these mind formations last into adulthood and artists have to train to see and reproduce what’s actually there instead of what their brain is throwing up.

There’s an easy way to test this with your own mind, you take a simple photograph of a face and do your best to reproduce it with whatever artistic talent you have. You have to give it a solid effort though.

Then you rotate the photograph upside down repeat the process trying to reproduce exactly what you see.

It’s like a parlor trick because for most people the upside down image, which doesn’t trigger the brain to draw it’s idea of a face, comes out looking passably good even if their right side up copy is shite.

I learned this from a drawing book when i was learning to draw and it blew my mind!

dutch crunch with mayo, avocado, lettuce, tomato, red onion and a nice cheese 🤤

cool this was really easy to set up thank you

depends on the circumstances and my energy levels but sometimes sure

it’s frustrating as hell in job interviews trying to make positive eye contact and be able to think properly

i can do it but it tends to use up a pretty big chunk of my conscious

MaidenOregon is a brilliant play on Made In Oregon

american cops have some of the worst crime clearance rates on earth despite having the largest budgets.

vs some civilized countries:

src

they put up these impressive numbers while sucking down most of the budget in every town, while abusing minorities and the homeless and anyone else they can. You ever have to deal with cops for insurance when you get robbed? They are making sure you aren’t scamming the insurance company, who they actually work for. They don’t give a fuck about helping you.

Wonder why those leftists aren’t happy with the state of things 🤔

Wonder why anyone could be pleased with it tbh.

what’s using ableist language a sure sign of?

thanks mods ❤️

i was mildly embarrassed about wearing my (black) pair of fitovers around until two seperate young people complimented them and then i realized they are old looking enough to be sort of retro!

now that i know they are Certified Cool i strut in em 😎

it’s not federally funded the way most federal stuff is handled though. It’s ‘federally chartered’ and nominally a for profit corporation where all the stock is owned by the feds and the feds choose the leadership. It’s supposed to make money not just spend tax money.

I have enjoyed the sleeper cars! I’m a fan of rail travel which is how i know that the user experience hasn’t changed in 30+ years!

My favorite is the observation cars on the coast starlight.

The trains are still infrequent, often not to schedule and with minimum available routes. Short hops are far too expensive for the experience you get as well. The only thing keeping Amtrak from working seems to be Amtrak.

BluBlocker starshield fitover

super cool

lumber from home depot

Okay I think Amtrak is not really remotely interested in providing a positive passenger rail experience, but is instead used by the automotive and railroad industry to provide a poor experience, ensuring that people keep buying cars and gas and keep the rail lines free for commercial usage.

Here is my primary piece of evidence; in e-commerce web design to increase sales your goal is to remove barriers between a motivated customer and them clicking buy. A company the size of amtrak should have a decently sophisticated process of multi variable testing and focus groups to at least someehat improve the process over time and make it easy for people to plan route trips and buy tickets.

And yet in the decades that Amtrak has been operating they user experience has barely changed and seems to do just the minimum to keep up with the times and not look stale. And it’s not an overly complicated item they are selling. A very small in house team would be able to make a very usable experience in just a couple of years. But it’s absolute shit. It’s so frustrating and to try and plan a train trip and it always has been, for absolutely no reason.

Either this massive company has had absolute fools in charge of their web dev for decades leaving piles of money on the table due to incompetence… OR they actually just don’t care about making sales for whatever reason. I think that reason is that they exist just to keep the rail experience shitty.

My secondary piece of evidence is how poor and shitty the actual train service remains after so long in business. Train travel has not gotten better at all in my lifetime, only worse.

loll good idea really

my shitty old man would get drunk and wax on about him and his buddies cruising around drinking beers in their car with no seatbelts and dropping the empties through a hole in the floor and the cops didn’t give a fuck and to him that was living

I snagged this to send to my partner in a suggestive fashion 😅 haven’t found the perfect time yet though

it’s a fun thought experiment as it’s a very complex protocol

the ssh protocol doesn’t provide any mechanism for your server to identity the client host architecture, nor does it provide any mechanism i’m aware of to send any payloads back to the host client for arbitrary execution.

The thing is ssh is a protocol and it’s implementation is not going to be identical across clients.

So if you found a bug in an ssh client that allowed for this your hypothetical attack vector would only work on intruders using that broken client. ssh is one of the most scrutinized protocols there are and you should be a hero if you found this bug. what you’re asking for, if it were as easy as you might hope, well ssh wouldn’t be the ubiquitous security connection protocol if it were simple like that right?

you can’t know what system architecture is on the ssh client side. It could be a mac, a windows or linux box, android or ios, beos, amigaos, etc.

So even if you could get ssh to pass malicious code how would you know what code to pass?

What you’re asking for is nigh impossible i think.