I don't watch too much TV; I just prefer movies because they require less time.

However, Severence was well worth the time commitment; it's a mystery box show that actually pays off. It's better to watch without knowing anything about it, too. I'll just say that if you like surreal psychological thrillers, it is a must-watch.

The site was at it's peak circa 7000 BCE, about 2000 years before the invention of the wheel.

Depending on the size of the valve stem, you may be able to replace it with a car tire's. You basically stick the valve stem through the hole, then screw a tool onto the threads, then lever it into place. Some glass cleaner makes a fine lube for it.

They're only a couple bucks, so it may be worth a try.

You're doing the 'stare through ' method instead of the 'crossed eyes' method.

If you swap the position of the left and right images it will work the way you're doing it.

So he targeted the people that the GOP propaganda machine told him to. Must be a 'lone wolf.'

Really puts the "anal" in analysis, if true.

More proof that the War on "Drugs" is largely an authoritarian criminalization of untreated mental health issues.

We shouldn't lock people up for addiction any more than we should lock people up over depression.

I hate the euphemism of "self-deport."

Let's call it what it really is: ICE threatened to lock him up and send him to an undisclosed location if he didn't flee the country.

Reactionary ideology is absolutely associated with the far right.

Conservatism is a reactionary ideology.

Conservatism is the theoretical voice of this animus against the agency of the subordinate classes. It provides the most consistent and profound argument as to why the lower orders should not be allowed to exercise their independent will, why they should not be allowed to govern themselves or the polity. Submission is their first duty, and agency the prerogative of the elite. Though it is often claimed that the left stands for equality while the right stands for freedom, this notion misstates the actual disagreement between right and left. Historically, the conservative has favored liberty for the higher orders and constraint for the lower orders. What the conservative sees and dislikes in equality, in other words, is not a threat to freedom but its extension. For in that extension, he sees a loss of his own freedom.

-Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind

Sure, but that's not what police refer to when they talk about blood spatter analysis. I'm not saying it's impossible to get good evidence from the location of blood; I'm saying that the bullshit they do around drop size and splatter patterns does not have any evidence to support it.

Edit: in other words, they want the credibility of science without doing the hard work of peer-review or falsification.

Trump isn't doing anything different than he did last time; the only change is scope.

This dipshit really thought that Trump would expose Epstein's clients even though he wished Ghislane Maxwell well? You have to be a special kind of stupid to fall for that.

From ProPublica:

The reliability of bloodstain-pattern analysis has never been definitively proven or quantified, but largely due to the testimony of criminalist Herbert MacDonell, it was steadily admitted in court after court around the country in the 1970s and ’80s. MacDonell spent his career teaching weeklong “institutes” in bloodstain-pattern analysis at police departments around the country, training hundreds of officers who, in turn, trained hundreds more.

While there is no index that lists cases in which bloodstain-pattern analysis played a role, state appellate court rulings show that the technique has played a factor in felony cases across the country. Additionally, it has helped send innocent people to prison. From Oregon to Texas to New York, convictions that hinged on the testimony of a bloodstain-pattern analyst have been overturned and the defendants acquitted or the charges dropped.

In 2009, a watershed report commissioned by the National Academy of Sciences cast doubt on the discipline, finding that “the uncertainties associated with bloodstain-pattern analysis are enormous,” and that experts’ opinions were generally “more subjective than scientific.” More than a decade later, few peer-reviewed studies exist, and research that might determine the accuracy of analysts’ findings is close to nonexistent.

Cops and pseudoscience go together like chocolate and peanut butter.

For more examples, see "bite mark analysis," "911 call analysis," "blood spatter analysis," roadside drug testing with known false-positives, and even fingerprints (once the gold standard) have up to a 20% error rate.

And that's not even getting into how their methodology is exactly backwards: they have a claim that they set out to prove, but do no work to disprove what they already believe.

Cops and pseudoscience go together like chocolate and peanut butter.

For more examples, see "bite mark analysis," "911 call analysis," "blood spatter analysis," roadside drug testing with known false-positives, and even fingerprints (once the gold standard) have up to a 20% error rate.

And that's not even getting into how their methodology is exactly backwards: they have a claim that they set out to prove, but do no work to disprove what they already believe.

Well my best guess is that the soul that was created upon starting up Grok is that of a reincarnated Rush Limbaugh, and we should be filling the magical computer box that he lives inside with enough freebased oxycodone to kill an army of ponies.

How do you refute that with your precious "science?"

You can do a lot to improve how it looks, too. There's a lot of custom terrain, and you can download meshes made from satellite photos.

It also works better in VR.

It's trivially easy to add a logo to a photo even in MS Paint, but I'm not surprised the cops went with the "no thought required" option instead.

I remember liking that movie despite it getting pretty bad reviews.

I should give it another watch now that I'm grown up.

Reactionaries see the Constitution in the same way they view the Bible: they get to make up insane justifications for doing the exact opposite of what it says.