One step closer to Snow Crash.
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Can we not do that, please? I’d like to hard pass.
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Reality sounds like cyberpunk just weirder…
It’s always weirder.
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I imagine the currywurst was helped by volkswagen’s not lying about its emissions.
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I hear that company bowed to Nazis. They curried favor with the worst.
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Sometimes research is published with a title that promises weird shit and then ends up being pretty mundane (such as Lawnmowers Versus Children: The Devastation Continues ). Other times the interesting weird shit is hiding behind a relatively normal title (like Stimulus and hormonal determinants of flehmen behavior in cats, although that title is still semi-weird and I mostly wanted to type the word flehmen ).
Occasionally, though, you get the rare double whammy: A title that immediately tells you that you’re in for a treat, and then an article that just gets weirder and weirder until it approaches theoretical maximum potential levels of fuckshit bonkers . This one falls squarely in that last category and it’s a doozy .
Let’s set the stage with a few quick facts about the article. First: This was published in the prestigious Journal of Internal Medicine , which was founded in fucking 1863 and consistently scores in the top 20 most cited medical journals, meaning some people took this very seriously. Second: “Digital” in this case means “with their finger-guns” as opposed to a rectal robo-massage, which would actually somehow be less weird but also makes me think those people should maybe not have taken this so seriously.
However, I always try to start reading these things with the benefit of the doubt, so let me review what I personally know about hiccups and see if any of whatever the hell this shit is matches up with that.
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As a write-in candidate, Ehrlich had virtually no chance of winning Tuesday.
Asked whether he might take another shot at running for mayor in two years, using more conventional methods that could land him on the ballot, he said: “No, I’m mayor now. Why do I have to wait two years? I am mayor at this moment. I can write an executive order.”
Thanks, Dump!
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Robert Ehrlich was “falsely asserting his authority as mayor
Seriously, I think he’s delusional and needs psychiatric care.
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No escalator though.
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The funny thing about that concept car?
At nearly 20 feet long, the Columbus was powered by a BMW V12 engine, featured six plush seats in a 2-2-2 layout, and had a central driving position like the McLaren F1.
It’s derided as being stupidly long and bloated, but 20feet is actually shorter than some of the larger configurations of the Ford F150, currently the most popular vehicle in the USA.
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