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- vortic@lemmy.worldtounions@sh.itjust.works•Despite Trump policies, union contract numbers highest in 16 years. Union approval ratings highest in approximately 65 years.English141·5 days ago
- vortic@lemmy.worldtoEurope@feddit.org•Norway (population: 5.7m) beats US (342m) to top Winter Olympics medal tableEnglish92·6 days ago
Norwegians have much easier access to ski resorts than most Americans. In fact, many Americans who want to compete move to places like Colorado and California to have reasonable access. From a quick search, Oslo has similar access to ski resorts as Denver. If I had to guess, though, they’re less expensive and more easily accessed by public transit.
Winter sports are also just more popular in Norway. I think this is for pretty obvious climatologial and historic reasons.
Try reading the collar. It is jibberish. Also, the shadows on the collar just seem off and the colors seem much too uniform.
Other things that give me the AI feel are:
- the second hippo’s eyes
- the hippo also has no teeth
- odd blurring around that same hippo’s head
- the odd coloration and shadows on the dog’s hippo hat
- generally, things like depth of field, shadows, and focal length seem off. It is as if different objects are from different cameras/lenses with different focal lengths, different lighting, and different editing.
The hippo’s just don’t look real, either. Too uniform and perfect with no teeth. Their teeth should be pretty prominent.
I’d be willing to bet that all news that doesn’t involve right wing nut jobs screwing up various countries has dropped by 14%.
- vortic@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•‘Textbook definition of terrorism’: Tehran denounces Pelosi’s call for US to exact ‘pain’ on ordinary Iranians20·13 days ago
Age and term limits for congress, please!
I have thought for a long time that the chaos is the point. They’re not trying to do something strategically smart. They are trying to diminish the credibility of the US. They are corruptly manipulating US markets with big crazy moves as a means of transferring wealth to their friends while also trying to weaken the US.
They started small to see what they could get away with and have been progressively getting more wild with the moves they make.
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- vortic@lemmy.worldtoClimate@slrpnk.net•Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. | Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.29·3 months ago
My city made busses free but they only run like once per hour so it’s still impossible to efficiently use the system. Unfortunately it’s not just about cost. It’s also about usability.
Two questions:
- Why would we think otherwise considering that everything in the universe seems to rotate from galactic clusters to galaxies to black holes to stars to planets to the brains of physicists trying to reconcile relativity and quantum?
- Does the math actually work out? If so, is there a known constant for the angular momentum of the universe that would explain what we’re seeing?
- vortic@lemmy.worldtoThe Onion@midwest.social•Oregon Surprises White House by Deploying National Guard to PortlandEnglish9·5 months ago
I was so hopeful until reading your comment… I should have known that no Democrat would have this strong a spine.
I’ve tried a few things. It gives back things like “this is a gambled version of this other common saying” or “that statement is nonsensical and is not in common use”.
It did used to work, though. I tried it a while back and it worked. I think it learned or was manually fixed.
If you haven’t customized the directions to your taste you’re still an amateur.
It typically is pasteurized if it comes from a woman other than the baby’s own mother. If it is donated milk, for example.
- vortic@lemmy.worldtoConservative@sh.itjust.works•In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirementsEnglish9·6 months ago
This man and those enabling him are going to get soooo many people killed. The number of deaths from preventable diseases is going to spike for decades after these policies are enacted. I guess childhood death to terrible, completely preventable diseases is just “part of the human experience”, though.
Fucking evil ghouls. I hope they directly feel the effects of their policies.
- vortic@lemmy.worldtounions@sh.itjust.works•97% of 600 national park employees vote union. Includes rangers, researchers, fee collectors, and first respondersEnglish23·6 months ago
Have you ever been to a national park? They are one of the best things about this country. In fact, while some federal agencies have poor approval ratings,the national parks service polls at 76% favorable and 7% unfavorable.
Honesty, I think anyone who dislikes the parks service must be a genuinely unfun person. I mean, who else would think it is a bad idea to keep some of the most beautiful land in the country out of corporate hands and available to the public for recreation?
- vortic@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•[UPDATE: fake] They made his car "cease & desist"4·7 months ago
I don’t think the rapper was even criticizing them. I think he was literally singing their praises.
- vortic@lemmy.worldtoCanada@lemmy.ca•Some Torontonians appeal for donations to help Palestinians in Gaza facing famine-level hunger6·7 months ago
Dumb question. If they collect donations, how do they plan to get them into Gaza?
I worry that donation campaigns for Gaza are likely scams because they won’t be able to get the aid where it is supposed to go. I worry that the people leading this are just pocketing the donations.
Please tell me I’m wrong and these people are actually trying to use the donations well…
- vortic@lemmy.worldtoAndroid@lemdro.id•Poll: Which abandoned Android phone features do you miss the most?English19·7 months ago
I don’t remember which phone, but one of mine had an rgb led that could be set to blink different colors for different apps. I really miss that!
I want those little hands grab my fingers. They look so gentle and soft!