I think the reason for the mockery is the fact that he has the Defence Department to run and yet sees press conferences as his priority. That makes him fair game as far as I’m concerned.
that’s a fair point. Everyone trump has selected for positions seems to be from TV, so it’s no wonder they all have a priority for the camera.
Incidentally, for those who may not know, the encabulator has a long and storied history. In particular:
Circa 1977:
1962:
The original original is an article from 1944, published in Students’ Quarterly Journal. Somewhat shockingly, it’s paywalled:
Quick, J. (1944). The turbo-encabulator in industry. Students’ Quarterly Journal, 15(58). doi:10.1049/sqj.1944.0033.
And, as usual, there is no mention whatsoever that no type of encabulator would even be possible without the cavity toggle floggle.
First developed as a theoretical concept by Ernest Rutherford in the 1920ies who thought it wouldn’t be possible to build with the technology available at the time and didn’t pursue the idea any further.
But then Tommy Flowers succeeded in building a, admittedly somewhat crude, prototype as proof of concept in the 1930ies during his time at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in Middlesex. Flowers kept tinkering with it when time and resources allowed, but ultimately had to give up on it in 1941when Alan Turing asked him to help out at Bletchley Park with developing Colossus, the machine that helped to win World War II.
However, the prototype and copies of Flowers’ files on it were brought to the USA in September 1940 as part of the “Tizard Mission” (officially the British Technical and Scientific Mission) on the personal insistence of Winston Churchill, and the rest is, as they say, history.
Needs crossposting in the “women, amirite?” thread
Not really,Pam is the most capable character in the strip.
There’s a tv commercial (for hotel chain?) on recently where a company poses a question and a guy suggests an idea. No one pays and attention and a woman says the same idea. Suddenly everyone loves it and commends her. She even uses the name the guy suggested. This of course is the reversal of what normally happens to woman in business meetings. That’s what makes it work as humor despite playing on a business problem. The same thing is going on in the Brewster Rockit strip.
Yes, what if??? What if the damage is reversed, the suffering undone, the dead brought back to life? What if???
WHAT IS YOUR POINT?
Um… it’s random silly grins, not a political thread. I think we can let this slide… it’s a nice display, even if we’re all a little tense over what’s happening in the world right now.
That empty gesture triggered me I guess
Sure, I can certainly understand that… but context matters here. I don’t think @SallyM meant it as a “let’s ignore the shitshow around us and just hope things will be fine” post… I don’t see any reason to attack a poster who generally doesn’t post political stuff at all.
I should’ve just kept my mouth shut/fingers away from my phone, but my comment was directed not at the poster but whoever put up the display in the window. Maybe I should just delete the whole thing
Up to you, of course. I understand feeling upset at the sentiment, but again, this is the random silly grins thread, one of the ones that we use to post things we find cute or silly.
Maybe you could clarify that you were upset at the idea and were not aiming it at the poster, because it kind of came off as an attack on the poster. I’m sure that wasn’t your intent…
It was not. SallyM I apologize, my outburst was not directed at you.
I’ll leave all this here as a lesson. Don’t do what Donny Don’t does!
I slink away now
I could definitely be wrong, since it’s hard to see, but my impression was that it was possibly a reference to killing the goose that laid the golden egg, with the question being satirical?
But… back to silly?
@1000YearBan I stumbled upon this and thought it was interesting.l so I snapped a random photo.
I looked up some more information on the context.
It is from a theater project.
https://rorschachtheatre.com/vox-populi/
Two teenagers fall through time after a shared moment in the woods. Trying to find their way home, they land at different Washington DC protests throughout history – each time encountering the city they thought they knew through the eyes of those who sought to change it.
Psychogeographies projects harness the power of both the built and natural world to create a visceral piece of immersive storytelling. Each month participants receive a map and instructions to travel to a new curated location in the DC area. Along with the map, they’ll receive a box of artifacts to engage all five senses while exploring each site with story elements such as letters, music, souvenirs, or photos. From March through August, each monthly box reveals a new location and a new chapter in the ongoing story.