In the early 2000s I was at the beach on Long Island. It was midday, a cloudless sky, and hot. Suddenly there was a lot of shouting and pointing, and off in the distance you could barely see a water spout, like a tornado over the water and made of water. It went up into this tiny, dense little cluster of angry looking clouds that were just completely alone in the sky. As it got closer it started to hail golfball-size hailstones they were kind of hollow, like the good, crunchy ice from a fast food soda fountain. We got pelted for maybe 30 seconds and then the spout changed directions and headed out to sea, and the weather went back to normal as if nothing had happened. I occasionally ask my sister (who was there with me at the time) if she remembers, because it seems so odd I think I’m gaslighting myself.

Can’t be. He’s got the blue checkmark.

My girlfriend and I saw this with my parents. It was… awkward.

(The show is amazing tho)

That’s why he was finally able to catch him.

80s/early 90s industrial design was sooo good.

You can just say racist now. No need for modifiers anymore.

How can you tell here? I’m looking at it and I think I could do something very similar in Inkscape in a half hour or maybe an hour (I’m a little rusty). But it looks like normal vector art to me?

Governor twice and now he’s a Senator. A fucking Senator.

I love* how — in true stupid fashion — they’re naming things after America, which isn’t even the country’s name. We’re the United States of America, just one of several countries located on the North American continental plate.

That said in answer to your question that is a tough one because there are so many unrelated language families in NA. I’d probably pick something either Algonkian or iriquoian. Nituskeenan means “our land” in Cree, for example, and sounds kinda cool.

* I do not love this.

Amazing!

Wow. Did you adjust the saturation in that photo, or do they actually look that vibrant?!

I tend to take a credo quia absurdum approach to a lot of these arguments. If there are omniscient/omnipotent beings they would have to be, by definition, beyond our ability to understand. So it’s ridiculous to think that despite that some group of people would figure out exactly the right rules by which these things would want us to behave.

Be a good person. Help others. Pay it forward. And regardless of whether there are gods or not, you will have done your small part to make the world a bit better.

Unfortunately I live in a shitty state.

Another potential pro if you’re in a shitty state: if I had to guess, there’s less of a chance of “accidentally” being removed from voter rolls if you’re registered R.

The big con, tho, is that it will be impossible to move the Overton window left if everyone did this, because establishment Democrats would always win.

Can I get a punnett square for this?

It’s like a precursor to the3d printer movement (by a few decades)

I love the livery in that photo, but it doesn’t seem terribly practical :)

This was a great article, thanks for sharing!