To oversimplify: there was not a demonstrable process that could explain the movement of huge sheets of solid rock, that’s where the reluctance came from. It wasn’t until the ocean floor mapping of the 60s that we understood the non-random nature earthquakes and the existence of mid-ocean ridges that lead the scientific community to accept “seafloor spreading” as the mechanism of Alfred Wegener’s proposed continental drift.

There’s also a level of “there isn’t actually a written record of the obvious use for this so we can’t responsibly call it a dildo” and ritual being an incredibly vague descriptor. It might be an overcorrection to the long history of wildly inaccurate fetishization of “exotic” cultures in anthropology.

Don’t tell them about positive/negative electron movement.

Violence.

Ok but there’s zero movement in a lot of hobby communities here, and I’m not talking about niche interests. There cannot be quality when the quantity is none.

Well that’s at least an inch of electronics and lens and doesn’t address the focal distance problem. You’re putting the cart well before the horse here, automatically swapping from AR to immersive VR is the last thing to solve.

Where, then, is the display?

And they kinda suck.

Electrochromic displays don’t emit light or have anywhere near the color capacity necessary here.

1 can never happen, at least if you’re defining “normal” as currently fashionable sunglasses. AR maybe, but VR needs full color displays at a certain distance so the eye can focus and it needs to block out other light sources. And then the power source and computer needs to connect somehow. Maybe, as in sci-fi maybe, we can develop a superdense high-definition display that beams directly into the retina while compensating for the lens, variable focus, and general motion of the eye so it can sit an inch away and look crisp, but I can’t imagine that being realistic this side of fifty years (and it doesn’t solve the energy or processing problems). VR is either not going to be mainstream in our lifetime or everyone is going to accept wearing a shoebox on their face for the experience.

2 and 3 are reasonable requests, there should be headsets that are as attainable and compatible as a standard monitor.

Dee Snider at least had the conviction to stand up in front of Congress (Along with John Denver and Frank Zappa) to defend against music censorship (fuck you Tipper Gore). He’s not exactly a radical leftist but he’s been consistently pro-Ukraine and vocally opposed to Trump (and George W. before that)

I still like Donnie Darko but it’s definitely best to first see it when you’re a teenage boy.

I hate that “social media” is such a broad umbrella term. It totally lacks useful context. “Social networking site” is great, straightforward and descriptive. But “social media” encompasses every way we communicate with each other except for “traditional media” which got grandfathered through. BBS predates the internet!

All that to say: YouTube is, for many, a public-access TV station and I’m too young to be this mad about it.

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I’d happily have a phone half an inch thicker if it meant a folding or sliding physical keyboard for my large hands.

Of note, they had already distanced themselves from Steve Harwell (lead vocal) for being a giant shithead and uncontrollable alcoholic.

It’s not really for fans of the game, it’s about catching the rest of the country with empty pageantry while raking in advertiser money. Sometimes the game is also good but it hardly matters to the NFL.

They don’t actually know why it happened. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

“I’m a Virgo” touches on some of that, including having a character with a power related to rousing speeches who organizes community action.

It’s inconsistent, to put it mildly. Spider-Man is generally a working class hero and is also an impressionable kid constantly struggling under the pressure to do good. Sometimes that puts him at odds with NYPD, sometimes he comes out in favor of the Super Registration Act (he flip-flopped later)

That’s what happens when a thousand writers contrivute to one canon.