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The The?
Tsk. They need a new header image.
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Well, the image wasnât created by the bot, the bot was created in response to the image.
Itâs unlikely that any normal human would spot the issue anyway, outside of grammar nerds, but thatâs a tautology.
Must be the the same copy editors these guys hadâŚ
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Replying about the coloured hearts:
Okay, so I didnât watch the video and I donât know if this is some kind of joke, but each heart is composed of light and dark bands. The purple ones are rendering colours #783bcc and #87009a while the yellowy-brown ones are rendering colours #544907 and #b5c56a.
Whatever someone did to create this image, the result is an image with completely different coloured hearts.
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I really liked Dredd a lot more than I thought I would and felt bad I missed it in the theaters. They got the feel of a Judge Dredd story nailed down. My only and very minor quibble was the toning down of the comic book look of Mega-City One but I did appreciate the more functional looking uniforms.
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@OtherMichael: Thanks for sharing the link about Son of Saul. History will repeat if people collectively forget what the Germans did.
Yom HaShoah begins tonight, remember those murdered and persecuted by the Nazis.
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Sir David Attenborough?
Much as I like the guyâs programmes, thatâs really naff. Naming stuff after not-dead people is a bit weird anyway, but if you were going to do that, why not name it after Ranulph Fiennes or John Blashford-Snell? At least they didnât call it the Bear Grylls, I guess.
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Lovely stuff, I particularly like the attention to industrial detail with the gantries and catwalks and cables and whatnot, but his portrayal of women is typically problematic.
To clarify, although both men and women are passive observers of machines, Iâve only seen women as captives, men are quite often weapon-toting aggressors, and while there is at least one woman with a weapon, sheâs also showing off cleavage and some tight-fitting clothing. Male observers are clothed differently, but thereâs at least one woman in a small bikini.
COME ON.
SF can do better than this. Although this is much better than the softcore-cheese of Royo, Iâll say that.
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MrsTobinL has so far stuck with a green cardâŚ
So I can flee if it comes to that. Just will have to completely start over though.
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And for those actually serious about wanting to meet Canuck ladies I have here âCanadian Girlfriendâ - its a straight up match making service, so actually serious⌠sort of. 
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Four weeks laterâŚapparently the new host of QI is Sandi Toksvig. Was announced ages ago, it appears. Just chanced on a mention of it.
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She is also awesome and still a win!
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Hard to believe I am equally happy with two alternatives.
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re: Porn Addiction
I didnât listen to the podcast but I read the linked essay. It ends with this:
âWe live in a patriarchy, where women are fundamentally objectified. We shouldnât be surprised to see it play out in pornography.â
From Chyng Sun, a researcher at NYU. I remember hearing Joanna Angel (a porn producer and actress) say something very similar years ago. She was asked if porn objectified women and she said that all products of culture are reflections of that culture and so it should be no surprise a misogynist culture produces misogynist pornography.
The essay almost mentions the âNoFapâ movement which apparently has about 150,000 people in it. Itâs crazy to think that kind of thing still happens. I wonder if they all eat Kelloggâs Corn Flakes.
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Well, doesnât that bring back particular times and places?
D**n, I loved that organ-pulse. Still do.
Hunh: the melody prominently features an organ riff lifted from the Deep Purple rendition of the song âHushâ. 1
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When this song was on the radio, Iâd start mashing the two together in my head.
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Sort of reminds me of Robin Williams âCocaine is Godâs Way of telling you youâre making too much money!â An Uber ride to a random location?
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