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by evan_ 1y ago
Having spent my first couple years right out of college at a production company that shot a lot of ads for a grocery chain I can assure you that I took as much food home with me as possible
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Products like this don't just appear in gas station coolers by themselves, they would have started by identifying a demographic first and then building a product specifically targeted to that audience. They decided to target younger-
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by evan_ 1y ago
pretty sure this explains it: > the government plan was to mix the meat from Chernobyl-area cattle with the uncontaminated meat from the rest of the country I wonder if this was posted now as a result of a report of radioactive shrimp be
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by evan_ 1y ago
Sounds good until a strongman recruits tens of thousands of masked thugs to patrol cities and beat up anyone who looks like they might vote for the opponent of said strongman.
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Who would underwrite that?
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This is what "political correctness" actually is
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if they delay the vote long enough they can say there’s no clear winner and the house effectively gets to appoint the president.That’s what they were trying to do on January 6. This time it has the neat side effect of letting them cleanly a
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Would you like it in a house? Would you like it with a mouse?
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I couldn’t get it to go above 50% and then I wrote “fish” on it and it went up 5 points
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This was new to me so I looked it up- "MWt" means Megawatts Thermal - e.g. the heat output of a reactor, which would be turned into a smaller value of MWe- Megawatts Electric
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"This Island Earth" was featured on MST3K: The Movie! When "Universal International" appears on screen, Mike Nelson quips "Doesn't the fact that it's universal make it international?"
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that's called "off".
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Paramount sought this arrangement out, it wasn’t forced on them. They wanted approval for a merger because it would be financially lucrative. The price was millions of dollars and political oversight. They could have just not done the mer
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by evan_ 1y ago
It’s not a contradiction at all, they want women to get knocked up as early as possible because (the thought is) that makes them easier to control. That’s what all this “tradwife” propaganda is about.
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FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump(gizmodo.com)
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Trump himself, and his spokespeople, all publicly denied that they had anything to do with Project 2025 ahead of the election. It was a laughable lie, the only people who believed it were apparently the media, who reported it as fact.
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by evan_ 1y ago
Or if you need to actually control it, an SVG or <canvas> based animation
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It lasted 40 years because when it broke they called the repairman. Now when stuff breaks people just buy a new one and complain that it doesn’t last as long.
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If there’s a conflict you just back out your change and do it again.
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He sued to try to get out of buying it!
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It’s not clear to me that he had any hand in the actual successes of Tesla and SpaceX. Stories abound of the lengths to which each company went to to manage his whims. He’s apparently burned through all of those firewalls and now both compa
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by evan_ 1y ago
“Thought terminating cliche” has become a thought terminating cliche.
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I definitely did not clock that this was from 2017- back to the future indeed.
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I would consider just 3D printing the 14-segment baffles and then use SMD LEDs behind them rather than try to source the exact precise size and color of display.
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Bummed meaning disappointed. They’re disappointed that ant forms aren’t nearly as cool etc.
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Unfair to say that’s his sole qualification. As evidenced by this reporting he’s clearly a shameless liar. That’s a valuable and necessary trait in this administration!
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I think having 400 billion dollars earns a person a measure of resp- well, whatever Trump is capable of that would equate to respect
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Yes he had a recurring segment where he read obituaries of gay men who’d died of AIDS in a mock-sappy voice set to disco music.
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> I would expect "I'm from Earth" to get about as much respect as "I'm from Olduvai Gorge". Maybe that's because we don't have cultural traditions that identifiably connect us to that. (We probably
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Applied Science did something fairly similar (but wholly distinct!) on ceramic sheets a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxXEI0Ce6C0 bringing it up only because the techniques seem like they could possibly bor

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