Nobody knows more about things being age-appropriate than the head of the Republicans.

Well, US had had an former actor, Ukraine a former comedian, etc.

Ken Wbite said ‘his face looks like he bet on a fart and lost’.

TLDW

Far less so than I was expecting. A couple people cutting in line with sob stories. People were pretty calm though. Partly I think because it was expected (that changed my outlook considerably) and partly (I speculate) there was a little bit of ‘we’re all in this moment together’ spirit like you see during a big weather event or tragedy of some kind, though I don’t want to exaggerate that too much. The most stressful part was when the line was snaking through the front atrium. It didn’t look like a line, it looked like a crowd. The only thing that made it a line was everyone knowing who was in front of them and who was behind.

Hydroplane???? Boat????

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w3e467ewqo OpenAI has shut down Sora, its video generation service. Since the platform's launch, Sora made $1.4m in global net in-app revenues, compared to $1.9bn over the same period for ChatGPT, ... ... it was "a resource black hole" with "limited monetisation". "The platform struggled to prevent the creation of non-consensual imagery and realistic misinformation, not to mention major copyright infringement," ...

@Doctor-Phibes said: If TNCR is wrong, I don't wanna be right. I can't believe I just wrote that. 555

That's a point.

I used to be a social climber, but I fell off and broke my leg.

https://x.com/wsj/status/2037311810131423407?s=46

Hey I've been yelling about it (in the Artemis thread) for a while now! Plus, what could go wrong launching on April Fool's Day? Also, I haven't checked but a while ago the various launch windows...there were only like 3 of the 60 windows that had a daytime launch and I think April 1 was one of them. People love the night time launch if you live in the area but if you don't (like all of us) a day time launch (IMO) is way cooler to watch on video.

@Mik said: Silence Revenge Of The Lambs [image: 1774547968082-5c827ca7-991f-4461-939f-61299efdeaad-image.jpeg]

I hated when people used to leave things on a bench which they weren’t using except as a giant stand for their phone and water bottle

True, that.

The war is just deeply unpopular on the right's pundit class, with anybody who isn't devoted to Israel. That isn't a totally clear distinction, but it's an obvious 90/10 one by observation. It's just true that Ben Shapiro types consider Israel to be America, and their opinions flow from that. Personally I consider Israel to be an American proxy, an outpost of America in the Middle East. I intend that to be as condescending towards the idea that Israel is an "independent state" as it sounds. We own them. But if they ever diverged from America in our interests, I'd have no hesitation with siding with America. I'm not so sure about the Shapiros of the world. The dual loyalties problem is obvious.

Well, maybe that helps clear the way to the $10 billion dollar settlement for DJT.

$1200 for the business part, $600 for the family part.

You know, I was watching the airport footage again. There are a full 8 whole seconds between when the firetruck began to cross the runway (and the truck/s behind it all stopped btw...) before the plane hit it. Yes the truck behind it completely stops (like they should at a stop sign), probably because they saw the plane. As much as they got the clearance to cross, this sure seems like it's 90% the fault of the firetruck driver for crossing without looking first for crossing traffic...the size of an airplane. https://www.reddit.com/r/airport/comments/1s1nhdm/air_canada_lga_crash_footage/

@jon-nyc said: I witnessed it in India. Same. I would have thought India would be higher, but 5-10% of 1+Billion people is still a lot.