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derekdahlsad

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Creator of http://dakotadeathtrip.com and http://blacksunn.net/receipts/ , antique dealer, film student, dayjob is converting paper into pixels. AzraelBrown on #Metafilter. Potrzebie!

Avatar is a #tintype photograph of myself, taken in 2022 by the studio Old School Collodion

Header is a neglected billboard in Casper WY, with the words “MAN ANT EAD” displayed next to a baby talking on a telephone, and “ANTELOPE 29.95 DEER 35.95” across the bottom, taken in early 2000s.

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inquiline, to Columbia
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"It is never appropriate to call in armed police to arrest peaceful student demonstrators....

The faculty of Columbia University has every right – and, in my view, a duty – to protect peaceful free expression at with a vote of no confidence in Shafik’s leadership and seek to have her presidency terminated"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/23/israel-gaza-campus-protests

derekdahlsad,
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@dschwarz @inquiline sure "code of conduct" sounds like the kind of rule that needs to be enforced with handcuffs and batons and imprisonment.

sundogplanets, to random
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Hey Calgary, I'll be giving a public talk at the Telus Science Centre on Wednesday evening at 7:30 MDT about discoveries in the outer Solar System, testing the Planet 9 theory, and how satellites are destroying astronomy as well as the atmosphere and future use of low Earth orbit: https://www.meetup.com/the-calgary-astronomy-meetup-group/events/299157146/

derekdahlsad,
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@sundogplanets you're not the first person to be interviewed on the radio like that, park in a quiet spot and go for it!

RickiTarr, to random
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Are you the person you always thought you would be?

derekdahlsad,
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@TheJen @RickiTarr I'm literally in the process of dying my 59 year old wife's hair Radiant Orchid, a super vivid light purple. She says she will never go back to any natural color, this is her now.

RickiTarr, to random
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Hubs: How much Mexican should I pick up?

Me: Ask them for too much.

derekdahlsad,
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@the_etrain @RickiTarr
I love when I order chinese and they put like 4 fortune cookies and a bunch of plastic forks in there. Sure...heh heh...FOUR of us are eating all this in one sitting tonight while watching a movie, yes...

thomasfuchs, to random
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A generative AI based on the corpus of Tumblr images?

What could possibly go wrong

derekdahlsad,
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@thomasfuchs It will be impossible to get it to generate an image of a human without fur and animal ears

derekdahlsad, to retrocomputing
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Happy birthday, my thirty year old clicky-clacky keyboard!

(I keep it mostly for sentimental reasons, sadly I don't actively use it)

An M Type mechanical keyboard made for IBM by Lexmark in 1994.

derekdahlsad,
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@bitprophet The manufacture date is the highlighted part on the left; the '84 must be when it was first designed or something.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Can you imagine if the automobile had never been invented and that horses remained the norm?

I mean, with the current population, the infrastructure for picking up horse shit alone would have to be mind boggling.

derekdahlsad,
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@Mrfunkedude if you read old newspapers, the number of people getting severely injured or killed by horses was a pretty high number. Falling off, getting dragged to death; your car doesn't kick you in the face when it's in a bad mood.

On the other hand, the number of stories about getting in your wagon drunk, telling the horse to giddyapp, and waking up parked in your own yard the next morning was a counterpoint I suppose

Daojoan, to random
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My diet plan is simple: if I can't pronounce it, I eat it. All of it.

derekdahlsad,
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@Daojoan so it's heavy on the Wooster...worstchersh...wustchersh...wostusoss....wurcherchersauce.

RickiTarr, to random
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What is the strangest thing you've ever purchased?

derekdahlsad,
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@RickiTarr on eBay I won the naming rights to a floor in a building at MIT, it's still named that even though I paid for it almost 25 years ago. I've never been to MIT.

derekdahlsad,
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@RickiTarr proof https://web.mit.edu/ninadm/www/ebay.html

derekdahlsad, to random
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qurlyjoe, (edited ) to random
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For no real reason, other than that I have it, a US 1910 $2 1/2 dollar gold coin. Worth about $540 today.

derekdahlsad,
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@qurlyjoe that's my favorite coin design, it's like a little work of art. But a $2.50, that must be tiny! I've held a $5 version and that was super small.

