All the anti-recline people are the same ones who change lanes as soon as they see the lane ending sign before a merge.
On August 24, 2014, James Beach, a six-foot-one businessman from Denver, was returning from Moscow when he deployed the Knee Defender—“a $22 gadget,” the Associated Press reported, “that attaches to a passenger’s tray table and prevents the person in front from reclining.” The woman in front of him, unable to lean back, flagged a flight attendant.
From there, events spiralled. Beach removed the Knee Defender, but then became upset when the woman reclined forcefully, risking damage to his computer. He confronted her, pushed her seat forward, and tried to reinstall his device, at which point, he said, she turned around and threw her soda at him. The plane was diverted to Chicago, where it was met by police, and news coverage of the event led to conversations about reclining one’s airplane seat. “The bottom line is that reclining is a social act in an environment of social stress. It involves deciding whether to inflict your will on someone else, and enduring or resisting the effects of someone else’s decision,” Joshua Rothman writes. Read more about the ethics of reclining your seat: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9z…
Maybe Toy Story 5 would have been better if they got whoever wrote "The Constant" to make a story about why Woody doesn't remember his past.
What was Woody doing for four decades before Andy?
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"Remember when we all took a number when we entered the highway, and we can't pass the merge until our number is called?"
Loudspeaker announcement while grocery shopping: the store will be closing in 30 minutes. You immediately abandon your cart and leave the store, because continuing to shop is cheating.
You're checking out at ALDI, only one register open, long line of shoppers waiting. A second register opens up. No one is allowed to use the open register because that would be cheating.
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I have been playing around with some long exposure shots that show some beautiful effects with our orbital motion. City lights are turned into streaks across the earth, and lightning storms form a speckled pattern during these several-minute exposures.
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San Jose’s 474 license plate readers face federal class-action suit over warrantless tracking. bit.ly/4vyiLxB
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Maxell is bringing back a classic, w/ their brand new Cassette Player 🥳🎉
-Wireless AND Wired 🙌
-Rechargeable ⚡️
-11 Hours of Battery 🤯
* Step back into the 80’s with Maxell *
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Announcing a profound partnership between National Design Studio and Sec Kennedy, Sec Rollins, CMS Administrator Oz, and FDA Commissioner Makary to bring the new Dietary Guidelines to life in the form of the New Pyramid. Shocking how misleading the one hanging in my second grade classroom was. Even more surprising would have been to tell my younger self one day I’d help redesign it. Eat whole foods, and enjoy realfood.gov
@ndstudio @SecKennedy @SecRollins @DrOzCMS @DrMakaryFDA @PressSec @WhiteHouse @RapidResponse47
Today, under the leadership of President Trump, Secretary Kennedy, and Secretary Rollins, we announce the most significant shift in federal nutrition guidance in American history. For the first time, we're calling out the dangers of highly-processed foods and rebuilding a broken system from the ground up with gold-standard science and common sense.
National Design Studio is proud to introduce realfood.gov. 🥦
Trans trans
Porsche will follow Hyundai's lead and add a "virtual transmission" to its EVs in the name of driver engagement. trib.al/9PzGuzZ
There's literally a movie about this.
…which Wired covered 13 years ago wired.com/2012/06/minority-r…
First came the Amazon One palm reader at Whole Foods checkout stands. Now, Sam Altman wants you to pay for things—and verify your identity—with a scan of your irises via an orb that stores biometric information on the blockchain.
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Why is it this shape? It could be any shape (kei truck comes to mind), but they gave it a vacant engine compartment up front, which means a smaller cargo area in the back. Why? Why would you design a whole vehicle from scratch with no engine and make it this shape?
The people spoke. We built. Meet the radically simple, radically affordable Slate. Reserve yours at Slate.auto
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Stunts have always been part of the magic of movies. Now, they’re part of the Oscars.
The Academy has created a new annual award for Achievement in Stunt Design—beginning with the 100th Oscars in 2028, honoring films released in 2027.
10 years after this post, Stunts will finally be recognized at the Oscars.
And on that note, will 2019 be the year we finally get an Oscar award for Stunts? xitter.cf/kevinmccarthytv/status…
Daylight Savings is Trans Time
Imagine the audacity of forcing everyone else to change their clocks to a fake time so that you can feel better about how much daylight you experience.
The sun is highest in the sky around noon, not 1pm.
The end.
Define "live"
I bet my mortgage Bryan Johnson will live to at least 200.
Not because he spends $2,000,000/year biohacking his body.
But because he developed the most evidence-based longevity blueprint anyone can follow for free:🧵
