Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They'd probably eat this up in one of those liminal space communities.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It could have been an accident or incident that resulted in a death. They may have been collecting evidence. There are even some police in my area that uses conventional land surveying equipment and rapid high density laser scanners. Precise measurements of things like skids marks and other evidence of how the vehicles came to rest can be used to estimate initial speeds and confirm or refute the testimony of witnesses.

It could also be something more mundane like an actual land surveyor collecting data to support future design work or verify completed projects.

Neither of these are jobs that can be done at night or at times more convenient for your car.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There's no due process anymore. Why do you believe you'll ever be granted a lawyer, let alone a phone call, or a court date? They're just out there assaulting and disappearing people.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If it made a PDF with an image, it also made the plain image for which you're asking. The PDF in this case is basically a container for that image (along with all the text, formatting, fonts, etc.). There are numerous programs for extracting images from PDFs.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago

Bugs don't waste a lot of space on interior pieces. They're from an era before crumple zones and air bags. There's usually plenty of room for people around 2 meters tall in the front seats, not so much in the back seats (if they exist). I can testify that certain acts in the back of a Volkswagen beetle are as uncomfortable as Mallrats claimed, but far from impossible.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You want mpd to server and play the music, connected with a web front end (there are a few to choose from) accessible on the private store wifi. You should probably serve this frontend only to a certain machine on the network (like the managers computer in the back) and lock everything else out. The last time I ripped CDs on Linux I used whipper, which I believe was the successor to morituri. This is all only legal if the CDs they have already included the licensing fees to play them publicly or are themselves freely licensed. There are sources of freely licensed music out there that you can play publicly without paying.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Nobody else grow up on tuna casserole?

I don't know the exact recipe, but it was basically canned tuna, frozen mixed vegetables (diced carrots, corn, peas, and Lima beans was the favorite in my house), and macaroni and chees. This all goes into a casserole dish and is cooked somehow (probably overn, I don't know, child me didn't worry about such trivialities). The crumbles at the end of a bag of ruffles would be sprinkled over the top of this before baking to add a bit of crunch.

I couldn't count how many times we ate this growing up. It's been a few decades, and the nostalgia is real, but I still have no inclination to make it for myself. If lower middle class had a flavor it's that mélange of canned tuna, fake cheese, and lima beans.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Isn't this basically in line with the plot of the prequels anyway?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 15 points 1 week ago

The article is saying that these sharks aren't really sharking though. The sharks behavior has been changed by environmental factors (regular human feeding and humans raising the local sea temperature by dumping warm water from the desalination plant).

  1. Sharks are attracted by usually warm water from desalination plant.
  2. Tourist guide boats start chumming the waters to keep the sharks around for tourists.
  3. The attraction of so many mostly harmless sharks changes their feeding dynamic. Ever tried eating an ice cream cone near a small child? Ever tried pushing an ice cream cart through a crowd of small kids? Way different dynamic as supply and demand changes as the crowd grows.
  4. Formerly mostly harmless and "shy around humans" sharks start directly approaching humans as a source of food.
  5. Sharks investigate human, beg for food. How do sharks investigate? By biting, nibbles really, or bumping into people swimming.
  6. The first bite generates a predictably violent reaction from the humans, which triggers a feeding frenzy response. Humans aren't equipped to defend or escape this.

The point is that at every step of the way, these sharks are acting in a very strange way (for them) as a direct result of human action. We've seen this kind of thing before when people feed wild animals, strange and dangerous human seeking behaviors develop: alligators, bears, moose, etc. Dangerous animals? Yes, but the behaviors that result in human deaths are in no way natural.

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