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Just saw this over SW North Dakota. I thought it must be a starlink train but it looks like they haven't launched since Monday. Anyone know what it could be or should I be posting in the paranormal thread?

From my driveway a few minutes ago... Taken with Night Sight mode on a Pixel 8.

They're visible with the naked eye but not as bright as you see in those long exposure photos. Last spring there were northern lights almost nightly and they seem to be coming back this fall. I've seen more northern lights this year than in the rest of my life combined and by a large margin...

I wouldn't blame her personally. I think she's playing the part Sheridan wrote in the way he told her to play it. She's just a slightly more extreme version of many of his female characters.

This forum is just for haters. You know what's going to be here before you click on the thread. I haven't seen the movie but the book monster is a tragic figure. He's a very sympathetic character who just wants to live in peace and mostly kills people either by accident or because he snaps...

They were referencing this practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_of_Native_American_women It doesn't really make any sense though because not only is Beth white, she's also not old enough to have been getting an abortion when this practice was happening in the 60's and 70's. I...

This is how a lot of ranchers handle their finances as well. "It's almost the end of the year and there's still money in the bank? Better buy something so I don't have to pay taxes!"

That would be funny if McDaniel came back to the 49ers just like Saleh did.

Why do we need this post? I heard an interview with del Toro about this and he said it's based on the book directly and not any of the other adaptations since. I want to watch it but my big screen TV is taken apart for a remodel that I'm theoretically going to finish some day and I want to...

That would be an awesome shop stool. Probably designed for Japanese people and has a 150 lb weight limit though.

Reminds me of the most recent black mirror season episode where the woman gets a brain implant and then starts just randomly pausing to do an ad.

That thing looks utterly useless.

When my grandfather was in hospice and pretty much unconscious at one point he blurted out "What in the fuck am I gonna do about this?". Probably more interesting than most people's last words but we never found out what he was worried about.

My only thought when I hear something about quantum physics is that they could tell me absolutely anything because I have no way of detecting bullshit when everything about quantum physics sounds like bullshit.

Did anyone see Halley's comet in 1986? I was 9 years old and I remember my dad going out early in the morning to try to see it through his rifle scope but I don't think he ever did. You couldn't get as much good advice about when and where to look as you can now. I'll be 84 next time it comes...

I had a neighbor that did dialysis for a long time. On top of everything else he was driving 200 miles each way to get to the clinic twice a week. He came to a point where he just said "I'm not doing this anymore" and he was gone a few weeks later. It must be crazy knowing that you are going...

Yeah, even if you think knob and tube was an awesome idea, if you see it that means your wiring is 50+ years old and that alone is probably a pretty good reason to replace it.

BMI is useful as a statistic on a large group of people. It's not that useful for an individual because there's too many things it doesn't take into consideration. There are many much better ways to tell if you're in shape or not than the ratio of your height to your weight.

If all you want is for the number on the scale to go down, diet will certainly do that. If you want to be healthy though, you should definitely exercise.

I don't have a new F-150 but I love the Ecoboost engine. I had the same feeling when I bought it, I wanted a v-8 but I found something that checked all my other boxes so I decided to try the Ecoboost and I wouldn't go back. I had to replace the timing chain which I understand is pretty common...

Just call him Creamsicle Herbert.

That's got to be tough seeing him like that. Getting old is a bitch.

It's crazy to think that this was my favorite show for like 10 years and then I stopped watching and 25 years later it's still on.

I thought this year was going to depend on Christian McCaffrey staying healthy. Now he and elderly Trent Williams are the only stars left on the team. It's like Shanahan wished on a monkey's paw that he would stay healthy this year. I'd hate to know what percentage of SF's salary cap is going...

They already had a path. All they had to do was hire a coder to work for them for a few days. AI makes it cheaper and easier, but the idea was the important part all along.

This is dead on. He lucked out on stumbling across a million dollar idea, but he could have hired someone to code it for him for very little money or learned to code himself. AI just reduced the friction a bit.

My Dad died a month before his 56th birthday. That was almost 17 years ago now and I'm only 8 years away from living longer than he did. You definitely aren't guaranteed to have anyone until they're 90, including yourself. You have to think about the future but you should also consider what you...

Calamari steaks is another thing I miss from living in California. Can't get any kind of calamari here really outside of a restaurant.

No. You are required to be outraged that an intentionally corny video game based TV show has replaced the statuesque British guy in a blonde wig with a statuesque Australian guy in a blonde wig. You must hate the show and everything about it and make many posts about how outraged you are and...

Yeah it just goes to show you that a lot of the shit we do is really nit-picky and most people aren't going to care as long as it's edible. Hell when I was in my 20's I used to put a rack of ribs on the grill and flip them every 15 minutes for about 45 minutes and I thought those were good...

I won a "trip" to Las Vegas one time and it wound up just being 3 nights in a hotel in the middle of the week. Had to pay for my own airfare, my own food and entertainment, and I'm sure they were betting that I would drop more at the casino than my room (which probably would have been empty on...

I think Bourdain's greatest talent was as a writer. The dude had a way with words.

Alton interviewed her on his short-lived podcast and she admitted that she didn't do well in culinary school and has no knife skills. I think it was more about being on TV for her than it was about food but the show was not the worst thing out there and it had her on it and she usually had...

I always referred to her show as "Everyday Italian with Giada's boobs."

Marie Calendar's frozen turkey pot pies are a life-long guilty pleasure of mine. Completely disagree that the crust doesn't add anything. Biscuits, puff pastry, etc. are fine as well but a well made pie crust is one of the greatest things you can eat. Very few people actually make them...