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  • TIL that the characters of Vasquez in Aliens (1986) and the stepmother in Terminator 2 (1991) were played by the same actor, Jenette Goldstein, apparently donning brownface for the earlier role

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  • In both of those examples, the actors played characters of their own race, pretending to be another race as the plot of the respective movies.

  • TIL that the characters of Vasquez in Aliens (1986) and the stepmother in Terminator 2 (1991) were played by the same actor, Jenette Goldstein, apparently donning brownface for the earlier role

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  • I feel the same way about the first and second Terminators, and the first Rambo and its sequels.

  • Corneal action.

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  • Letting the eyeballs touch is the French kissing of butterfly kisses? If I understand the analogy correctly.

  • Now I understand...

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  • Night lights are like half a watt. You can leave a 0.5W bulb on all night (let's just say 12 hours), 365 days per year, and you'd be coming up on a total energy use of about 2.1 kWh per year, or about $0.35 per year in USD.

  • Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP Address

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  • Spit out a random e-mail address and record which e-mail address was given to each IP.

    The author mentions it's a violation of GDPR to record visitors' IP addresses. I'm not sure that's correct, but even so, it could be possible to make a custom encoding of literally every ipv4 address through some kind of lookup table with 256 entries, and just string together 4 of those random words to represent the entire 32-bit address space, such that "correct horse battery staple" corresponds to 192.168.1.100 or whatever.

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  • Base64 encoding of a text representation of an IP address and date seems inefficient.

    There are 4 octets in a ipv4 address, where each octet is one of 2^8 possible integers. The entire 32-bit ipv4 address space should therefore be possible to encode in 6 characters in base64.

    Similarly, a timestamp with a precision/resolution in seconds can generally be represented by a 32-bit integer, at least up through 2038. So that can be represented by another 6 characters.

    Or, if you know you're always going to be encoding these two numbers together, you can put together a 64-bit number and encode that in base64, in just 11 characters. Maybe even use some kind of custom timestamp format that uses fewer bits and counts from a more recent epoch, as an unsigned integer (since you're not going to have site visitors from the past), and get that down to even fewer characters.

    That seems to run less risk of the email address getting cut off at some arbitrary length as it gets passed around.

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  • The use of a "+" convention is just a convention popularized by Gmail and the other major providers. If you have your own domain, you should be able to do this with any arbitrary text schema, and encode some information in the address itself, especially if you don't care about sending email from those aliases: set up your email service to have a catchall inbox that can further be filtered/forwarded based on other rules.

    It can be cumbersome but I could see it working at getting the information you're looking for.

  • Flavortown is dead 😔

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  • It does include food and energy, but they also separately report a "core" inflation that excludes those items because food and energy tend to go up and down.

  • Flavortown is dead 😔

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  • Looking at beef in particular, a pound of ground beef has gone up from $2.10/lb in 2008 to $6.20 in 2025.

    Chicken breast, on the other hand, has gone from $3.50/lb to about $4.10.

    Beef has been getting more expensive faster than inflation basically my whole life, while stuff like chicken, milk, and eggs have been volatile, jumping up and down at times, and stuff like rice and flour have long periods of stability with the occasional big permanent jump.

  • Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings following research breakthrough

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  • Thompson's Teeth: The only teeth strong enough to eat other teeth!

  • Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings following research breakthrough

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  • Dental printers are a pretty standard way to make these things. There's a whole regulatory process for testing and certifying the printers and their resins for continued contact with gums/skin/teeth for toxicity, infection, irritation, etc.

    But there are still significant drawbacks to using dead synthetic stuff as a replacement for living tissue.

  • Low maintenance friendships are the best ships 🛳️

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  • You described a lot of effort on your end to keep that relationship going. That's what I mean. Relationships require maintenance.

  • Low maintenance friendships are the best ships 🛳️

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  • once you've made friends for life, they stick

    People drift apart. Actually making the effort to communicate and meet up occasionally is important for maintaining those relationships. If you're not in the place where you're can stay aware of major life changes (marriage, divorce, kids, major career changes, moves between cities, major illness or injury, deaths in family, etc.), were you really "friends for life"?

    Even making brunch plans in my 40s requires consulting a calendar. That naturally shrinks the number of close friends in the mix. I'm closer with my friends who live close than the ones who live far, simply out of inertia, that maintaining those relationships takes less effort.

  • Low maintenance friendships are the best ships 🛳️

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  • Low maintenance friendships are the best ships 🛳️

    I'm no psychoanalyst but it sounds like someone is insecure in their ability to love and be loved and would prefer to guarantee a balanced reciprocity of low effort on both sides.

  • What else are they hiding from us?

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  • Yup. Electrical engineering does something similar. The addition and subtraction of voltages, currents, resistance, capacitance, and inductance in AC circuits is basically unworkable without the shortcut of converting the sinusoidal waves into imaginary phase angles and doing math on them, and then converting them back to sinusoidal waves as necessary.

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  • Cookie is already a slang term for pussy, you can skip that step.

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  • Yeah, cookie monster is blue, but this particular shot has so much dark shadow in that textured fur that it's nearly black in most places.

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  • Industrious eye

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  • Ok there Ongo Baglogian