Astronomers Push to Redefine ‘Planet’—but Pluto Is Still Left Out.
Ten Luxuries Americans Enjoy Without Fully Appreciating. We still have it better than most countries.
10 of the Coolest (Non-Race) Cars We Saw at Goodwood Festival of Speed. Most came from big corporations, a few were mutants, but all were cool.
A More Comprehensive Evolution of Dance. And it's funny, too.
Making clothes from potatoes: Potato-to-fibre inventor wins Manufacturing Futures 2024 award.
Is a male Nazi high jumper who competed as a woman really behind sex testing at the Olympics? Athletes are facing a new era of 'eligibility policies,' but Heinrich Ratjen was probably not the inspiration. (via Damn Interesting)
No More Than a Litre of Wine a Day, Recommends a 1950s French Sobriety Poster.
What J.D. Vance really believes. The dark worldview of Trump's choice for vice president, explained. (via Fark)
Bonus joke:
I saw a man carrying a long stick. "Are you a pole vaulter?" I asked.
"No, I'm German" he replied, "How did you know my name?"
(via pipeski at Metafilter)
Bonus Joke: Not bad, only took me reading it twice to get it.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Miss C- Have a great day!
Love the Evolution of Dance video! And that bonus joke is a real GROANER!
ReplyDeleteJD Vance is one scary fascist.
Bonus Joke: It made sense when I added a comma.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with political jokes is that they sometimes get elected.
ReplyDeleteAnd remember:
In wine there is wisdom,
in beer there is freedom,
in water there is bacteria.
and fish pee
ReplyDeleteDragons have 4 legs, wyverns have 2 legs.
ReplyDeleteThe 10 US luxuries aren’t yet, but will be in the very near future. The 20% with 93% of the wealth won’t notice.
I wish the person recording the dance had held their phone sideways. The crowd reactions suggest the transitions were impressive.
Clothes from spuds is a natural, they’re already my shape.
Hopefully the MAGA crowd will listen to Vance and realize Trump is not all bullshit and bluster that annoys the left, but a real threat to slide the country into something they will deeply regret.
“Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
xoxoxoBruce
That joke about polish seemed to vax lyrical !
ReplyDeleteAnd the long stick bit had me laughing for a long time.
Australia and New Zealand have all those ten luxuries mentioned ... wait, was cheap petrol one of them ? ... if so, we have 9 of those luxuries. and in abundance.
ReplyDeleteAlso, in NZ at least, free primary health care (a doctor's visit costs about $18 but care in hospitals is free), also the fire service is free.
Guns ... guns are basically illegal, hence a real hassle to obtain, and hence nearly all crime does not involve a gun.
Aussie police 'open carry' guns but NZ police have them locked in the boot of their cars (trunk to you yanks)
Climate wise these antipodean countries go from temperate to equatorial, but it is only atop the mountains you get snow to worry about (my daughter lives at the bottom of the south island of New Zealand (think the very north in your hemisphere) and she sends photos of the snowfalls, it is a light dusting and looks like icing sugar.
Anyway, it is pretty good here, politically we keep quiet and the closest we got to an assassination was when the Prime Minister (like a president but not quite as egocentric) went for a swim and didn't come back ... but that was in Australia and maybe a shark got him.
You are mostly welcome to move over here, and I know it would be a huge upheaval, but it would be nice to have some intelligent immigrants come in.
So, see you soon ?