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The problem with scifi body armor

https://acoup.blog/2024/11/29/collections-the-problem-with-sci-fi-body-armor/

Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor

This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly …

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Owainski 1d ago

Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾1d ago

For gods sakes it's EE-RAHN, not AI-RAN

Owainski 1d ago

Peter Gleick 6d ago

Hey all, I'm afraid that if you're on mastodon.social server and were following me, you've been accidently deleted from my list.
If you want to follow me, you'll have to refollow. Thanks. 🚨

Owainski 2d ago

Dan Gillmor 2d ago

Fascist American immigration police, in action: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation

Alistair Kitchen on being detained at Los Angeles International Airport and sent back to Australia because of his reporting on the protests at Columbia University criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza.

The New Yorker

Owainski 2d ago

David Ho 2d ago

Look people, no matter how much we destroy the Earth by polluting it with CO₂, microplastics, PFAS, etc. everywhere, and even if AMOC shuts down and both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt, the Earth will still be infinitely more habitable than Mars. Mars is a shithole and we're not going.

@thetyee
There's no "growing mood" of Alberta separatism! There's just a deranged provincial leader who throws out silly distractions like this so that we'll ignore all of the damage that she's doing to our province.

Owainski 5d ago

@Vivaldi Is there a way to have Vivaldi prefer IPv4 addresses over IPv6? Right now it's using the IPv6 and isn't connecting to the site although the IPv4 fron DNS is correct and works perfectly well. The server at the other end is using the resolved name to differentiate between different domain names when choosing which site to display (or indeed any site at all) so I can't just plug in the IPv4 address.

Owainski Jun 13

mhoye Jun 12

High-grade cancon, right here.

Owainski Jun 12

Quite a few reasons why buying movies on the internet is a fool's game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Defunct_video_on_demand_services

I'll give Apple props for not failing this test yet, although I do wonder how many iTunes -> Apple TV migrations there will be before “Oops; it's gone” happens.

Category:Defunct video on demand services - Wikipedia

Owainski Jun 11

So, did Brian Wilson die or something?

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