aeronmelon

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[–] aeronmelon 41 points 2 days ago

Thank you for needing the working class to exist. We have received and reviewed your request for sympathy towards your continued indifference to human suffering. Unfortunately we must reject your claim…

[–] aeronmelon 38 points 2 days ago

There was another one similar to this that had a message for the cooks like “make him regret being born.”

[–] aeronmelon 13 points 2 days ago

Bones will be visited by three Vulcans on Christmas Eve.

[–] aeronmelon 6 points 2 days ago

When life takes your big lemon away.

[–] aeronmelon 4 points 2 days ago

I think we got him with cereal box tops.

Early Shultz was absolutely savage.

[–] aeronmelon 11 points 2 days ago

I’m not a religious man, but both pictures of Trump makes it look like he has horns.

[–] aeronmelon 7 points 2 days ago

Oddly familiar…

[–] aeronmelon 5 points 3 days ago

I just tried it and sure enough the second tap of the status bar sends you back. What a time to be alive!

[–] aeronmelon 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

??? No, it references 2000s-era memes. You’re thinking about the Happy Days video for Buddy Holly.

[–] aeronmelon 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

“The transporter is malfunctioning, I can’t get you back!”

manual zoom to face

[–] aeronmelon 9 points 3 days ago

“NO CAPES!”

[–] aeronmelon 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“THIS IS THE CONCIERGE!”

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Vindication (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by aeronmelon to c/tenforward
 

Screenshot of Lemmy via Voyager of a meme and one of the comments replying to it.

The meme is a picture of an invertebrate and reads:
“This is Suzy. Suzy is a basal amniote.

She enjoys sitting in the sun, catching bugs, and laying eggs with extraembryonic membranes.

312 million years ago Suzy had two kids. One evolved into you and the other into a T-Rex. If Suzy isn’t metal as fuck I don’t know who is.”

The reply to this meme reads:
“Yeah, it seemed weird that Janeway and Tom Paris turned into this, but I get it now.”

 

The Tokyo Disney Resort is one of the best Disney Resorts in the entire world, which is rather ironic as... it's not Disney. So how did they manage to convince the Disney company to go against Walt's wishes and proceed to create one of the best Disney resorts worldwide?

Published by ReviewTyme on YouTube in 2021.

 

JR東海「60年分の会いにいこう」

A commercial commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Shinkansen.

From YouTube (translated):
Thanks to you, on October 1, 2024, the Tokaido Shinkansen celebrated its 60th anniversary. We have put 60 years of memories and gratitude into the video, along with past trains and in-car chimes, and photos and videos sent in by customers. Today and in the future, the Tokaido Shinkansen will support your "going to see" journeys.

 

This man is old enough to have voted for Roosevelt in 1944! (I assume he voted Democrat)

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by aeronmelon to c/japanesetrains
 

Above: On the entrance level of Takanawa Gateway Station looking across the open area above the platform level as passengers board a Yamanote Line train.

Let's try something different.

In 2014, JR East announced that they would build a new station on an area of the existing Tamachi Depot in southern Tokyo that would service the Yamanote Line and the Keihin-Tohoku Line. It was the first new station to be built on the Yamanote Line since 1971 and the first to be built on the Keihin-Tohoku Line since 2000. Takanawa Gateway Station (高輪ゲートウェイ駅) began construction in 2017 and was to be opened in advance of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Even though the station opened on schedule, it began service 10 days prior the 2020 Olympics being postponed to 2021 due to the worsening COVID-19 situation worldwide.


An opposing view of tracks 1 & 2 on the platform level below. A counter-clockwise Yamanote Line train is departing (left) just as a clockwise Yamanote Line train arrives (right).

While the station opened to commuters in early 2020, facilities inside the station and adjoined buildings outside the station continued to be worked on all the way through to 2024. In 2025, the south ticket gate is scheduled to open to the public which will mark the completion of construction on the station.


The north ticket gate of Takanawa Gateway Station. Inside and to the left, shopping and dining. Inside and to the right, access to the platform level for the two lines. Directly behind, walkway to shopping centers and condominiums that were still being constructed at the time the photo was taken.

The majority of the station is built above ground, hovering over the tracks and their platforms. The center of the station's entrance level is open to the ground below which allows most people inside the ticket gate to see the trains on all four tracks coming and going with ease. The entire station is shielded from the weather by a steel latticework roof suspended high above the entrance level. Above the entrance is a smaller level with shops and restaurants.


If you look closely, you can see that wood has been integrated into the support beams of the roof. Takanawa Gateway Station is built in almost the same area that the Takanawa Great Wooden Gate once stood as the southern entrance to pre-Tokyo Edo. In a way, this station takes over the duty of ushering people from the south into the city, so the subtle woodwork seems to be a nod to that connection. Otherwise, the entire station is steel and glass.

Outside the station, the elevated entrance leads to additional elevated walkways that connect the station to nearby shopping centers, offices, and residential buildings. The land around the station, which was largely devoid of people, is being repurposed as dense inner-city living and commerce.


