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The system is its own best explanation.

"I assume it's proper for you to commit seppuku at once."
As with all of SpaceX’s previous Starship test flights, the more than 400-foot-tall rocket will fly on a long suborbital trajectory arcing halfway around the world from the launch site at Starbase, Texas, to a predetermined location in the Indian Ocean. The flight of Starship and the 20 Starlink satellites will last a little more than an hour before they fall back into the atmosphere. The ship will target a controlled splashdown northwest of Australia, while the Starlink satellites will burn up during reentry.
Bruce Wayne in "Batman Begins" saying, "You're not the devil. You're practice."
http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html "The Hole Hawg is a drill made by the Milwaukee Tool Company. If you look in a typical hardware store you may find smaller Milwaukee drills but not the Hole Hawg, which is too powerful and too expensive for homeowners. The Hole Hawg does not have the pistol-like design of a cheap homeowner's drill. It is a cube of solid metal with a handle sticking out of one face and a chuck mounted in another. The cube contains a disconcertingly potent electric motor. You can hold the handle and operate the trigger with your index finger, but unless you are exceptionally strong you cannot control the weight of the Hole Hawg with one hand; it is a two-hander all the way. In order to fight off the counter-torque of the Hole Hawg you use a separate handle (provided), which you screw into one side of the iron cube or the other depending on whether you are using your left or right hand to operate the trigger. This handle is not a sleek, ergonomically designed item as it would be in a homeowner's drill. It is simply a foot-long chunk of regular galvanized pipe, threaded on one end, with a black rubber handle on the other. If you lose it, you just go to the local plumbing supply store and buy another chunk of pipe. During the Eighties I did some construction work. One day, another worker leaned a ladder against the outside of the building that we were putting up, climbed up to the second-story level, and used the Hole Hawg to drill a hole through the exterior wall. At some point, the drill bit caught in the wall. The Hole Hawg, following its one and only imperative, kept going. It spun the worker's body around like a rag doll, causing him to knock his own ladder down. Fortunately he kept his grip on the Hole Hawg, which remained lodged in the wall, and he simply dangled from it and shouted for help until someone came along and reinstated the ladder. "
In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming. Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
the rave in the first scene of "Blade"
closeup of an eagle?
closeup of the side of the fake building showing the bottom of the corner propped up with some wonky 2x4s
a humanoid model with a very developed left arm musculature
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picture from behind the tarp hiding the front of the Kennedy Center showing that Trump's name is gone https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/06/22/photos-show-trump-name-is-off-kennedy-center-building/
selecting the trigger for the automation, "Battery Level"
closeup of lone wolf trump
Han Solo speaking worriedly into a microphone
Did you mean: how many rs are in sonic the hedgehog AI Overview There are 4 "t"s in the phrase "Sonic the Hedgehog". Here is where each "t" is located: Sonic the Hedgehotg (in the word "Hedgehog") Wait, let's look at the actual spelling of the phrase: S-o-n-i-c t-h-e H-e-d-g-e-h-o-g. Sonic the Hedgehog (There are no "t"s in the word "Hedgehog"). Let's re-examine that count: There is only 1 "t" in the entire phrase "Sonic the Hedgehog" (the "t" in "the"). If you meant to spell the name of the character, could you share what specific detail you are trying to calculate?
the famous image of Nathan Fielder, his friends just out of frame
"Every time I start thinking the world is all bad, I start seeing people out there having a good time on motorcycles. It makes me take another look." Steve McQueen
DianaResists‬ @dianaresists.bsky.social‬ · 1h What movies made it obvious that the image was a Nazi symbol? I’m a huge movie buff and I’m not aware of any. ‪ BJC860‬ ‪@bjc860.bsky.social‬ · 1h I mean, I posted this *just yesterday* and you conviently ignored it. [still from "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" showing a Nazi badguy with a pin matching Platner's tattoo on his hat] DianaResists ‪@dianaresists.bsky.social‬ I don’t think that proves anything. No one watching that movie would know what that was.
The contaminant from the gloves turned out to be stearate — a slippery coating manufacturers use so the gloves don't stick to the molds during production. Stearate has a fingerprint similar enough to polyethylene — the most common plastic — that the vibrational spectroscopy was confidently calling it polyethylene by mistake.
"Just as she was about to call it quits, she had a eureka moment. Everyone wears nitrile or latex gloves while handling samples. Including herself. Standard lab practice. Nobody had checked whether the gloves themselves were shedding microplastics into the samples."
At first I was appalled, and then I sat and thought to myself, Well, it’s possible he really didn’t know what the tattoo meant. Admittedly, I didn’t either until the story went viral and I looked into it. It was then that I realized that if Graham really was a nazi, there’s an entire political party that’s currently in power where he could go and be welcomed with open arms. And what’s the worst that could happen there? He wins and becomes a senator and just votes alongside the fascist party already in power, enabling their every evil whim? Very low risk there.
the seniors from Dazed and Confused waiting to paddle the freshmen. the paddles they are holding have been photoshopped to read "Benefit of" and "the Doubt"
Since then, Berulis has laid low. He filed a police report, included in the suit and viewed by WIRED, and had the car seen by a mechanic who, according to the report, found “that the driver-side front impact/airbag sensor had also been removed but noted that the remaining wires had been spliced together, completing the circuit in a manner that prevented the vehicle from detecting or logging the missing component, while also preventing the vehicle from activating its safety protocols, alerting the driver, or engaging limp mode.” The police report also indicates that fingerprints had been found on Berulis’ car. According to the police report, the case is now “inactive,” “due to the lack of any specific suspect information,” though the police’s intelligence unit was notified.
