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Here is the Typhoon II

All lies. The fans couldn’t push the thing without a polished smooth surface. You see it spinning? Think about where the fans are, because that’s the only steering it had.

I always recount the story of the Hovercraft Christmas.

There was one toy I wanted for Christmas. We were firmly middle class growing up, so it wasn’t like I had all the toys, but I was old enough to know that my parents were footing the bill and getting an RC hovercraft was going to mean I only get one present that year.

Iirc it was called the Typhoon, or maybe the Typhoon II.

The commecials showed it zipping across land and water, jumping off ramps, bouncing off a lake, etc. It was the coolest fucking thing ever. I begged my parents for it, and would not shut up for months about getting an RC hovercraft.

Christmas comes, and wonderous joy, I got the hovercraft! Life is good, but the battery needs to charge. Shit, OK, we plug it in and let it charge all day while we go do the normal Christmas family visits. Everyone I talked to that day got a lesson in how hovercrafts work, and how it can travel on a pocket of air to move across land AND water.

We got home late that night. It was probably after 10pm, way past everyone’s bedtime, including my parents who had been up all night making the Christmas magic happen for my younger siblings who still believed. But I put my fucking foot down. I had waited for months to get my hovercraft. I had waited all day for the battery to charge. I would not wait another god damned minute to go zipping around the backyard. So, my dad and I put coats on over our pajamas, went out to the driveway, and fired that bad boy up.

I can still perfectly remember the sound of the fans turning on, and the little rubber skirt inflating. Sure enough, the hovercraft was floating on a pocket of air! But the driveway was on a mild incline, so the hovercraft started to drift sideways. Then I hit the throttle and… nothing. Just the sound of the fans spinning, but no motion.

Bzzzzz. BZZZZZZ. Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz. The fans spun impotently against the inertia of the hovercraft. It wouldn’t move at all, except to sadly drift towards the gutter. My dad gave it a little nudge with his foot, and it got stuck on a tiny stone chip.

I learned a lot about physics from that one night, but I learned even more about advertising.

Just to add, they pay someone to make the board report or PowerPoint presentation for them.

How many holes do you have?

Yeah, we probably won’t even notice, even if we hadn’t been extinct for millions of years.

Are we expecting these customers to knowthe difference? I’m over here formulating a business plan, so let me know please.

But how would they know the difference?

Donny said a lot of dumb things. His numbers don’t go down. His followers are devoted to him, and we have to beat them because they are horrible people.

I mean, I get nosebleeds some times. Am I throwing away profits?

Where do you think we are?

Adjustable height desk.

A good chair that is the proper height and adjustable.

Adjustable height monitor supports.

Ergonomics is all about geometry. Most of the problems people try to fix w8th wrist supports or ergonomic keyboards are really problems with sitting too high or too low in comparison to the keyboard and/or monitors.

The ability to raise and lower the chair, the desk, and the monitors independently will make a world of difference.

Because Conservativism is not an ideology. It’s narcissism dressed in a stoic costume. Conservatives believe themselves to be righteous, so they support policies and legislation that benefit themselves. They gain followers by promoting a sense of belonging so they can defend the self and attack the other. There is no lie to brazen, no hypocrisy too obvious, no depth too low for a conservative seeking power, because they are justified by their identity. If the conservative is good, then anything the conservative does or says is good while they are doing it or saying it.

When they can no longer hold power through politics, they always fall back on fascism and bigotry.

I’m with you that we need phev’s to bridge the infrastructure gap, but electric motors provide more torque at lower speeds without the need for gears.

Killing libraries is not about saving money, it’s about restricting knowledge. Beware the leader that doesn’t want the people to read.

In 1857, Congress eliminated the half penny because it was worthless.

At the time the buying power of the half penny was more than a penny, a nickel, a dime, and two more pennies. 18 cents was the value when Congress said it was not worth making the coin anymore.

We could eliminate three of our coins without affecting the economy, but doing so would draw attention to inflation.

Username checks out.

While you’re here, can I as you a favor? Talk to your people. Those fuckers have been up to some bullshit.

The short answer is DC, but it’s a complex question.

Golden Age comics all had their own siloed enviroments, and it wasn’t until the 1940 All Star Comics #3 introduced the Justice Society that they even shared a universe. All Star would later merge with two other publishers to form DC.

Wonder Woman was the first character to visit an parallel Earth in 1953, where different versions of everyone lived alternate lives.

DC rebooted all of their characters, starting the Silver Age of comics. In 1961, Silver Age Flash Barry Allen crossed over to the Golden Age world, meeting Jay Garrick. This is considered the true beginning of the DC Multiverse as a plot point. The Wonder Woman parallel world would occasionally pop up, but wasn’t a major part of the continuity the way Flash of Two Worlds was.

Marvel introduced their own Multiverse in the 1970s in the Captain Britain series, and the idea became the basis for the popular What If…? series.

DC also introduced the Multiverse in their Arrowverse/Supergirl crossover event, establishing that all of the TV shows and movies could theoretically cross over, but the DC shows were far better received than the films.

That’s OK, memory is weird like that.

Yeah, this seems like an obvious trick question.

The line is “WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!”

I remember, because I say it a lot.