Fun experiment: take your turntable out, place in a large plate with pieces of the shittiest American cheese slices. We are talking kraft single serves. Splay them out, no deeper than one layer thick is needed, but make a full cover of the microwave bed (on top of the plate though. You will make a mess if not). Then you simply cook the shit out of it. You will see the cheese bubble and burn in the microwave wave peaks and you will see cold cheese in the wave troughs.
Two lines from the bottom they are missing:
Discovered DOTA2
I do audiology research and can tell you right now, short of a cochlear implant -no we can’t. And we are easily about two decades away from anything close. And even then, a CI can’t make music sound as good as your ears. There is no ‘one’ place in the brain you can imput music into. The most dense and easiest place to input the music is in the cochlea, like a cochlear implant does. Every place up the chain then branches out to thousands of connections and makes it harder and harder. And every step higher up that you try to interface into means you are skipping the initial signal generator and lose out on all the needed fidelity. The next step above a CI is an ABI, auditory brainstem inplant. And they sound so bad, just going one stop up from the cochlea, that those users barely can understand speech and only in the best settings. And normally after about a year of auditory therapy with it. Realistically we tell people (the handfull a year who will end up with one) that they should expect to get sound awareness, and that’s it, from their ABI. And now Elon talks about wanting to go another half dozen steps up from that and magically have the fidelity to make it sound like music?? GTFO. This guy is a moron and doesn’t know what he is talking about.
Too soon for Obi Wan? 1977? Nah.
But I will tell you what was too soon. I was at a firefly/serenity trivia night back in about 2008 or 2009 and everyone had various firefly related cute names. Kaylee’s commandos, the 'Washbucklers, team ‘leaf on the wind’, and such. Then you had the one team that chose fire. Their team name was “Reaver cleaning company: putting spears in the wash since 2005”
That was too soon…
I recently looped back to rimworld.
I was playing a bunch of frostpunk 2, then a little frostpunk 1, and then bounced between the two of them. But in the end all gaming comes back to rimworld…
I am a fan of all good sci-fi, regardless of the time it was made or the limits of the budget. This one is on the list. I will warn others as it has been pointed out- very rape centric plot and story beats. Be sure to watch it with a good level of suspension of disbelief and understanding of the setting. Beyond that, it is one of the best post apocalyptic stories out there and I wish it was redone with more plot, tighter story, and less rape related with the exception of the Topeka plot line. Highly recommend for anyone who enjoys old sci fi or post apoc.
This is a double edged sword. You are protecting homeowners from predatory behavior, sure. But also delaying those who simply want to cash out and say fuck this.
This is also LA’s chance to go into these areas and build high density, high efficiency housing with fire resistant materials and prevent future issues like this while also providing some relief to the housing issues in the area and showing how energy efficiency is the future of construction. Unfortunately these homes are going to be rebuilt as fast as possible for the families to move back in as fast as possible and they will use whatever is the cheapest and most accessible materials to make it happen. And this protection does nothing to stop that, and if anything encourages it by blocking the sales and pushing for individual rebuilds.
With climate change pushing these fire to happen more often, this disaster that could be at least mitigated. Policy like this will only push for a future cycle of rebuild the same way followed by burning down the same way. And it is the poor and middle class footing the bill to the insurance companies charging whatever they want, knowing it is going to keep happening.