It’s a boob joke - I didn’t see anyone mention it. The “she has good genes” is an adolescent euphemism. Now, could they’ve found a person of color with large boobs to do the ad? Of course, and please do. I hope AA tries to remedy their mistake by releasing ad after ad of all the young actresses (using the word loosely for Sweeney) with “good genes.” Double down and give the public what they want!
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I know this ‘nuke them from orbit’ sentiment is repeated often, but in retrospect… It was probably the best course of action.
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.English11·2 days agoWe have a lot of sprawl here and the reasons are many. Just like Dallas and LA, we have a ton of road infrastructure and zoning laws that eat up a lot of land. We also don’t have any natural barriers, like an ocean or a mountain range, to limit our expansion. Just to keep building and add another lane. Thanks for asking.
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.English176·2 days agoMarchetti intended the constant to be 1 hour round trip, so a half-hour commute one-way. It’s an important distinction, since here in Atlanta the exurban commuter is clocking in at 1.5 hours or more into the city, well outside of what is considered tolerable. Multiply that by a million and you get some irritated people.
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Live updates: Tsunami waves reach Hawaii, California after huge quake off RussiaEnglish35·4 days agoWeather Channel just reported a 6 foot peak in Hawaii. It was the 1st time in over a decade they sounded the tsunami sirens.
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto Archaeology@mander.xyz•Pictures I took of the Hawaiian petroglyphs (article linked, pic's in description)English4·5 days agoThis is really fascinating and the article was a good read. I had no idea carvings this adjacent to the ocean could last that long. On that fact alone, this area should be protected and recorded as best we can. What I know of preservation, my first instinct upon reading that a historian was pushing sand into the petroglyphs to highlight them was horror! But duh, what the hell is she doing that the ocean hasn’t been doing for centuries. And the glyphs still remain! So cool, thanks for sharing.
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter.English24·7 days agoOkay, now defend us from the foreign censorship that Israeli lobbyists baked into our state constitutions. https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-states-colleges-illegal-bds-1895292
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Come, Mr. Bigglesworth!English9·7 days agoI have two theories. Section 31 was terrible at recruiting covert ops and we’ve seen their blundering over and over again on the small screen. Or, they were very good at covert ops and we’ve only seen the few times they misjudged the morality of their operatives.
I’m a carpenter. If I do my job well, you won’t know I was there at all.
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Trump EPA 'Hitting New Heights of Absurdity' With Plan to Reapprove Pesticide DicambaEnglish18·10 days agoWhat a wimp.
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto science@lemmy.world•Ozzy’s DNA sequence reveals rare form of Parkinson'sEnglish26·10 days agoWasn’t the genome sequencing in 2010 to determine just how the hell he wasn’t suffering from his epic substance abuse? So that we could get some of that Ozzy sauce and party til we drop, of course. Did Keith Richards ever do the same?
From wiki: “The lake was renamed from its traditional Mono name by American settlers after an incident on September 23, 1871, in which a group of convicts escaped from prison in Carson City, Nevada, and took refuge near the lake. They were pursued by a posse, and after it caught up to the convicts, a shootout followed, in which a number of both posse members and convicts were killed or wounded. The remaining convicts who survived initially escaped but were eventually captured to be taken back to prison. They were lynched instead.”
Wah wah (muted trumpet noise, emphasis mine)
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto Television@piefed.social•Movies you’d like to see made into a tv series?English4·14 days agoThe Orville is great!
Young Pre-diabetes. Young Crippling Anxiety. Young Fatty Liver. Young Sexless Marriage. Young Survivors Guilt.
I think I prefer the Wu-Tang name generator.
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto Television@piefed.social•Jon Stewart Says ‘I Honestly Don’t Know’ About ‘The Daily Show’s’ Future After Paramount-Skydance Merger: ‘They May Sell the Whole F—ing Place for Parts’English4·14 days agoShe just talked with Adam on the Factually podcast this past week, FYI.
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto Television@piefed.social•Jimmy Kimmel Has a Blunt Message for CBS After Colbert CancellationEnglish30·16 days agoThere’s no wrong time to cancel Paramount+. Even when they had all the Trek content, the UI was dog shit so you could barely play what you wanted to watch anyway. And now that they’ve made the decision to split their IP, ugh.
I watched the CBS morning show for years. Amongst the morning news, I felt it was the best programming: had long-form investigative reporting, balanced viewpoints, etc. Then they added a shopping segment. Okay, gotta pay the bills. Then they started doing more pop-culture bits, even prompting Nora to ask, in the middle of her prompter read, “is this news?” Then they started to carve out time for at least 1 segment a week for Moriarty to interview a billionaire about their passion projects. And so on. The last straw for me was normalizing Trump’s shtick a second time.
Now the only news I watch is the Weather Channel.
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's howEnglish14·16 days agoI’ll hang on to 10 as long as they’ll let me, but I am never going to 11. Then it’ll be a distro for dis bro.
Sorry.
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto Videos@lemmy.world•Neighbors take back Southeast Portland street, replacing RVs with community gardenEnglish1·19 days agoWe don’t have the RV thing where I am. The people in the video are talking like this is commonplace in Portland. Is this mobile drug manufacturing? Mobile prostitution? Do they move the RVs often to avoid police? Are they stealing the RVs or is there some black market?
It just seems organized. Thanks ahead for any insight.
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•[Video] Racist "Stop The Boats" effigy lit in Northern IrelandEnglish2·22 days agodeleted by creator
Semisimian@startrek.websiteto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•[Video] Racist "Stop The Boats" effigy lit in Northern IrelandEnglish32·23 days agoIt is Marching Season in Northern Ireland, when Protestants hold parades, marches and bonfires celebrating a Protestant victory over Catholics in 1690. The season runs from Easter to September, but the peak is in July.
This effigy is definitely a product of ultra right-wing talking points and mounting tension from anti-immigrant sentiment. It’s not a healthy expression of a valid concern. There are mannequins depicting human beings at the top of the pyre. Under it is a sign that tells you exactly the group they want to harm. Further, a sign that says “veterans before immigrants” sets up a false dichotomy that pits two unrelated groups against each other. It has all the tropes of this type of propaganda.
The designers and builders of the pyre should not be celebrated and should face some legal backlash.
Did you just watch 28 Years Later?