Today I got fooled by an AI video - Straight Dope This morning I got this youtube short in my feed, showing barnacles being removed from a whale at sea Finally something good happening! But I found the scenario surprising enough to google a bit into it…and of course it’s AI Watching again, knowing it is not real, the only thing I can see is that the bit where the barnacles are coming off is too much, and the brush is different for the
What is the origin of the phrase Nuke The Whales? I remember seeing bumper stickers in the 80s that were an amalgam of many common bumper stickers at the time They read “Nuke a gay whale for Jesus” “Nuke the gay whales, for Christ’s sake” is a phrase I remember from the early 80s
So, who decided Frankenstein was set in Transylvania? Something else I noticed while watching several of these old movies was that – aside from the inevitably gypsies – most of the townspeople of exotic Transylvania seemed to be British, with the occasional German thrown in Mel Brooks noticed the same thing, which is why he had a cockney constable in Young Frankenstein (according to the DVD
My Roku Turns Itself On - Factual Questions - Straight Dope For the last month or so, I’ve been arriving home after school and finding my Roku TV turned on and in screen saver mode At first, I thought maybe that, in my half comatose waking state, I didn’t notice that I had left it on when I went to bed and left with it still on in the morning Nope I’m absolutely sure I am turning it off when I go to bed and finding it still off in the morning
Shortest distance between Alcatraz Island and shore In three years of whale watching out of San Francisco and four years of teaching in local national parks and marine sanctuaries I’ve never heard of nor seen a lemon shark in San Francisco Bay or the surrounding waters including the Gulf of the Farallones and other local estuaries such as Tomales Bay, Drake’s Estero, etc
Whats the difference between a bush and a tree? One dividing line is that a boat can be carried on a ship So when the USS Cole was put onto that dry-dock ship and carried home it became a boat I guess
When Did Food Prepared by White People Become Synonymous With Bland . . . For a long time Facebook’s algorithm kept recommending posts from a page called “White People Making White People Food” (Yes, I still scroll through Facebook from time to time) From what I could tell the page was run by a Louisiana native who had relocated to the Midwest and was posting pictures of all the bland Midwestern food he encountered, and was incredulous that people from there