I mean, that’s kind of what they did in Superman, and it was very cathartic

It’s definitely foam blocks to obscure the shape. We use them for camo all the time.

The worst thing is that this goes for EVERYTHING now, not just games. While Tesla got lots of praise for OTA updates, it was one of the worst things that happened to the automotive industry, because manufacturers no longer have to worry about expensive recalls for sometimes serious issues. They will ship things that are known defects, sometimes serious ones, and you can hand wave the consequences away with “Oh, it’ll be OTA’d by delivery.”

That being said, sometimes it’s a benefit, because there might be a major and a minor annoying defect, and we can now better prioritize getting the major one fixed before shipping and the minor one OTA’d, but it has still set a frustrating and dangerous precedent in the industry.

Fun fact: the Model 3 was shipped without any low-mu (ice/snow) calibration for its stability control system, and it was later OTA updated. Why was this allowed? They needed to get cars off the line ASAP, and they said “Well, all the initial customers are in California and it’s summer, so they won’t be driving in slick conditions.” Literally delivering to customers with known safety defects, but because it could be updated OTA, they didn’t care.

That’s not even horrifically expensive in most cities. I’ve seen people pay $20/shot at some bars.

If there’s a small, low-res image on my phone, it now asks if I want to upscale it, and tends to have this kind of “soft” effect to it.

Can confirm. Saw a classmate with her GF and got very jealous, despite having my own GF at the time. Turns out I was jealous of the wrong thing.

At the time they were red.

It’s awesome that one of the best features of my TV, “Find my remote” has been completely broken. Paid extra for the fancy Bluetooth remote and everything, and now it’s completely worthless. Every time I ask, I get “Sorry, I’m not set up to do that” despite it being something that I’ve been doing the past 5 years without issue

I can tell you as someone who read the papers on very early deepfakes and AI video generation with amazement followed by dread, this is going to be feasible on a large scale in a short period of time. Researchers do stuff on an absolute shoestring budget usually, it’s incomparable to what large companies and governments have at their disposal. There are already consumer products that were able to become fairly precise motion sensors with just a firmware update. Next gen devices will be built with motion fingerprinting in mind, I can almost guarantee it.

It’s even worse because it’s not a man, it’s a transwoman. He kissed an attractive woman, but now he’s doing this because she was AMAB.

It really sucks that this is like, the primary plot point in the movie because as much as I love Jim Carrey’s stuff and Ace Ventura is iconic, it kind of ruins the entire movie for me now. It’s not just like, a painful scene or two, but the entire third act…

https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/37602

The “Praise Allah” one was absolutely real and many news orgs have written about it at this point. It’s pretty depressing…

Maybe they’ll be wearing those stupid ill-fitting shoes that he’s been ordering for everyone in the admin

There’s a part of me that wants to believe that Trump is basically a double agent meant to be so blatantly corrupt and awful, taking advantage of every system in the US, that it finally wakes the US up and to realize how fucking awful everything actually is, almost like penetration testing.

This is how you learn you’re colorblind.

As much as it’s not apparent in the way the majority of Christians act, if they actually followed any of the actual biblical tenets, they’d be pretty far left. While it’s framed through a biblical lens, Talarico supports trans/immigrant/minority rights (love thy neighbor, etc.), explicitly anti-wealth (camel passing through the eye of a needle), and is overall insanely progressive coming from a place like Texas.

Sure, I’m not saying it’s necessarily a good thing that we’re still using it, but recognizing and treating it as a serious carcinogen rather than something benign goes a long way to improving the amount of harm it causes

Still is, honestly. We still use asbestos in a ton of stuff, but we’re just generally a lot more careful about using it fortunately, and not doing as many open-air asbestos shoveling competitions upwind from the schoolyard.

Yeah, honestly that seems pretty win/win.

Nick Shirley, the “Minnesota Somalian daycare fraud” guy. If you watch him talk, or do much of anything, it is pretty clear he’s not particularly sharp.