Spirals are actually quite common. Electromagnetic waves are spirals, the Earth’s orbit spirals through the galaxy. A spiral is just non-static circular motion. Circular motion is one of the most basic and widespread phenomena in the universe, at every scale. It’s not really mysterious that they would show up a lot.

Or Gurren Lagann

Button cameras are a thing, and shirt pockets are basically made for pens. I was into spy tech as a kid, and even 20+ years ago hidden camera tech was solid, and it’s better now with the general miniaturization of everything. I did a quick search and $100-200 can get you a really solid hidden camera that blends into your outfit even up close. For under $50 you can get something that you wouldn’t notice from across the street.

I think it’s a better idea to just legally mandate a red light that’s on every time the camera is. Kinda like when Japan mandated shutter sounds after creeps started taking upskirts.

They’re good for big groups and certain locations.

My wife has a big online friend group that likes to get together a couple times a year in various places around the US. For 15ish people, AirBnB is cheaper than hotels and lets everyone stay together in one place with room to congregate and cook real meals. It’s also easier to find cabins and stuff in remote nature areas than hotels.

We’re also planning a weeklong trip to NYC, and even with rewards points AirBnB was cheaper than a hotel.

Outside those specific circumstances, if it’s just us and we’re only spending a night or two in a less expensive location, hotels are basically always better

Great keyboardist, great bassist, that voice is not for me. I’d love Rush if they only did instrumentals

I can’t be the only one who hates Geddy Lee’s voice. Every time a Rush song comes on I am straight up grooving until he starts singing.

The second paragraph answers the first. We wait until we’re coordinated.

If you want to speed up the process, get out there and coordinate. You might be ready, the people here might be ready, but a few thousand geographically isolated people on a left-leaning niche forum aren’t gonna do it. Getting out into the community and getting active, that could actually shift sentiment.

Find a local organization with at least a hundred members. Even if you don’t align 100% with the DSA, join and go to meetings. That’s where you’re going to find people to coordinate with. Network with people, find out who has which skills, and volunteer your own. Participate in mutual aid. Canvas for leftist politicians. Even if you only care about revolution, going to these events and interacting with these causes will bring you in contact with the people who will coordinate with you.

Squeeze the edges of the box so the tape releases in the middle, then peel it away. Better for recycling too.

That would be telling

Is this a Dopapod reference?

I think it comes from them triggering in the middle of the night, and maybe distortion when the battery gets low.

I was a vegetarian/vegan for a few years, and the specificity of my cravings increased dramatically. I wasn’t ever just “hungry”, I had specific cravings for specific foods.

Push up on an edge, not a corner. Less stress on the pieces

I don’t trust random charities. I do plenty of charitable giving, but I vet the organizations I give to. I don’t know how the random charity on the screen uses their funds.

You ever seen 3d prints from 20 years ago? They were low res goopy slop. Now we’re months away from off-the-shelf 8-toolhead printers. My newest printer uses dithering to blend 4 colors into nearly any color I could want. That tech can be used to blend flavors and textures rather than colors.

It’s a fascinating technology, with an active development base. I see no reason why the relatively near future won’t have actual 3d printed pizzas. With the right bed and nozzle heating, you can even get a nice crispy texture.

Food is mostly made of sugar, complex carbs, fat, and protein. You could probably make a pretty decent printer with a dozen cartridges, and fructose would be a reasonable choice for one of them. The pizza isn’t going to taste right without fructose in the tomato sauce.

Yeah it’s a joke but I’m getting into multi-material printing and printed food is actually a super interesting application.

Fruits contain seeds

And lucky to live in the time when they are. The moon is moving away from the Earth slowly, and eventually they won’t look to be the same relative size

Unpopular opinion: I want as little information as possible before watching a movie. At the other end of the spectrum, we have trailers which basically spoil the whole film. The only information I want about a movie is whether it’s interesting, which I will get from audience sentiment online, and the only information I really need is the title.

Any additional information is either irrelevant to the movie experience, or a spoiler. Yeah I’m a weird little freak, and I like low-information posters. It’s better than posters which give away too much

Chaos is the base, undifferentiated reality. Order, and consequently disorder, is a subjective human concept.

Entropy is described as disorder because the layperson doesn’t know what entropy is, and disorder is equated with chaos because they don’t know what chaos is. Language is inconsistent.