slippyferret

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Can they add a little speaker and have it play some smooth jazz when unzipping?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I need to see a Mio-Osaka manzai scene, or a Tomo-Yukko teamup.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It’s the same soap and water either way, right? What about sex toys? Am I supposed to wash those in the toilet or something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I just got back from visiting my parents who were struggling to fix an unreliable dishwasher that keeps clogging, fails to dry, stinks, etc. This is PERFECT timing for that video!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A similar machine also plays a role in the 1997 movie Contact.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Darn… I absolutely would have fallen for that trick, thinking I was being proactive in my security practices. I guess there will always be another vector to attack from.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Am I a psychopath for preferring to use a pen, even if it means I have to cross things out every now and then?

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (11 children)

That headline got me really excited before I realized they meant “in an app”.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If this was filmed in the late sixties using an older orthicon camera it might be an artifact of the way that the image is produced.

I'm just going from memory, but I believe the tubes used a brightness-amplifying screen kept charged with electrons that, when struck by light, would result in a brighter image that could be scanned by a beam. The downside of this technique is that a very bright area would suck up electrons from around it faster than they could recharge, resulting in a dark halo.

I think I remember some of the oldest classic Doctor Who episodes has this visual artifact, as well as some old Beatles TV recordings.