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  • After the divorce, those clothes occupy the vacated half of the bed.

  • The divorce cost Billy at least $8 billion. When it was announced after it was revealed that Bill was on THE plane, I thought it was probably that--the reason they got divorced. But, there was always some doubt, maybe it was coincidence, maybe it was just the straw on the camel's back, and it's more that Bill is generally a shitty person, just like every other billionaire. The more that comes out, the more it's obvious this was more than a single straw. She didn't know how far he went, she was blind-sided. I can only imagine what that argument and following negotiation was like, and what she knows, that she signed an NDA to never reveal in exchange for the money.

    In the end, all billionaires are bad, even Melinda. She took the payout to shut up. She's "using it for good", but that's as much bullshit as it was when she was with Bill.

  • In typesetting, numbers ten and under are always spelled out, and also numbers at the start of a sentence of any size. Numbers one, through ninety-nine are hyphenated if spelled out, ninety-nine percent of typesetters agree. Also, the "and" is frowned upon. It should be "three hundred and twenty-seven", if quoting, if that is what was said, but three hundred twenty-seven otherwise.

    However, numerals in text is fine, outside of the limitations above, and there are lowercase numerals in many classic typefaces that are less jarring to the eye in body type than the uppercase numerals.

    Consider the number, 1,234,567. Spelled out, it's one million two hundred thirty-four thousand five hundred sixty-seven. That's cumbersome. That would almost always be written with numerals, and not spelled out. And, a sentence including it should be written to keep it from the beginning.

    (Yes, children, I said sixty-seven, please try to contain yourselves.)

  • When you flood the zone, you need to pull out all the stops. Nothing goes to waste, reuse and recycle the crap. It's a flat circle.

  • 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.