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as they do to me. The feminine urge to have both normal and Fancy glasses...

I am not required to get cat-eye frames because I'm trans, right? it kinda seems that way sometimes...

Amazing example of "well if you replace x with y and y with x it doesn't sound so good, does it?"

Also true!

This really surprised me: there has been significant Platner defense from the left everywhere else but bluesky! This community seems to take antifascism more seriously than elsewhere.

This is a really nice little corner of the Internet that I'm proud to be a part of.

So my house almost burned down. It's not destroyed but it is definitely uninhabitable. If you can donate you'll have my everlasting gratitude, if not I don't blame you in this economy. Pics and QR code to follow.

Sandy from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, staring above and to the left of the camera, wearing round glasses.

Watched The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie last night. Brilliant movie, but my fundamental takeaway was that I should really get myself some round, tortoiseshell glasses.

I'm open to all hypotheses. Bell's Palsy cases in older people can last quite a long time.

Sexy east wing of the White House

Sexy east wing of the white house

Yeah this is after all a zero marginal cost good. It's super tough to know how to price those at the best of times...

Frozen salmon is really hard! I approve.

If it's really created the world's funniest imperial boomerang that gives us President Abigail Spanberger or something in four years, I'd say that's pretty solidly blursed.

Big tent means the Intelligence Community too, Erin! :P

I have complex feelings about the "color revolution" stuff, but fundamentally it's always seemed like, idk, exporting Gene Sharp-infused liberal revolutions around the world is not the worst thing we could be doing?

this is some pretty cool stuff, thanks!

I think it was a very good IP licensing decision: Larion was making these games to great acclaim among the people who played them, but they weren't really breaking out. Now there's a much larger audience for Divinity Original Sin 3 or whatever!

I'm surprised we don't have successful whitelabel sports titles that are all about delivering a satisfying football/basketball/whatever gameplay without the yearly treadmill. There were some popular games, but at some point they kinda stopped.

I bet it's just something they're used to keeping track of and it won't last in truly challenging circumstances.

How would you generate the pressure? Little linear actuators? Some kind of pneumatics?

This makes perfect sense for people who are outside almost all the time near the equator! You're really never not aware of which way you're facing.

They make one for the blind that uses your phone for the direction finding, but I wonder if it can't be even smaller and simpler now.

I've always wanted to build one of these... With modern linear vibrators and IMUs I bet it could be completely unobtrusive and have multi-day battery life.

The optimal price for something is a price most customers are only barely willing to pay. If people aren't complaining about your price, it's under-priced.

One of the things that keeping the price of The New Game $60 for so long did is make not having the New Game a sign of extreme poverty. It seems to me that older titles used to stay relevant longer because more people considered $60 a pretty big deal.

There was a study years ago that gave people a belt that always vibrated in the direction of north. People pretty quickly stopped feeling it, but reported having vastly improved spatial perception. It's amazing how quickly we can incorporate a new sense.

foxes were created when the design bureau behind wolves submitted a smaller, more aerodynamic, more independent variant of the design to fulfill a procurement requirement for small predators

I'm beginning to believe that I prefer war criminals over regular criminals in elected office.

Perhaps I am too, this didn't surprise or offend me because of my soft bigotry of low expectations for Mainers.

Kinda surprised how quickly the vibe here turned against Plattner. Was kinda expecting a lot of "well perhaps he's a sincere convert" "no one is more radical than veterans" "at least he fights" kind of stuff from the left. Maybe just not enough people had formed an emotional attachment to him.