All of those have uses.

They add convenience in various ways. It’s kinda neat that my fridge can text me to say the door is open or the filter is due (but I don’t have it connected).

Smart watches have barely anything to do with telling time; they’re remote terminals for your phone for communication in both directions. Think like not holding you phone while exercising, checking if a text is urgent, tracking your steps, or dismissing timers. I don’t have one.

Smart bulbs let you have much more control over your lighting. Have 6 overhead lights over your TV room? Shut the opens over the screen, dim the rest. You can’t do that with a normal switch on a single circuit, like most homes will have. Best you can do is dim them all together with a dimmer switch. Sure, it also let’s people be extra lazy by not getting up at all. I don’t have any.

It’s really easy to see how these smart features add convenience. I hate them because they usually come with atrocious security and privacy flaws. Worse, many are specifically sold as spying devices under the guise of convenience. THAT is why when smart devices are the only/best option, I don’t connect them. And if setup seems to demand connectivity, I change my wifi password, connect and setup, then change it back.

What would be the benefit of Russians promoting cuxk porn? Or do you just mean it was promoted via consumption?

All 3 items are evidence it happened.

The Soviets did not object to the claim.

The landing was broadcast live by radio waves, not from a film reel.

No, no hobbyist has a capable laser with narrow-enough collimation and, more importantly, a sensor sensitive enough to detect the reflection. But many scientific groups in other countries have the equipment to do so to verify or dispute the claim. It’s used to measure the distance to the moon precisely.

The comment reply to one of your comment replies explains it. Yes, to some degree, it’s really the “last formed” date, but everything besides helium and hydrogen atoms had to be formed over time after the big bang by fusing inside stars. Even carbon.

https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/comment/26154715

I’ve been there. It felt so odd being able to go to a government park, after sunset, against the water, and just have it be filled with people (like 100 people in sight, across the 600ft of lakefront I could see). When does it officially close, like 10pm? One cop-type was making rounds in the parking lot but not actually enforcing anything. There were occasional fireworks. I’m sure there are altercations sometimes, but the most I saw in my hour there was unruly kids (10 year olds). It was so peaceful.

I come from the coast where there is only private land and government land that closes dusk to dawn.

It’s actually BURNlNG MAN land with a typo’d lowercase L that’s gonna unnoticed but it’s too late to change the records now.

(burning Man is on BLM land and happens to also be where the land speed record is currently held - salt lake city salt flats weren’t big enough, apparently)

It’s not perfect, but there are cleaners with enzymes that really fight dairy spill smell. They’re primarily marketed here as pet odor destroyers. A spilled spring latte came back to haunt my car carpet in the summer despite my best cleaning efforts initially. I sprayed with the enzymatic cleaner and cut it in half within a few days. I sprayed again a week later and got rid of most of it. If it sits for a few days in the heat, I could smell it upon entering, but it easily got evacuated with open windows for a minute. Like 4 years later it’s still there very faintly, but now it has to sit for like a week in the summer and it’s only identifiable because I know what it is.

Neat. The thumbnail seems to update, too. The card view was different than the thread header. Almost feels unreal to see the cloud flow because I haven’t seen such an image set before.

“some kids are doing something I haven’t seen before, whole generation must be obsessed”

It’s so weird. Take pictures because it won’t happen like this again. Don’t take pictures because you don’t have time. It doesn’t matter if it’s 1 minute or 4 minutes, your brain will only experience 30 seconds. While I wasted time on pictures, it was still a neat learning experience after the fact. There was a particular solar prominence we all saw, but orientation indicated where the photo was taken (trusting reported locations and that “up is up” in the photo).

The one I saw has mixed memories. I brought 10x50 bincoluars so my view ended up being very similar to good photos that came out of it. I can’t tell which are my memories and which are memories of high end photos.

I traveled 7 hours each way to see it. Because cloud cover was predicted, I left myself the option to either go east or north for the best sky forecast. Still, the loss of sunlight does have a slight cloud-clearing effect. We had a high altitude haze but it was fine enough.

I barely remember it happening. It doesn’t go night time dark, but rather twilight dark. Everything went quiet. Even cars stopped driving. The whispy tails of the corona were so foreign to see.

And as you finish reading this stream of consciousness I’ve written, it’s over.

I can’t wait for the next one.

