O beautiful for smoggy skies
Insecticided grain
For strip-mined mountain’s majesty
Above the asphalt plain!

America! America!
Man sheds his waste on thee
And hides the pines with billboard signs
From sea to oily sea!

(Not to greenwash China, but Carlin didn’t do a song for them.)

Oops, my escape characters didn’t work - comment updated, but in case it takes a while to syndicate to other instances, it’s https://www.behance.net/gallery/50179455/DISCOVERY-(FREE-3D-MODEL-DOWNLOAD)

For comparison:

Little-known fun fact: the image of the two astronauts was specifically generated for this meme. Earlier iterations were crude MS Paint drawings.

The 3D model used for the shot is by Domenico d’Alisa, from a project that got cancelled: https://www.behance.net/gallery/50179455/DISCOVERY-(FREE-3D-MODEL-DOWNLOAD)

Read before writing multiple paragraphs of total crazy talk

This is ironic – you’re the one not to have read and understood the comment. Note the last line:

Tell them to move to Poland or Portugal where you can live comfortably with 1/10th of that money.

They were responding to the last bit:

Tell them to move to Poland or Portugal where you can live comfortably with 1/10th of that money.

I found a Facebook thread for what looked like an identical piece, and the context given was:

“Fox”, 1961.

Leningrad Porcelain Factory (Ленинградский завод фарфоровых изделий - ЛЗФИ).

Author: Lev Naumovich Smorgon (February 17, 1929, Detskoe Selo, Leningrad Region) - sculptor, painter, graphic artist, medalist, children’s toy artist, writer.

Tafoni are commonly defined as small (less than 1 cm) to large (greater than 1 meter) cavity features

So if the cavity isn’t under 1cm, isn’t over 1m, and isn’t anywhere in between, it’s not a tafone. That’s handy to know.

Why does the last frame of Part II work so well? 👏

I’d love to see something like r/simpsonsfaces on the Fediverse, but with expanded scope. Intermediate frames in older animation can be amazing.

At around 1.7 million times the weight of the Earth, it’s not all that light.

Baguette is genuinely a diminutive, but the French is a loanword from Italian bacchetta “little stick,” from bacchio “stick.”

Funnily enough, “bacteria” also means “little stick” due to the shape of the first ones seen under a microscope, and the word shares the same etymological root (reconstructed as *bak- in proto-Indo-European), but in Greek – bakterion is a little staff, baktron is a staff or stick without the diminutive.

• https://www.etymonline.com/word/baguette
• https://www.etymonline.com/word/bacteria

I don’t know if there have been studies on it, but anecdotally, the diet of a pet can have a significant impact on its longevity – a matter of years.

If it’s true, it’s still probably multifaceted – there’ll be considerations like nutrition, likelihood of more general care for the animal, etc – but I’d speculate that harmful substances like PFAs seems like a likely factor.

As best I can tell, people on Snapchat and TikTok are kicking off “linkups” at an agreed place and time, and some of them are going viral.

I think the aim is genuinely to cause a bit of chaos, given safety in numbers, but I doubt most people attend with the intent of causing serious damage to people or property.

I’ve not seen it, but I think it’s Mads Mikkelsen as Lenny in Bleeder, a relatively obscure 1999 Danish film. If so, it’s the seventh film he was in, but maybe his first leading role.

I think while you seed this community and do the initial legwork, it’s very much up to you! Change it up as and when you get more engagement and feedback; it’ll take some persistence to get other regular contributors.

The gall of knowing let off the worst fart of your life and assuming the resulting smell came from the person opposite farting in response.

There are four teams and one global timer. The timer counts down from 15 minutes. When it reaches 00:00, the game ends.

You sign up and choose your team color - your choices are either green or one of three other, less important colors.

There’s a button to reset the timer to 15 minutes. Pressing it also changes the team who are claiming the time. The winning team will be whoever has ownership of the button for longest during the game, a bit like some Capture the Flag games.

You have just one press of the button available to you, ever (well, until Season 2). You can choose when to press it – for example, I waited until someone else from another team pressed it, and immediately reset it for my team.

I think it’s the direct mention of the user that the c/technology mods didn’t like, which I can understand. You might be better off removing it from your comment.

Father Christmarx, St Nickarlas.

For some reason, the repeated misspelling of “Spelunky” as “Speulnky” has really tickled me. I’m genuinely sorry if you’re dyslexic or similar, but “shpoil’n’key” is irrationally funny.