• Louie Louie - Toots & The Maytals (originally recorded by Richard Berry, popularized by The Kingsmen) https://youtu.be/BlFGvTtGMBI

• Walk on By - The Stranglers (originally recorded by Dionne Warwick) https://youtu.be/WYkqLm9cM3Y

• Maybe I’m Amazed - Faces (originally recorded by Paul McCartney) https://youtu.be/SLhoLkTyNkM

• Black Steel - Tricky and Martina Topley-Bird (originally recorded by Public Enemy) https://youtu.be/9ZJTM03UByU

• Everything is Everything - Booker T. Jones (originally recorded by Lauren Hill) https://youtu.be/A61c4FgxZz8

• Ohio/Machine Gun - The Isley Brothers (originally recorded by Crosby, Still, Nash & Young) https://youtu.be/XC6qOvfgDJI

Kept with SoA until I tired of the “3 concurrent life-or-death crises” formula, with a new life-or-death crisis introduced each time an older one reached its end.

All principal characters even went to prison for a year, with no such crises for the rest of the MC, and then as soon as they got out, straight back to “3 concurrent life-or-death crises” as usual.

The rest of the MC should have realized “Hey, things were so chill when those guys were away, let’s get 'em sent back”.

Yeah, I tried P&R twice without it clicking for me. Only once I got past season 1 did I begin to enjoy it.

Right, I remember seeing something about motion sickness being related to the mismatch.

Re the organ, Wikipedia says it’s the vestibular system in the inner ear.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_system

That’s it, thanks!

Wikipedia says not NASA but the German Space Agency and European astronauts who went up to Mir did use them for exercise.

Thanks. Several lemmings have given their opinion, and it seems the experience depends on the person.

As someone who gets car sick just looking at a map, I would only try this with a predetermined safe word! :)

Of course!

Wikipedia says they were used for training astronauts but:

• they weren’t invented for that, actually developed for people with spinal injuries
• they depend on gravity, so can be used in training on earth, but not in space itself

I’ve added Gattaca to the list of films now in my OP.

So far, the 90s scifi movies with an aerotrim we’ve got so far:

• Contact
• Drive
• Fortress
• Gattaca
• Lawnmower Man
• Universal Soldier

Yeah, I assumed it could awfully disorienting.

That looks right. Seems the original name is Aerotrim, but maybe that’s trademarked so I guess other companies use names like gyroscope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerotrim

Thanks. How was it?

Yes! Thanks!

Wikipedia even mentions yet another 90s scifi movie I saw it in recently that I forgot had one (e.g. Lawnmower Man).

Have you tried boric acid? I originally used it for cockroaches but I’ve also had success with ants (regular ones, not teeny tiny little ones :) ).

Another satisfied customer of boric acid.

Viewed a flat on a Sunday, went ahead and rented it. Realized after moving in that all the sandwich shops serving the nearby uni Monday-Friday drew an ungodly amount of cockroaches. I hated getting up for a glass of water in the middle of the night because I knew the horror show I’d see upon entering the kitchen after dark.

Roach traps didn’t make a dent, and we had two cats so didn’t want to go in for heavy duty poisons.

Read about boric acid in a Metafilter post, spread some along the usual scurrying areas and… wow! Barely saw one ever again.

Sprinkle boric acid along their runs, worked for us.

Conservatives who are actually conservative??? Not radical lunatic rightists who do or say whatever Trump wants?

I didn’t realize any were left.

Dudek had been a mid-level IT staffer at Social Security before being put on administrative leave for helping Elon Musk’s DOGE team access sensitive databases inside the agency. The Trump administration tapped him to lead the agency after more senior officials refused to cooperate with Musk’s team.

The most fanatically loyal to the Dear Leader, the most contemptuous of both the law and the people, are plucked from mediocrity and placed at the top.

This is America now.

And then the Sturmtrumper gives a masterclass in petulance and childishness.