this is WRONG. they LOVED bureaucracy. romans invented the concept of a building inspector!!! augustus capped apartment blocks at 70 ft because they kept pancaking on tenants, nero wrote an entire building code after rome burned in 64 ad, including mandating wider streets…
1995: oh cool you can buy books online now
2026: the company that owns Whole Foods and Lord of the Rings is experiencing setbacks with its space program
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
Square Enix will open permanent Cafe & Shop locations in Los Angeles and Shinjuku Tokyo in Spring 2026.
"The cafe spaces will offer menu items inspired by multiple SQUARE ENIX IPs, while the adjoining shop spaces will carry a wide selection of official merchandise"
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
Zohran Mamdani: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."