[-] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Put this in a Mr Lovens comic, watch YouTube do the sweating on the fourth panel.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Pizza... is a fascist construct.

EDIT: pizzaism?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That is a lot of Morse code happening in this day and age!

I can't help but wonder what is being transmitted, the airwaves have held a constant sense of mystery and wonder ever since I was a boy, growing up in a town with no FM stations and nested between hills that blocked all FM signals from the big cities of Southern California.

But at night, when the entire region was covered in the low clouds of the marine layer, there were nooks and corners of the town where the radio signals came in loud and clear. Chasing those FM signals became a sort of hobby for some of us in town, we took along a portable radio/cassette player and recorded tapes of live late-night music from Los Angeles or San Diego.

Every once in a long while we picked up signals from stations too distant and weak (at the source) to normally make it as far as my town, but which somehow became amplified in foggy conditions, some far-out-there music from college or pirate radio stations.
The thrill of stumbling upon something like this while scanning the lower extreme of the dial, then suddenly getting a blast of Killing Joke (post-punk) or Koch (lo-fi reggae), was like finding myself in Herman Hesse's "Steppenwolf" theater: "For Madmen Only - Price Of Admission - Your Mind".

Through the following years and few decades, I explored AM and shortwave, and I can't even begin to describe the sensation I felt while scanning the dial very late one night and being confronted by a Numbers Station, that nearly robotic female voice reciting: "eight, nine, five, seven, seven... nine, three, eight, one, seven... four, seven, six, one, seven..."

It was only after all this that the internet came into being, and the very first thing I did with it was search for live radio, the very first app I downloaded was Real Player ("buffering"... lol).
But the romance of electromagnetic waves persists in me, I only listen to stations that also transmit over the airwaves somewhere in the world, there's a feel to them that online-only stations cannot seem to be able to replicate.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This mathematical visualization is beautiful, like a work of art.
But what is it exactly that we are looking at here?
The continuous vertical and horizontal violet lines, the bursts of light color like a seismograph needle, they look like a word cloud flipped 90° and seen from afar. What do they represent?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

To reiterate, that was an owl and not a parrot.
Asked to comment on the incident, a spokesperson for parrots says he is glad that no parrots were involved.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The image is very much in the postmodern style of Cindy Sherman, the text reminds me hard of Jenny Holzer and her confrontational yet enigmatic sentences.
It's amazing.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Detroit car execs from the 1940s. Ribeye and six-martini lunches every day. Drunk and reckless driving galore, above-the-law behavior six days a week. Mindless corporate crony bores with no inner life. I have no reason to believe Mad Men was lying about any of that stuff.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Marketing can be such an immoral, insidious process.
And it takes thousands of people pushing this shit mindlessly, because hey... "It's just a job, right? Nine to five".

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Physics/nuclear literacy in the general public around the world is lower than bad, even many scientists from other fields seem to be genuinely uninformed or misinformed, then posting wrong and often alarming interpretations in social media, which laymen give weight to because "it's coming from a scientist", never mind that their expertise may be in areas of biology or astronomy, nothing to do with the subject they are posting about. And they themselves might have gotten their bad info/interpretation from other figures in academia.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hey, I've been saying the same thing about discovering postpunk band Tones On Tails for around thirty years now!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Don't you find it extremely suspicious how this narrative is being pushed HARD just a few months from the November election, when switching candidates is near impossible to successfully pull off, and not a year ago?

It's called a "talking point" and republicans have perfected the dark art of negative political "divide and conquer" campaigning. Just like in 2004 when they made legitimate Vietnam vet John Kerry sound like a coward, and draft-dodger baby bush sound like a patriotic hero.

Well guess what? They're doing it again, now with the orange parasite as fascist god king object of worship.

Btw, in election you don't elect a god king, but entire branches of the federal government with many thousands of appointees and employees. You are also electing the same at the state and municipal level.

Do you want a government based on science and reason, or one led by superstition and unreason?

You have more than enough information to simply vote DEMOCRAT all across the board this November.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Maybe the dog was abandoned because of biting the owner?
In that case the score would be
DOG: 2
MAN: 1

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