I shave the parts of my chest within 10cm of my nipples, so that suction toys stay on properly.

It absolutely was a problem before youtube. Ken Rockwell : photography :: V**sh : US politics.

I once worked in a camera store/photo lab. I loathed a lot of our clientele for much the same reasons. I especially loathed the ones like the one who shot your wedding, who would buy expensive gear and not learn how to use it. I was often left dealing with their unfortunate clients, some of them in literal tears because their wedding photos were so awful. They came in hoping that we could somehow salvage usable photos from the garbage the “professionals” produced. But there was usually nothing I could do aside from recommend some genuinely good local professionals to do new studio and/or location sessions of the couple.

Phone cameras are so tremendously lifeless.

Yeah, there’s a lot of aggressive processing going on in phone cameras. Changing apps doesn’t help. It’s baked into the hardware. It’s a shame that they’ve destroyed the new compact camera market. There’s pretty much nothing newly-manufactured and pocketable that’s not a phone.

If you ever want to “upgrade” from that G9 (which is absolutely a gem, Canon packed a great lens into it) to something with interchangeable lenses, check out the micro-4/3rds cameras from Panasonic or Olympus from about 2015 onwards. My most-used camera is a Panasonic GX85 with a tiny little 12-32mm general-purpose lens that collapses almost flat when not in use. It’s almost identical in size to your G9. I have bigger/more expensive gear, but I rarely use them, because that GX85 is just so small and convenient to take anywhere.

SpaceX has the added constraints of being a NASA contractor. For example, even though Crew Dragon was designed and built by SpaceX, has to strictly follow NASA safety and reliability specifications. NASA has a huge amount of oversight into their operations even though they’re technically a private company. Which is as it should be.

Nestle DC.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a contemporary masc-presenting wide-brimmed hat style, suitable for sun protection at outdoor urban events, that won’t make me look like a “m’lady” jackass?

But Harris is also a co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus whose Ukrainian mother fled communist Eastern Europe after World War II.

Uh huh.

I keep this link bookmarked, despite it being over two decades old, for just such an occasion.

Holy shit, that’s amazing. Ask him how he felt when Neil and Buzz boarded Eagle, and left him alone on Columbia.

So who had “hurricane lays waste to San Diego” on their 2023 bingo card? Because I sure didn’t.

Poland, an ancient and trusted ally of those peoples now living within Ukraine’s borders.

Even though it’s not a superconductor, does it have any interesting properties useful on an industrial scale? Or are there already other materials with similar properties that are easier to manufacture?

“Oh stewardess, excuse me, I speak Chiac.”

“Ca t’tente tu d’aller watcher un movie?”

“He’s asking if you would like to attend the cinema with him.”

“Tell him I’d enjoy that very much.”

“Ça va être right dla fun.”

“Je ne suis not stupid, me y’know, j’ai comprend.”

“Ne sois pas un asshole, tu need to detendre.”

Get in the hextube, there’s kung fu on tap all night.

It’s a good start.

Did we find Ghislaine Maxwell’s alt?

Hours of fruitless troubleshooting to figure out why a new install of Libreelec wasn’t outputting video over HDMI to my TV, just audio, on an older laptop that I had previously run Libreelec perfectly on. Turns out the solution was to use the generic-legacy x86-64 image instead of the generic x86-64 one. Worked flawlessly from first boot. My mental capacity for technical problem-solving for the day is now at zero.

I’m not sure.

Labour solidarity is labour solidarity, no matter the scale or scope. Loudly crewing a picket line with hundreds for weeks on end, or quietly helping one person get some stuff done, it’s all the same.

And it very cowardly answers, the exact same guy from his mannerisms to his clothing. It’s cowardly because presumably they don’t want to scare anyone off by changing him from the old character that made them billions. It’s boring and pathetic to the growth of the character.

It works amazing on a meta-humour level, though. Johnny Depp played Jack Sparrow in #1 as an analog of a washed-up celebrity. As the series went on, he became a washed-up celebrity.