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  1. the ultimate goal is to speed up my turnaround on projects of all scopes and i think I'm pretty close to achieving that.

    Tuesday, 03-Mar-20 20:15:59 UTC from web
    • it's really dumb and really dry but i'm just trying to put stuff out to get myself back into the habit of actually making stuff.

      Tuesday, 03-Mar-20 20:14:10 UTC from web
      • i think i'm ready to stop being a depressing lump, so i've got a new cartoon coming out this week. it's around ten minutes and it's a waaaay different style than anything i've ever done, but i made it really, really, really quick. like... i wrote it yesterday, animated a bunch of it today, and will probably have it finished by Friday. That quick. It uses limited animation, squigglevision techniques, and reused assets from an abandoned project for the background, but the thing that REALLY sped it up is that Adobe Animate has a new auto-lipsyncing tool which is actually not that great as is BUT it provides you with a really good baseline that you can tweak around and it divides the time needed for animating mouth movement into, like, tenths.

        Tuesday, 03-Mar-20 20:13:26 UTC from web
        • Would I personally have said it? No, not in public, of course not, but this doesn’t take away from the fact that we have passed overwhelmingly powerful tax reforms, confirmed record numbers of federal judges, and brought the DOW up to heights previously unknown. Chuck, I may disagree with the President on whether or not we should be allowed to have slaves, but putting these disagreements aside we can get a great deal done for the American public, more than the previous twenty administrations combined.

          Tuesday, 03-Mar-20 03:33:21 UTC from web
          • Well I don’t know about the President saying the n word on live tv Chuck, but here’s the point: the do-nothing Democrats hate this man so much, they’re not even taking the context in which he said it into account

            Tuesday, 03-Mar-20 03:27:13 UTC from web
            • Can’t wait to go into work today and get asked a million times, “did you hear about Beth?” Yes. I heard.

              Monday, 02-Mar-20 20:20:19 UTC from web
              • I'm sure it's not nearly so simple in reality, but I feel like conquering climate change is a simple matter of banning some of the bad stuff with obvious alternatives (gas vs electric consumer vehicles, for example) and watching the market self-correct. But everyone is afraid to pull that lever because it could be political suicide.

                Monday, 02-Mar-20 05:01:17 UTC from web
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                • @thismightbeauser An actual solution to the issue is deglobalization of economies and achieving food and industry autonomy in every relevant country, but good luck cutting the flow of shekel just like that. There is a reason any sort of nationalism is treated as evil incarnate by mainstream political parties and economic groups, a global market that depends on countries not being self-sufficient is extremely profitable, no one can stop buying or selling or their internal situation crumbles within months.
                  A secondary effect of this, while a positive from an environmental point of view, is that a lot of countries simply don't have the capacity to achieve food autonomy due to having bigger populations than their fertile land can sustain. Take Nigeria for example, <1 million km2 of surface with a rapidly growing population at 190 million right now. Without world trade the country would starve, and lead to open war in the region.

                  Monday, 02-Mar-20 16:50:53 UTC in context
                • @thismightbeauser So you not only need to completely reshape the economy of most countries but also need to regulate the population of each to levels their own land can sustain (without further destroying the environment to grow more crops)
                  Some countries have a food surplus of 10 times their internal consumption, so they can keep their current populations without issue. But what happens with a country that has a food deficit of say, 50% of consumption? the population has to be cut in half or starve. Either way, you have a disaster in your hands with no clean way to solve it. You can pick between genocide, mass starvation or civil war, neither acceptable by any humanitarian standard. And you can be sure it'll spill to neighbouring regions.

                  In short, environmental damage is such a big issue because there's no clean way of solving it, nations and fortunes depend on the wheel spinning, and genociding the world to a sustainable population numbers is off the table.

                  Monday, 02-Mar-20 16:58:01 UTC in context
                • @nerthos I think some of this makes sense, but I have a hard time believing that the world's current population level isn't sustainable, just that we haven't figured things out yet. There's a lot of junk produced that isn't necessary, or made in inefficient ways that could be cut out. I get what you're saying about deglobalization and the whole "buy local" slogan that environmentalists have been pushing kind of points back to that. Where do you draw the line though? Even goods shipped within larger countries like the US or China can travel vast distances before reaching their destination. Do those countries have to be split into regions then? People would probably be freaking out about that. No more California oranges in PA? No way! Probably not a great example due to Florida being closer, but still.