AI Overview Zero days of the week have the actual animal "fish" in them. However, if you are looking at the spelling of the days, exactly two days contain the word "fish":TuesdayWednesdayBoth of these days contain the string "day" which sounds like "fish" (phonetically, "day" can be transcribed as \(/deɪ/\) and "fish" is \(/fɪʃ/\)).
Will Arnett as Devon Banks in "30 Rock" saying "You win sex against a man. That's as straight as it gets."
screenshot of tweet from @marisa_schultz reading "NEW: Dem. Senate candidate James Talarico's mysterious girlfriend revealed -- and she's vegan"
Use cases: "Most people default to automating tasks they dislike rather than tasks most valuable to the company," Sophia Velastegui, CEO of Velastegui Ventures and former chief AI officer at Microsoft, told Axios. Instead, they should focus on using AI to drive revenue. https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs
the two-panel Winne-the-Pooh in a tuxedo meme with regular Pooh next to "about six coors lights" and tuxedo Pooh next to "about six coors light"
a rear derailleur on a mountain bike that has managed to shred itself so that the bike is unridable
the fyre fest sandwich kit that was two slices of bread, two slices of cheese, a small pile of lettuce, and some very thin and small tomato slices
A picture of the White House, half torn down, with a UFC fighting stage partially constructed on the South lawn photo by Jonathan Lemire
closeup of several overturned and damaged pickup trucks
"If you're not there, the accident can happen without you" in the Waffle House sign style. Quote from "The Systems Bible" by John Gall
"LIVE HOT GRILLS" in the Waffle House sign style
"Griddle the sadness away" in the Waffle House sign style
"They Live" in the Waffle House sign style
"Ceci n'est pas une restaurant" in the Waffle House sign style
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hiding her face for a photo in the Oval Office
Principal Skinner wondering "Am I just another billionaire sex offender trying to ram AI into everyone's life?" and deciding "No, it's the kids who are wrong"
"they don't know" meme with the guy in the corner thinking "they don't know I have comically oversized balls"
Aziz Ansari playing Kash Patel on SNL with the words "Treat Yo Self" under him
Graph counting the number of airline bankruptcies per president since 1979. Carter: 2 Reagan: 28 Bush I: 9 Clinton: 3 Bush II: 26 Obama: 16 Trump: 4
Image says "If their Tesla looks like this, they bought it after this". The image of the Tesla is the 2025 Tesla Model Y, highlighting the distinctive brake light which extends across the width of the car, and the headlight which also extends across the width of the car. At the bottom of the image is Elon Musk delivering a Nazi salute on January 20, 2025. This is the event that a person who purchased a 2025 Model Y would have purchased their car after.
the image from the article of four video stills. the first three have a red line added to show the estimated trajectory of the bullet
the four rules of firearm safety: Treat every firearm like it is loaded Keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction Only place your finger on the trigger when you are ready to shoot Be sure of your target and what lies beyond it
Dr. House saying "It's never a compiler bug"
White tshirt with the new rainbow Infowars/Onion logo
the "cat that should buy a boat" meme with the cat thinking "I wonder if my agents are finished"
"25. Design Don’ts Not surprisingly, the art of Systems-design is best approached through a series ofcaveats. Since, by the Fundamental Theorem, New Systems Mean New Problems, the very first principle of Systems-design is a negative one: DO IT WITHOUT A NEW SYSTEM IF YOU CAN The scholar will recognize this as Occam’s Razor in modern form: AVOID UNNECESSARY SYSTEMS (SYSTEMS SHOULD NOT BE MULTIPLIED UNNECESSARILY) Two immediate Corollaries, with significant implications for Management, are as follows: (I) DO IT WITH AN EXISTING SYSTEM IF YOU CAN (2) DO IT WITH A SMALL SYSTEM IF YOU CAN For those who need reasons for such a self-evident proposition, we offer the following concise summary of the entire field of General Systemantics: Systems are seductive. They promise to do a hard job faster, better, and more easily than you could do it by yourself. But if you set up a System, you are likely to find your time and effort now being consumed in the care and feeding of the System itself. New Problems are created by its very presence.[a.] Once set up, it won’t Go Away; it Grows and Encroaches.[b.] It begins to do Strange and Wonderful Things[c.] and Breaks Down in Ways You Never Thought Possible. [d.] It Kicks Back, Gets In The Way and Opposes Its Own Proper Function.[e.] Your own perspective becomes distorted by being In The System.[f.] You become anxious and Push On It To Make It Work.[g.] Eventually you come to believe that the misbegotten product it so grudgingly delivers is What You Really Wanted all the time[h.] . At that point, Encroachment has become complete. You have become absorbed. You are now a Systems-person." "The Systems Bible", John Gall
McCoy from Star Trek saying "Dammit, Jim. I'm a doctor not the Son of God"
picture of a dingy old Tesla Model 3 with stickers on the back windows that read "VINTAGE TESLA PRE-NUTS EDITION"
https://polymarket.com/event/trump-divorce-in-2025 Screenshot of ended Polymarket bet for "Trump divorce in 2025?" There was about $125k in bet volume, and it settled at 0% on 31 Dec 2025.
Melania's famous green coat with "I really don't care do u?" painted on the back
"One thing the Triton was designed to do (that the Global Hawk cannot) is rapidly descend to lower altitudes. It is built with a more robust lower fuselage to withstand hail, bird, and lightning strikes. It is equipped with anti-icing systems on its wings. At low altitude, the Triton would use its Raytheon MTS-B multi-spectral EO/IR sensor (also used on the MQ-9 Reaper) which is equipped with additional laser designator, pointer, and range finding abilities capable of automatically tracking what the MFAS detects. The optical suite can stream live video to ground forces.[49]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_MQ-4C_Triton
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