BaconDust
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1) KFC was founded in 1952. McDonald's was founded in 1955. Big Boy was founded in the 1940s.
2) TV dinners were invented in 1953.
3) Color TVs were introduced in 1954 and became the universal standard by the mid-1960s.
4) Front loading washing machines were invented in 1937 and standard by the 1950s.
5) Central heating was a standard part of building construction starting in the 1930s.
6) Traveling to Europe in the 60s and 70s cost less than $200 a week.
7) Baby showers were invented in the 1940s.
8) The term "bachelor party" was coined in the 1920s.
9) Is that why KFC had 3,000 restaurants by 1970? Because boomers never went out to eat?
10) I wonder if shitty Chinese-manufactured textiles---outsourced there because boomers wanted to save a buck---that constantly wear out have anything to do with people buying new clothes more frequently.
11) Man, sounds amazing! If only you hadn't invited THE ENTIRE THIRD WORLD HERE, we could enjoy the same pleasures of living in a functioning society.
12) Your children are going to stick you in a nursing home, never visit, and you will deserve it.
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@MinnesotaFan92 You're in the USA. We didn't here in the UK.
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Just so you know.
Boomers didn't have fast food. Except fish and chips.
Boomers didn't have ready meals. Except Vesta beef curry. Look it up.
Boomers didn't have colour TVs, front loading washing machines, central heating or holidays abroad.
Boomers didn't have babymoons or baby showers nor did they go on stag or hen weekends.
Boomers didn't go to restaurants. Except on birthdays.
Boomers didn't have new clothes every year, every season. They made do and mended.
But Boomers had a fabulous time in the 1960s to 1980s because people were friendly, respectful, dignified and hardworking. Boomers also had law and order and a judiciary who punished ALL criminals.
Boomers were happy with their lot.
Yes. I'm a Boomer.
Just so you know.
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The fact that DESTINY gets all these women will never not just absolutely prove redpill null and void FOREVER.
Lil Gavin ❄️@Handsome_yuppie
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨🚨 Destiny and Lauren Southern are reportedly dating again
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EL VANDALISMO NO PUDO CON REZE
Apenas unos días después de volverse virales, unos desconocidos arruinaron con pintura negra los murales de Chainsaw Man y Sousou no Frieren que adornaban las calles de Kirguistán.
Motivado por la inmensa ola de apoyo internacional, el artista Wodyone decidió no rendirse. Confesó que la reacción de la gente lo sorprendió gratamente y prometió arreglar pronto la pintura de Frieren tras haber restaurado a Reze por completo.
El cariño de los fans logró borrar las manchas.
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@JoeRoganRecaps im not sure how to explain this, but Weinstein is one good question from a guy moderately schooled on the subject matter away from buckling like this when it comes to literally everything he talks about
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Joe Rogan dies of laughter after his producer Jamie exposed Eric Weinstein for being a fake expert on music:
Context: Eric said Allan Holdsworth was a way better guitar player than Van Halen. Jamie plays a clip from Holdsworth and it was quite the let down. We’ll let you listen and judge for yourself.
WEINSTEIN: “My guitar friends salivate over this.”
ROGAN: “They need help.”
JAMIE: “It’s dogsh*t.”
ROGAN: “😂😂😂”
JAMIE: “I apologize sir.”
WEINSTEIN: “I’m not coming on this show anymore. Jamie you’re going to have a lot of music nerds mad at you.”
JAMIE: “Most people will agree with me.”
ROGAN: “I’m with Jamie on this one.”
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@JoeRoganRecaps Eric probably isn't the person to make that claim. He was better than EVH though. If EVH was alive he'd say the same thing and be able to back it up.
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@trashmanrising >hot women in skimpy outfits dont belong in Trek but the Beastie Boys do
I hate them so much
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@threenotes_jp Found your music through your viral anime post. You have a great style. I look forward to hearing more.
