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derekdahlsad

@derekdahlsad@mastodon.social

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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TonyStark, to random
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Republicans must be too busy trying to distract us with other things to try and cancel Obamacare lately. Or maybe they’ve finally realized most people like it.

At any rate, this is another great idea from Governor Gretchen Whitmer. All states should do it. Probably only the Democratic-run ones will.

Michigan Gov. Whitmer will call on Democrats to codify ‘Obamacare’ into state law |
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/michigan-gov-whitmer-will-call-on-democrats-to-codify-obamacare-into-state-law

derekdahlsad,
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@TonyStark @CatDragon @hapbt
This is my experience too -- they recently made it so dependents can get marketplace insurance if the family plan through an employer is crazy expensive, as mine was; we're saving around $400 a month and my wife's deductible is a little higher than it would have been, but her meds are waaayyy cheaper than mine. This is in Minnesota, though; each state gets to decide how good or bad their system is, MN seems to be OK.

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,
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@Bluegrass_Nomad I hadn't seen it before, and I havent read the comic - i know it mostly from memes. There's always a danger of "guys fighting over girls" stories to leave a bad taste but it subverts it without sacrificing the love story. There's some things that are definitely a product of the early 2000s - but apparently there's a TV show remake coming out this fall, it'll be interesting to see how that goes.

IamHappyToast, to random
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Here we are now, all the lads

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derekdahlsad,
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@rebelrebel62 @IamHappyToast @pomCountyIrregs just don't vote him in as mayor of anything - could you imagine?!?

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.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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NO!!!!

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/paul-reubens-dead-pee-wee-herman-1235683504/

derekdahlsad,
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@BlackAzizAnansi I'm more surprised that he was 70 😲

Swede1952, to ilaughed

White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)

This pelican is about to land in the Calcasieu Ship Channel, Cameron Parish Louisiana. Where are large group of white pelicans were gathered.

"American White Pelicans cooperate when feeding. Sometimes, large groups gather in wetlands. They coordinate their swimming to drive schooling fish toward the shallows. The pelicans can then easily scoop up these corralled fish from the water." - allaboutbirds.org

derekdahlsad,
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@chemoelectric @Swede1952 we have a bunch of them in west central lakes country, I see them all the time between Fergus Falls and Elbow Lake

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Country singer: gets off their private jet, has their butler pop open a bottle of Dom Pérignon, walks onto stage adorned in $100,000 worth of jewelry

Country fans: Hmm I fear they might be a city slicker.

Country singer: Driving a tractor through my small town, wearing jeans and drinking beer.

Country fans: Oops false alarm, that's an authentic country boy right there.

derekdahlsad,
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@lowqualityfacts on digging deeper, those authentic songs were written by a consortium of songwriters who had a number of disco hits in the 70s

BootsChantilly, to random
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Oh, yikes. 😐 https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/european-ai-american-list

derekdahlsad,
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@chemoelectric @BootsChantilly I'm literally in Minnesota and wondering how the AI bot got my family photos

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Are your dogs okay?

derekdahlsad,
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@Mrfunkedude My dog's previous owner was a puppy mill and when they were initially cited and threatened with legal repercussions for having too many dogs they shot a bunch of them, so her fireworks PTSD is earned. She either hid under my office desk (where she never goes) or was on the couch with my wife (she normally doesn't think she's allowed on furniture, despite our encouragement, although she likes the bed)

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

dannotdaniel, to HashtagGames
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The Apprentice, Jr.



derekdahlsad,
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@dannotdaniel before I discovered there was a cheese game thing going on I scrolled past this photo and just assumed it was a real screenshot of don jr doing stupid don jr shit

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,
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@zleap the difference versus a Turing test is that in the Blade Runner world, the "androids" are designed without the ability to have human feelings, and the Voight-Kamff test is designed to test emotional response. So, basically they can pass a Turing test - they can have a normal human conversation - but if you check things like pupil dilation and heart rate when asking them an emotional question you can tell they're not human.

derekdahlsad,
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@zleap I should add, I'm not really doing a Voight-Kamff test - one of the question in the movie is that you see a tortoise on the ground in the desert and you flip it on its back, and while it struggles to get upright you don't help, why aren't you helping? The android responds very confused about the question - what's a tortoise? Why am I in the desert? - which is why it's funny when I start the same question modern AI is just as confused.

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.

molly0xfff, to random
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coming out with a .zip TLD seems like a real chaos move

derekdahlsad,
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@molly0xfff register download.zip and incur the hatred of every anti-virus scanner

thomasfuchs, to random
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Petition to bring back 🌈 rainbow computer logos
:apple_old_logo: :spinning_pinwheel:

Rainbow checkmark logo on the packaging of the Amiga 1000 computer
Rainbow ColecoVision logos on boxed ColecoVision set with expansion module #1 and the super action controller set
Sinclair ZX Spectrum with rainbow stripe across bottom right corner of the computer

derekdahlsad,
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@thomasfuchs I've acquired some original Apple logo stickers over the years, one decorates my new MacBook Pro M2

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