I’m literally a fucking idiot I’ve just gone through my life I guess subconsciously assuming that they find ordinary people who can dance ??? why am I stupid
Modular robots that repair themselves by... stealing parts! 👀
A team at Columbia University built robots made of Truss Links, stick-shaped modules with magnetic connectors at each end.
Connect a few and you get a structure that can expand, contract, roll, and reshape itself.
If a link breaks or comes loose, the robot grabs a spare module nearby and rebuilds itself. No human intervention needed.
A tetrahedron-shaped robot grabbed a spare link like a walking stick.
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cut content from tom holland interviewing tom holland
tom holland: the modern sea peoples are the muslims, who, of course, are really christians pretending otherwise.
tom holland (shifting uncomfortably): right. no, I think the thing is, they’re not actually meant to be muslims in the film. chris, nolan, sorry, he
tom holland: no, no, of course not. but that is precisely the problem with the film. it doesn’t make any sense. because the sea peoples of the period were, broadly speaking, the achaeans. the people the odyssey is actually about.
tom holland: right. erm
tom holland: and they built an extraordinary civilisation. I mean, ancient greece as we understand it emerges from them, and that culture endures, in one form or another, all the way down to eastern rome. until, of course, it is destroyed by the muslims.
tom holland: well, I mean, at the end of the day, muslims have built some incredible things as well. there’s a kebab place near me that I absolutely love, and
tom holland: yes! yes, exactly! of course they did. because muhammad was, in a very real sense, a christian greek.
tom holland (checks his phone): hang on. I think that might actually be what the film’s about.
tom holland: film?
tom holland: the odyssey. christopher nolan.
tom holland: you mean homer? well, homer was a greek, obviously. and, in a profound sense, a muslim.
Very happy to say it again. The Odyssey is an amazing film, and missing out on seeing it because you think it’s woke or whatever is cutting off your nose to spite your face. Your loss.
Alan mentions Dante as someone whose work should be never adapted.
The same Dante who reworked Virgil, & who in turn had reworked Homer?
The same Dante who was then reworked by Tennyson & Joyce?
Why this hate for the classics of Western literature?
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Our 4-year-old suddenly came to me, on the verge of tears, saying, "My tummy won't go down anymore."
My husband, unable to grasp the intent, asked, "Do you mean your tummy hurts?" but got scolded with, "No, that's not it!" "When I go poo, my tummy goes down, but it won't this time," she said.
The two of them came to me in bewilderment. For some reason, I immediately
Guys, this is probably the most important question of your life right now that you have to answer.
What do you think about Kate being Afro-Latina?
GENUINE ANSWERS//CONVOS ONLY #IWEYG
I don’t go here but the comments abt this are so upsetting bc i was a teenage girl with broader masculine features and I thought these drawings were soo cute :/
This pisses me off so badly because every single comment is “they look like grown men with wigs” no the fuck they dont??? have you ever seen a woman irl?
Yk at first you do the 6-7 ironically to relate to the kids...then you get addicted to it. Every time someone says those numbers in that order your arms can't help themselves. They just do it. Pope Bob is not immune to this.
looking at the internet now makes me want to bash my head against a wall. what do you mean ‘full except $47’ if your phone buzzed. why is everything AI. why is this shit on my feed at all
My wallet slipped out at the music festival.
Crowd pushed. Pocket felt light.
Gone.
10 minutes later my phone buzzed.
Debit card charged: $47
Pharmacy.
Stomach dropped. I was reaching to freeze the card
when security tapped my shoulder.