The earth is flat; it’s just space that’s curved.

Traditionally Islam prohibited the depiction of any living forms (Allah’s copyright or something like that), which is why traditional Islamic art and architecture lean so heavily into geometric patterns.

That’s their lesser-known offshoot, Girl Special Forces

They’re two completely different species. The one with the O is North American, and the other is Australian. They only got the same name because people are lazy.

“I have a sportsball team I support, and I like watching TV”

I prefer “don’t renew your library books”

I’ve only seen one episode, the San Junipero one. I can’t wait to watch the rest. I do love some cozy, optimistic sci-fi.

The related program to control the venomous spider population was a failure because they couldn’t find a scientist who could imagine being here to fuck spiders

It was patchy, especially in the middle of season 2, and somewhat compromised. The studio forced Lynch to name a killer (he wanted to keep the mystery open, as he would have in a film), and sometime after that it sagged into soap-opera tropes. On its own merits, it is a mixed bag, and if judged as “high-quality TV drama”, it’s middling.

Though its main impact was the shows that followed. Before it, TV drama was mediocre soaps and sitcoms with formulaic plots, of the sort that didn’t aspire to be more than chewing gum for the eyes. Twin Peaks and its success showed that TV could aspire to be more than that. If it hadn’t had its cultural impact, there’d have been no X Files, Sopranos, West Wing, Breaking Bad or similar series, just more variations on General Hospital, Hill Street Blues, The Young And The Restless and so on.

if people will wear Crocs in public, I wouldn’t rule it out

Surely the army would conscript them to a cybersecurity red team?

Looks like AI slop to me.

Nature is healing

Surprised to not see Portland, OR here

Dad picked it up after retiring at the end of a long career. Shooting zombies sounded more fun than fishing.

The actual pirate shanties of our age

«Courriel» is an Académie Française coinage, IIRC

The French: say non to anglicisms: it’s not “e-mail”, it’s «courriel», and you don’t “download”, you «télécharger».

also the French: what do we call painting roofs white to reflect heat? How about «le cool roofing»

Harsh realm

“groovy” was already only used ironically back in the day, having much the same connotations as referring to Nirvana as a “beat combo”