Clay B 

This is the best photo I’ve ever taken and the client didn’t wanna use it. Pls enjoy bc otherwise it will never see the light of day :,)

The Zagreb School of Animation was a wild, totally unique movement. And its rare/obscure films keep getting restored and uploaded for free. We've put together a new look at what made this group special, and a guide to the work now available:

The Animation Trove That Keeps Growing

This is poetry on the level of Rudyard Kipling.

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I head a version of this one as a Soviet bid to build the tunnel under the English Channel: we'll start to dig from both ends; worst case scenario, you'll have two tunnels.

Funny thing is, this is actually how they did dig the tunnel in the end.

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Yes, these are quite common. I am not sure I will get to these, because frankly some of them are quite appallingly racist, especially in the context of the history of the Chukchi.

I did prepare this one, though, which is maybe less funny but more dignified:

"The ethnographer sits opposite the shaman and thinks: ‘Poor, ignorant savage! Does he really think that in the world of spirits there really exists the same river Yenisei, the same taiga, and the same reindeer? What a primitive religion!’

The …

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Allow me to suggest curling! You have a curling club right in your back yard, schenectadycurlingclub.… It's social - one of the most revered traditions is post-game broomstacking, where the winning team buys drinks and you sit down and chat for a while. It's adaptable to various levels of physical ability - if crouching is a struggle, there are people who stand and use push sticks, like shuffleboard; there are also wheelchair curlers. There's a lot of physics involved - the standard billiard ba…

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Yes, There are Conservatives for Kamala
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The direction of the magnetic force depends on the direction of the magnetic field of the ball and the magnetic field induced in the block. The magnetic field of the ball doesn't change direction, but the direction of the field in the block depends on the direction of the induced current, and the direction of the induced current depends on the direction of motion of the ball, which does change. So you wind up with a force that always opposes motion, similar to friction. (It is a non-conservativ…

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I think it can definitely make a difference, but my guess is that any ball hit well enough to go 400-ish feet is probably hit pretty squarely, so you wouldn't be introducing that much spin. I'm not sure about pitches that are coming in with crazy amounts of spin, though.

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Rules and Norms, Three-Pointers and Icing
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I take issue with a few different parts of that. First, Im not "forgetting" the proportional-to-benefits idea. But rich people both consume more government services and more importantly they get more value from many of the same services. The security of property created by law enforcement is much more valuable if you have a lot of property. Second, I just don't find that to be an accurate description of the textbook theory. At least not good textbooks. A better way to describe it would be taxe…

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It's certainly not as dramatic as 9/11 or the Shuttle disasters, but it completely fucked politics in a way that even the Iraq debacle did not, and in a lot of ways we're still paying for it.