RickiTarr, to random
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What are your true opinions and thoughts on marriage?

Just for fun, this is a photo from my wedding day (ignore the reflection of my phone lol) I was all of 21.

derekdahlsad,
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@RickiTarr first marriage went horrible, was a single dad for 8 years, met my wife online (not a dating site, we were writers on the same website), her recently divorced from a bad marriage with two kids, we were together for fun but decided to move in together, decided to get married to make us and our kids one legal family, we marvel it's been 20 years and this is the path we took. Being married feels more like a sidethought, we're equal partners who like each other and have sex, it's great!

derekdahlsad,
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@RickiTarr oh, thoughts on marriage: both of our first marriages felt needed, required, we had to marry in order to make it work, which did not go as planned. We married each other because it was a technical reason, we were already committed and planning on being together, so I suppose the commitment comes first, then marriage. Marriage doesn't make commitment.

Gogs, to random
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[Angrily waving bottle of generic exfoliant] GODDAMN it! What did I say? I’M A MAN! This shit needs to be SPECIALLY FORMULATED for ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE!!

derekdahlsad,
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@Gogs hmmm, the packaging isn't black, and the logo doesn't look like a military stencil.... squints suspiciously, worried it's a girl bar of soap

derekdahlsad, to random
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Duuuuuude.

So, if you've ever watched me write with a pencil, I rotate the pencil a quarter turn after every word - this is a throwback to drafting class where we learned that kept lines consistent, otherwise you wear down one side of the lead and lines get wider. This pencil does it automatically, every time you lift the pencil, so every letter, it rotates a tiny bit so you're always using the sharp point of the lead.

Closeup of the kuru toga mechanism in this mechanical pencil, which rotates the lead each time the pencil is lifted, so the lead wears evenly and lines are consistent.

derekdahlsad, to random
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Happy from Old Man Chickenbone, who was being very cute sleeping on the couch but when he realized he was being photographed he attacked my cellphone

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MnemosyneSinger, to random
derekdahlsad,
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@MnemosyneSinger He looks pretty chill about it, maybe he's a sociopath and intentionally picked this as his housemaking material

derekdahlsad, to animals
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derekdahlsad, to random
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Weekend : Scott Pilgrim vs The World - I am a sucker for unique visual storytelling - the story of self discovery, wrapped in the trappings of video games, fight movies, comics, theatrical staging, and angsty music, uses those motifs to communicate far more than the script does. This hightened-reality method of storytelling - scenes transition without a cut, hats appear from nowhere - is also one of my favorite techniques too.

derekdahlsad, to random
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More fun from the Elbow Lake MN : turtle rescue!

Motorist Assist: On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at approximately 5:00 p.m., a deputy while on patrol in Erdahl Township located a motorist on the side of the road with their hazard lights on. The deputy stopped and found the motorist to be moving a turtle across the road and did not require assistance.

ThisWeekInThe90s, to random
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Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).

In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.

The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.

...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.

https://www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/

5. Major ecological crisis causes a global climate change that, among other things, disrupts the food supply—causing big price increases everywhere and sporadic famines. 6. Major rise in crime and terrorism forces the world to pull back in fear. People who constantly feel they could be blown up or ripped off are not in the mood to reach out and open up. 7. The cumulative escalation in pollution causes a dramatic increase in cancer, which overwhelms the ill-prepared health system. 8. Energy prices go through the roof. Convulsions in the Middle East disrupt the oil supply, and the alternative energy sources fail to materialize. 9. An uncontrollable plague—a modern-day influenza epidemic or its equivalent—takes off like wildfire, killing upward of 200 million people. 10. A social and cultural backlash stops progress dead in its tracks. Human beings need to choose to move forward. They just may not …

derekdahlsad,
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@ThisWeekInThe90s
1997: Wow, even if three of those happen it'd be catastrophic, but that'd be extremely unlikely

2023: looks around nervously

derekdahlsad, to ai
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Every few months I run a Voight-Kampff test on the current (free) image generators, and they continually fail at knowing what a tortoise on its back looks like, so humanity is safe from the androids so far. I mean, you know what a turtle is? It's like that.

derekdahlsad, to random
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Today I returned to college for the first time in 20 years so I made my wife take a First Day Of School photo on the front porch.

All my classes are online.

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