jawa21

The cons themselves are marketing. Heavy marketing. If you can’t see that, I don’t know what to say. Vendors (and even artists for crying out loud) are willing to pay top dollar for booths to sell stuff. On the surface, they are their namesake - conventions. Dig any deeper, and they are giant pop-up malls.

They must have felt like a regular Glutenkhamun after that.

This is very fair. I still think that the headline is predominantly click bait, though.

This headline seems disingenuous in a way, since IDF service is mandatory. It could be any Israeli, with any set of beliefs. I haven’t read enough about this person to know what their stance on things actually is, but this really seems like a bad faith headline.

You are correct. Ever seen Cars? The tow truck’s name is Mater for this reason.

We had a Zenith version of this idea, but it still had the clunky dials for changing channels instead of those fancy buttons.

I remember as a child, and occasional green spot would happen in the lower right of the screen and I would have to go hit it with a hammer until it went away.

That is incredibly easy to read. I’m a fan.

Nice try.

I’ve seen too many of these with bites taken out of them irl.

CNC lathe

This is from one machine that I work with all the time.

The library in the church my parents made me go to growing up had a full on fake window with a painting recessed maybe 4 feet behind it.