                  Tuesday, 03-Mar-20 17:59:34 UTC in context
              • I'm sad that I didn't get a chance to even consider Buttigieg, but I guess we still haven't had a woman president so having a gay one is asking *way* too much...

                Monday, 02-Mar-20 05:04:04 UTC from web
              • How can people continue to believe this spraypainted bunghole

                Saturday, 29-Feb-20 04:05:03 UTC from web
              • I’m not too proud to admit I was wrong @nerthos was right. I am in fact, enjoying Fallout 76 a great deal.

                Friday, 28-Feb-20 09:01:25 UTC from web
              • well, my dying friend is now my dead friend.

                Sunday, 01-Mar-20 20:34:05 UTC from web
              • new swole foods redesign http://rainbowdash.net/url/875452

                Sunday, 01-Mar-20 01:50:54 UTC from web
                • Super Tuesday is coming up and my candidate's at the bottom in polling. Sigh.

                  Sunday, 01-Mar-20 01:29:49 UTC from web
                  • I feel like even evil people can look at that guy and surmise that he's very, very, very bad at being evil and that you should probably find a more competent evil person

                    Saturday, 29-Feb-20 07:33:15 UTC from web
                  • On the bright side, it’s probably a great time to get into the market.

                    Friday, 28-Feb-20 23:36:20 UTC from web
                  • Sure is cool watching a Fox News segment where they tell us that, actually, the market is up.... compared to 1929.

                    Friday, 28-Feb-20 23:35:50 UTC from web
                  • ...while wearing a t-shirt designed to prototype merchandise for said pilot... yeah

                    Friday, 28-Feb-20 09:11:39 UTC from web
                  • In fact I was playing Red Dead Redemption 2 just now and felt guilty about it cuz I wasn’t working on that thing I should be working on.

                    Friday, 28-Feb-20 09:09:31 UTC from web
                  • Well, actually, being perfectly honest I don’t really have time for games anymore. 48 hour job + 30 minute animated pilot in the works = zero me time

                    Friday, 28-Feb-20 09:06:20 UTC from web
                  • HOTELS IN LOS ANGELES ARE EXPENSIVE!!!!! TF!!!!!

                    Thursday, 27-Feb-20 08:02:46 UTC from web
                  • 2020’s probably gonna be a Trump vs Sanders race, which means the eventual winner will 100% die in office. Guess we’re really feeling the burn, eh America? http://rainbowdash.net/url/875450

                    Wednesday, 26-Feb-20 20:53:16 UTC from web
                  • Silent Hill Downpour isn’t as papayaty as I always assumed. Combat kinda sucks. It’s got the atmosphere though.

                    Tuesday, 25-Feb-20 07:10:41 UTC from web
                  • My relief didn’t show up. (:

                    Tuesday, 25-Feb-20 00:28:19 UTC from web
                  • I came in on my day off to help in the deli. Lady who’s back here sees me with a line of customers, then looks directly at me and says “I take my break”. Disappears for almost a full hour. Then when I finally see a window to take my break, she looks directly at me and says “ok I go home now”.

                    Monday, 24-Feb-20 20:03:16 UTC from web
                  • I can't tell if the russians are interfering again, or still (it's somehow both, isn't it?)

                    Sunday, 23-Feb-20 16:28:33 UTC from web
                  • I could go on for a while. Point is I eat a lot of free food.

                    Saturday, 22-Feb-20 22:15:58 UTC from web
                  • And meatballs

                    Saturday, 22-Feb-20 22:15:40 UTC from web
                  • And deviled egg salad

                    Saturday, 22-Feb-20 22:15:34 UTC from web
                  • And cucumber salad

                    Saturday, 22-Feb-20 22:15:22 UTC from web
                    • And coleslaw

                      Saturday, 22-Feb-20 22:15:02 UTC from web