Lol, good luck “accurately” mapping our irregular oblate spheroid on to a globe (i.e. a regular sphere). You’re correct that map projections inherently make concessions and introduce inaccuracies. But a globe would just require a different kind of projection in this context. And that projection hides more subtle inaccuracies. Gloves are not an answer to the problem of map projection distortion.

Ironic, given that you are ignoring the historical context of this photo to make a weak point. When a tree falls, it contributes back to the ecosystem throughout its death and decay. The land wasn’t needed for anything beyond the standard manifest destiny development of the hotel. These trees were specifically cut down for their lumber, they would not have been wasted because they wouldn’t have been felled otherwise. Moreover this was long before anyone was planning long term sustainability goals. This was in no way sustainable removal of old growth.

With the multiverse all things are possible. The “mirror” universe could just be whatever multiverse happens to be the antipode of the current zeitgeist. Like a sociological dipole. Therefore appearing to be “recreated” as a psycho-re-active kind of place, but also a physical reality that always existed. This could be happening often enough through various combinations that the “mirror” universe would even have a memory of previous encounters with a “prime” universe similar to, but not necessarily identical to, the prime universe we are currently watching.

Any sort of digital release? How exactly does one play a computer game that has not had any sort of digital release? Are you expecting to scan your game’s binary files and assets from microfilm? Maybe your actually just looking for some TTRPG? There were some VHS games once upon a time, maybe that’s what you’re after?

That’s a great word!

This should be obvious. It’s the reasons for the renaming, not the renaming itself.

Because famously only US citizens keep pets.

As batman movies go they’re pretty boring. It’s a dark and gritty hero, fighting dark and gritty villains, in a boring gritty city, with boring citizens. Their not bad movies. They were clearly made by clever talented people, good at what they do. But the result lacks any real contrast, just black on black on black on black. I’ll rewatch any other batman movie at the drop of a hat, no questions asked. I know I’ll be entertained. But I’m totally uninterested in rewatching the Nolan Batman movies.

Those “repeated certain melodies across the movie” have a name. It’s called a theme and is something that’s pretty common in movies, opera, musicals, symphonies, etc. An entire work can have a theme that is modified, built upon, expanded or changed as the narrative progresses. Individual characters or places can have their own unique themes. Daft Punk’s entire style is built on repetition, so it should be no surprise that their musical score work would highlight that.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_(music)

Unless they are trying to sell you beans (or Dean’s), it’s not spam.

“No participant study has been run yet, so we’re not claiming superiority ahead of the evidence,” he said.

Why not? Seems a simple thing to do before the development gets very far, certainly before the “press release” stage. Probably because they have actually done participant studies and found that trippy map visualizations aren’t particularly good for info at a glance or safe for use while driving. The whole design should have been driven by participant studies from the beginning.

The whole article wreaks of a “solution” in search of investors and a problem. No one needs a near street level view for navigation, they’ve got that already. Adding a layer of Escher-like distortion seems unlikely to make getting information at a glance from a map any better.

Good question. Also, given the way AI tools are creeping into everything, can we really declare that any modern Photoshop are truly free of AI?

Everybody is just trying to look cool. Everybody probably looks like a “poser” to someone else. And in a cruel twist of irony, the inventors and early adopters of some “cool” new thing, look derivative and boring years AFTER everyone else has done it. Kids don’t have a long memory for these kinds of things; they grew up in a world where it was already old news and boring, never having experienced a world without it. This shift in perception can happen sometimes even among people old enough to have been there at the beginning. So yeah, they are just a bunch of posers trying to look cool, but aren’t we all?

Is the joke that Stranger Things is nothing like Twin Peaks at all?

Nevermind that regardless of any other factor the absence alone for such a long time means that the ethical thing to do would be for him to resign.

Everyone should just report the error to Google over and over and over again. Remind them that the federal government doesn’t actually have unilateral authority to rename major international geographic features on the whim of a single deranged despot.

I was referring to that glorious hair.

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly. Look at you. You’re the prodigal son. You’re quite a prize!

Not all the colors of crayons are available in the RGB space. Some colors will always look different when captured for a digital photo.

Around 20-30 years ago, people took a little more care in composing a photo, even the amateurs. Hard drive space was still kind of pricey. Smart phones weren’t ubiquitous yet. It took some level of real investment to create the kind of photos you miss. Lego landscapes are hard. They’re tiny and big at the same time. Focus, depth of field, and lack of a background all work against you in ways a little diorama doesn’t. Combine that with more people that haven’t actually studied the craft of photography, taking more photos than ever and you get flooded with snapshots. Those lazy snapshots still happened 20-30 years ago to be sure, but nobody’s remembering them because they were forgettable then and forgotten now, kind of a survivorship bias. The same reason people argue that the music they listened to in grade school always was and forever will be the best music.