The tire thing is becoming the only type of error I can reliably catch. Look into the details to check for consistency in patterns. Radial patterns such as spokes in a wheel. Symmetry across left and right features. If there’s multiples of an object, look for difference between them. Generated images keep copying source material, but it doesn’t understand the rules. Yes, there are times where things aren’t symmetrical or two items are slightly different models/versions, but there’s a point where if two things are very very similar, there probably won’t be a a weird difference.

Plus, not only are models getting better at generating images, but users are wising up as well and are using real pictures as the base. Generators will still tweak details into mild fantasy, but it’s drastically reduced. In the above blondie onlyfans military pics, I’m not seeing any vehicle detail issues. At least, none with the nose of a HMMV and I’m not familiar with the Toyota land cruiser. But then the question is, why is “she” in a land cruiser? I’m not aware of any regular US service using Toyota but there’s one that played a role in the Kabul airport… Taking? Evacuation? Even if the original post mentioned that honored truck, it’s missing the door graphic that seems to be original. Even still, the one pictured is pristine.

And this is why AI wins. It’s the gish gallop of imagery. It takes so much effort to examine, check, and report errors that it all spreads like wildfire before the first rebuttal gets posted.

Cape of Good Hope (Capetown)? That’s obviously there, but that’s the item I remember form school in regards to global sail routes

Pixel 7 here. It doesn’t go upside down for me. Yes, I get the tappable rotate icon as well. Still only upside up or sideways.

I suspected as much. The only car I’ve ever seen with a coffee symbol. That alert can be disabled in the settings. At least, it’s easy in the turbo gen 2 fusions (2013-2020) with the single dial gauge and dual screens in the dash. Not sure if the 2.5l gen 2 (or any gen 1) has that alert in the more basic single screen dash.

Gen 2 is a great car otherwise because it’s a rebadged EU Mondeo.

You can easily go up to 2010 and later without any antennas besides the radio. But also yes, the answer is dumb Ford Ranger for other reasons.

I really want a maverick (ute), but I will not do it without confirmation that it will function fine with the cell antenna unplugged.

A Mazda with a Ford badge is the lord’s truck (83-11 ranger)

A ski would be a nightmare. Ski bikes for downhill slopes are one thing, but self-propelling a bike with a ski would majorly suck. The only reason a bike balances is because of tiny steering inputs to the front wheel. If you aren’t aware of that, it’s because of the geometry of the front fork has been worked out a century ago, so it comes naturally. The greatest proof is the reverse-steering bike experiments. Every time the novice reverse rider starts to fall, they steer the wrong way harder and harder. But then it clicks eventually, their brain reverses, and it works again. The gyroscopic effect resists falling, but it doesn’t stay upright on its own forever.

Back to the point. I’ve skied, I’ve snowboarded. You balance by rocking and steering yourself. While ski bikes do exist for the slopes, all 3 of these take relatively wide paths to stay balanced Ina mild weave. Bikes do it in a much narrower path because they have grip in the tires. Replace that with a constant slide and it gets dicey fast. You lose the ability to balance any time the front washes out. And to see more of that concept, search “lowside crash motorcycle”. The front locks/slides, all balance is lost.

Stick to cleared pathways and at least hard pack snow. Powder is awful to bike through. I’ve done it. No mortal bike tire floats how it’d need to

Really close, but off by one part: paganism is not an inclusive term. It’s an exclusive term. Rather than groups (originally) agreeing they are pagans, Christians decided anything not Christian is pagan. The modern meaning of pagan is euro-centric because that’s where Christianity took hold. The Norse and the Celtic and the Baltic and the Germanic “pagans” likely would not see themselves as on the same side of the argument against Christians. Grouping pagans together is like grouping barbarians together across the world. Literally, because barbarian is also a derogatory term. (bar-bar was the racist interpretation of foreign language by the Greeks and then Romans)

The meaning is shifted now because of 2000 years of Christian erasure. So sure, it might now be that Pagan is an equivalent type of term as Christian, covering many groups that identify themselves as their parent term, but that’s not the historical context. That makes a difference when talking about the actual history.

Interesting. My stock pixel keyboard has ℅ as an alternate long press to %. In SwiftKey, the alternate is ‰ while c/o seems to be nowhere to be found. I didn’t know I had either available as long press q from the main keyboard group is just % and nothing else (some keys have multiple alternates, like long press x shows $ but also has ¢£₹¥€, for example)

I’m not saying it’s right, just a possible logical reason for the oversight. Same as if I guessed it was a phone/tablet keyboard with a single cap instead of all caps. Neither is right