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  • The most interesting thing to come out of all that was to discover what an absolute fucking moron he is. Room temp IQ.

  • I'm guessing it's hard to tell what color the skin is once it's cooked, so they'll insist on picking the cut with the skin on, like choosing a lobster out of a tank, and then watching it be prepared to ensure "purity". And, of course, to choose gender, they'd need to see the important bits intact. Also, no tattoos, and as few moles or other imperfections as possible.

    This is why our meat sources need to be raised in clean, controlled conditions from birth, you want to know what you're eating. After all, you are what you eat.

    (Holy crap, people are fucked up.)

  • I think two-hour movies are soon to be a thing of the past. But, will people pay premium prices to watch a one-hour TV episode on the big screen? One hour is all anyone can handle anymore, and then only if they can also look at their phones, they get the shakes if they can't look at their phones.

    When we switch to XR/AR goggles worn every waking moment, that will be the end of movie theaters, and so many other things. Only a few will survive, like drive-ins today.

    I don't think it's just the old man in me saying we're heading in a bad direction.

    The only ones as a group avoiding this are the "elite". The filthy rich don't let their kids use this tech. Their kids go to schools like they were before smartphones. Pencil, paper, and good grades required to pass. I mean the billionaires, there's a huge difference between $100 million, which is rich to we poors, and $1 billion+. We down here tend to group them all together, but they are not the same. One-hundred million is the new middle class.

  • This is what happens when you adopt a cat from Australia.

  • I suppose porn is always the first profitable use for a new tech.

  • Nice. I appreciate that it's not AI, too.

    We need one that implies the movie is her putting herself on the market for a new billionaire husband after Donald dies of whichever disease kills him first, which should be any day now. Because, that's exactly what the movie is for.

  • I only use a 10-digit pin number I'm guaranteed to never forget. I type it in every time. But, I don't spend much time on my phone, sometimes I even forget it when I leave the house.

  • would release the cramp, and you could do the experiment again.

    How many times did you need to do this to get the point? I feel like seeing it once, gathered around the teacher, would be plenty.

    Also, a seismograph?

  • I love me some cow meat, but these days I stick with chicken with no antibiotics. Cow meat is too expensive.

    Any species that can live 18 months without a head is barely alive in the first place.

  • The makeup at home:

  • Illustrator was first, and, like all Adobe products, it has kept a lot of quirks from its past. They have worked to bring them closer, but there are fundamental differences between editing vector and editing pixel images. If you use both tools daily, the quirks they've kept sort of make sense.

    Adobe didn't have a page layout program till they bought Aldus Pagemaker, which they kept going until they developed InDesign. They left Pagemaker to rot while they pushed InDesign. So InDesign was made with a similar interface to Photoshop. Same for the others--they came after Photoshop gained traction, so they all have a similar UI.

    As a graphic designer, starting in '92, I used QuarkExpress, PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, CorelDraw, and even Corel PhotoPaint. I also used Blender. I knew what each could do better than the other, and used the right tool for the job. Out of all of them CorelDraw was the most complete and broadly competent--it's Illustrator and InDesign combined. I used Corel Draw and Photoshop 80% of the time.

    I don't know if it's still true, but for many years, Illustrator only had marquee select by touching, and didn't have marquee select by enclosing. Corel Draw has both, with enclosing being the default. With marquee select by enclosing, the need for layers is far less. Layers in Illustrator are needed primarily to ease selecting of multiple objects. If you wanted to select that collection of small circles that was totally enclosed by that translucent box in front of it, and they weren't on separate layers, you had a bad time.

  • Trump eventually betrays everyone who trusts him.

  • They hit the wall. It can't get any better, and it's only crap.

  • My boy Antonio really just went with the first comparison that jumped to mind.

  • Not the same when the onion is raw.

  • If it needs to be fresh water, then they need to pay in full to build a desal plant for ocean water, and a solar farm to power it, to be owned and operated by the state. And, that plant needs to send half it's water to the local municipal water system at no cost.

    Because fuck em.

  • And, here I thought we were going to go all month without some good news.