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I’ve been getting emails with the subject line, “Your expertise is requested,” from LinkedIn for several years now. They definitely know how to pander to their audience!

Yeah, it’s more of a “data exists, kind of.”

Conan was talking about this, either on his podcast or at the end of that last Norm special on Netflix. Apparently, he was booked for two segments, but thought he was only there for one, so he just improved this whole thing to fill in the time. Such a brilliant mind. What a huge loss.

Crazy, isn’t it?

During his presidency, Obama approved the use of 563 drone strikes that killed approximately 3,797 people. In fact, Obama authorized 54 drone strikes alone in Pakistan during his first year in office. One of the first CIA drone strikes under President Obama was at a funeral, murdering as many as 41 Pakistani civilians. The following year, Obama led 128 CIA drone strikes in Pakistan that killed at least 89 civilians.

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Agreed. What people don’t realize is that if they were to actually follow those recommendations, then oil companies wouldn’t be responsible for as much pollution. We can say it’s the corporations that are doing it, but it’s all of us that are keeping these corporations in business and buying the products that pollute. If we all took personal responsibility, the corporations 'level of output would decline. This is ALL about personal responsibility and it is infuriating to watch people say “well it’s the corporations” all the time.

Looks fantastic! I’ve been meaning to try that recipe. His posts like that are the only time I don’t mind reading for a half hour before getting to the recipe. His chicken wings post is another great one, and it really works!

This scene from The Congress feels a lot less like fiction now.

As a kid I had really bad asthma, which led to a lot of chest congestion. Had codeine around for when it got bad. Worked quite nicely, indeed.

Use something like Lightroom to desaturate the image. Then add luminance to the colour you want to have most prevalent. It’s a fun exercise.

This is a timely thread. I’m trying to ditch lightroom because it’s just way too expensive, but the reason I keep using it is that content aware healing tool. I’m a film photographer and a lot of what I do is get rid of dust from scanning negatives. Do any of these solutions have something similar? (I mean, yeah, I could google it, but maybe someone has some experience to share)

Edit: I just watched a video on the retouch tool in darktable. It seems like an excruciatingly painful exercise to just remove a spot. I may need to just keep giving adobe $15/mth