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Comment Re: Good! (Score 2) 131

HAHAHAHA, Yeah, right.

Arnold Shwarzengger at his peak size in 1974 was 6' 2" (188cm) at "only" 107kg (235lb).

That looks like this:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/...

Sorry, that's not at all "reasonable" to sit next to in an airplane seat. 23kg heavier is even less reasonable. And 150kg at 195cm of "muscle" is larger than Hulk Hogan at his most massive (137kg), whose real height was 193cm, not the 200cm at which he was billed. And Hulk was positively enormous. Here he is absolutely dwarfing former heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali:
https://www.worthpoint.com/wor...

And even if we accept the dubious proposition that you are as large as you say you are, and it's just as much muscle as you claim it is, then you are making just as much, nay, more of a lifestyle choice than that "200kg" (440lb, surely a massive exaggeration) woman you complain about sitting next to did. She undoubtedly got to that weight due to a health problem, whereas getting to the "rather built" 130kg of pure muscle you claim really about from a combination of massive amounts roids, overeating, and huge amounts of gym time.

And now that GLP-1 drugs are widely available, that "200kg" woman probably now weighs half that, while you continue to elbow aside normal-sized people with your size.

Hate to break it to you, but you are just as much a "land whale" as the people you admonish. YOU are the asshole.

Comment Re: Good! (Score 2) 131

Is rhis a joke?

Hate to break it to you, buddy, but 150kg at 195cm isn't a "reasonably sized human." It's a massive outlier, and is in fact grossly overweight, whether it's "muscle," (yeah right), or fat. To the metric-challenged, that's 330 lbs at 6' 4".

That is heavier and similar in height to the average NFL lineman and would put you in the 99th percentile of all Americans by weight. And Americans are not exactly known for being particularly svelte.

Comment Re:I think its a positive change (Score 2) 75

The largest exporters of Uranium fuel to the U.S. as of 2023 were close (well, maybe not quite so close at the moment) allies Canada and Australia, with Kazakhstan closely behind in third. What's more, the amount of Kazakhstan's exports to the U.S. are nearly identical to the amount domestic U.S. production has decreased since 2003, mainly because the U.S. International Trade Administration halted antidumping restrictions in the late 90s precisely because it was a convenient way to keep their Uranium from going to Russia.

There's nothing preventing the U.S. from ramping its own production back up to make up any shortfall if necessary, and it's not like Kazakhstan has a stranglehold on the U.S. market.

Comment "Reporter" should be fired. (Score 2) 77

I get that people are increasingly relying on AI, but the fact that a professional reporter fell into this trap shows that they haven't even bothered to follow the most basic rule of journalism: check your sources.

Benj Edwards should never have a job in journalism again, even in the mailroom.

Comment Re: Prosecute what? (Score 5, Informative) 66

Not to mention, the Sheriff (and, for that matter, the new proesecutor) doesn't seem to realize that counties are subagencies of the state they are in, and the state government absolutely does have the power to authorize access to the county's buildings.

It doesn't work the way the federal/state distinction does, where each level of governmeent derives its power from a different source. Counties have -only- the authority explicitly delegated to them by the states they are part of.

Of course, State and Local Government is mysftifyingly one of the least popular elective courses taught at most law schools, let alone criminal justice programs, so no big surprise there.

Comment Re: Wait, I thought they liked money (Score 1) 52

For perspective here, Photoshop has had nondestructive adjustment layers since version 4.0, which came out 30 years ago. This, coincidentally occurred the same year as the first public release of GIMP.

And it's had CMYK support since 1991. At the rate it's going, GIMP will be feature-equivalent to the current version of Photoshop some time in the late 2050s

Comment Re: Forget the iPhone, bring a proper ilc... (Score 1) 97

Kind of hilarious that you put so much stock in "full frame," i.e., miniature format sensors, when the moonwalkers in the 60s and 70s were shooting with 6x6 Hasselblad 500s with an image "sensor" 3.6x larger than "full frame."

Go pick up a copy of the coffee table book "Full Moon," which consists of rescans of the original Apollo positives, and you'll see images just as good or better in resolution and dynamic range than what today's "full frame" mirrorless cameras can produce.

Sure, the modern digital cameras can take a lot more photos a lot more quickly and can also do things like video, but if NASA really wanted high end imaging by today's standards, they'd be contracting with someone like Phase One to do a true medium format space camera, or even deploy large format scanning cameras, rather than dicking around with something so piddly as "full frame."

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