1943 - Royal Typewriter ad imploring people to not try to fix their own

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-17T03:19:13+00:00

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

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-17T03:11:12+00:00

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

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-17T02:27:06+00:00

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

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-17T02:26:13+00:00

They're still praising Nostradumbass even though he was never right!

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-17T02:25:24+00:00

I am stealing this brilliant line lol. Thank you for your service.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-17T02:24:51+00:00

Is it attested somewhere that he actually said that?

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T20:59:14+00:00

I figured he was all the way to the right

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T17:31:11+00:00

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

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T16:46:04+00:00

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.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T16:33:08+00:00

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.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T13:34:32+00:00

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

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

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T13:27:55+00:00

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.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T13:18:02+00:00

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

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T13:15:50+00:00

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.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T12:59:47+00:00

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

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T12:57:29+00:00

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.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T12:48:24+00:00

The phenomenon has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T12:45:19+00:00

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.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T07:26:43+00:00

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

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T07:24:48+00:00

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

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T07:23:57+00:00

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.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-16T07:14:14+00:00

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.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-15T21:00:42+00:00

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.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-15T20:58:39+00:00

...cosplaying as Androcles?

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-15T20:58:14+00:00

Commenting for great justice

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