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Morituri:
I'm easily amused.
So I got a new GPS unit today. It has a simulated navigation mode, which is an option I have seen before on other models. But this one has a speed multiplier so if you don't want to spend three hours pre-checking your three-hour planned trip, you can tell the device to do it at, say, 8x speed.
An innovation I haven't seen before is a first-person view - from a point about a meter and a half off the road. Probably intended for use by pedestrians, but not limited to it.
So I told it to go to a destination about a thousand miles from here, avoiding highways, and set it up on my desk. I'm watching through the virtual windshield here as it tears through the countryside on lonely little back roads at 300 miles per hour. And sometimes slows down to about 95 while whipping through a town.
It's detailed enough to show buildings, ditches, embankments, bluffs, and some trees, etc, but not fences. I just wish it were more detailed.
I just wish the maps showed more detail.
zmeiat_joro:
A friend of mine just got elected to the Bulgarian Parliament! That's something we didn't even that much hope for when we founded the party (2007, Green). It's the final count-down ;>
(We'll probably get something like 7-10 out of 240 seats).
Morituri:
Woot! You're part of history now. When people ask how the Bulgarian Green party got started, you can say you were there.
..... I've been listening to the news about a certain American Congresscreature. Some parts of it make me kind of disgusted (commercial sex with underage partners? Who are BROKERED to the event like so much catered food? Gag....) but there's at least one thing I've heard with increasing amusement, and that's about these sex parties which are clearly organized by people who don't give a crap about good sex.
My most definitive thought on the matter is, the problem with alcohol-fueled sex parties where people are taking cocaine and ecstasy, is that Alcohol, Cocaine, and Ecstasy all make you bad at sex. In fact, for most men anyway, any significant level of intoxication on any of them will keep you from going twice, and any serious level of intoxication on any of them will prevent being able even once. And can you find a different way to do things if the little soldier won't stand up and salute? Sure if your mind is working, but not if you're baked on drugs! Although, from the POV of partners who are only having sex with them for the money, and w/r/t underage partners who shouldn't be engaging in sex with them at all, that is probably a good thing.
It's just, every time another detail comes out, it gets worse.
Is it cold in here?:
Something I saw on Slashdot seemed worth passing along.
--- Quote ---by mavi_yelken ( 801565 ) on Monday April 19, 2021 @04:33AM (#61289636)
In nearly a century, we went from first powered flight on Earth to first powered flight on another Planet. Permit yourselves a moment of joy please, among the torrent of the adversity we call Life.
--- End quote ---
Morituri:
There've been a couple of really interesting discoveries in particle physics lately, having to do with muons. One at Fermilab, and a different one at CERN. After fifty years of essentially nothing contradicting the standard model, it looks like these two experiments just may be revealing something that the standard model does not predict.
Which led me to think, you know, over the last hundred thousand years or so, humans have made a whole lot of important discoveries by banging rocks together. It's just, lately, we've been using smaller and smaller rocks, and we've had to figure out ways to bang them *REALLY* hard.
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