God dammit, the entire point of calling it CSAM is to distinguish photographic evidence of child rape from made-up images that make people feel icky.
If you want them treated the same, legally - go nuts. Have that argument. But stop treating the two as the same thing, and fucking up clear discussion of the worst thing on the internet.
You can’t generate assault. It is impossible to abuse children who do not exist.
They don’t even need to fly nose-forward. The Enterprise could exit warp at any damn orientation it wanted. Blasting across the alpha quadrant nacelles-first, like Powdered Toast Man.
Seriously though, if you spray-paint bubble wrap black, then run a sponge of gold paint over top, that’ll just about do. I’d only worry about the spray paint somehow melting the thin plastic… and the inevitable damage to all your shiny bumps.
Do pre-strung sequins come spaced-out? I am unclear how those work. If their orientation can be fixed then you could get a little tool and snip each circle into more of a Pac-Man shape.
Oh - “honeycomb sequin” might do. Gold on black, then delete the bottom of each sequin.
Rubber molding is probably the least-bullshit way to get it exactly right. Press or roll a bunch of little divots into some reasonably firm material you’ve made damn sure is level, pour in dark latex, get a thin sheet of flexible material with a bunch of bumps. Try to dip that bumps-down into a very shallow pan of metallic paint. Any goofs can be touched-up by hand.
The quick way is to run a paint roller over some bubble wrap.
I switched when one guy unilaterally decided Ubuntu would completely flip its user interface, for no goddamn reason, the night before a long-term-support feature freeze.
Doing it faster doesn’t take a miracle - it takes flooding deck seven with deadly fluorine gas.
Do you need this done more than those people need to breathe? Serious question. I have the button right here. Tell you what, you press it when you’re ready.
Qualcomm brought a company named Nuvia, which are ex-Apple engineers that help designed the M series Apple silicon chips to produce Oryon which exceeds Apple’s M2 Max in single threaded benchmarks....
Who owns the Post Office? Nobody, because it’s a public utility.
Who owns Johnson & Johnson? The shareholders. That’s what they’re holding. That’s what they bought. That’s what the money was for. Because being “a public corporation” only means any rando can participate in that textbook fucking definition of capitalism.
It’s a joint-stock company! That is what defines the advent of capitalism!
“Public companies” are owned by private individuals, you absolute dingus. Being for sale means private. They belong to specific persons and organizations.
Like TNG, the pilot episode is a solid intro, but the first season is rrrough. Y’know “Code of Honor?” The same writer submitted the same script as “Emancipation.”
Decent formula episodes: Cor-Ai (s1e16), A Matter Of Time (s2e16), The Other Side (s4e2), Scorched Earth (s4e9), The Fifth Man (s5e4), Revisions (s7e5).
… and honestly the episode everyone goes on about is not a bad introduction. Window Of Opportunity (s4e6) stands alone.
All flavors of tribalism are the same. That core conservative zeal to say whatever promotes the ingroup and condemns the outgroup seems innate to the human brain. Reasoned argument is a learned behavior - and so is faking it.
Apparently the problem with a state putting down a popular protest through overwhelming force and censoring all coverage or discussion of the event is that acknowledging atrocities is wrongthink.
Do yourself a favor (slrpnk.net)
abandonware empires (mander.xyz)
AI Generated CSAM Is Out of Control (www.youtube.com)
I Can't Deny It (lemmy.sdf.org)
Space is 2D, right? (lemmy.world)
I love that SNW kept that detail in the uniform (startrek.website)
Totally get why it’s infuriating but it does look pretty cool. Especially when it’s so subtle you don’t notice it easily without a closeup.
Captain Malcolm Reynolds of Starfleet- Real! (files.catbox.moe)
Mod removed my first post because “AI ‘art’ is for Borgs”. So here is a real life version!
Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once (files.mastodon.social)
10 REASONS why Linux Mint is the desktop OS to beat in 2023 (www.youtube.com)
TIL that Geordi directed some episodes (pxscdn.com)
Still gets it done though (b.l3n.co)
Not OC
I Know What You Download (via torrent) (iknowwhatyoudownload.com)
I guess this settles it for me. What VPN should I go for?
Imagine Linux on an Arm SoC that benchmark better than Apple's M2 Max! (youtu.be)
Qualcomm brought a company named Nuvia, which are ex-Apple engineers that help designed the M series Apple silicon chips to produce Oryon which exceeds Apple’s M2 Max in single threaded benchmarks....
Its getting old. (lemmy.ml)
Why does that man have a funny U shape on his head? (lemmy.world)
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