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Oh, hey, that reminds me... https://au.pcmag.com/cloud-file-storage-for-business/103634/japanese-government-is-finally-ditching-the-floppy-disk

One of the earliest Russian psychometric studies included Siberian then-tribesmen. Standard IQ tests returned "dumb as a pile of rocks" but the researchers readily dismissed their own methologies because clearly the people capable of land navigation in such an environment, maintaining a culture without writing and able to count hundreds of deer at a glance were not dumb - just incapable of the abstract thought favored by the technological civilization. They couldn't grasp the idea that 1 meter at Merchant A's is the same as 1 meter at Merchant B's. A lot of current interracial grief comes from non-Westerners seeking to prove their non-inferiority by strictly Western-centric yardsticks, which is basically rigging the game against oneself, and leaves historical revisionism as the only avenue. Current anti-propaganda efforts do tend to focus on censorship, mental hygiene, and crude vaccination through dishonest, hyperbolic representation of the opposing side. However, it seems that a significant segment of the population always assumed they're too smart to be roped in by "crude propaganda", therefore anyone they agree with is not a propagandist. Ultimately, I think one of the smarter moves is defining propaganda as any information intended to sway the recipient. E.g. anti-drunk driving propaganda. This removes the stimulus to use it as a political pejorative, and the blinders that come with it.

Had to order a taxi for a colleague just now. While making sure she got picked up, I browsed the map. Got a giggle when I found a railway spur leading to a "Slaughterhouse Station".

I'm very skeptical of the "kids these days are just dumb" rhetoric, it keeps happening every generation. The problem, I'd say, is that they're selling memories instead of toys. Modern marketing 101 is that you sell the experience, not the product... and experience has subsumed the product.

Nuclear War Simulator is on sale. Glanced at the store page. "Similar to games you played: Cities: Skylines" Huh...

Yep. The prefered term back here. Continentals unite...

One of Moscow suburban developments, dubbed La Manche for whatever reason, decided to use a plywood submarine in a hastily dug-out lake as their promotional stunt. Some years later, it's fit to cause wide eyes and dropped jaws among unaware passers-by.

In 1952, 61 (74?) B-36s, two-thirds of US's intercontinental bomber fleet, were smashed up by one Texan tornado. All but two were returned to service in under five weeks after Project FIXIT. Apparently, it was the only time the Air Force disbursed a seven-figure budget based on a contract one page long.

Well, excuse me. Don't forget people who hate cats exist.

Wair until I bring in Aleksei Gastev of USSR's Central Institute of Labor, the man who coined the term "social engineering". Omnissiah is pleased with this techpriest.

That's assuming the EU has the political capacity to properly follow through with such a project. Instead of, for example, writing off a hypothetical reusable Ariane halfway through the project and sending the whole thing up on Falcons. Or creating a constellation, then not using administrative leverage to forcibly create demand for their alternative (which, since it's playing catch-up with SpaceX, would be inferior), and acting all surprised when the thing goes bankrupt or becomes permanently subsidized.

By the time I wake up tomorrow, Kononenko will have beaten Padalaka's lifetime flight record of 878 days 11 hours 30 minutes.

Don't think I've ever seen this angle

Probably not, but I think I know why you got assigned to corralling them, and it wasn't just the language.

There are insufficient Starship flights for a meaningful response.

The question was inspired by pre-WW2 bombers, where this wasn't an issue, and extensive nose glazing for the navigator and gunners was present.

My mom made the mistake of showing our youngest some squirrel videos. He demands more. With teeth to the laptop lid.

Dumb question: given that takeoff and landing are the most hazardous regimes, why were aircraft cockpits stubbornly placed on top instead of in the nose?

I've discovered Rex's Hangar and bis ugly aircraft series. He's mean. I disagree on some things. But what the heck is this!?

I dunno. As far as I'd be concerned (i.e. assuming you got past the often-brainless HR interns) I'd call bendy bus driving a plus. Way more eye-catching than our usual fare of "social media account manager in a buddy's crypto/NFT startup".

"MY HOBBY IS NOT USELESS!" https://t.me/fotozak/6001

"90% of life with a dog or a cat is one of you stalking the other to check who's chewing what"

Frankly it looks like the creation of a movie prop master or a polygon-starved game designer.

"You know what the G.I.s need? Transparent plastic stock and handguard!"