A few different film techniques.

they could film the actor in different costumes on the same set without moving the camera, and then they put those performances together.

so you can have the profile of Austin powers on the left talking to the profile of Dr. evil on the right, and those were separate performances pasted together so it looks like they’re responding to each other even though Mike Myers was performing those conversations separately during different recordings.

If evil and Austin are in the same shot and it’s an over-the-shoulder, the actor facing the camera is the real actor and the guy not facing the camera is a body double with the same hair or bald mask

so if you were looking at Austin and Dr. evil in the same shot, either those are two separate performances put together and you’ll see that they never touch each other, or if they do touch each other, you’ll notice that you never see the frontal face of one of the actors, which is actually a body double.

and you can see these two techniques and others used in Eddie Murphy’s movies, or pretty much any body double move movie.

cool. i always like digging through the huge pillow cushion area they have at thrift stores.

I have a lot of pillows.

I liked using my standing desk in my home office. so much that I eventually got one for the office.

I got a lot of compliments and interested short conversations, but notably only one other person transitioned to a standing desk.

I’ll say that some chairs are more comfortable than others, but a standing desk is finally what felt the most comfortable for me.

yep, that is good to throw in.

I try to keep these as specific as I can, because as soon as I mention more than one item in the same sentence, the conservative arguing with me is like “so first he reduced inflation, then he also reduced prescription drug prices? which is it? choose one!”

presidents can actually do more than one thing-

"Last year biden said he was 80!

this year Biden says he’s 81!

what’s the real number?"

High five.

it seems like Americans watched the South Park episode about Trump and Hillary, assumed it was the factual, comprehensive truth about all politics everywhere forever, and then never looked at any of the facts ever again.

The democrats reduce inflation.

The Republicans force women to die in hospital parking lots.

democrats fund civil rights advocacy groups.

The Republicans make memes about murdering senators.

Democrats significantly increase the value of the US dollar and lower unemployment

The leader of the Republicans is a rapist.

you are incorrect.

Biden called out Walmart, Target and other big chain stores specifically about staple grocery prices and asked them to lower their prices. over the next few days and weeks, all of those stores lowered thousands of their grocery prices.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/24/icymi-target-walmart-and-other-grocery-chains-heed-president-bidens-call-to-lower-prices/

Biden launched and funded organizations to fight price gouging and shrinkflation through the ftc, inflation has been steadily being brought down by Biden ever since the catastrophe trump left him.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/07/fact-sheet-president-biden-is-taking-action-to-lower-costs-for-families-and-fight-corporate-rip-offs/

prices went up under Trump, Trump told people the prices went down, and dumb people believe him.

Biden told corporations to lower their prices, the corporations lowered their prices, Trump said prices went up, dumb people believed him.

The hateful minority have run a campaign championing selfishness and ignorance and the vicarious absolution thereof.

it’s much easier to be selfish and ignorant than it is to be considerate and responsible.

conservatives are selfish and ignorant and their party is very successfully campaigning selfishness and ignorance.

on the other hand, the democrats have to convince people that childish short-term desires are not always the best decision for themselves and others.

Trump is telling everybody that if you want to steal a cheeseburger from somebody else and eat it, then you should.

Harris is telling everybody that stealing is wrong and counterproductive, and cheeseburgers are not healthy.

or, since Trump is a rapist:

Trump is telling conservatives it’s good to rape people If they want to rape people.

Harris is telling people that it isn’t good to rape people because it violates their dignity and free will.

be cool. they’ll be cool.

yea, I’m on this train.

not so far, it doesn’t look like there are any plans to integrate smart contracts yet.

they’re still focused on maintaining and further developing the best practical fungible cryptocurrency.

on-chain smart contracts are a big investment of time, effort and money that don’t seem high on the priority list next to maintaining and improving XMR.

smart contracts are nice, but they don’t seem functionally necessary or desirable for a currency and could be employed as requested by third parties as effectively as a native implementation.

paid leave is the first answer that would get me to vote in person.

I can’t believe none of you wait in lines haha, it’s good to hear but absolutely surreal.

I don’t think I’ve ever been to a voting office without waiting for at least half an hour.

I like voting early just so I get confirmation my vote was counted and if anything goes wrong I have a few weeks to deal with it.

your method sounds good too.

that’s a good point.

has anything significantly swayed your local election preferences this year?

feel free to make up an analog situation to avoid revealing anything personal.

you can track your mail in ballot, but I do like what you’re talking about, leaving physical recordings and evidence of you voting.

milkshakes are convincing.

you can track your mail-in ballot and receive a notification when it’s received and tallied.

but it’s nice to ride around. get a chore done.

using an electronic voting machine?

with mail in voting, you got a notification after your ballot is counted and you can track and follow up on it on its journey.

couldn’t the same vote invalidation happen whether you vote in person or by mail if you’re worried about your state poll workers?

I have had the exact opposite experience, but I’m glad in-person voting works for you