murder hornets.
And raking the forest, which I hear a lot more about than murder hornets (ridiculous name)
>murder hornets
They got the first nest here in Washington: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/murder-hornets-destroyed-search-nests-washington-state/
...that damn sheet metal 'monolith' in Utah
Quote from: rcjordan on December 02, 2020, 06:51:06 PM
...that damn sheet metal 'monolith' in Utah
That was in both Le Monde and Figaro. I didn't read the articles. I still don't know what it is, but I was surprised that two major papers of record in France cared about it.
> surprised
Likely because it was a change from all the virus news, election fake news, etc.
Cyberpunk 2077
>Cyberpunk
What a mess. They must have contracted with our government for the launch.
added:
Stimulus checks.
"tech companies"
I don't know what the term means. It is short for "high tech" (since mere "tech" is ubiquitous and goes back to the Stone Age). At one time, "high tech" meant companies that developed and sold the high-technology tools that other companies used. Intel and IBM were "tech" companies, but the banks that used the chips Intel developed were not themselves "tech" companies.
Now it means Facebook.
Facebook is a personalized advertising conglomerate that leverages a lot of technology to deliver its product. But how does that make it different from UPS, FedEx or the New York Times? They also use a lot of advanced tech to deliver their service/product. So aren't they tech companies? What about John Deere? Why isn't that considered a "tech" company?
Our national conversation about "tech" would be more reasonable if we designated companies by what they *sell* not by what tools they *use*
Amazon is a retailer, ad publisher, media company and business services provider (i.e. AWS).
Netflix is a media company and broadcaster. Yes, they have developed a ton of proprietary technology. Just like UPS and FedEx and John Deere.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Tik Tok are personalized advertising publishers. Google also provides business services (i.e. Google Workspace or whatever they will call it next year)
Apple and perhaps Microsoft still have a claim on the "high tech" label, but in general, I feel like the label obfuscates more than it enlightens, especially when it is shorted and the "high" part is left off.
It's 2020. Isn't it time we grow up and stop saying that every business that delivers its product or service over the internet is a tech company? The heavy plow was a huge technological innovation in the tenth through thirteenth centuries. It was once "high tech" but we wouldn't call a company that farms with oxen and heavy plows a tech company. We don't even call someone who grows food sophisticated tractors, computer-controlled GPS-driven tilling, advanced-sensor pesticide application and so forth a "tech" company. We call that person a farmer.
User Intent because it's going to be a big deal in 2021... As if it hasn't been a big deal for years now...
>> We call that person a farmer.
<tangent>
Q: Have you ever met anyone who calls himself a farmer's husband?
</tangent>
I have known farmers with husbands, but the farmers were husbands too. I don't believe I've ever known someone who describes himself as a farmer's husband. But I also don't believe I've ever known someone who described herself as a farmer's wife either. They were all just farmers.
>described herself as a farmer's wife
I know of at least two, but these are mega-farms which would be comparable to being a part of a mid-size corporation. These two happen to have a big part of the farm operations (accounting, finances, even grain truck driving), but just a part. So, I think they see the husband in more of a founder and/or CEO role.
The person who predicted the crash of YYYY
(https://th3core.com/talk/water-coolerextra/i'm-pretty-tired-of-hearing-about/?action=dlattach;attach=3848)
Now, if someone has accurately predicted the last three booms and the last three busts, that might mean something. But if I predict a huge downturn every year, then I'm going to accurately predict every downturn and still be a terrible investment advisor and, in fact, that pretty much describes me!
What about B.....
https://i.imgur.com/PZ4dBdN.gifv
Quote from: rcjordan on January 26, 2021, 09:18:32 PM
What about B.....
Bernie Sanders' mittens, memes help raise $1.8M for charity (https://apnews.com/article/bernie-sanders-mittens-memes-charity-3f8afd8e8a5a0b8b9709dd6d4d30ec13)
He is the least distractible politician I know of. It takes two seconds to go from funny mittens to his current policy objective.
Quote"Jane and I were amazed by all the creativity shown by so many people over the last week, and we're glad we can use my internet fame to help Vermonters in need," Sanders said in a written statement. "But even this amount of money is no substitute for action by Congress, and I will be doing everything I can in Washington to make sure working people in Vermont and across the country get the relief they need in the middle of the worst crisis we've faced since the Great Depression."
Gamestop
>Gamestop
Apparently they are doing the same to silver now.
"weaponized"
Qanon
UFOs
AI
NFT's
>NFT's
Good one!
Add 'woke-ness' to the list.
crypto(anything)
plant-based
another shooting.
cicadas
"the science"
Royal family drama. Not sure why it's such a media darling these days. (sorry nffc)
Gut biome. It turns out we're just exoskeletons for a fungus, sorta like the morgue autopsy scene in Men In Black.
Scientists discover an unexpected connection between gut and heart health
https://www.inverse.com/science/fat-heart-disease
Hacks
Stymying innovation
Elden Ring
FTX
Fediverse
Why the polls were wrong ...yet again.
>Why the polls were wrong ...yet again.
Younger and more educated people are more likely to screen their calls. But, yeah.
10,000 hours
atmospheric rivers
>atmospheric rivers
Yeah, me too, but I am more tired of dealing with them. I have shoveled a lot of sandbags in the last few weeks.
Yeah, that's mostly what I meant, though in my case it is shoveling (and plowing and blowing) snow. When I hear "atmostpheric river" I know it means more shoveling and plowing. And I'm tired of going out to wipe off the Starlink dish every 30 minutes.
