I have a clock that has 0 at the bottom, 6 in the 9 position, 12 at the top, and 18 in the 3 position.

The exploitation of cultural history, inaccurate or not, is appropriation.

Pocahontas and Mulan come to mind immediately as movies that pissed a lot of people off. Pocahontas especially since they whitewashed an already whitewashed story.

Joe has wares if you have coin?

Based on the username that might be the point.

I don’t think cities have anything to do with it. I live in an area with nearly a million people that has bike lanes people regularly use as turn lanes despite the signs.

There was a joke about “rethinking the Microsoft model” in a 2005 episode of The Office. The move to subscription based software has been in the works for 25 years or more.

It’s based on Wine/Crossover. EXE compatibility came literally decades before DirectX compatibility.

Because it is…

I would do this if I could afford it. I was looking a few months ago and somebody locally had a ‘00 Ranger 5 speed 2 seater w/ ~150k mi for $5000 and an ‘01 S10 for $7000.

1. Something in the Saxhorn family I would guess. Possibly a marching euphonium?

2. It was the same day as those thwack tubes, you missed a really fun day.

3. They do look plumbed as urinals to me, it’s just really hard to see the drain pipe going off to the right of each bell behind the bells.

You have to remember that when Clippy was introduced with Office 97 in Nov. 1996 a lot of people were coming to a PC from a DOS era or older machine, typewriter, or nothing at all. Anthropomorphic assistants were all the rage to teach people how to use a GUI for the first time. Admittedly Microsoft took things too far. But for a lot of people who didn’t know the wizards were there the assistants were genuinely helpful.

I have seen people downvoted to oblivion for bringing up things like this in threads about Chinese EVs.

The replacement CG is some of the worst ever used in the franchise, including the stuff from the 90s shows.

You are clearly only reading the parts you want to read. Have fun.

I posted it because you claimed none of that happened before 2020.

Breakthroughs are more or less of a myth. Everything is iterative.

You seem to misunderstand the ire;

AI in its current state has existed for over a decade. Watson used ML algorithms to beat Jeopardy by answering natural language questions in 2011. But techbros have gotten ahold of it and decided that copyright rules don’t apply to them and now the cat is out of the bag?!? From the outside it looks like bootlicking for the same bullshit that told us we would be using blockchain to process mortgages in 10 years… 10 years ago. AI isn’t just here to stay it’s been here for 70 years.

The text that became Project 2025 has been published every four years or so since the Regan administration.

That’s step two.