The rest of Tamachi Depot that continues to operate as a depot. The Tokaido Shinkansen passes beside Takanawa Gateway Station between Shinagawa and Tamachi Stations. That menacing Bond villain-looking building belongs to NTT docomo (a major Japanese telecom).

The name Takanawa Gateway was chosen by JR after holding a public poll in 2018 asking the people of Japan was the station should be called. The results of that poll showed the names Takanawa, Shibaura, and Shibahama winning the most votes. However, JR unilaterally chose the name Takanawa Gateway despite it being towards the bottom of the list of contenders. This caused public criticism over why the vote was held in the first place and an attempt to petition JR to use one of the winning names instead. JR did not alter their decision, defending their choice as a name that best reflected the future development of the area (Takanawa as the area, and Gateway as a "Gateway to Edo" referencing the Takanawa Great Wooden Gate which was the old southern entrance to the city of Edo).


A giant video wall on the far end of the entrance level. It plays a looping presentation of the history of this area of Tokyo, as well as the history of local rail transport. Additionally it shows the local weather and other information.

Considering this station is relatively small and only serves two lines with no connections (not even to very close by Sengakuji Station on the Toei Asakusa Line), it is unusually stylized and very expensive (the cost to build the station is unknown). Its high quality nature makes sense as the surrounding area is being completely redeveloped to bring in new residents and tourists to the tune of 500 billion yen. Useful if you live or work here, but most people are just going to see it from inside the train car while on their way to Shinagawa or Tokyo.

All pictures taken by me in 2020. Part of my Stations series of posts.

 

It cannot be overstated how limited budgets led to some of the best writing on TV. And this episode is one of the best-written in the entire franchise.

It's also my absolute favorite shot of Uhura:

Lieutenant Uhura, sitting at the Navigation console, watching the Romulan ship explode on the viewscreen along with Lieutenant Sulu and Captain Kirk at their respective stations.

Ensign Skippy was getting a little too political, so Uhura replaced him and fired the death blow against the Romulan Bird of Prey. And she just leans back and takes it in during this dolly shot of the bridge. Stone Cold.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by aeronmelon to c/tokyodisney
 

A remix of Main Street Electrical Parade by Shinichi Osawa on the album HOUSE ★ DISNEY, released in Japan in 2009.

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I knew it! (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by aeronmelon to c/microblogmemes
 
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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by aeronmelon to c/japanesetrains
 

Above: A Toei 5500 series Rapid service train (left), inbound for Keisei-Asakusa Station meets a Keisei 3700 series Rapid service train (right), outbound for Keisei-Sakura Station @ Keisei-Funabashi Station on the Keisei Main Line in 2023.

...Keisei. :)

Picture taken by me, part of my Random Photos series of posts.

Previous Random Photo posts:

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by aeronmelon to c/tokyodisney
 

Above: The classic Starjets ride at Tokyo Disneyland as it stood in mid-2017 just prior to its closure. Tokyo Disneyland was the last park to feature the space shuttle variation of the ride.

Back in 2017, when construction on the Beauty & the Beast area began, Starjets was one of Tomorrowland's attractions that had to be removed to make way for it. That and the one churro stand that served the "blue"-flavored churros. I still haven't forgiven OLC for that.

That year, Tokyo Disneyland held a "sayonara" campaign for Starjets so guests could say farewell and ride one last time. These are the pictures I took a couple of months before it was closed:

Starjets at Tokyo Disneyland, as seen from the ground near the entrance of Toon Town.

The sign for Starjets at Tokyo Disneyland, sponsored by Japan Airlines.

The sign for the wait time for Starjets, showing that it will be approximately 40 minutes from that point.
Pretty sure I only waited for about 15 minutes.

The elevated boarding area of Starjets just before the ride starts, other people are boarding their cars.
Standing on the platform, and even more so when you raised your car to the highest setting, you were given a great view of the initial construction of Beast's Castle (As well as the rest of the park).

A handheld ice cream sundae featuring an edible card that reads "Starjets: The Last Mission".
The snack stand that was built into the base of Starjets served a special sundae that commemorated the end of the ride.

Hilariously, the land that Starjets occupied was used for a building that houses the FastPass ticket machines for the Beauty & the Beast ride... ticket machines that were never used because COVID ended FastPass throughout the resort just before that area was suppose to open to the public. Now express ticketing is done exclusively through the TDR app, so those machines have been abandoned in place for half a decade now. The building is designed to look like Maurice's workshop from the animated movie, which is nice... I guess. It has a moving watermill.

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Net positive (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by aeronmelon to c/parenting
 

Social media post on Mastodon by Dan Moren.

It reads, “ My son just got me out of talking to a door-to-door cable salesman so I guess parenthood was all worth it.”

 

Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea are home to such incredible rides as Journey to the Center of the Earth, Indiana Jones Adventure and Tower of Terror, as well as some classics such as Big Thunder Mountain, Splash Mountain and Haunted Mansion, but now with Fantasy Springs opening with Anna & Elsa's Frozen Journey, Peter Pan's Neverland Adventure, Rapunzel's Lantern Festival and CHEESE it's harder than ever to know which rides are the best and which ones you should skip.

Video by 8 Bit Theme Park Japan on YouTube.

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