Trump. Donald Trump specifically finds this attractive. I also think he personally gets off on the fact that women would put themselves through significant and painful elective surgery just to try to look good for men generally, and especially when it’s for him specifically.

I’m inclined to give AskHistorians a pass. There is no community on Reddit that tries as hard as they do to moderate their way around the limitations of the platform and its management.

The verified posters tend to be millennial academics with masters or PhD’s in history or closely related fields, and they take the name of the community seriously. You are there to ask a historian a question, and if none answers, then so be it.

And I agree, pushing past the obvious dog whistle to go somewhere the data doesn’t lead is a way to weaken what should be a self-evidently powerful argument that the Trumpers are embracing ever-more-openly fascist positions on, well, everything.

Jolanta Lasota, the chief executive of Ambitious about Autism, said: “Theoretically any Barbie can be reimagined as autistic, because autism doesn’t have one look. But representation is powerful and Barbie is an iconic toy, so we hope many autistic children feel pride at seeing some of their experiences reflected in this new doll.

Per the article, they tweaked the eyes so they look away slightly, made sure to use one of their fully articulated sculpts so she can move her arms to allow role-play of stimming, dressed her in clothes that would be loose and comfy, and gave her a fidget spinner, noise-canceling headphones, and augmentive-communication tablet.

To a certain extent, every Barbie is a cash grab, but this doesn’t seem any worse than average, and not every family is going to take it as their mission to rise above every consumerist influence in their lives.

Not that anything is guaranteed, but rather that current performance is ahead of commonly-held expectations.

Also… my team just lost… I… need to believe this. LOL.

Not as big a mistake as TLaw having his first true TLaw head-scratcher in two months.

Damn. Oh well.

I grew up in the Jax area, and I was in junior high when the team was announced. It’s hard to explain what a validation of the entire community the team was, as irrational as it is.

I left over twenty years ago, and wouldn’t want to live there again, but the Jags are the one part of Jacksonville I won’t give up.

This one has me pretty nervous, but I try to remind myself the Jags are playing with house money this year.

https://youtube.com/shorts/UO_whAN302s

But we can only vote in one party’s primary for any given election cycle, including runoffs, so it serves as a defacto registration.

No, but they do track which primary we choose to vote in, which locks you in for any runoffs and serves as a defacto party registration until the next primary.

Ahh, so that’s what the generative AI is for!

I bought Alibre Design, as it was a less oppressive situation license-wise, but these days I find I’m using it less than I might simply because I prefer staying in Linux for literally anything else. It was a bit pricy, but at least it was a perpetual license. I am hearing that while they don’t intend to support Linux, they’re moving away from some of the libraries that have prevented Proton from working.

The rest are varying degrees of oppressive lock-in and feature erosion. PTC/OnShape in particular has a huge “Fuck-You” attitude towards anybody who wants to consider throwing a design up on Etsy or selling a few trinkets without paying out the ass for a professional-grade subscription, and being the only fully mature web-based tool, it’s the only one that works properly in Linux.

This is my experience. I do CAD in Windows, but Orcaslicer only works properly in Linux. On Windows, it tends to crash when I tell it to generate gcode for anything but the smallest prints.

Just as well, really. It reminds me to reboot, so I haven’t tried to fix it.

Every single major commercial 3D CAD suite is still better than FreeCAD. FreeCAD is not the unusable beast it used to be, in fact it’s very much better, but it has technical debt and structural limitations that just keep it worse.

True, but you’ve gotta really want that Philippa Gregory book…

I think it was locked. To my shame, I didn’t check. There were about four of them flanking the elevators, so the intention seemed to be decoration.

The selection of items seems weaker to me, but for me the main sin is that the original is basically chronological, which makes it more impressive that it’s a coherent song at all, if a bit overrated and very boomerific. Fallout Boy one just throws shit in at random to make the lines scan and rhyme, so it’s very “meh” even as a follow-up. It feels like they kind of didn’t understand that the original was a survey of the time period.

Very little has been tested yet, but the general thinking is that there’s probably no longer any generation cap, except for babies born since the new change went into effect a couple of weeks ago. The real trick is in proving it. From what I have read, the Canadian bureaucracy that processes these has usually asked for primary documentation, so actual birth certificates or centrally maintained religious records, and only once those have been exhaustively searched and the relevant local offices throw up their hands (via an official “we tried” letter) will they consider things like census forms and border-crossing logs.

Better to play sloppy and still win. And oh my, the refs were garbage for both teams all game.

Maybe, lord knows he’ll have his price, but dude legitimately hates wind power because “it’s ugly.” Sometimes our particular burgeoning dystopia reminds me most of the Twilight Zone with the omnipotent and petulant child.