Which is to say: when you find something that looks like this.
Via @RocketPulpHack. I figure nobody died, because otherwise I’d have seen this fifty million times already, but… there aren’t that many industrial uses for something with that shape. Since one of them is to blow things up that other people don’t want you to blow up, better safe than sorry: call the nice explosive experts. You know. Just in case.
Somewhere, there’s a bunch of Waffle House employees going over this video, and taking notes. Why? Because the true professional recognizes that there’s always more to learn. Waffle House doesn’t do much with parking lot brawls except let the cops deal with it, because no drive-thrus. They can analyze this with fresh eyes.
Besides, it’s interesting to see how terrain can change a takedown.
Via @RocketPulpHack. Also: old, but real.
I’m with @ZODIAC_MF that there are more immediately and genuinely traumatizing things out there, but the scenario presented in the video below made me laugh out loud. So there’s that.
(H/T: @iowahawkblog) The thing is, I don’t know who should be more offended (and possibly contemplating a trademark suit): DC, or Mattel.
…being a successful writer can be done, people obviously can do it, everybody’s got to figure out their own way to get there, and they do the new-minted Ultraviolet-clearance writer will deliberately rewrite The Computer’s source code to make it treasonous for any other Violet-clearance clone to use the same trick.
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Yeah, the simile kind of died screaming under the knife there, at the end. Sorry about that! Anyway:
I don’t care if this ad features the weapons-grade emotional manipulation that you only see in Thai retail commercials*. Let me repeat this: I don’t care. When I make it as a writer, I’m getting a Volvo.
This is a perfectly logical use for the artifact. Your objection is unreasonable. Picayune, even.
This was in response to a thread about terraforming, which I will concede will be a hell of a lot harder to do than it’s usually portrayed in science fiction. But it’s not actually impossible. Speaking of impossible…
