If you watched the new episode of "White Lotus," I invite you to discuss it, with spoilers, in the comments.
We watched as soon as it became available. Waiting for that moment to arrive, we were straining to follow the stammering silhouette, Elon Musk, that paced in front of a screen-filling, lit-up American flag. The flag image was so intense that when I averted my eyes, I hallucinated a flag that looked like this....
ADDED: Here's a look at the stage in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with Musk leaning into the "cheesehead" ethos:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 31, 2025
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Conveying his stammered message that burns the brain with the force of a laser. Neon Elon.
So glad our spokesperson is the king of the nerds!
I think blank is blanks’s blank! I also think blank should take the money from blank.
Thus proving that the opposites on the color wheel are applicable to the physics of light as perceived by humans. Also, this is what a bumblebee sees when they look at our flag. (Okay I made that last part up)
For the roaming pedants, "Okay I made up that last part."
The image of the color-reversed flag immediately took me back to when I was a kid, looking at a Time-Life book my parents had bought for me on the subject of human sight. It was full of optical illusions, and in particular, this one. The flag colors were reversed as shown, and the instructions were to hold it close to your face and stare at the center of it for one or two minutes, and then to quickly look away at a blank (white) wall. There was Old Glory, in the correct color scheme, hovering in front of you for around 20 seconds or so until your retinas recovered.
He's distracting from Trump's agenda.
If they come out and try to cut Social Security for the GenXers, well... there won't be hell to pay as we just don't have the numbers, but let's not assume everyone was able to "plan ahead" and keep the 401ks they had built up from a lifetime of working when the first recession from the Bush/Cheney wars/subprime mortgage crisis tanked the economy in the 20-teens, and then Covid isolation for contract workers and the health bills that came in the wake for many who contracted the virus early also came calling...
Fair, we want a fair country that rewards workers, not takers. And doesn't judge everyone as a taker who falls on hard times and had legit needs. Get help, work hard, better yourself, take just enough to survive not get rich on the misfortunes of others... that's the American way.
How's that tip jar coming with this blog parroting the new "conservative" way? Somebody must be hitting you up big for such a change in tone. Surely meade alone cannot account for the change in "I follow the law, always!" grrrl scout attitude of the blog founder?
Be careful what you with for (not a threat, just an observation). Minnesota (or Colorado, for that matter) won't be able to hold all the fleeing Wisconsinites who belatedly realize that selling out your freedoms for $100 and a rally to cheer on a dysfunctional rich man (richest in the world!) while simultaneously having your tax dollars drained to support the killings in Gaza to clear the land for beachfront development is not a good deal.
"Kill the homeless!" and "No Masks Dammit, the old people need to die whilst we spread this!" are not winning hands in the end. YOu'll see, just like you likely see now what you "won" when Walker gutted your educational system in the state.
Sometimes, paying your "fair share" and investing in the future (even if you won't be around to see it) as well as coming out of your mansions to actually interact with, and help, your community is a good thing. I still believe in America, and humanity. Don't sell out, Wisconsin. It will only hurt you in the end. (not a threat, just a warning from an observer with an excellent track record of calling these things....)
I garner the spoiler isn’t 51 or 52 stars.
meade was at the rally waving his flags hoping to win ya's a million or two, wasn't he??? *wink*
The hummingbirds are so far rejecting my new feeders. They’re red but I’m wondering what they look like to the hummers…
I remember something like that from the World Book Encyclopedia. When you look at this version long enough, the stripes also seem to flicker or wave. Op-Art.
"The flag colors were reversed as shown, and the instructions were to hold it close to your face and stare at the center of it for one or two minutes, and then to quickly look away at a blank (white) wall. There was Old Glory, in the correct color scheme, hovering in front of you for around 20 seconds or so until your retinas recovered."
Yes, that's why an image existed on the web that fit the description I wrote of what I saw. Only after I published the post did I realize that it had been made to produce the reverse optical effect, the hallucination of the properly colored American flag.
I haven't seen Scott Glenn since 'Hunt for Red October'. I mean, yeah, we all get old but, Jesus, that shook me last night.
Where have you gone, Bart?
Whiskeybum, I too grew up on those books, and remember playing with that image. Right now, I'm looking at the few I have left, after my older sister stole most of them for her own kids. All I have left are Mathematics, The Scientist, Growth, and Man And Space.
And then they turned from greatness to streaming tripe…
No real spoilers in that episode. This whole season seems to be a letdown. It's good and has it's moments, but everything is dragging out without any real tension or reveals. Sam Rockwell's sex addiction story was a really funny moment for me.
The first two seasons were better.
The hummingbirds are so far rejecting my new feeders. They’re red but I’m wondering what they look like to the hummers…
They may be rejecting your nectar. Don't buy packaged hummingbird nectar. Make your own with nothing more than cane sugar and distilled water. Store-bought may contain additives that repel the birds, such as preservatives, or it may have fermented.
Research projects have been uniformly inconclusive regarding red-colored feeders. Generally, the control feeder is visited as often as the red one. Hummers are very territorial and will return to the feeder they choose first and will often try to discourage other hummers from using it. The only strong signal is red versus blue, which suggests blue flowers evolved to attract other pollinators. For example, my wisteria is usually covered with bumblebees, but I've never noticed a hummingbird feeding on them.
If you stare at the Musk flag in just the right way, eventually the SpaceX logo will appear, floating in front
Better watch out there, Elon - you almost did the Cheesehead salute!
The business of the color juxtaposition on the flag is called simultaneous contrast. See art installations by James Turrell to be immersed in this optical illusion.
I certainly understand why women dig him. It's sexy to be pro-truth, pro-American, anti-left-wing lie machine, and super intelligent.
The corrupt lying liar puppet soros-whore/ domestic democratic terrorist MSNBC-toxic waste dump Adam Schitt left can go F itself.
For the roaming pedants, "Okay I made up that last part."
This is the kind of pedantry up with which I will not put.
theres an interesting twist about some of the wardrobe
Opposite color afterimages are not hallucinations, they are merely retinal cone cell recovery. Eyes work using chemistry, unlike light, which is all about physics, and a few seconds are required for a retina to reset after seeing bright colors. Some optical illusions are based on these phenonema, too.
they were designed by an America tourist who dissapeared in 1967, name Jim Thompson, who may have been a spy
Narciso- Jim Thompson has become an iconic Thai brand. I recognized it right away.
Was there a Patton reference? I don’t see a Patton reference…
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