block away from me that throws backyard parties a lot. We can tell when it’s a kids’ party because they play Crazy Frog for 15 minutes to get things going. It’s hilarious to us.

And the Mandalorian.

Basically, the Filoniverse and Andor is canon. Everything else needs to wait in line.

My thought process as well.

TNG? Hell no, it was the end of a Golden Era. SNW, all the way. By the time you get old enough that missions of science and explorations are thrown to the side in exchange for war, you’re 100 and living in some retirement holodeck.

REM as in “Razored, Exsanguinated, and Murdered?”

Summer mode:

Front right pocket, phone. Left pocket keys and slimline wallet. Optional, pocket knife in little coin pocket.

Maybe he was dictating?

To be fair, I didn’t even have to think this hard on the Mint install.

This is utter BS.

A foreign national on US soil doesn’t get the same protections as a US citizen would overseas.

What they’re saying is “fuck 'em all, let God sort 'em out!” for warrantless data searches and collection. And then waiting for the lawsuit 20 years from now about clear violation of the law to bother thinking about this.