Progenitor of the Weird Knife Wednesday feature column. Is “column” the right word? Anyway, apparently I also coined the Very Specific Object nomenclature now sporadically used in the 3D printing community. Yeah, that was me. This must be how Cory Doctorow feels all the time these days.
I haven’t dug into the docs much. This really does return vectors? Because all of the OSM servers and services I have seen return tiles that are bitmaps, which for the type of data being displayed always seemed like a rather moronic way to do it.
You did, at least eventually. This could be argued to be a very early, not to mention analog, form of enshittification.
As usual for the type of screeching and breathless hit piece that these types of things inevitably become, it seems that two very distinct things are being conflated here in a probably deliberate attempt to make them appear equivalent.
The headline image shows a bunch of nitrous oxide cartridges or “whippets” discarded on the ground, and there is one lonely mention of nitrous down at the very bottom of the article. The article puts a lot of scary words around “inhalants” but stops short of defining which ones they’re actually talking about, and I’m guessing (having not watched any of the TikTok videos nor do I intend to) that nitrous is not the actual, or at least only, concern here. Either that or they’re trying hard to imply that nitrous fries your brain as much as huffing, say, tetrafluoroethane.
Doing nitrous (or whippets, or hippie crack, or laughing gas, or whatever you want to call it this decade) is neither new, nor is it particularly harmful provided you can manage not to do it in such a moronic way that you asphyxiate yourself or pathologically huff the stuff at the edge of high precipices or while driving or something.
Inhaling propellant gasses from aerosol cans, meanwhile, i.e. the usual sort of “huffing,” is monumentally stupid and also a fast track to permanent brain damage.
Just make sure you’re packin’ the right kind of chrome, choom.
Texans’ right to carry firearms on land owned or leased by governmental entities.
Like the courthouse, police station, and state capitol building? Can I carry my gun there? No? Wow, I wonder why.
I hear it’s amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61?
Agreed. We should come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who coerces anybody to enter into prostitution, and leave everyone else alone.
Like content recognition can’t recognize text, if that’s what it’s been configured to look for?
That would require us to deal with both Reagan and Nixon over and over again, though.
I guess their bullshit would be reverted when each loop resets. But still.
That particular strain of nonsense is actually specifically an Amazon thing, because you cannot sell “non branded” merchandise on Amazon, a policy that’s in place allegedly to combat generic whitebox goods from flooding the site. Your product has to be sold under a registered trademark, but the loophole is that said trademark does not actually have to make any sense whatsoever.
Now there are brokers who will assist anyone in registering a trademark that is literally just a random string of letters for this express purpose. All you have to do is concoct a combination that no one has used yet, and register it with the USPTO.
Therefore the entire scheme falls flat on its face, and manifestly fails to make any impact in the problem it purports to solve. But it does probably give Amazon a legal escape hatch to accusations of being a dumping ground for Chinese knockoff products, because they can point to all those trademark registrations and say, “No, see, everything sold here is all totally from a 100% legitimate brand!”
I turned one of my coworkers on to knockoff shit on Wish, and he is heavily into fishing and pretty much agrees with all of your sentiments listed here. He’s been buying knockoff lures like mad ever since.
I will further add that a lot of fishing gear is consumable. Not just line, but also hooks that can just plain break or wear out, and especially lures and so forth in that they are inherently prone to getting lost, irretrievably snagged in a tree, outright eaten by a fish and dragged to the depths never to be seen again, etc.
It is therefore bonkers to pay a premium for most of this stuff which is ultimately disposable.
I’ve got my tricorne hat on and everything.
Right under the Tree Of Liberty.
“But that’s just an exaggeration taken out of context!!!”
…And it’s also literally the slogan on the license plates in our nations capital.
religious reasons
I’ve just remembered. We’re all Shakers.
Why yes, the rest of my deck is Millstones, Ancestral Recall, and Ball Lightnings. Why do you ask?
With a Nixie tube display like that, you’re usually looking at much earlier.
I found this on that model: https://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/monroe620.html
That blue spell was probably Ancestral Recall, but I’m sure there were others of its ilk.
Anyway, while we’re at it I like to trot this one out every now and again for everyone to gawp at.
I think there are a few critical steps in the middle that are missing, there. Fuckmunchery aside, how did this person expect that blacking out Baltimore would somehow magically trigger a race war?
But until your instance upgrades to 0.19.5, the image you originally uploaded but have hence unlinked is still there albeit unused, on the server forever and ever…