Rhaedas

Living paycheck to paycheck, limited if any sick time to take. Not a great excuse, I agree the common sense thing is to contain and recover, but that doesn't help with the bills or keep the job. Blame the system, not the people in it.

In this throwaway, instant satisfaction society? It's all about the price point. And the marketing.

The profit on torches is the rebuy for more. You don't need to sink a lot in material, it just has to burn bright enough to sell.

Every vote is important.

"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?" - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

If you're doing more than just voting and forgetting, then the message wasn't about you. I won't stop asking people what else they've done, because how else is awareness of the need of democracy and public involvement supposed to be spread?

If someone tells me they voted third party, I just tell them that's great and ask what they're going to do now. Never get much of an answer.

I still have my poster after seeing the first movie opening week. It worked for that movie since it was a new step for fantasy scifi. Once the characters became known and the franchise took off, realistic artwork made more sense.

Didn't know about him almost being involved with the animated Lord of the Rings. That would have been a totally different direction than the rotoscoping. Maybe better? Who knows.

Also, gone too young. Still had potential work to create. Not cancer this time, something we ought to have a better handle on, diabetes.

Just because "mainland USA" wasn't used doesn't mean it's racist. Would it have been perceived the same way if Hawaii was substituted?

It depends. If it's on the side of the road it may do the opposite and jump in front of you. This one actually looked like it was going to start moving, but not a chance.

It's the gap between where the deer is in the dark and the car in front that's odd. Only thing I can figure is the person was in the other lane and darted over just after passing the deer.

I just rewatched some Hawkeye episodes. I'm down with this. brb got to make some more special arrows.

Is there a longer video anywhere? Looking closely I have to wonder where the hell did that deer come from? There's a car up ahead of the Tesla in the same lane, I presume quickly moved back in once it passed the deer? The deer didn't spook or anything from that car?

This would have been hard for a human driver to avoid hitting, but I know the issue is the right equipment would have been better than human vision, which should be the goal. And it didn't detect the impact either since it didn't stop.

But I just think it's peculiar that that deer just literally popped there without any sign of motion.

With the advent of LLMs and access to anyone, there's been repeated posts about instructors putting some oddball directions in white within the text of a question. Not perfect as a copy/paste into Notepad will show it, but it gets the laziest ones, especially the ones that don't even review what the LLM gave them.