Wolf_Baginski
Wolf_Baginski@meow.social
<p>Retired field-scale bio-systems engineer<br />¡No pasarán!</p><p>Can do arithmetic.<br />Smarter than the average ̶b̶e̶a̶r̶ Tory.<br />May contain nuts</p>
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Post #2618864
The hard part of using puns is in being sure your audience has sufficient vocabulary to know both words.
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Post #2618863
I now have a fountain pen which works, Jinhao brand. It comes out of China, looks nice, and I can write with it. My schoolteachers used to say rude things about my hand-writing, never seemed able to teach about it, and then insisted I use a fountain pen in exams. This is the glorious past that some politicians shout about.
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Post #2618862
Adverts will always be based on the best possible results.. I checked with a search, and the headline lifespan for the product varied from 10 years to 40 years. The advert I heard on TV didn't give any number. Was even 10 years optimistic? Or are all adverts cpn tricks?
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Post #2618861
A lot of people seem never to have noticed what light reflecting off a video/computer screen — not obvious glare — can do to the brightness range you can see. This was one reason why the TV test card was broadcast. The analogue TV signals were being turned into images by hardware that wasn't close to stable, by today's standards. And the room lights were a very different colour to sunlight. Digital TV and video still need properly setting for where they are being used. I can't rem...
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Post #2618860
I am wary of the "porn" label because it is loaded with so many different meanings. The "sexual content" meaning gets most of the shouting in ways that suggest somebody is really saying "I don't do this!" It also gets tangled with the "think of the children" mob. The big danger is the industrial production which is saturated, management and finance and creation, with treating people as things. Compared to that, is porn really anything special?