They’re in the process of adding another building to this office complex in Torrance. Meanwhile, they’ve cleaned up the existing buildings a bit, replacing the traditional stripe pattern of windows and narrow strips of wall with this broken-line pattern that actually looks interesting.
Originally posted on Instagram. When I imported it here, I decided to use the wider crop and description from Flickr.
The Verge ponders: Has the internet been overtaken by the eldritch horror of Yog-Sothoth?
We’ve got this dimension right next to ours, that extends across the entire planet, and it is just brimming with nightmares. We have spambots, viruses, ransomware, this endless legion of malevolent entities that are blindly probing us for weaknesses, seeking only to corrupt, to thieve, to destroy.
—Astercrash
It’s a joke, of course. And it would make for an interesting story. But it’s scarier that we’ve created the awfulness ourselves.
Update Feb 2023: With some of the AI-generated art and writing going around these days, the cosmic horror comparison seems even more apt.
One more time, religious freedom means you get to practice your religion, not force other people to follow yours. This isn’t complicated.
Imagine for a moment that [insert religion you don’t like] lobbies the government to force you to follow their rules on behavior, dress, etc. You see where this is going, right? Because you have imagined it. Now think for a minute, because it’s the same thing.
Religious freedom has to apply to everyone — including minority religions and those without religion — or it isn’t freedom, it’s favoritism.
You don’t like birth control? Don’t take it. But don’t block other people from taking it when you’re in a position of power over them.
That’s not you following your religion. That’s you forcing other people to follow your religion. And that infringes on their freedom.
Wow, bedtime stories have really changed in the last couple of years.
Kiddo talked me into Minecraft. Today we made obsidian from a pool of lava, and gathered enough to make a Nether portal. We got back from the Nether OK, but it sent us to a new portal hundreds of blocks away, in an unexplored cavern…under the ocean.
We spent all afternoon tunneling up (slowly) and over so we could come out on dry land. A few close calls with water, but we made it!
