Naturalistic lighting is the worst thing to happen to film and television. I don’t care where the light is coming from; I want to experience the emotion of the image as expressed by the director.
Galactic history nerds when their final exam is writing an essay on the factors that led to the Jedi Civil War and not just listing all of the planes and tanks in the Clone Wars
they don't teach military history in high school because it is a hard cross-disciplinary specialty. You need to be economist, political scientist, and military art and science put together.
This is the intro slide for a presentation on the US Civil War, do you get it?
Why does Boeing make such horrible, dangerous planes? To break its labor union, it opened a new factory with unskilled, non-union workers, then closed the unionized factory.
It hired a CEO from private equity giant Blackstone, with no engineering background, who ran Boeing like
I once wrote an article about a D-list Enlightenment writer and was constantly asked why anyone should care. My answer was that the major Enlightenment figures who you feel are in dialogue with you across the centuries were actually in dialogue with this no-name loser.
the concept of porting a game to discord without the owner's permission and then "im literally a neurodivergent minor"-ing when their lawyer contacts you
At Camp Kiwani in Hardy, Arkansas, a new campfire treat is introduced, consisting of marshmallows and Hershey’s chocolate between two graham crackers.
The Girl Scouts call them “s’mores.”
Now women can walk around and listen to the radio in style!
Miss Vera Luddy of San Francisco demonstrates this fashionable hat, designed for the female radio enthusiast.
to explain how ridiculous this is, i once lived in a long apartment with bad reception so we get a fancy router and we put it up to its highest setting, 2 watts.
All and all, a router draws like 5-15 watts
a 100W LED light bulb equivalent uses 13.5 watts