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👀 The House just passed a bill that would give Ken Paxton unprecedented powers

Who runs the U.S. immigration system?

If the Senate passes the Laken Riley Act this week, the answer might not be Congress or the president. The bill, already passed in the House, would hand state attorneys general, like Ken Paxton in Texas, veto power over large swaths of federal immigration policy.

#FuckingRidiculous #immigration #Lunatics #KenPaxton

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

MSNBC · A new immigration bill named for Laken Riley gives states unprecedented veto powerBy Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

Americans deserve fascism if they are so greedy, selfish, and ignorant to vote for these sociopaths and degenerates.

"House Speaker Mike Johnson pledged “massive reform” of the Affordable Care Act if Donald Trump is elected president, reopening a politically sensitive policy issue for Republicans a week before Election Day."
#fascism #healthcare #collapse #Trump2024 #Republicans #lunatics
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Mike Johnson vows major changes to Affordable Care Act if Trump wins electionBy Dan Diamond

Putin’s Puppet, MT-G, Wants Space Lasers on the US/Mexico Border and other MT-G Lunacy
In her own 'special' way of handling the migrant/humanitarian crisis at our southern border, Marjorie Taylor Greene (MT-G) has called for the use of "space laser technology" as a way to combat migran
newsviews.online/2024/04/18/pu
#MarjorieTaylorGreene #lasers #Lunatics #MexicoBorder #MTG #PutinsPuppet #Ukraine

I had been handling these as four separate video textures, but it's just too confusing to manage, especially since they really need to be synchronized.

Kdenlive to the rescue: I just used the transform effect to assemble them into a single video texture, and then adjust all the textures to read from this. Synchronization is then just set up in this video file, making the Blender part much less hassle.

These have been through a lot. The two larger screens were animated by Timothee Giet. Then I created the two touchpanel displays using Inkscape and ffmpeg. And I fixed the timing and framerate on them using Kdenlive earlier. Now I'm taking the PNG streams and reassembling them to get them synced properly.

:lunatics:​​:inkscape:​​:kdenlive:​​:blender: #Lunatics #Kdenlive #Blender #Synfig #Inkscape

A-ha. I thought this bear was looking a little plainer than I remembered! I found and re-applied the texture!

Better.

Still have to figure out how my video display rigging works (or you know,
whether it works).

BTW, the bear hanging in the Soyuz is quite realistic. They often hang a plushie of some kind inside the vehicle. I suppose this is partly for aesthetic reasons, but the official reason is that it gives a reference on camera for what's happening with the vibration and gee-forces inside the module.

#Lunatics #Blender

The CEO of Gallup, Jon Clifton, has been promoting videos of himself on #LinkedIn.

Every time I scroll by, the only salient part that I recall is how he’s dressed up, completely alone, in what looks like a studio, mic’d up and engaged in a video call with someone.

What blows me away is the other person is also wearing a suit and tie!

What is going on here?

Two grown professionals, get up in the morning, dress in a full suit and tie, and then have a Zoom call.

I don’t get it 🤷🏻‍♂️

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I have to admit that I kept wondering what would happen if you accidentally dropped the rocket into the hole when transferring from the erector arm to the gantry, and whether that has ever happened!

What a mess that would be to clean up! (No crew in the rocket at that point, although there would be pad crew on the gantry, and that would at least scare the piss out of you, even if it didn't make you fall).

I assume there are fail-safes to keep that from happening, but it was a disturbing image.
😱

I supposing something like it could happen if the booster stages flamed out for some reason, coming off the pad. But then, the crew would hopefully be saved by the escape rocket system (which is that little tower on the top).

There are a LOT of safety issues to think about when designing a space launch system, to be sure.

I'm sure glad I only have to make it work in Blender!
#Lunatics #Blender #Render