They are $40 US and up nowadays for used sets, and $60-$80 or more if new in the box. I know because I used to have some back in the day, was feeling nostalgic and after searching extensively on that auction site, decided they were not worth the current asking prices.

They made enough of an inroad into camera bags that they are still considered a quality option for those. But yeah their normal backpacks are just ok now.

custom built instead of just having it shipped overseas? It's not ideal but I'm assuming you can have these products shipped to you regardless of where they are from.

Really doesn't bode well for Meta to be following the example of Twitter.

So with a small inventment you can get a blue check for your fake-ass propaganda bot.

I feel like we are in the twilight of social media as a useful tool for humanity and moving to an era of super-ai entities that just feed you exactly what the platforms want you to see and spend all of their resources influencing users to believe fake things that benefit moneyed interests.

>open the pod bay doors, Hal.

I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.

I've seen a lot of pretentious filmmaking- and have read some pretentious things, too- and still don't understand the blanket criticism that this movie is pretentious. It seems honest and thoughtful and heartfelt- is that what pretentious means to some people?

But it's purposeful muddling. As it approaches the climax, things get more confusing. It's a statement about how fucked up the Vietnam War was and how fucked up Kurtz' state of mind was.

Pink Flamingos

One easy way we can all contribute to the human rights effort globally is leave Twitter today and let it twist.

exactly what I was thinking. dancing, hooting and hollering? Check. same games over and over? Check.

....exactly

Absolutely a win for Shutterstock, it's a dream come true. Just throw some raw data at AI and generate infinite stock art for pennies.

What it might spell the death of is art. And imho that's a terrifying thing to consider. We may reach a point where culture is no longer the output of human self-expression. That sounds deeply dystopic.

"The pandemic is over" /s

Same attitude about remote work. Now that "the pandemic is over" businesses are dragging their workers back into the office.

I saw a story about respiratory syncytial virus in children on the news this morning and I tell you what, if a kid gets that, and COVID on top of it, and that's exactly the perfect storm some are predicting for the winter... that's going to be a catastrophe. and all the short-term thinkers who reactively run everything, it seems, will be responsible for all kinds of death and chronic illness.

I don't know why we can't be smarter than this. A multitude of tech devices we call "smart" with brains no smarter than a cockroach (or, ok, if they have network-aware AI, a dog) and we can't muster enough human smarts to figure out how to put aside the pursuit of infinite profit and do some things that benefit all of society. Especially, it seems, when it's an actual emergency.

Exactly what this headline made me think of, lol.

Some radio station redid War of the Worlds in the mid-70s to make it sound contemporary. It scared people all over again.

I've worked in various libraries and my wife is a librarian. While it's true, these services cost money, librarians just want you to read more, period. if it means utilizing their resources but not contributing to the tax base that pays their bills, there's nothing abnormal about that. Area visitors and homeless people patronize libraries too.

Electronic resources are finite, only a certain number of "copies" distributable at any given time. Either the library would find a way to grow or they'd advise you where else to go.

"the demon"