Thanks! I updated the sidebar too, but commenting with links to originals/sources is greatly appreciated

I’m also unsure, just repeating what the loop caption says. It does seem rather un-Michigan-like, but I also figured it was the UP 🤷

It’s been working out great for Can Can Wonderland, but they also sell a lot of alcohol. Looks like this place doesn’t, so yeah let’s hope they manage to pay the bills 🤞

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiB8GVMNJkE

Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don’t do one.

Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?

Narrator: You wouldn’t believe.

Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?

Narrator: A major one."

Definitely not what the artist was going for, but you could interpret the binary as 3 bytes. It’s not valid UTF-8 (which is what pretty much everything in the world uses now), but if you treat it as an older encoding like say ISO-8859-1, you get

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That makes a lot more sense than a security guard giving a shit

Loops is still under heavy development so there’s a lot of missing UX, so I’d give it a pass for now. I would also like to see a system for marking whether something is original content and if not, where it came from. Hopefully that will happen quickly once it’s open sourced.

If you know the source for any video, posting it is always appreciated!

Honestly pretty surprised he bothered. Most security guards that I’ve heard of are explicitly told to do nothing and just call police, in case they get sued for doing something not 100% correctly.

Yeah, I’m kind of divided on this, but figured I’d err on the side of caution, especially if people are complaining. There’s lots of small hills I’m willing to die on, but not this one.

The tits here are NSFW because they’re not an oil painting IMO, there’s lots of similar stuff posted to Lemmy without a NSFW flag because it’s art so it gets a pass, like these:

https://lemmy.world/post/16175194

https://lemm.ee/post/51070002

Regardless, I appreciate you updating it, even if it seems a little silly.

Thanks!

Pretty sure any decent model could easily solve that anyways. To borrow a quote about bears from the National Park Service, there’s now significant overlap between your dumbest users and the smartest AI.

Some additional history:

As demand for the expansion of Glenwood Park grew, a new development gave the park one of its signature features, a unique wildflower garden that is cherished still. In early 1907 Eloise Butler, John Greer and others petitioned the park board for space in Glenwood Park to establish a botanical garden. The park board granted the request and set aside three acres of bog, meadow and hillside for the Wild Botanical Garden, the first public wildflower garden in the United States. The board also allocated a modest sum for paths and fencing of the area and on April 27, 1907 announced that the garden had opened.

The person who took charge of the garden as a volunteer was a retired botany teacher, Eloise Butler, who for years had taken her students to the park for botany lessons. Butler tended the garden for four years as a volunteer until in 1911 the Minneapolis Womans Club petitioned the park board to appoint a full-time curator for the garden. The club offered to pay half a year’s salary for a curator. When that wasn’t enough to get the park board to act, the club increased the offer to a full year’s salary if the park board would retain the position and pay the salary after that. The park board agreed. The person the Womans Club recommended to be the curator was Eloise Butler.

Eloise Butler created such a magnificent wild garden—collecting, protecting, preserving and cataloguing wild plants and offering free botany classes—that the park board named the garden in her honor in 1929. In 1933, at the age of 81, she died on her way to work. Her ashes were spread in her garden and the park board held a memorial service and planted a pin oak tree in the garden in her honor, noting that “Every plant in her garden was her living child, upon whom she bestowed her devotion and care.”

Butler was succeeded by her assistant, Martha Crone, who remained in charge of the garden until 1959. Upon Crone’s retirement, she was succeeded by Ken Avery. The shelter in the garden is named for Crone and the terrace is named for Avery. An important addition to the park occurred in 1944, when Clinton O’Dell, a successful Minneapolis businessman—he created the Burma Shave rhymes seen along highways — and former botany student of Eloise Butler, contributed $3,000 to expand the garden to include ground for upland or prairie varieties of plants, rather than the primarily woodland plants that Butler’s original garden could accommodate. O’Dell also helped form in 1951 The Friends of the Wild Flower Garden, which has contributed time and money for the maintenance and improvement of the garden ever since.

@merde@sh.itjust.works could you edit to mark NSFW? I don’t think I can as mod

You should take a look at the Tesseract UI at https://tesseract.dubvee.org/c/loops@midwest.social. It supports embedding loops as a regular video file so that you get browser-native controls, fullscreen, and all that good stuff.

I suspect Loops will get better about that itself too. It’s still under heavy development, and there’s a lot of UX that needs improving, but the dev is fixing issues like that at a rapid clip. It will be open sourced and federated, so if the official client sucks, there will be better ones.

