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Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg will be sitting together at Trump’s inauguration. This also is a comment that I felt like making for no particular reason.

Virtue signalling means that you want to appear like you’re better than you actually are, at least in public.

So it means that Zuck thinks people who leave Meta are actually scum, they just want to look nice to others.

My issue is the disparity of the pictures, with the bowtie picture having the duck’s entire neck almost completely in shadow, while the shadow is comparatively minimized on the necktie image. It’d be nice to see both options under both light and dark conditions.

That said, I currently prefer the necktie; it provides an element to the rest of the body. I’m the bowtie picture, everything is happening around the head - beak, eyes, hat, bowtie - leaving the rest of the body comparatively empty.

If you’re at a table with nine Nazis and you don’t leave, then the table has ten Nazis at it. History won’t care why you were at the table, just that you were there.

Nah, with Trump in office, he’ll be delighted to hire in H1B slave labor …

I didn’t find the peanut rubber, but did find that

Dr. George Washington Carver’s work resulted in the creation of more than 300 products from peanuts, contributing greatly to the economic improvement of the rural South. source

OP’s article states that

He helped Henry Ford make peanut rubber for cannons for World War II.

But I can’t find a actual source for that just endless repeated comments to that effect. I wonder if whoever-originated-that-idea conflated Carver’s peanut work with his other work with Ford:

By the time World War II began, Ford had made repeated journeys to Tuskegee to convince Carver to come to Dearborn and help him develop a synthetic rubber to help compensate for wartime rubber shortages. Carver arrived on July 19, 1942, and set up a laboratory in an old water works building in Dearborn. He and Ford experimented with different crops, including sweet potatoes and dandelions, eventually devising a way to make the rubber substitute from goldenrod, a plant weed. Carver died in January 1943, Ford in April 1947, but the relationship between their two institutions continued to flourish. Source

Pardons require a sympathetic governor, which will never happen.

Jury nullification requires that everyone on the jury votes not-guilty, which is a pretty high bar to hit.

A hung jury, on the other hand, simply requires one or more members of the jury to vote not-guilty. He could still be re-tried, of course, but having just one principled person is a lot easier than having all 12.

It has correctly identified both a Stargate and a moai made of snow.

I gave it two pictures of my cat and it said that she looked annoyed in one picture and contemplative in the other, both of which were true.

I can’t help but think he’s saying this now as an attempt to distract from the stories of "Musk has been talking to Putin since the spring when they were both faced with problems: Musk being forced to buy Xitter and Putin unable to steal Ukraine. Odd how Musk has been becoming more rabidly pro-Russian-interests, isn’t it?

The main issue I have with full self driving is that it’ll probably never actually be full self driving; there’ll always be use cases where people have to take over - ice, snow, slightly flooded roads, sand, whatever*. And humans will have to take over under conditions when it’s extremely helpful for them to have had extensive driving experience under a range of conditions - experience they’ll no longer have because the car’s been driving them everywhere.

* Yes, I know we’re not supposed to drive in some of these conditions, and yet sometimes we have to, even if it’s just to get to a safer place.

The best use cases I can think of for full self-driving are the elderly, the visually impaired, the drunk, the disabled, and the easily distracted.

I took Amtrak across the country once. The freight trains are supposed to give priority to the passenger trains so they leave and arrive (mostly) on time, but (outside the NEC) they mostly don’t bother and they’ve never been held to those requirements. Once again, prioritizing “stuff” over people.

Let’s make this Black spouse somebody who has a really close relationship with another Brady

… Ri-ight. I’m sure that this proposed show, with six grown-up Brady kids, six Brady spouses, and a decent number of Next Gen Bradys will have plenty of time for yet another character … I’m sure that wouldn’t be a token position at all …

Actually, while I was writing this, I had a thought and I went back and re-read her comment:

“One of Jan’s children was going to be trans, and one of the Bradys was going to have a Black spouse. […] Let’s make this Black spouse somebody who has a really close relationship with another Brady, and that’s how this Brady met them.”

It’s interesting, isn’t it? She mentions Jan specifically, and “another Brady” who could have a black spouse, but she’s pretty coy (“this Brady”) about who was originally going to have the black spouse. Who wants to bet it was her?

Elden Ring, Stardew Valley.

What pisses me off about this is that, in conditions of low visibility, the pedestrian can’t even hear the damned thing coming.

The Mars Climate Orbiter crashed because some fuckwit programmer at Lockheed Martin programmed their tiny piece of software in freedom units, instead of metric like they were required.

The channel announcements and news segments and other stuff that made MTV actually MTV was a lot harder, lol.

Did you look at the internet archive?

Copying my reply to someone else:

What did they interrupt the episode for? Because a number of companies have adopted the policy that, if the interruption is promoting something else offered by the platform - say, a different program, or another tier of service - that those interruptions aren’t really ads, because the company isn’t actually getting paid to air it. It absolutely looks and acts like an ad to the viewers, but the companies are trying to redefine the word.

What’s a good YouTube downloader these days?