Walter Nissen

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org The concept of the grocery store Safeway was that they would sell only based on cash, not credit. The “safe way” to buy groceries. That was 1915. I guess everything old is new again, we’re back to buying groceries on credit.

@bryanhansel@mstdn.social A lovely image! I do have to chuckle, though, at how much fancier “Big Swamp” sounds in French.

@pafurijaz@mastodon.social Do you remember the SSH rooting contests from the 90s? At that time they would provide you the root password on the idea that if you could achieve unauthorized access to the machine across the network, a simple privilege escalation was trivial. Nowadays, that's no longer true, thanks to this hard work. I'll admit I take that level of security for granted these days.

@Lignedescience@social.sciences.re I know what you're saying, but of the two images in the this post, I'd take the greater dynamic range of the yellow one on the right any day. The version from mauritshuis.nl that you shared the link to obviously far better than either, to be sure. And very nice to have authoritative versions, especially of paintings that were painted hundreds of years ago and clearly the original artist, the artist's great grandchildren, and anyone remotely connected with the artist being long dead.

@elithebearded@fed.qaz.red @NoveltyBot@mastodon.social I think this may be it. You were right that it was related to excretion. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-fireworks-sooner-dog-original-1878778314

@cunobaros Boy, never thought about that. Is it the length of the scenes? The percentage of the screen? The Pirates of the Caribbean movies also are largely animated, in that sense.

@jds@sfba.social So sorry, that’s a shock.

@AlisonW@fedimon.uk @CliftonR@wandering.shop @delfuego@me.dm @KimSJ@mastodon.social @Elucidating@mastodon.social I'm seeing in Google that it does have the "latin" é and ü but not, e.g., Hungarian ő. That is too bad, but understandable.

@freakonometrics Do they still have the bamboo scaffolding up, or is that a thing of the past, for understandable reasons.

@freakonometrics Yes, that’s what I was referring to. It is a metaphorical and literal part of the city, and I’d imagine hard to replace. I have a coffee table book of just pictures of the scaffolding which is very pretty: https://www.petersteinhauer.com/home-page-1

@negative@blorbo.social I like it! The original is pretty great, too. https://dashare.zone/products/just-walk-out

@dbellingradt@hcommons.social As a flag it fails almost entirely, but it’s a fascinating piece of art. The others are fascinating. We really lost something with the union of Germany.

@NoveltyBot@mastodon.social Boy, I wish it did. Are the pills for one’s dog? Do they give a human the characteristics of the vaunted sooner dog? Are they (blech) made from the same? So many questions.