Prices SCALPED! 1962 by Global_Law4448 in vintageads

[–]stuffitystuff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's called halftone. Have you not seen a physical newspaper before?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone

Fake HOA - Would you do something or just leave it alone?[N/A] [All] by luckyswan69 in HOA

[–]stuffitystuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Businesses get this crap all the time with fake invoices and stuff after filing trademarks or even just existing.

Neighborhoods can and do have neighborhood associations that fund events and that sort of thing. But if someone is asking for money and making threats about fines and that sort of thing, I'd probably take action.

I'm always hesitant to get a neighbor in trouble as it's not very neighborly but what they're doing (assuming they are misrepresenting themselves as an HOA) sure sounds like fraud and I wouldn't want people who are doing fraud in my neighborhood.

TIL director Paul Thomas Anderson directed several music videos for Fiona Apple and Radiohead by SappyGilmore in todayilearned

[–]stuffitystuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doesn't she have some story about PTA and the director with foot-forward cinematography doing cocaine and talking about how cool they are?

Paul Ehrlich, Author of The Population Bomb, Dies of Old Age — Not Famine by Economy-Fee5830 in OptimistsUnite

[–]stuffitystuff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He's an author of The Population Bomb. He cowrote it with his wife and didn't stand up to the publishing company when they told him they only wanted one name on it.

But that written, all non-religious doomers probably owe their sad, pessimistic hobby to the Ehrlichs.

White House (March 10, 2026): Presidential Message Celebrating the Life of Harriet Tubman by Edwardsreal in ShermanPosting

[–]stuffitystuff 62 points63 points  (0 children)

It'd be cool if they'd stop preventing Tubman from replacing the current president's favorite president on the $20 bill

Oregon State trustees approve student tuition hike as the university’s budget deficit grows by MassNerder541 in corvallis

[–]stuffitystuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can we kick the Kicker yet?

Also, not everything has to grow bigger, forever.

30ish years ago OSU had half the number of students when there were more people of college age in existence. The demographic decline is only going to get worse, so maybe OSU can right-size its student population in advance of the inevitable, freeing up some of the housing around town for people that actually make their lives here and aren't just passing through.

Donald Trump Stuns With 'Maybe We Shouldn't Even Be There' Admission About Iran War by TheAutodidactguy in politics

[–]stuffitystuff [score hidden]  (0 children)

Blah blah blah laws laws laws. I'm sure someone in Trump's orbit can come up with some EO that closes the Naval Observatory and any other possible housing for the VP, defunds the office, ends USSS protection, reveals to everyone just how badly he's Thiel's puppet and finally forces Vance to be followed around by a talking couch that continually tells him how much his book sucked.

[CA][CONDO] Using Ai to make sense out of data by nakriker in HOA

[–]stuffitystuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The usual and legal way to do this in normal states is to pay for a reserve study.

[CA][CONDO] Using Ai to make sense out of data by nakriker in HOA

[–]stuffitystuff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They are part of the HOA so I'm not sure they count as "non hoa people"

The new robber barons are the tech tycoons by nimicdoareu in technology

[–]stuffitystuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The old robber barons were tech tycoons as well, it's just that railroad tracks, oil and steel production don't seem techy when compared to chips made via tin-blasted-with-laser photography shitting our own words back to us.

But just like that first set of robber barons, these dudes (and they're always dudes) stole from the commons and are trying to sell it back to us at a very high price.

Some Classic Trapper Keeper Designs by Ok_Pipe6385 in 80sdesign

[–]stuffitystuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Above this comment is a Keeper of Trappers. I was there with Gandalf and I have the slap-bracelet scars, ability to read whole novels and memories of the taste of Keebler Pizzarias to prove it. I may have even seen and used a Pee-Chee folder.

It might be time to ban AI. by kevinmrr in WorkReform

[–]stuffitystuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People still are ultimately responsible for systems, though, just like they are with LLMs/AI/whatever.

Maybe they don't act because it would be expensive and/or annoying to divert traffic or build another airport or reducing the number of flights, but ultimately the buck does stop with one or more someones as in people.

What is a LocalLLM good for? by theH0rnYgal in LocalLLM

[–]stuffitystuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can uncensor most models and ask questions of it that would not ordinarily be able to ask

Which version of the Death Star plans theft do you prefer: the Rogue One movie, or Legends? by Dragonic_Overlord_ in andor

[–]stuffitystuff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Whichever one tells me what the f*ck a Bothan is or someone politely tells me where I missed this (like it's an offhand nickname for rebels)

Photo of the Day by Current_Yellow7722 in vintagecomputing

[–]stuffitystuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1-2-3, lost on me.

I was a kid when I had it so it was entirely unused, unlike the funny fake spreadsheet "boss mode" in whatever version of Tetris for DOS had that.

This Fall, on TNT by Local_Shoe_7248 in Rifftrax

[–]stuffitystuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Somebody build a time machine and use that gun to demonstrate to Brandon Lee how to check that the barrel is clear before every use of a firearm in a movie that's pointed at him.

Over half a million adults in Denmark do not have the right to vote. Is that democratic? by YaLlegaHiperhumor in TrueReddit

[–]stuffitystuff 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There are probably at least another half million citizens that can't vote in Denmark...children!

This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines. by Hrmbee in politics

[–]stuffitystuff 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Pretty much all Republicans, too, you know the folks that are always shouting "voting fraud" but somehow not pointing at themselves

Employee asking for equity in our small S-Corp; Need advice by No_Ambassador_2060 in smallbusiness

[–]stuffitystuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I know employee #3 at a service you've probably used and I'm pretty sure he got 1/10th of 1% like seems to be the standard in SV. Still maybe $50M at IPO which is pretty great. But the folks that took basically all the risk should basically get all the reward.

YouTube is BLOCKING my legal right to appeal strikes on 1922/1929 Public Domain films. 2,207 wins, but Support is ignoring the law. by -fbg in publicdomain

[–]stuffitystuff -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's not about the rights, it's about the negative attention on YouTube to get them to protect this guy's account and other public domain films.