Fletcher Hanks is an interesting artist. Someone from DCM went and scanned the originals of his work in high quality for the holidays:

https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,16042.0.html

First we need to thank Tony Oliva again for all his work crafting such a fun collection as his ‘Big Red’ McLane. He’s been very patient about letting DCM debut it as part of our Christmas 2024 celebration. Tony went well above a typical file dump of ‘Big Red’ stories. After buying the rare and often expensive original books, he scanned them, cleaned them up and crafted a great cover and fun introduction to create a superior collection. Thanks Tony!

Many readers might not be familiar with the short career of Fletcher Hanks. Or call him a lesser Basil Wolverton. Print Magazine called Hanks ‘The Most Twisted Comic Book Artist of All Time’ in 2018.

We wont get into that in this intro. Tony talks about it in his collection and if you’d really like to learn more about him you owe it to yourself to find Paul Karasik’s Fantagraphics Hanks books* where he interviews Fletcher Hanks Jr about his Dad. Hanks Sr. was not a good person and clearly had some blood thirsty ideas of ‘justice’ in his twisted comic stories.

Paul Karasik is quoted in Publishers Weekly’s Comics Week August 18, 2009 - “These are basically slug-fests from beginning to end,” Karasik said of the ‘Big Red’ stories. “Hanks was the son of a Minister and, as you can see, there is plenty of hellfire and brimstone blazing through [his] stories.” From interview with Tom Spurgeon on comicsreporter.com from 2007.

Hanks was active in the very earliest days of comics between 1939-1941 when they exploded after Superman was a huge hit in 1938. Hanks went to work for Eisner & Iger for a few short years working mostly on their Fox and Fiction House titles. You’ll see his style evolve quickly, especially his page layouts. But his basic story formula only changes in the very last story of this ‘Big Red’ collection where Red actually cracks his one and only smile on the splash page. One wonders if Hanks had help with drawing the smile, it’s that rare! It’s a shame this was his last ‘Big Red’ story. Hanks might have had some fun with Red away from the forest.

‘Big Red’ is Hank’s third most drawn character. He’s best known for his ‘Super-Wizard’ space hero STARDUST and his ‘Mystery Woman of the Jungle’ FANTOMAH. (There’s are two basic Stardust and Fantomah collections on DCM in the Archives/Collections section.) Both of these heroes had god level powers that left little danger in their winning a battle. They both just had terrible timing and never arrived in time to save the day. But boy they could dish out revenge! ‘Big Red’ was Hank’s earth bound battling lumberjack hero imposing justice in the forest.

But you don’t read a Fletcher Hanks story to be impressed with the plots and character development. You come to see Hanks’ outrageous ideas of how justice works in his mind. How far he takes his revenge on fifth column gangsters, space leopard riding Amazons and elephant graveyard robbers. And in 'Big Red’s case - lumber concerns trying to muscle out rival companies with sabotage and murder. ‘Big Red’ wont stand for that, no sir! As Red says, “Step up and get it!” so we say to you, go read it if you haven’t already. ;)

The original Fantomah (where this post comes from) is great. Weird and over-the-top, but in a good way. It got taken over by another writer/artist, who turns Fantomah into a boring jungle girl that keeps getting captured in silly ways.

The best quote I’ve heard about him is that he was a great human being, and a so-so president. The worst quote I’ve heard about him is this. I had to read it so you do too:

🎉💀Holy SHIT! 🍆💦 Happy RIP to JIMMY 😱 CUMter 🎈❤️ is no longer droppin’ it like it’s hot 🔥🔥 from the hospice 🛏️🍑 bed! While all them 🤔 young HOES 👩‍🦰🌷 are out there getting their LIBERTIES 🌈🎆 pumped, this OLD DADDY 👴🏼 is no longer INJECTING 🤖 his wisdom 💦 into them cozy sheets 🛏️🌙💤! Hope you’re ready 🍑 for that sweet HOSPICE PUSSY 🍌🍆, Jimmy! 🤤💦 The peanut FARMER is no longer pulling 💪🍆 that bouncy action 🌊💥! Don’t forget to hit ‘em with that OLD MAN HUSTLE 💨💀 while cloud surfing 🌥️ on LIFE SUPPORT! 💉🎈 Spread those legs 👖👀 because Jimmy no longer got the moves like JAGGER 💃🦵, let’s celebrate 🍾🍻 as he cums to the ETERNAL FUNERAL 🎭💀 with 100 whole years of BACK BREAKIN’ 🍆👊 achievements! CUM on and send this to 100 of your NASTIEST ✨friends 🥳 or feel the WRATH 🔥 of ancient POTUSSY wisdom 🎩💦!

Some background on this comic:

Some background on this comic:

Thanks, fixed!

Thanks, edited!