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ASMONGOLD RESPONDS TO STREAMER @lifeismizzy TWEET ON STREAM SAYING THIS IS WHY WOMEN WANT AI BOYFRIENDS #asmongold #streamerclips
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@InternetH0F Mine had a neo-geo. Also dont forget the parmesan and red pepper flake shakers
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Tim Sparks has purchased 80 pizza huts and is bringing back their iconic looks and nostalgic feel
The salad bar, Pac-Man, the OG red cups, family booths, the lighting, and more will all make a return
"I want to rebuild places for families to connect and put their phones down"
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Without looking it up, what animal goes from smallest to largest from birth to adulthood?
NO CHEATING! 😀
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“Soldiers without uniform” is truly the greatest euphemism for black people yet
Charls Carroll@goodcharls
You cannot allow yourself to be goaded into picking fights with people that have absolutely nothing to lose. Why visit the ghetto provoking soldiers without uniform? Do not put yourself in untenable positions. Live to write another day. Simply being alive is revenge enough.
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@EliteClubS0B "Several within WWE creative are said to be adjusting plans for the SmackDown women’s division in order to feature Jacy Jayne more"
lol fuck🤮
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The creative plans surrounding Fatal Influence have begun shifting due to the overwhelming crowd response they’ve received.
Several within WWE creative are said to be adjusting plans for the SmackDown women’s division in order to feature Jacy Jayne more prominently than originally planned.
(@WrestleVotes on @FightfulSelect)
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Ex Machina is no longer sci-fi. China has finally built it.
The company is AheadForm, founded in Shanghai.
The product is the world's most hyper-realistic robotic face.
Silicone skin you can't tell from human, 25 micro motors hidden underneath pulling the face into real expressions.
And RGB cameras embedded inside the pupils so when it looks at you, it actually sees you from where its eyes are.
They raised $28.5M to "give AI a head," which is also where the name comes from. AheadForm = a head form.
This is the opposite of where everyone else in robotics is focused.
Unitree, Figure, Tesla, Boston Dynamics: all about the body.
AheadForm chose the face because they think trust is the harder problem to solve, and trust gets decided at the face.
The reason nobody else has tried this is the "uncanny valley."
It's the creepy zone where a robot looks almost human but not quite, and looking at it just feels wrong even when you can't say why.
Most roboticists believed no amount of engineering could make a face realistic enough to escape it.
So they gave up and kept robots cartoonish on purpose: big anime eyes, exaggerated features, clearly synthetic.
But AheadForm decided to treat it as an engineering bug instead.
Add enough motors, tune the silicone, fix the timing, the valley closes.
And they're pulling it off.
A few crazy details about how this actually works:
1. The robot learns its own face in a mirror.
You put it in front of a camera, let it fire every motor randomly, and it watches what its face does and builds an internal map of "if I send command X to motor Y, my eyebrow does this."
Same exact process a human baby uses staring into a mirror. The robot teaches itself who it is by experimenting.
2. It predicts your smile 839 milliseconds before you smile.
By watching the micro-tells in your face that precede a smile, the robot starts smiling 0.8 seconds ahead, so its smile lands at the same moment yours does.
Most robot mimicry happens half a second late, which is exactly why it always feels artificial.
3. The pupils are the cameras.
When the robot makes eye contact, the gaze and the sensor are the same physical thing.
Most humanoid robots stick the camera on the forehead or chest, so they aren't actually looking at you when their eyes are pointed at you.
4. The founder, Yuhang Hu, did his PhD at Columbia under Hod Lipson.
Lipson is the guy who in 2006 built a four-legged robot that figured out it had four legs by experimenting with its own movement, nobody told it the body shape, it discovered it.
He has spent 25 years trying to build machines that know what they are.
AheadForm is that 25-year research arc productized.
5. NetEase Games already paid them to physically embody a fantasy video game character.
That opens up a brand-new category: robotics as the physical embodiment of fictional IP.
Every character-rich studio, Disney, Riot, Hoyoverse, Pokemon, Netflix, now has a question to answer about when their characters get bodies.
AheadForm believes whoever ships the first robot you'd actually want around your family wins.
That's the bet behind the most realistic robot face on earth.
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