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That's so dumb. :( Fast forwarding through ads is half the reason for recording in the first place.

Yes. Skipping meals can condition your body to store away more of it because it isn't sure when the next meal will come, eventually making you fatter even if you eat very little.

around where I am, last I saw one, they were doing Pokemon sprites.

This. Not to mention a lot of people are food-insecure and cannot access or afford healthier options.

And not a single mention of where he built the Telechron factory. The first and last, I believe, was built in Ashland, MA. Recently, they put up a nice commemorative light-up sign and lit up the old clock tower too.

I want to verbally pronounce this "Apple Pickle". Is that intended?

This is my bet; and mayyybe some external bad actors taking advantage of the situation on top of that.

Yes this. This is what I've been trying to explain to my friends.

When Tron came out in 1982, it was disliked because back then using CGI effects was considered "cheating". Then awhile later Pixar did movies entirely with CGI and they were hits. Now almost every big studio movie uses CGI. Shunned to embraced in like, 13 years.

I think over time the general consensus's views about AI models will soften. Although it might take longer in some communities. (Username checks out lol, furry here also. I think the furs may take longer to embrace it.)

(Also, people will still continue to use older tools like Photoshop to accomplish similar things.)

Nor the FCC. I just got a call from a contractor-recruiter call center. (About half of them are scams, but you can't tell, because they all sound like the same foreign call center.) The caller ID said "Public Service". That has got to be illegal?

In my professional experience (since before the pandemic), I've been encouraged not to mix work with my personal life. Regardless, even when I ignored this advice and did share personal details and be myself, the interactions have always felt disingenuous. For me at least, being an actual friend and keeping up a professional appearance are mutually exclusive.

I suppose I've personally been very fortunate to remain friends with a lot of people from my childhood, and meet others through them. Even the people I have met through friends only recently, feel more genuine than older personal connections made through work. (None of my friends spend personal time with people they've met through work, either!)

Interactions with work people will always have that veneer of trying to look and sound one's best in the professional sense, in protection of one's career. In friendships you shouldn't be afraid to show your flaws, imperfections, personal beliefs, personal history, the squishy parts.

Use them together. Use them in peace.

Ah, there must be a face-saving campaign on too, because when I see YouTube ads, I've been seeing a lot of content insisting "ASPARTAME IS SAFE."

It is. Mass resident here. When the groups against this law were campaigning, they televised very creepy PSAs explaining this farcical point, to scare residents into voting against it. One I remember in particular was a POV shot of a man stalking a woman in a parking garage on her way to her vehicle.

I've actually been wanting to do this, but I don't personally know a lot of good sources that still use RSS. Would love to see your feed list.

New reddit is the worst. Who even designed it? Every time I accidentally find myself on new reddit UI, I feel like I'm looking through foggy glasses. Over the course of about 20 seconds, I blindly click around, feeling lost and confused, then frustrated, and then I just add "old" to the URL.