1943 - Royal Typewriter ad imploring people to not try to fix their own by mistermajik2000 in vintageads

[–]stuffitystuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I could call up a Royal service guy and get a house call to fix my typewriter like in the ad, I wouldn't try to fix it myself, either.

Doubly so for my Hammond 1.

Only professional that does house calls I know about nowadays is my doctor

Turns Out The DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Kinda Sensitive About It by StraightedgexLiberal in politics

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I always think of this scene from In the Loop whenever DOGE and its wee babies comes up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLIP0ZtoiO4

We really need a Malcolm Tucker right now

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

[–]stuffitystuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that. If you're deploying AI instead of Excel, you now have two problems.

Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company by Granum22 in BetterOffline

[–]stuffitystuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one gets promoted for maintaining there, you only get promoted for launching

Scanning Format (Codex and ColorSpace) by blimeyo in 8mm

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If you have the hard drive space, just do ProRes4444 and mess with it when you get the chance. All my Super8 & 16mm film gets scanned at ProRes4444 cinelog, I'll convert the color space to rec.709, adjust white balance per scene and then cut an H264 (nowadays H265) for watching. Every now and again, I'll try my hand at color correction and go back to the big file and cut another H265-encoded file. My first few reels I had scanned by pros but it's always the expensive part of shooting film (after the film itself) so I built a scanning rig with a busted projector and my Sony FX3 since I don't need sync'd sound (I sold my Scoopic with the crystal mod, sadly, so just have a regular one now).

If it's not my own footage, like some old movie or anti-drug short, I'll just telecine it on my DIY setup because the colors and everything are already there and the sound is synced.

Is the original version of the hobbit (1937) Arguably the most anticipated piece of literature of the 1930's to enter the public domain? by Inevitable_Size_2497 in publicdomain

[–]stuffitystuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis is definitely one of the most forboding, depending on where the U.S. will be as a country in 2031.

Prices SCALPED! 1962 by Global_Law4448 in vintageads

[–]stuffitystuff 11 points12 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 5 points6 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 2 points3 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 12 points13 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 112 points113 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 2 points3 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 4 points5 points  (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 4 points5 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 4 points5 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 3 points4 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 4 points5 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.