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Just a random stuffed animal. Icon by WhiteZeo, way back on LJ

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virtualbri, to random
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::whispers:: Hey vendors, your difficulty in delivering our show specs because of your pipeline is not our problem.

We work all this out because everyone tries to give us what's easiest for them and it creates a nightmare conforming for DI and final.

And we do try to consider what's best for everyone. And we're not asking for wacky giant files.

Standardization is good.

tptigger,
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@virtualbri ...
I suppose it's easier when it's in writing and everyone uses M$ Word, but you're the client why are they not following your specs?
I've been in-house for 5 years, but I would't think customer service 101 would change?

tptigger,
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@virtualbri Ugh, sounds like a pain in the butt. I guess there is exactly one (1) advantage to Microsoft having a stranglehold on word processing--I know everyone can open the draft to review it.

virtualbri, to scifi
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URRAVbH3qBU

Here's a good one: Phantom Menace Theatrical versus 4K release.

Does the digital noise reduction hammer the details, especially in faces? Is the new color shift to blue better? You decide

tptigger,
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@virtualbri What that movie really needs is a better edit. I went to see it in the the theaters and it was OK, but dragged in the middle (the pod race especially). It's like Lucas divorced his editor between the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy or something... Oh, wait.

tptigger,
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@virtualbri Yeah. It's completely unclear why Naboo (other than because that's where the emperor was from).
Honestly, I'm of the opinion that Lucas should've hired a writer and handed them an outline. He's an excellent idea man! He's not great at story structure and dialogue.

virtualbri, to apple
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc

I don't...just no Apple. This is not the iPad take you want to be known for.

Destroying all these mostly tactile experiences for a tiny screen?

I love my iPad, but no....

#Apple #IPad #Advertisements

tptigger,
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@virtualbri Yeah, there are some things that you just want to be able to do.
It's probably not as pretty as squashing a bunch of CDs, DVDs, paper books, and video games I guess?

virtualbri, to ukteachers
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https://wapo.st/3yaAWQJ

Anything to attack schools so they can mold them into their conservative-generating wastelands.

Believe it or not, antisemitism isn't the biggest problem with k-12 schools. No Congressional action on any of those things, except to make them worse.

tptigger,
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@virtualbri I agree it's not, by any stretch of imagination the biggest thing, and let's be real, I don't trust the Republicans to actually fight antisemitism, but I moved in January and I'm scared to put up a mezuzah at my new place, so it IS a problem.

tptigger,
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@virtualbri What makes me so frustrated is that so frequently protests will include horribly antisemitic chants, and when Jewish people say something, it is either a) ignored or b) outright denied. For any other group, there would be immediate apologies and dropping of the chants.
So if it seems like my back's a little far up, it's because of the last 7 months (plus) of sorting through who's antisemitic and who just doesn't know what they're saying.

virtualbri, to california
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/monthly-payments-of-1-000-could-get-thousands-of-homeless-people-off-the-streets-researchers-say

“Cash subsidies provide more flexible housing support at a lower cost. The
current dominant model entails considerable overhead to pay for
government employees and contractors to manage relationships between
landlords and people in need."

tptigger,
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@virtualbri The more I learn about Universal Basic Income, the more I think it would solve a lot of problems

virtualbri, to random
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First LinkedIn catfishing attempts, and they all came in on the same day. Weird.

tptigger,
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@virtualbri I got a lot of really dicy messages about resume "services" when I hung out the "open to work" banner. I'm still not sure what to do with that service besides go through the job ads, TBQH

ned, to random
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J.K. Rowling also writes under a pen name of "Robert Galbraith", publishing over half a dozen titles under that name, most of which have TV adaptations.

