KoboldCoterie

Both Window and Face link to this page.

Am I missing something here? The links seem to have no relevance to the word they're linked from; if that's the intent, what's even the point of making them linked from words in Ulysses? Further, out of the ~20 links you have here, there's already a duplicate link.

This seems like a novelty that people would watch one time and then promptly forget about. Where's the appeal in this at all? Not even from an "AI BAD" standpoint, but just, like... why?

I don’t think though, that for the goal of living a happy life, any harm is theoretically necessary.

Whose happiness are we talking about? Surely if one person's happiness conflicts with someone or something that already exists, they can't both have happiness and harmlessness. (Also, what are you considering harm? Just harm to people? What about animals? Plants? The planet as a whole?)

Modern human life is inherently very harmful to a wide range of things.

“We’re going to have B-2s and F-22s and F-35s flying right over the White House,” Trump told reporters before flying to Iowa.

God. I know it's effectively an impossibility, but if there was ever a time I'd love to see the military turn on Trump, this is it.

It's an interesting question, but whose responsibility are you proposing it is to find another actress? Who's paying that actress? Is the library going to pay twice as much, or is the existing actress expected to work the same amount of time for half the money to accommodate this second actress?

At the end of the article the quote from the black actress I think eloquently summed up what feels weird about it.

It's a weird argument to make here, though, because this isn't a white actor vs. black actor question at all. The library isn't choosing between one or the other. There's only one actor, no matter what characters are being played. If they were responding by saying "Actually we want to hire a black actor to play these characters," I'd get it, and agree with that, but they aren't. They're just choosing to not have black figures represented at the performance at all, which seems... worse, somehow? I don't know.

Given the specifics, I don't see any problem with what she's doing. It's not like a white woman was being cast to play a black character instead of a black woman; she put together a one-woman show that she is the sole performer in. The library even (initially) asked her to play the black characters, then changed their mind.

If someone here disagrees, I'd be interested to hear why.

That's pretty funny. Unfortunately for them, I and probably almost everyone else don't really care about their brand identity, so I'll keep calling it all velcro. I'll also keep call all tissues Kleenex, and all adhesive bandages Band-Aids, and all the others that have become synonymous with their product. That's what they get for being too successful, I guess.

It's velcro all the way down!

It sticks with adhesive, and I don't doubt it would rip wallpaper right off, but using adhesive remover before trying to pull it off lets you work it off slowly and not cause damage to paint or surfaces.

It would tickle me absolutely pink if Mamdani was the catalyst to the creation of a third party.

A lot of small things. I have some velcro on the wall in few rooms that I can stick a tablet to, for example. I've got velcro holding down a few items on my desk - a USB hub, speakers and the like, that I want to move sometimes, but that were commonly getting knocked off (by the cat). I've got a small whiteboard and a few places I can stick it, so I can use it to sketch something up and take it with me to our workbench, for example, and not have to precariously balance it.

All things that could be solved with other solutions, obviously, but the heavy duty velcro just happens to be a one-size-fits-all solution that leaves no permanent marks and is very convenient to set up.