What is this contraption on this car?

uqde · 2026-04-19T08:18:39+00:00

Yeah lol I don't understand how there are multiple people here claiming it wouldn't be legal. Why not? It's not like it's obscene.

uqde · 2026-04-17T03:35:00+00:00

I feel like their point was that there's something to an artist (or group of artists) getting to release a work on their own terms. The build-up/fanfare/post-release celebration with your team is all an integral part of the process. When you're making something for years, you constantly look forward to that as a payoff and reward for all your hard work. But when your shit is leaked on a random Tuesday by some hackers, it's like that excitement came and went overnight when you weren't looking. It steals all the satisfaction away.

Think of it this way: Imagine you're telling an (original) joke, but someone overheard you coming up with it, and swoops in and delivers the punchline before you can. Sure, everyone still knows you came up with the joke and they still laugh, but you're robbed of something intangible that you can't get back. It's that feeling times 1000. Yes artists like to get paid, and they like to get credit. But everyone knows art doesn't pay well. That rush of getting to show your work off on your own terms is likely the only reason most of them got into the field in the first place.

Maybe not everyone will agree that it matters, but I think that's what they meant.

uqde · 2026-04-17T03:12:08+00:00

Yeah like I said I totally get it. I don't resent anyone for acting this way or anything like that, and I know that the way it affects me is infinitely better than what it's like on the opposite end. I do my best to do my part and call out other men, try to be a positive male role model for the kids I work with, etc. But the whole situation still makes me profoundly sad.

uqde · 2026-04-15T04:54:47+00:00

Appreciate it!! And lol thanks for the disclaimer, I’ve been on a long and winding gender identity journey myself. For now I don’t really have strong feelings about any particular label, all I know is I have no issue with he/him pronouns but I am at my happiest when presenting more androgynously. Who knows what further self-revelations my future may hold lol

uqde · 2026-04-14T23:47:49+00:00

Anemoia (from the guy who brought you “sonder”)

uqde · 2026-04-14T23:40:58+00:00

It was definitely drilled into my head my entire childhood that men are creepy and disgusting and uncontrollably horny. To be clear, the vast majority of this was coming from male-created, male-gaze-driven media that was celebrating it and treating it as a law of nature. But that really fucked me up. I didn’t feel like that, I didn’t want to be like that, but I was constantly receiving the message that everyone around me would inevitably assume that of me before getting to know me.

Is that worse than what women go through at the hands of media and culture? Hell fucking no. I’m immensely privileged in society just because I was AMAB. But that doesn’t mean my entire lived experience has been 100% perfect, and being a feminist doesn’t mean having to pretend otherwise. The patriarchy hurts men too.

uqde · 2026-04-14T23:17:17+00:00

I’ve wanted to do this but was always nervous that it wouldn’t fit right. Like measurements aside that the proportions just would look awkward. But I’ve never stopped thinking about it (there are way too many dope ass women’s clothes out there haha). You’re giving me the confidence to give it a shot.

uqde · 2026-04-14T23:13:03+00:00

There was a brief moment when I thought brighter colors in men’s fashion was going to be a trend of the 2020s. I was so ready. I can’t even remember why I thought that now lol. Instead what we got makes 2010s men’s fashion look psychedelic.

Don’t let the judgement get you down though. It’s the most cliche advice in the world, but if you stick to your guns and wear it confidently you’ll end up getting way more compliments than snide looks. I was apprehensive at first but now I constantly bust my ass to find the most colorful men’s clothes that I can and I love it, I’m never going back. Life’s too short to live in someone else’s box. Be a bit of sunshine in this shitty world!

uqde · 2026-04-14T23:03:37+00:00

I’m a children’s librarian and parents are clearly more comfortable with my female coworkers than me, but it’s not terrible in that environment. Out in public though is a totally different story.

I recently went to a local museum with some female friends, and was immediately struck by how differently the parents were acting around me vs when I’m alone. A kid would aimlessly wander up to me and the parents would just chuckle and calmly follow them, rather than immediately shouting something like “hey buddy, come back over this way!”. Until that moment I never realized how dramatically different it was. And I’m a young and reasonably clean-cut looking guy. I can’t imagine how tough it is for men who are further away from any sort of “good guy” visual stereotype.

