Ben Brockert

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Space. Travel. Not yet space travel.
Street tough #caturday

This is a grapevine. it's crazy what you can do in warm climates.

In Iowa there are wild grapes, but it is basically a new vine every year.

Ate gummy candy a stranger gave me on the sidewalk. I would be very easy to drug.

In Germany there is a law that makes it trivial to get online reviews of your company removed by sending legal threats to the reviewers. As you would expect, this has been completely co-opted by "reputation management" kinds of companies who will polish your Google Maps review to 4.9 by getting most 1-3 star reviews deleted.

I was glad to see today that Google is finally responding to the falseness of the resulting score, at least a little bit.

In a better world they'd just ban the place.

We appear to be at peak allium.

Old test stands had such an incredible look to them. Everything was done by physically manipulating connections between wires, rather than flipping bits over an ethernet connection.

A UK test stand for Blue Streak, which was a derivative of the US Atlas rocket, with a huge ~110 pin connector to bridge wires correctly for TEST or FIRE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DR20rDr6yA

The degree to which the US’s export economy is focused on the past and accelerating global warming, and China’s is focused on the future and not, is striking.
A well-whiskered #caturday. Every time I visit Turkey I end up with mostly cat photos, I should make an account just for that.
If you aren’t pleased with your cobbled beach experience, we have included a receipt so that you can return it.
I’ve detected hipsters.