That’s a great word!

This should be obvious. It’s the reasons for the renaming, not the renaming itself.

Because famously only US citizens keep pets.

As batman movies go they’re pretty boring. It’s a dark and gritty hero, fighting dark and gritty villains, in a boring gritty city, with boring citizens. Their not bad movies. They were clearly made by clever talented people, good at what they do. But the result lacks any real contrast, just black on black on black on black. I’ll rewatch any other batman movie at the drop of a hat, no questions asked. I know I’ll be entertained. But I’m totally uninterested in rewatching the Nolan Batman movies.

Those “repeated certain melodies across the movie” have a name. It’s called a theme and is something that’s pretty common in movies, opera, musicals, symphonies, etc. An entire work can have a theme that is modified, built upon, expanded or changed as the narrative progresses. Individual characters or places can have their own unique themes. Daft Punk’s entire style is built on repetition, so it should be no surprise that their musical score work would highlight that.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_(music)

Unless they are trying to sell you beans (or Dean’s), it’s not spam.

“No participant study has been run yet, so we’re not claiming superiority ahead of the evidence,” he said.

Why not? Seems a simple thing to do before the development gets very far, certainly before the “press release” stage. Probably because they have actually done participant studies and found that trippy map visualizations aren’t particularly good for info at a glance or safe for use while driving. The whole design should have been driven by participant studies from the beginning.

The whole article wreaks of a “solution” in search of investors and a problem. No one needs a near street level view for navigation, they’ve got that already. Adding a layer of Escher-like distortion seems unlikely to make getting information at a glance from a map any better.

Good question. Also, given the way AI tools are creeping into everything, can we really declare that any modern Photoshop are truly free of AI?

Everybody is just trying to look cool. Everybody probably looks like a “poser” to someone else. And in a cruel twist of irony, the inventors and early adopters of some “cool” new thing, look derivative and boring years AFTER everyone else has done it. Kids don’t have a long memory for these kinds of things; they grew up in a world where it was already old news and boring, never having experienced a world without it. This shift in perception can happen sometimes even among people old enough to have been there at the beginning. So yeah, they are just a bunch of posers trying to look cool, but aren’t we all?

Is the joke that Stranger Things is nothing like Twin Peaks at all?

Yeah, well what can I say. The comment section is always full of idiots, myself included.

Nevermind that regardless of any other factor the absence alone for such a long time means that the ethical thing to do would be for him to resign.

To be clear, I don’t think they are up voting because they think it is real.

Everyone should just report the error to Google over and over and over again. Remind them that the federal government doesn’t actually have unilateral authority to rename major international geographic features on the whim of a single deranged despot.

I think more people just really want these kinds of stories to be real than actually believe this happened. I know that if I had some totally legal way to really fuck with those corporate fascists and the police and the only cost was an ugly wrap on my piece of shit car or van, I’d do it without skipping a beat.

2026 looks like a good way to impale yourself.

I was referring to that glorious hair.

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly. Look at you. You’re the prodigal son. You’re quite a prize!

Not all the colors of crayons are available in the RGB space. Some colors will always look different when captured for a digital photo.

Around 20-30 years ago, people took a little more care in composing a photo, even the amateurs. Hard drive space was still kind of pricey. Smart phones weren’t ubiquitous yet. It took some level of real investment to create the kind of photos you miss. Lego landscapes are hard. They’re tiny and big at the same time. Focus, depth of field, and lack of a background all work against you in ways a little diorama doesn’t. Combine that with more people that haven’t actually studied the craft of photography, taking more photos than ever and you get flooded with snapshots. Those lazy snapshots still happened 20-30 years ago to be sure, but nobody’s remembering them because they were forgettable then and forgotten now, kind of a survivorship bias. The same reason people argue that the music they listened to in grade school always was and forever will be the best music.