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If you have an iPhone and an Apple Watch, you can activate the camera remotely. I used it to take this picture of a quail. I set up my phone and put tomatoes out. Worked perfectly.

You can also see what’s on screen but you’d just look like you’re checking the time.

I have experienced earthquakes. In Kansas City, Missouri. One had an epicenter near Stillwater, Oklahoma.

That’s not supposed to happen.

Does anyone know if there is another federated version of GitLab/GitHub? That’s something I wouldn’t absolutely switch to.

Is it finally the year of Linux?

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Oculus founder Arms dealer, Zionist, and Trump supporter

I’m betting the person injured themself to get off the plane. Maybe with their teeth. ICE was making fun of it, calling him a cannibal and dumbass Noem just believed it word for word.

She doesn’t seem like someone who gets jokes, even bad ones.

Both you and @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com are correct. Google bought reCAPTCHA in 2012.

Here’s an article about it from 2018.

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Captcha if you can: how you’ve been training AI for years without realising it

And another from 2019! Captchas got harder for us because the AI had learned from our training.

Why CAPTCHAs have gotten so difficult

Oh no! My ATM card! My secret PIN number: 1077.

I’d like to fire him from a canon…into the Sun. Melania could be denaturalized.

Given that US citizens are getting immigration court notices and even getting deported, I’m sure this is a very accurate and trustworthy system.

We are in the dumbest timeline.

One of my strategies for voting on judges is looking up who in my state appoints them. Do I trust that person to appoint reasonable judges or not? I vote to retain and dismiss judges accordingly.

I have been timing movie previews since August 2022. I was posting the data weekly on Twitter but I stopped using Twitter when the sale to Elon was finalized.

My Qualifications

I have a monthly pass that allows me to go up to 4 times a week. I also worked at a theater for 4 years, with part of that time being as a manager and projectionist. I have selected and put ad rolls on the film myself.

I go every Sunday morning. I started timing ads and previews before the movie started and logging them in a chart, but I am not a data analyst. I am just an annoyed theater patron.

Movie Previews and Ad Roll Lengths

Note: Most of my data is from seeing movies at AMC. I can’t guarantee every theater will be this way but theaters that use digital film distribution instead of physical film should be similar.

Timing start at the scheduled showtime and start the moment the last ad stops and the film credits start.

If you go to AMC, the Nicole Kidman ad is always the last one. I stop counting as soon as she says “AMC Theaters, we make movies better.”

• You can safely go to the theater 15 minutes late every single time.
• Ads ranged from 17 min to 31 min.
• Once, the movie started exactly on time with no ads at all, but that was two years after I started timing previews. This is an outlier.
• Newer movies have longer ads. Movies in the larger rooms have longer ads. IMAX, Dolby, Laser, Prime, and 3D/movies 4D have longer ads. For these movies, ads tend to run approximately 24-27 min.
• The longer the movie has been out the shorter the ad roll length.
• The studio/distributor behind the movie also matters. Indies and smaller budgets have less ads, but big studios like Disney and Sony have more. Studios like Searchlight and Focus can be deceptive as they are owned by bigger companies but they still aren’t as bad as said larger conglomerates.

TLDR: I tracked movie ad times for years and recommend showing up 15 minutes late.

I know of a citizen that just got a letter notifying them to appear in immigration court. I told them they need to get a lawyer right now.

I use Lemmy primarily. I try not to use Reddit, Meta, TikTok or anything else as much as I can if there is a Fediverse option.

Unfortunately, there are a few things you have to use that stuff for:

• Facebook Marketplace has completely replaced Craigslist in my area.

• Neighborhood apps like NextDoor, even if there are other options, doesn’t matter if your neighbors don’t use it.

• Reddit for specific niche forums. If the community is active on Lemmy, I post questions here first but in some case I need an answer for something that doesn’t exist in the Fediverse yet.

YouTube recommendations are just as bad. I HATE YouTube. I wish more people used other platforms.

I was promised dogs.

After reading it, I think she means that some of this wouldn’t have happened if many Christians weren’t so hostile to LGBT+ people.

Maybe? I can watch tv while I fold laundry or exercise. I can’t play games and fold laundry at the same time.

No, but i neglect important things to play anyway.

I cancelled the moment they put ads in the plan I had been paying for. Don’t miss it for a second. Not even prime shipping.

Deportations seem to be the primary benefit of electing Trump according r/Conservative. I check periodically to see if they regret Trump yet.

Obviously, hard to tell what’s real over there.