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From now on, each time I see people argue about whether Pluto is a planet, I will post exactly one fact about the Pluto-Charon system. I will not guarantee that these are "cool" or "fun".

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Blender >2.8 is a triumph of open source software and this video shows how

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nuclear power is impressive until you get up to why. "we use the most precisely engineered machinery ever created to split atoms to release energy" oh yeah how come? "boil water to turn a fan" get the fuck out

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funny that pluto had 75 years as being the only trans-neptunian object we knew of and yet when i say "person who's still upset at the IAU that pluto isn't a planet anymore" you know exactly which generation they belong to

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every available topic in Façade (2005)

Façade is a game where you play as Jarvis Cocker of Pulp (under a pseudonym) in which you reunite with that slumming college girl from Greece and get her to rediscover her love of sculpture

The game has an open ended dialogue system but for obvious reasons there is actually a limited list of topics. Here's all of them. [character] refers to either Trip or Grace; there's unique dialogue depending on who you address

[character] is angry [character] doesn't love [character] [character]'s parents [character] is controlling italy the painting the brass bull the wedding photo [character] is depressed [character] is depressing [character] should make art [character] is afraid sculptures [character] is lying bad marriage [character] communicates [character] doesn't communicate [character] is to blame [character] is loving/loved infidelity

ones i'm reasonably sure are "useless" (make them angry and aren't productive to getting the good ending) love life get a pet break up Maria Vince therapy Kill each other Kill yourselves quit your job (unsure)

1st half only: the couch the view drinks work project the 8 ball

i haven't played the game in years so i'm not sure if these are 1st half only as well:

[character] is sexy i love [character] i like [character] i don't like [character] i don't like (object in the house) grace's breasts (aka "melon")

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Do you know why Novelty or Memetic Architecture is sometimes called Duck Architecture?

It’s because of this duck in New York.

Long Island’s Big Duck was built in 1931 by a duck farmer who sold ducks, eggs and milk. While the Duck’s owner and location changed multiple times, it continued to operate as a shop until the 1980s and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Duck Architecture became a term used to describe buildings that are “sculptural in form and explicitly represent their function through their shape and construction.” So because the duck shaped building sold ducks, it’s duck architecture. If a teapot shaped building sold tea, it’s duck architecture. If a whale shaped building sold whales, it’s duck architecture. Get it?

Today, the Big Duck is no longer privately owned and remains a popular tourist attraction. The county maintains the interior while the town maintains the exterior.

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This week where the entire Internet (including 4chan) was clowning on Dittmann was one of the most cathartic of the last four years.

The fact that you chose to ruin the party for us... that actually speaks to real integrity, courage and a commitment to the truth on your part. Keep up the good work /srs

while everyone else was busy writing slop articles about how adrian dittmann sounds like elon musk i decided to actually find him. an investigation with Jacqueline Sweet and Ryan Fae

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some of you have never spoken to a black person in your life and you should honestly reflect on that a lot instead of using our existence in your heated online debates to own someone who you will never meet in ur life.

some of you gotta realize you're fucking anti black if our only existence matters to you in a political form while never including us or spreading black joy at all.

you take our culture, our words, everything we do and bastardize and water it down and completely erase the origin to make it more digestible to general audiences. I'm tired of whitewashing myself essentially and being a personal minstrel show for some people.

I didn't choose to have a skin color that will force me to realize that I am at the bottom of everyone's heel and that there is antiblackness around everywhere for me and folks like me.

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Bar 'Cool' - Madrid, Spain (2001)

Designed by Tomás Alía

Mix of a couple popular and contemporaneously interrelated revival aesthetics; Millennium Disco, Y2K Futurism (expressed mainly in the color palette, typography, some materiality, and facade), and Ultramodern Revival

Scanned from Bar Decors by Elsa Rocher (2002), and Club Design by LINKS (2006)

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I'm currently working on a page over at Aypo's Library detailing the mechanics behind the gimmicks of Hotel Mario - as well as its hidden guaranteed items - and I think it's complete enough to share with you lot! (I haven't completed Wendy and Bowser's hotels as of writing this post.)

Here's an out-of-context photo for a laugh:

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yay new yeer fireworks for new yeer

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I get why the pro-copyright argument is popular. It's easy to explain and appeals to our existing legal institutions. It feels viscerally awful to have your artwork used to train software explicitly pitched to be a replacement for you. And if you're a smaller artist living paycheck to paycheck and you believe (rightly or wrongly) that plagiarism is threatening your career, it has to feel unfair that only the largest corporations get the full weight of the law behind them to stop copyright violations, while they simultaneously apply a standard of fair use to other people's work that they would never allow to be used on their own.

But I don't get why it's popular among leftists like Hbomb, because it is so obviously a bad argument if you just think about what "copyrighting style" would mean and who would benefit most from it. imo the strongest critiques of AI art come from an anti-capitalist lens and target OpenAI et al, the rentier economy they want to create, and their specific vision of what AI art should be, and I don't get why we're not going with those in favor of arguments that the RIAA would nod their head to and the uselessly vague appeal to "soul"

genuinely i think hbomberguy might have accidentally set the copyright abolition clock back like 5 years

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i am no longer asking. get shpongled

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they made a full recovery

starting to anthropomorphize the survivorship bias plane

look at the poor thing, i want to take them to the plane hospital

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starting to anthropomorphize the survivorship bias plane

look at the poor thing, i want to take them to the plane hospital

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(engagement bait voice) what if doom e1m1 was a liminal space