Robert Galbraith Heath was the American Psychiatrist who pioneered Gay Conversion Therapy to convert homosexuals through electro-shock therapy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath

tptigger,
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@ned Holy cricket. We should've known ages ago!

tptigger,
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@Infoseepage @ned Yikes. That is....
I'm out of words. What is WRONG with her?

virtualbri, to streaming
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-content-spending-cuts-2024/

Well, that doesn't seem great.

tptigger,
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@virtualbri Ugh. Watch the live action Star Trek shows either get axed or cut to 4 episode seasons... Because everything is about shareholders, not customers.

virtualbri, to random
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judicial-conference-takes-action-on-judge-shopping-that-has-imbued-trump-appointees-with-massive-power

This is a pretty big deal; judge shopping is a nightmare with so many Trump appointed cranks who are hoping to take the government apart.

tptigger,
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@virtualbri In fairness, Judge Shopping is a Tried and True Legal Practice (lots of people try to get their patent cases before This One Judge in Texas, for example). That said, it's not really a Net Good, so I'm glad they're cracking down on it.

tptigger,
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@virtualbri So the new policy apparently lists patent law specifically (this popped up on my LinkedIn feed.) https://www.ipintelligencereport.com/blogs/the-end-of-judge-shopping-in-patent-cases/

tptigger,
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@virtualbri I 99% agree, but also have seen the result of judges unfamiliar with patent law or the associated science and it leads to headaches when trying to draft the things. :) (I could rant a lot about SCOTUS but I'll spare you. :) )

virtualbri, to random
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Needing the Mac version of Keynote to re-set a fricking video thumbnail is annoying....

Especially when you discover that after you've finished the presentation. I don't want to remake it in Powerpoint just for that one bit of cleanup.

tptigger,
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@virtualbri I had to give in and get Office for my new job hunt--do not get me started on weirdness. (I hate M$, I will deal with Office for work, but I feel awful putting it on my poor Mac)

tptigger,
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@virtualbri Yeah, the Numbers app is annoying comparatively, but given that outside of work the only thing I use it for is budgeting... wasn't worth it. However, given that everyone wants .docx resumes, well, having a version of Word seemed prudent.

Faintdreams, (edited ) to StarTrek
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Wait - why is the FINAL SEASON EVER of Star Trek Discovery only 10 episodes long ?

Gah !!

At every step, Paramount Execs have done this show DIRTY.

Sheer disrespect.


😑

tptigger,
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@Faintdreams They lost the Netflix funding for the extra 3 :(

charliejane, to random
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Email I just received:

"I write to ask if I may send you a carefully thought-out and prepared, four-page synopsis, of a science-fiction book/movie idea which, I believe, could, if taken up by a Pro writer, result in a best-seller sci-fi blockbuster book, leading, in turn, to a blockbuster movie."

Never actually gotten one of these before. I thought they were mythical.

tptigger,
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@charliejane People do that? Yikes.
I thought the people sending unsolicited fic ideas in the AO3 comments was annoying.
(I'd like to say I'm never again going to not send a resume to a job that I think I'm only borderline qualified for, but I kinda know myself...)

virtualbri, to random
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    tptigger,
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    @virtualbri ....
    What are people supposed to do if they don't have smart phones? (I know that's fewer than there used to be, but it's still a non-zero number)
    (Worse, there are a few people who don't have credit cards or even debit cards, or bank accounts, which is its own headache. Of course, given the givens, they may not even be able to fly these days.)

    Faintdreams, to random
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    I think this is a thing a lot of my
    peeps might have use for soon..

    Enjoy.

    Big thank you to : @danhon for creating this and other Reply banners.

    tptigger,
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    @Faintdreams @danhon Very likely. It's starting again. sighs

    glynmoody, to random
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    Blood oxygen feature now officially gone from Apple Watch - https://mashable.com/article/apple-watch-blood-oxygen this is how make our lives and health worse...

    tptigger,
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    @glynmoody You could blame Apple for stealing the tech and infringing the patents rather than licensing the tech from the patent holder in the first place.
    They could probably give the patent holder a decent royalty and settle, but they're being cheap.
    The problem isn't the patents, it's capitalism

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    tptigger,
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    @virtualbri Whoa, for non-service things? And I thought the tip screen for the movers was !!!

    tptigger,
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    @virtualbri Tipping culture has gotten ridiculous that's for sure.

    boardgamebreakdown, to random
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    Thoughts on my first play of . Reminder I've only played it solo.

    1. The place/retrieve mechanism is implemented in a way I haven't seen in other games in my collection. Typically in worker placement you get your workers back once you run out. In Apiary when you retrieve workers, they "level up." I definitely handled this wrong and will need to retrieve more often in future

    2. Bumping workers as well as the actions where you add your value to already played workers is very cool

    @mwt

    tptigger,
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    @boardgamebreakdown That looks like the love child of Honey Buzz and Cataan... I'm not sure what I think.

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