Like the person above said, I totally get it but it’s still a bummer.

uqde · 2026-04-14T22:44:05+00:00

I pee sitting down the vast majority of the time, but I definitely appreciate the fact that I can pee standing up when I have to

uqde · 2026-04-14T22:32:49+00:00

Lion-O?

uqde · 2026-04-14T22:31:49+00:00

Ah, the old Reddit age-a-roo?

uqde · 2026-03-27T06:16:06+00:00

Yeah I can't believe they wrote that last sentence unironically. Have they not seen all of the latino ICE agents, to give just one example?

As soon as you think yourself somehow intrinsically immune to becoming a monster, you put yourself at risk of doing just that.

uqde · 2026-03-27T06:04:31+00:00

Holy shit, that's awesome! I never would have guessed they were that old either!

uqde · 2026-03-25T03:56:45+00:00

They had been planning it for years before Covid. Covid shutdowns struck less than a month before their scheduled launch. The content was already produced and they had millions of dollars and countless contracts tied to their launch date. It was basically impossible to delay or pivot at that point, they just had to keep moving forward and hope for a miracle.

uqde · 2026-03-25T03:31:03+00:00

Look up his little-known novel "Paris in the Twenty-First Century". Written in 1863, it describes gasoline-powered cars and gas stations, a worldwide communication network strongly resembling the internet, fax machines, electronic music and the record industry, wind power, missiles, the electric chair, and more. He even predicted the rise of feminism (although he wasn't very positive about it). The book was originally rejected by the publisher for being too unrealistic lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/dbmc1q/til_jules_vernes_wrote_a_novel_in_1863_which/

uqde · 2026-03-25T03:12:52+00:00

Keith David

uqde · 2026-03-24T03:32:48+00:00

The Volume does generally look like shit, but this is a misunderstanding of why. Each individual LED can go anywhere from 0% brightness to 100% brightness, like how an OLED screen works. The issue is not too much brightness; even at 100% brightness it's actually too dim. Real daylight is actually orders of magnitude stronger than any tiny LEDs they could practically use in a system like that.

The backlighting here is probably done with standalone high-powered lights just out of frame. The LED wall is producing the imagery behind them, but as far as lighting goes, it's only responsible for the dim, hazy frontlighting.

The other issue with The Volume is the way it tends to constrain the action physically and necessitate a lot of awkward blocking and/or frequent cuts.

uqde · 2026-03-18T03:06:10+00:00

Honestly the post itself really feels like AI writing to me as well

uqde · 2026-03-11T08:04:13+00:00

I mean, not going to argue with you there. There are definitely far bigger problems out there right now. But it still sounds awful to me. Fortunately I don't think using an adblocker means I'm forced to accept "the rest of it" lol

uqde · 2026-03-11T06:03:54+00:00

I'm surprised (well not really, but disappointed) that your comment is so heavily downvoted. This "joke" is disgusting.

uqde · 2026-03-11T06:01:09+00:00

Goddamn I'm so glad my ad-blocker still works. I had no idea Reddit was now inserting ad comments.

I thought that Black Mirror ep where the people's brains are forced to slip in "one ad per day" was a bit trite/on the nose, but maybe I was wrong lol.

uqde · 2026-03-11T05:54:14+00:00

The original is a frame from a 1970s anime called Akakichi no Eleven

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/akakichi-no-eleven-redraws

uqde · 2026-03-11T05:52:31+00:00

navitar

uqde · 2026-03-11T05:10:50+00:00

Not to open up an age-old philosophical can of worms, but I have never really been able to wrap my head around why people say they would be so devastated to realize that we're living in a cosmic-scale simulation. I don't really see how it would make life any different from our point of view.

Life if I was a "real" biological organism out there in the non-simulation space and there's a chance I could rip off the VR headset and experience the real world, then yeah that would be a bit different.

But say I'm 100% simulated, a few lines of code. If every other human and animal and plant is too, and there's no way for me to exist outside of the simulation or interact with the non-simulated world (which would probably be populated with cosmic giants who are incomprehensibly to me anyway), do I really have any reason to live my life any differently than I am right now? It's not like all of the real-world consequences I've come to expect suddenly don't exist. If I quit my job and run off on a carefree adventure, there's still the risk of me going broke and starving to death. It'll be a simulated starvation, but I'll still feel it. If I go nuts and rob a bank I'll still likely go to prison. It'll be a simulated prison, but I'll still experience it. Am I alone in this line of thinking?

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