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pseudocultist t1_jcvthli wrote
Reply to comment by WeNeedToTalkAboutMe in The photo that was the inspiration for Jamie Lee Curtis' character in EEAAO by woutomatic
Alas. I doubt anyone got a check, not her or Mike Simons or Getty. If they'd have used the photo, they'd have had to pay as it's clearly copyrighted. But they copied her outfit, which itself I doubt she thought to trademark that day. So, they were well within their rights to mimic this down to even the jewelry and hairstyle.
They're all free to ride the movie's publicity tho, using the original outfit or this photo.
IF this lady is still around, and IF that's a well known look for her, and IF this movie causes her problems because they copied her look, then she could claim they slandered her character by making her do all of these things on screen, but that'd be a flimsy lawsuit without obvious damages, and this lady is probably not um, making any claims.
pseudocultist t1_jctcnp3 wrote
Reply to comment by jableshables in TIL Charles Dickens had a talking pet raven named Grip, who terrorized his dog, buried valuables in the yard, and died eating "a pound or two" of lead paint. As a character in one of his novels, Grip is believed to have inspired Poe's famous poem, and is on display in a Philadelphia public library by jableshables
Lead is sweet tasting, paint is attractive looking.
pseudocultist t1_jbyiwgv wrote
Reply to comment by joeshmoe9898 in Tim Cook bets on Apple’s mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy by DarthBuzzard
At the time Motorola had a fully touch screen phone, the Communicator, but it wasn't nearly as sophisticated as the iPhone. Still many of us held it up as an example of "what we wanted." It was pretty big, the size of today's iPhones but thicker.
pseudocultist t1_jbqc4ng wrote
Reply to comment by icky_boo in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
Also consumer laptops come with Win 10 home and these Dells come with 10 pro.
I am switching a small business over right now to Dells enterprise line. They thought the cost was steep too, but I pointed to the stack of a dozen physically broken consumer grade laptops they’ve gone through, and the cost to relicense their machines Windows, and the warranty. And now they see the light.
Worth noting you can get last years models for like 60% off through Dell Premier so really they’re not that much more at all. And their sticker price is like 2x what things actually cost through Premier. So a $6k laptop might be $1500 to the company.
pseudocultist t1_jb6zzgf wrote
Reply to comment by xopranaut in All the streaming boxes suck now - There are no good streaming boxes, and I blame everybody. by speckz
Apple TV is fine. Actually better than fine if you use HomeKit. Pricey but that’s their way. Considering the other ones subsidize the price with ads. It’s a necessary trade-off I guess.
pseudocultist t1_jaf2rr7 wrote
Reply to comment by Koffeekage in A bag labeled “Borax, not drugs” to avoid confusion by atokachase
Crack can fluoresce depending on how much bodypaint you were wearing while you made it.
pseudocultist t1_ja66gmd wrote
Reply to comment by Br1887 in I found a bat in my pool. He’s very much alive. I set him in the sun to dry out away from my dog by Handicapreader
My god the panic in here is thick. Y'all know we as a species have been interacting with bats regularly for centuries, in our homes, and it's INCREDIBLY rare for something like this to happen right? I have a colony of little brown bats in my eaves. It's a 122-year-old house, that happens. And they're federally protected so I leave them be. About a half dozen times a year I have to escort one of the little guys out. My parents had the same ritual with their 100+ year old house. Etc. NBD. According to this thread I have rabies at least 50, 60 times over now, my pets are rabid, my house is rabid, the land itself is rabid. IDK what we'll all do when it rains.
pseudocultist t1_ja2thc0 wrote
Reply to comment by gc3 in TIL that from 1991 to 2007, tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris Cos. successfully marketed Capri Sun to children, based on their executives' experience selling tobacco to young people. by 99-bottlesofbeer
Methamphetamine. We were using amphetamines but "supposedly" not meth. But the Air Force was probably adding meth to the pilots injections. It's mildly contentious.
pseudocultist t1_ja09wgn wrote
Reply to comment by makegoodchoicesok in LPT Request: How to lose emotions from your face permanently? by todiecena
I started crying in front of my therapist, and then stopped myself and went cold faced, and she noticed and I was mortified. And she’s like “that’s super common among men, I’m not going to call you names like your dad might have, it’s ok to cry here.” Uhh shit. I am found out.
pseudocultist t1_j9zvz7s wrote
Reply to The Return of the Monarchs by Libro_Artis
As a kid I did monarch tagging in the 90s. Catching them in the field behind my house where they’d visit on their migrations, carefully gluing tags on them and releasing them. The tagging kit was free from the researchers, we were so poor I couldn’t afford a butterfly net, so I used a wal-mart bag on a stick. I got nearly beat up when some other kids found me doing it one day.
