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I thought this deserved its own thread. So. I work in a warehouse that's at the end of the supply chain. Any of the major parts suppliers has to drive at least an hour to deliver parts to us, and management doesn't like stockpiling spare parts since we lost a warehouse in a flood. We also don't...

So, these are going to be oneshots and drabbles set in the Daybreak AU. I don't really know where I'm going with this, except that I think it'll be a fun exercise. Daybreak is a Semi-Alternate Universe take on Halo, where we reset the clock to Halo 3 and imagine how the universe might have...

Yeah, Phil Tippet. You know that stop-motion animation guru with both Star Wars and Jurassic Park on his resume? Apparently, he's been working on a movie in his spare time, and it's almost ready to drop. Yeah. I have no idea what we just watched either, but it looks interesting. Something...

In 20th Century America, we had an ideal, and that ideal was that we would be led by our best and brightest. Learned men with minds like razors and balls of steel would land us on the moon, build our highways, and make diseases a thing of the past. And leadership would be provided by Washington...

MiG and Sukhoi Design Bureaus to merge. As aircraft development gets ever more expensive, more and more players will drop out of the game. We've seen it on this side of the Atlantic with the merging of Northrop and Grumman and McDonnel and Douglas and Boeing and a bunch of other aircraft...

Cosmic horror is a genre that is incredibly hard to pull off in film for two reasons. If you don't care to watch the short video above, the two reasons are that cosmic horror is a very complex genre, both visually and thematically. Crack open any of HP Lovecraft's short stories and look for the...

Come one, come all. All ye who have sank thousands of precious hours of their lives into streamlining logistic chains and unspaghettifying conveyor belts, this is the thread where we gather to share tips, blueprints, and recommend mods. For my first recommendation, I recommend... literally...

Now keep in mind that this is just a rumor so far, and rumors are worth what you paid for them. Especially rumors coming from the Firefly fandom, which took ten years and the death of one of the major actors to quit grumbling about getting the crew back together for a new show. But rumor has it...

To make a long story short, when Henry Ford perfected his assembly line and sold cars that even the working man could afford, the days of the horse-drawn wagon were numbered. There was a whole industry built around breeding draft animals and extracting useful work out of them, and that industry...

...because the good man has passed away. https://www.tmz.com/2020/11/08/alex-trebek-jeopardy-host-dead-dies-stage-4-pancreatic-cancer/ "I'll take 'fond farewells' for $500, Alex."

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Please mark spoilers. I've finished the book, but other may not have. So. Peace Talks is out. Our long wait is over. It's been five long years since Harry raided the Underworld and kicked Nicodemus's ass, and the story finally continues. So, the magical war that has been raging ever since...

The story before you is a narrative synthesized from news reports, fleet reports, and personal testimonies collected from old Human territory. It is but one of many produced by Project Footprint, a program of the University of New Aberdeen that seeks to chronicle the evolution of Human-alien...

So, Scott Lowther of Up-ship.com game has recently re-watched Ad Astra... And he is not impressed. The characters are stupid, the story is dismal, and the science makes no sense. I haven't seen Ad Astra, but I am reminded of Prometheus, which made no sense and had a cast of characters who...

https://www.livescience.com/freeman-dyson-dead-at-96.html For those of you who have never heard of him (How few of you there are), he was a physicist and one hell of a thinker. He had his hand in everything from astronomy to nuclear engineering to physics and climate science. His most famous...

I've been playing FPSs wrong for years. I'm a pugnacious murder-everything-in-your-path player when I should have been bypassing enemies entirely. Would have made those Reach SLASO runs much easier. I've known about speedrunning for more than a decade, but I've never seen it like this, and I...

https://www.thedrive.com/news/31761/enormous-costs-of-new-tractors-drive-demand-of-40-year-old-equipment-to-all-time-highs?xid=fbshare So... I drove a CIH 8240 this summer. It was brand spanking new, with only a few hundred hours on the clock. The cabin felt like it was built for a Saudi...

This is a very interesting video about dog breeds that were bred by the American Indians, and what happened to them. The video is worth a read, but the short version is that they're gone. Not just gone, but gone. You think the Chihuahua came from Latin America? Maybe, but its ancestral DNA comes...

Cross-referenced under "What the Hell were they thinking?" and "Who would even want that?" and "I do believe we've discovered the works of a Slaneesh cult", we have... A skin-substitute sleeve for your phone that makes it ticklish and pinchable. Now, there are some useful applications for...

I just read a short sci-fi story, Final Exam, by an anthropologist named Chad Oliver. It's... hold on, let me quote the introduction: In short, it's eleven pages of revenge porn. The Martians are stand-ins for native Americans, except instead of dying off due to disease and tribal warfare...