This is a human rights violation

The first country to do both should win something special

In middle school I helped run the media stuff at my summer camp, audio and projector. We thought it would be really funny to show this one night after the talent show. We really cranked up the volume too.

I don’t think we officially got in trouble, but there were a lot of people that got pretty upset with us.

Plus I would imagine a huge benefit is that you can use the UI for this without needing to physically touch anything that would get your hands contaminated or get the device dirty either. Pretty amazing stuff!

Oh no, who could have foreseen this?

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

Only to check and make sure I look normal every now and then.

I hate when the person sharing their screen brings up their view of the video chat, so now I see myself full screen and I don’t want that

Yep, I’ve done it accidentally before. I replied to what I thought was a mastodon account but it was a Lemmy sub. All the comments on that thread come to me on mastodon as replies.

Since I did it by accident, and they also didn’t know it, we were all very confused for a while.

So I have the daily calendar and this was today’s. I had to look it up and came up with this from here: https://cidu.info/2022/02/17/and-a-tip-of-the-hat-to-billy-sutton-in-tampa/

If you’re wondering why Gary Larson penned a special message to a Tampa resident in today’s Far Side cartoon (on the back page of this section), wonder no more.

Bill Sutton, who Larson sends a “thanx and tip o’ the hat to” is a fictional person made up to imitate a cartoon called They’ll Do It Every Time by James Hatlo. Hatlo’s readers often supplied him with material, and when he used an idea, he thanked the contributor in the corner of the drawing. “Thanx, and with a tip o’ the Hatlo hat to . . . ,” he would write.

“Gary wasn’t thanking anyone in particular, he was just making fun of those cartoons,” said Universal Press Syndicate editor Jake Morrissey. “It’s a takeoff on the old line. It was kind of a silly cartoon to begin with. That’s the whole point.”

So just the most obscure thing possible

Thanks for this, it makes a lot of sense actually. Oh well, my mom has her car and the warranty she will hopefully never need, but it’s there if she does. I guess it all comes down to care tactics in the dealership, pressuring you to buy warranties and such that you may not need and cannot buy at any other time except right then.

I’ll be sticking with the recently used philosophy for the future though.

I totally agree with your rules here, however I recently helped my mom buy a new car (2023 Nissan Murano) and while sitting with her in the finance room deciding on warranty stuff I realized that cars are mostly 100 interconnected computers on wheels. This means the most likely thing to break on a car is a computer. This is something only the dealer can fix probably. Because of this you can’t get the same kind of warranty on a used car, only new.

The warranty my mom on this new car is great and it will cover any kind of computer issue for years. If she had gone and saved a bunch of money by picking a used car from the same year or 1-2 years old she could not get that warranty, and if a computer issue popped up years later it could be terribly expensive.

Whatever money he can scape together will just be spent on hair dye

Someone should train an AI with only Far Side comics to come up with every weirder nonsense

A true holiday classic

Yep, I got an automated phone call from Costco last night explaining this.

Two very good but very different movies!

Imagine if you are on trial for murder and you find out your attorney did this. How fast do you hire a different lawyer?

If you have Photoshop, it has some AI powered filters that are pretty amazing. One is specifically made to do what you are asking about.

There is only one rule about this event, and your suggestion is a violation of that rule

No programming language should last 200,000 years