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  • No there's not, the scan thats been used has cropped out the nudity, it's in like the second paragraph,

    Usage of the Lenna image in image processing began in June or July 1973 when an assistant professor named Alexander Sawchuck and a graduate student at the University of Southern California Signal and Image Processing Institute scanned a square portion of the centerfold image with a primitive drum scanner, omitting nudity present in the original image. They scanned it for a colleague's conference paper, and after that, others began to use the image as well.

  • There were conspiracies the morning of. I asked if anyone at work had seen it, about 9 California time, they hadn't but soon after seeing pictures and video some of these guys were calling for a conspiracy.
    So I leaned into it. Yeah Republicans refuse to fund infrastructure maintenance, so the conspiracy is get shipping companies to ram dilapidated bridges so their insurances fund the rebuilds.

  • People may criticize America World Police, and the American military spending and posturing, but this is a perfect opportunity to put it to good use. If Biden et al in Washington actually cared: financial and military aid to Isreal is frozen; they obviously don't need it. Deploy a Marine Expeditionary Unit stocked with aid into the Mediterranean (maybe supplement with a Navy hospital ship, perhaps a carrier strike group in "support." Speak softly and carry a big stick).
    Declare that Marines will be providing aid to Gaza via amphibious landing and helicopter. Make it clear they're sent in peace but should one Israeli bullet even graze a Marine or their equipment, the US will not have to kill 30,000 civilians to get to those responsible.
    I'd bet a dollar Netanyahu (or any other world leader) would start behaving more prudently. And it would cost nothing: MEUs will be sailing regardless, Israeli aid will be transferred to Gaza aid, funds already earmarked will simply be redirected.

  • Maybe riding a motorcycle has made me hypersensitive to it, but it seems, yes. I see all of you and so many of you are on your cell phones while driving. It's bad enough I've learned to spot you from a hundred yards behind; the subtle drift of your car, checking your speed with the brake pedal, you aren't smooth in stop & go traffic.
    It apparently is a challenge for a lot of you to stay off your phones, a-fucking-lot of you. So it looks like WisDOT is speaking to many of you like children, because many of your fellow drivers are acting like children, unable to prioritize operating their 3,000lbs+ machine safely over Instagram/tik tok/Twitter or whatever the fuck.

  • No it doesn't. How does it prove Deckard is a replicant versus proving Tyrell Corps had become just that good at replicating life. In both Blade Runner movies to prove something was replicant they had to get electron microscope close to find printing on cells. Perhaps Rachael was just that human. Unless it was explained somewhere I missed.

  • To be fair, you don't know what you're talking about.

    1, Hamas is a political party, literally voted into power. Not all members would be militia.
    B, Even if the man was of the militant arm, in full uniform and battle-rattle, killing a surrendered foe is murder and a war crime.

    This coming from my experience as a Marine having acted in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, that were occupied by many civilians and combatants.

  • Having been through boot camp I can tell you there is a big over lap between what officially wouldn't fly and what unofficially does happen. He became a spokesperson for The Corps, even getting promoted after leaving service, of course he wouldn't sully the reputation of the Marine Corps on record.

  • Hired to coach actors to act like drill instructors because he was a drill instructor. Turns out it was more effective to just have the former drill instructor act like a drill instructor. Turns out the drill instructor did do it better than the actors, and ended up being one of the most accurate portrayals ever put to film.

  • That's always been my take. The Navy has the experience with big-ship operations, and operating smaller craft from those large ships, and it's supply and logistics would likely evolve from ocean to space faring ships.
    The Marines are historically an amphibious force, an extension of the Navy, specialized in ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore operations; ship-to-surface would be the evolution of that.