Anyway there’s my rambling memory of loving these poor guys and trying to help, way back in the early 90s. So glad they finally made a comeback at the 11th hour, but more needs to be done here and for other species.
pseudocultist t1_j9ocb0e wrote
Reply to comment by Jewrachnid in Starbucks’ new drinks have a spoonful of olive oil in every cup by SelectiveSanity
High bad cholesterol, and keto doesn’t increase bad cholesterol for everyone, nor significantly if it does. But some people shouldn’t be doing it at all for this reason, sure.
pseudocultist t1_j9d6oh8 wrote
Reply to comment by p3p1noR0p3 in LPT request: how to feel happier and more upbeat when waking up super early? by FoxCharacter5108
This but 15 minutes of cardio and weed instead of cocaine. If I'm buzzing before the bees are, all will be well.
pseudocultist t1_j9cgsxe wrote
Reply to comment by turdferguson3891 in What do you do with photos that you don’t know who people are? More information in comments. 1940? by cosplayernerdgirl
We've done this with Glamor shots from Goodwill. "This is Cousin Iliana, last seen in 1987, not forgotten, we assume she joined a cult. She was always kind of taps head "
pseudocultist t1_j9cd20f wrote
Reply to comment by Noctudeit in Heat Pumps Sell Like Hotcakes on America's Oil-Rich Frontier by dolphins3
Education take a little time. The idea of a 500% efficient system is a little foreign to people but when they realize what it means, of course they want it.
pseudocultist t1_j94dgs3 wrote
Reply to comment by sknnbones in MIT team makes a case for direct carbon capture from seawater, not air by MotorDrive
>carbon dioxide has been used to extract additional oil from developed oil fields in the United States.
Wait so the first example given is them turning captured carbon into more fossil fuel production? Is this akin to the "first high is free" from the drug dealer, trying to lure capitalists into carbon capture?
pseudocultist t1_j919nhv wrote
Reply to comment by GenericElucidation in Sidney Powell cited woman who claimed to be headless, time-traveling entity in email pushing election conspiracy theories by Oldkingcole225
Except the faces which are at least 60% plastic and will float eerily along forever.
pseudocultist t1_j8uup0s wrote
Reply to comment by MrGeekman in Future Mac Pro may use Apple Silicon & PCI-E GPUs in parallel by chrisdh79
Jobs knew who Tim Cook was, very well. He had competing visions for Apple in front of him, and he chose the beancounter. He wanted it to be successful, not artistic, in the end.
pseudocultist t1_j8q69r3 wrote
Reply to comment by osnapitsjoey in 50 GB of Unreleased Michael Jackson Content Stolen in Brussels by Guybrush_Tripwood
I try not to read the local Los Santos news, way too violent.
pseudocultist t1_j8po4nc wrote
Reply to comment by djsoomo in Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by strokeright
NLP was designed with the Turing test in mind, it was meant to beat it once and for all. It has done so.
pseudocultist t1_j6egngk wrote
Reply to comment by shogi_x in TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
This kind of tech came too early. It generated a mountain of data which no one could parse let alone use for any good ends. No integration with other systems.
Today we're doing AI data lakes where we just pipe in all sorts of raw data and let the AI do the work . It's still catching on in enterprise settings. Once that's in place, they can take another shot at tech like this, piping the data into the lake where it can be put to use. Plus the hardware has dropped in price quite a bit.
I would say expect a second round of this stuff in another 3-5 years, and it'll be much more successful.
pseudocultist t1_j6d3fgg wrote
Reply to comment by Thedrunner2 in This Sashimi platter by PhillyPhresh
Also how many is this expected to feed? I would want to try everything but would maybe get 4-5 pieces in.
pseudocultist t1_j5my7yu wrote
Reply to comment by Insufferablelol in Report: Apple’s 2023 mixed reality headset to feature full-body FaceTime avatars and iOS-like interface by DarthBuzzard
They really bury the important, good stuff.
>It was previously believed that other people on a call will be displayed as an icon or Memoji. That's still likely to be the case for group calls. For one-on-one chats in which both participants are wearing a Reality Pro, the report suggests that FaceTime will render realistic versions of their face and body. Processing limitations seemingly prevent this feature from being available for group calls. Other companies, such as Meta, typically render users in a more cartoonish fashion (and don't yet include legs).
So... it actually sounds like they're trying to move beyond this.
pseudocultist t1_j55mav9 wrote
Reply to comment by Think_Explanation_47 in NSYNC in 1997 by Djf47021
I spent 2 hours in a police station before being released. It was only midway through that I reached deep down in my right pocket and felt the 8th the officers had missed during several patdowns and reach-ins. Got real nervous after that. But they let me go and I smoked that 8th.
pseudocultist t1_j4sx4xe wrote
Reply to comment by Aya409 in The Mac Pro is now Apple’s last machine with an Intel chip by pecika
That sort of makes sense, they want you to trade up in the first couple of years so they can refurb it. At 4 years its only value (to Apple) is recycling, I bet you're getting a pretty good deal in that sense. The trade-in program is for people that want the current year everything.
pseudocultist t1_jdac1hk wrote
Reply to comment by New_Insect_Overlords in TIL That E-cigarettes were first invented in the 1960s, but were never sold in order to protect the traditional cigarette market by TooOfEverything
I’m picturing something you sit in, like one of those big dome hair dryers.