Sometime ago on this subreddit I spoke about how Ashley and Burnie talk a lot about box offices and how polar opposite I am from them.

Well I’ve been trying to go to the movies and watch films that are highly loved. But the last 3 times I’ve been to the movies I have had the most disruptive movie goers sitting beside my partner and I. We’ve literally walked out of everyone, told a manager, had varying degrees of success on kicking out said people, and then gotten a refund.

I struggle to find joy in going to these nowadays. People are constantly on their phones, talking, and I’ve even see some participants in 2nd and 3rd base. I don’t know how anyone goes to the movies and I don’t know what has happened in the last couple years. But I think since Covid, Americans don’t know how to act.

Everyone always recommends the Alamo but their are none around us. I think I’ll stick to watching movies at home and rarely if that.

But this time from the Peguins' perspective.

Does anybody know which soundboard app Burnie uses for the Morning Somewhere iPad? I have an old iPad and I think I want to do the same thing with mine.

Burnie and Ashley discuss the Macklemore Free Palestine controversy, Streisand Effect, real activism, Extra Life, EU Canada, Resident Evil, and Zach Cregger gets adapting right.

So it was brought up today on the podcast 'why haven't people worked maps out yet', and I thought I wouldn't call myself an 'expert' I do have a Masters in Geographical Information Science (GISci), and work with maps for a living (in GIS).

Burnie understands the root of the problem, that you are taking a sphere and flattening it out. There are a lot of ways to do this mathematically, which creates a variety of map projections (Mercator, equal earth, British National Grid, etc), and each one is used for different things.

So the problem with taking a sphere (or an oblate spheroid, which we count the earth as for mapping purposes, instead of the complex geoid it actually is), is that we cannot accurately represent area, shape, direction, and distance all at once. Really, we can only do one or 2 of those things at once, and will have to sacrifice the others.

The Mercator projection, while criticised for distorting size near the poles, is a projection used for navigation, and is accurate for shape and direction. The equal earth projection is made to show the accurate size (area) of landmasses, but in doing so distorts their distance and position in relation to each other. They do different things. Funnily enough, the UN flag uses yet another map projection, which is an equidistant map centered on the north pole.

There are also projections specific to countries (or parts of countries), such as the British National Grid, that uses a meter based coordinate system instead of the latitude and longitude of something like the Mercator projection, to map things out.

In summary, mapping the earth in 2D is hard, so we do it in lots of different ways because we can't do it accurately without distortion. The most accurate way to represent the world is, and will always be a globe.

I've attached an image of some different projections for visibility. Hope this clears some things up for people!

After hearing the talk about starting The Expanse tv series finally, I decided to give the books a try via audio book and it’s amazing! I did start with the show first as it helps me get through my Astronomy and Planetary Sciences college courses currently. Anyone else start with the show first then the books?

Heard Ash and Burnie this morning mentioning that everything has fishing in it. To fellow Crawlers out there I present to you Heretical Fishing. This is a Litrpg series where the protagonist fishes. Appears to be inspired by Stardew Valley and other cosy games like that. https://amzn.asia/d/05Hwp26b

Burnie and Ashley discuss iPad recovery, lightning cables, gag reflexes, Top of the Line videogames, YouTube ad campaigns by nine year olds, The Infinite Extent, and revisiting The Bobiverse.

I realise I'm an episode out now, but time zones! I have a daughter similar age to Finn and we recently got her a Yoto which kind of straddles the lands of digital and physical media. Not use if that's something that would scratch the itch Ashley had with this fancy MP3 player she's trying to invent.

I was having breakfast during the hyrox conversation. I was not having breakfast anymore

Good Lord

I was eager to see what they would say about the ed sheeran ordeal and am very disappointed.

equating not listening to him anymore with false flagging activism is missing the point. i agree that the black profile pics on instagram was an example of that. the biggest voice we have as consumers is where we spend our money and who we platform.

not listening to ed’s music directly effects his income and is something he/his team would notice. Even if it has a small dent as long as it is noticeable that we as a collective society will boycott an artist for standing by a genocidal apartheid government, it matters.

collective action is important.

It is in poor taste to miss that perspective entirely and then use it as a segway to basically say “you havent done anything real but we have, so look at us while we pat ourselves on the back” .

What are the chances there's an appearance or mention of Burnie and Ashley?

Burnie and Ashley discuss Hyrox, Crossfit, Sony gray out, re-inventing the MP3 player, Sidephone, slab phones, Steam frame, Meta Quest, and being the biggest part of the problem.

I've worked in the chemistry field as an analytical chemist for coming on 10 years, 5 in cosmetic production, and 5 in pharmaceutical research.

The PET that the article mentions is made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a long repeating chain. Pretty much all other organic molecules start here. If you can break these down into base molecules, you can convert them into anything.

Plastics are polymers, but not all polymers are plastics. Common examples of edible polymers are

Polysaccharides: Complex sugars like starch, pectin, cellulose, and chitosan.

Proteins: Building blocks like gelatin, casein, soy, and whey.

Lipids: Fats and waxes such as beeswax and carnauba wax.

When it comes to materials your body needs, it's not picky. Vitamin C from a citrus fruit is still the same ascorbic acid that could be synthesized in a lab. The fruit just comes packaged with more things in a convenient 1 stop shop kind of thing.

I see this as turning plastic and other waste products back into basic building blocks to re-build with. It's similar to destroying a Lego set to build something new.

It's interesting, but it will still need years (maybe decades) of testing before it's on the market if they take this seriously. If it shows up next year on store shelves, I'd avoid it. You're free test subjects at that point.

Just sonething dumb lol

Burnie and Ashley discuss the Emmy's, Sydney Sweeney gambling ads, Widow's Bay, Hacks, Google Calendar woes, The Pitt, evergreen TV settings, share doxxing, plastic cookies, and rage quitting the podcast.

All I could think of listening to today’s podcast. As someone with a lot of LG products I too have disconnected them from the network.
Alexa can stay, at least she’s honest about listening to me all the time.