This video was taken about 5 minutes ago (8 seconds but it gives an idea of it looks like when an atmospheric river comes as snow).
https://photos.app.goo.gl/nYWfpf2hppP5Tj679
We've been lucky - a lot of these storms have been warm and have dropped a lot of rain at our altitude. If it had all been snow, I think we would have at least 15 feet on the ground, maybe 20 (we've had 11 feet at our max and that was from a single 3-day cold atmospheric river in 2011).
I appreciate the break we are having this week. We're going to have to replace our flooring on the first floor. Apparently we've had over 24 trillion gallons of rain in California since October 1.
Sorry to hear about the floor. That sucks.
Eskom says sorry for load shedding again and again....
>>15 feet on the ground
A friend of mine in Tahoe posted some pics a couple days ago and 15 feet seems quite realistic based on the photos. Crazy amounts of water.
I am thankful for the break we are getting this week. The ground is very saturated. Our local utility company dug a shallow trench to replace some underground cables and water just filled up the space making it impossible for them to continue.
It's frustrating to see other parts of the country getting rain, aka "free water from the sky" and we are still so dry here.
Well... free depends on your accounting principles. I would estimate the cost of this water in our neighborhood at $15,000 just for plowing and road damage, not counting a cumulative hundreds of hours of paid and unpaid shoveling.
I'm sure littleman doesn't feel like this water was free to him.
Chinese balloons
>Chinese balloons
If they had slapped advertising all over it, they might have gotten away with it.
Elizabeth Holmes
My filters must be working. Haven't heard mention of her in a few years except an article a while back where a fraudster was described as "no Elizabeth Holmes."
I thought for sure your post was going to say "debt ceiling."
I have X (too many to count) news sources in my feeds. Most feeds are filtered, but I leave few news websites I visit directly --like Mojeek news-- unfiltered to keep me from constructing a full bubble. Holmes exhausting her appeals and going to prison has the news in a feeding frenzy.
>debt
I filter on "Biden" and "McC" so I nuked most of it. Even so, yes, it was too much.
>Elizabeth Holmes
She had quite the scam going.
Heat waves
>>Elizabeth Holmes
Watched 'the dropout' on Netflix, seems like a fantastic imperious delusion.
> tired of hearing about
rage against landlords.
>rage against landlords.
no kidding, glad I converted to commercial when I did.
Influencers
Barbenheimer
>Barbenheimer
Fortunately, the first time I learned about it was right here.
Me too. I was just about to do a search to figure out what it was and then it clicked. But I'm way out of the loop on cinema.
>Barbenheimer
Barbie took the winnings, 2x takings. Guess it was obvious being the more family vibe movie. Me, My Mrs and a 12 year old, I'll suffer Barbie, they'd both suffer Oppenheimer.
Hunter Biden
I just logged into *ahem* X and the first 8 X's were all effing Hunter Biden. I don't care what happens to him, take him off to Guantanamo for all I care. He ain't worth all this ink.
WeWork
>> Hunter Biden
Mentions on Fox News primetime tonight:
Ohio referendum: 0
Hunter Biden: 47
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1689101930801328128
I'm pretty tired of hearing about able-bodied retirees complain that "nobody wants to work anymore" because their favorite restaurant is closed.
(https://i0.wp.com/seths.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/nobody-works.jpeg)
From https://seths.blog/song/
The UK Post Office scandal
Sam Altman
Zone 2
elections.. we just had ours here in SA, soon the UK, then the USA and I read that Mexico just had theirs!
CrowdStrike
Sydney Sweeney
Good looking, but I had to filter her.
>They had pics of her all over XTwitter for a couple of weeks. I had never heard of her before. Fortunately that has died down.
I had to Google her and when I saw the photos, realized I had Googled her once before because she was in the news.
I still don't know why she is famous, but she clearly has reached the level of celebrity where she has broken through all the filters of the cranky old folks on The Core, which is saying something.
That said, based on all her award nominations, she isn't Paris Hilton 2.0 (i.e. a person who is famous for being famous).
>all the filters of the cranky old folks
5-6 years ago, IIRC, she was mostly tit pix on /r/all --so not filtered. I'd see her name occasionally over the years, but not enough to bother putting her in the array. But this year, I had to add her name. She still leaks by on bsky memes.
Substack
Gavin Newsom
Silksong
Vibe
I'm always amused at how many of the things in this thread that I have to google to find out what they are (e.g. the last two).
I'd been reading hipsters talking about vibe coding and vibe this and vibe that for weeks. But when the Floridaman health official dork who made all childhood vaccinations optional, confessed that he didn't look at any cost or risk assessments before issuing his order it was just a vibe decision based on no science whatsoever, I lost it.
Ah, I didn't know if you meant "vibes" or Vibe (a magazine) or something else.
Vibe coding is such a dumb name because that is now also just called software development. See my post from a few minutes ago - https://th3core.com/chat/index.php?topic=14191.msg88829;topicseen#new
Also, I strongly recommend the Australian movie The Castle. $3.79 to stream on YouTube or Amazon (pick your poison) and well worth the price of admission. It has a scene of "vibe lawyering" that I think you will really enjoy in your current mood.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.32a9f772-d48c-6826-dae1-e35a1bfb3302?autoplay=0&ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb
One of the all-time favorite comedies in my extended family.
influencers
We have all kinds of influencers: political, travel, product, fashion, medical, nearly naked, Botoxed, music, conspiracy, food.
A pox on the whole lot. And a pox upon headlines that refer to inluencers.
tylenol
OTOH, this made it to the top of /r yesterday
Gas prices
Anything that "changes everything."
The strait.
It's like 3 different groundhog days on a random cycle.
Quote from: Drastic on April 19, 2026, 06:25:12 PMIt's like 3 different groundhog days on a random cycle.
That is sort of a meme (not Groundhog Day specifically, but memes on the random repeating cycle)