This.

I think it’s important to point out that porn is as representative of real sex as action scenes are of real fights.

Instead, it’s a stylised and codified version of things that specifically is designed to appeal to our lizard brains.

Also, get used to saying the word ‘sex’ around him. It’s weird at first, but the best way to make it clear that it’s all a normal part of growing up, is by acting like it’s a normal part of growing up.

I’m not entirely sure I read your comment correctly, but it sounds like you’ve never heard the word “whinging” before.

For the avoidance of doubt, it’s a real word. It rhymes with “hinging”.

Phew! It’s been nearly 30 years since my last German lesson, but I thought I should have been able to read more than I could.

It wasn’t until the last panel, where I noticed “Ich” spelled “Ick” that I wondered whether it was written with an accent.

Thanks for the translation!

From the outside looking in, I have to say that the pace of things this time around is pretty alarming.

I pop this on the telly for my kids when they have nightmares. It’s interesting enough to distract them, yet gentle enough to lull them to sleep again.

It seems pretty fundamental, but fighting games have had pretty much the same basic UI layout since Street Fighter II. Before then there was a degree of variability as to how the different elements were laid out. Since SFII, it’s always been Timer in the middle and Health bars on either side of that.

I didn’t know imagetostl took glbs! I honestly wouldn’t even have expected it!

I’ll definitely be using that then. Blender is great, but I’m tied to one machine - I’d much rather use online tools when I can.

Thanks for that :)

If you have at least one of each piece remaining, then yep - it’s easy!

The technology you’re after is called photogrammetry, and there are two inexpensive ways that I use often (there are more, but these are the two I rely on)

1. KIRI Engine - I have a subscription, but I think there is a free tier. You take about twenty photos of the object from different angles, upload for processing, and you get a 3D model back that you can print.

2. TRELLIS - take a single photograph and upload to here:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/JeffreyXiang/TRELLIS

You will receive a 3D model back that you can import into Blender, run a mesh operation to merge by distance (to create a watertight model), export as STL and then print.

KIRI Engine requires more work upfront, with all the photos, but is the best at recreating existing things accurately.

TRELLIS requires more work at the end, because it doesn’t automatically create printable models, and it isn’t a finished product yet, but it is the closest thing to actual witchcraft I’ve experienced.

People are still people, and money is just there to facilitate transactions required for the stuff you need.

Part of the problem is that a bunch of not-rights have decided that instead the point of money is to accrue it like some kind of high score.

If you are so rich that you no longer experience the normal problems associated with being a person, such as bad hair days, then you’ve probably become a weirdo yourself.

Ok,

I’d have paid off my student loans and mortgage already, as that’s the first thing I’d do as soon as I received the money.

I guess a typical Friday would involve me waking up at noon, pottering about in my pyjamas for a few hours, then working on whatever project I have on the go. I’m one of those people who has an obsession-of-the-month, and I can’t imagine that would change.

I’d have more time to spend with my kids and partner than I do, which I imagine would be nice.

On the whole, I don’t think it’d be wildly different to how I live now - only that without the pressure that I have to work so many hours a day, I’d have more time to spend with my family.

Approaching this cynically, all right-wing politicians blame groups as others as being the cause of their country’s societal ills. That’s just how it works.

Jewish people were just one of the targeted groups, along with LGBT people, disabled people, and communists.

One universal truth throughout history is that it’s hard to unite people behind a common goal, but it’s easy to unite people against a common enemy.

Listen to any right wing politicians from around the world - their plans for making things better all start with getting rid of someone (be it a group of people or a governmental department).

Children’s clothing too.

Something that nobody seems to have touched upon is the fact that many dead people are embalmed.

If you suddenly came alive again after being embalmed, you’d suddenly become dead again.

Also, post-mortem examinations are not uncommon if the cause of death was not clear. Again this might lead to instant re-death.

Finally, if the cause of death /was/ clear (such as trauma), then again, that may likely result in instant re-death.

The only thing I’ve heard general consensus on is how good-looking he is.

The most well-known British King, Henry VIII, was a large bulky man with a bushy red beard, dressed exactly as you imagine a King would be.

I imagine he’s something of a blueprint for the appearances of fictional kings.

I switched from “Boost for Reddit” to “Boost for Lemmy”, found as many equivalent subs as I could, and just went from there.

Because I’m using essentially the same interface, it’s a very similar experience.

You do realise that other countries have internet servers too?

Americans might lose access to social media, and the internet in general, but much of the world will still be online.

The way things are going, I fully expect to be turned into Soylent Green

In the UK we normally call these ‘yoghurt pots’. If you type ‘yogurt pot terrain’ into Google, you’ll get examples of ork huts, bunkers, silos, towers etc.

Well, Edward would still peep “hello” at him, at least. But, yeah, Gordon just laughed and said “serves you right” when he passed.