It’s AI… I’ve been looking for the stuff I posted about it before, but I can’t find it.
The goats are real, but they’re pulled from other things, cos that’s what AI does.
There are a couple of videos that purport to show that they’re real…
But when i looked this time, one said AI in the description, and I couldn’t find the one where there are 4 goats, but two disappear right before your eyes
Everyone, upon reaching young adulthood, has plastic surgery to be made to look like one of several socially acceptable models in a catalogue. One young woman rebels.
Lana…
Is played by then world famous fashion model Suzy Parker.
FUN FACT:
It’s supposed to be set in the year 2,000!
I have to say, though, that just as with “1984”, the writer, IMHO, picked a date not far enough in the future to accommodate such radical change.
In reply to your “fun fact” comment, I have to say that the authors may have felt a close date to be appropriate in relation to their personal sense of paranoia.
People were so much more polite in the 1930s, even in comparatively rude, aggressive New York City, it was probably much more possible than it would be today.
BTW, I never think of double decker buses in conjunction with New York City….
But apparently, they still have open top ones as privately owned tour buses, while the enclosed ones were part of regular public transportation until they were retired in the 1950s.
I saw a video about Japanese schools, probably a couple of years ago.
I’m not sure what to think about it, but I have to say the children were amazing.
They had specific times to do rotating assigned chores, before and after school, and I think midday as well…. They not only cleaned the things a custodian would, like floors and bathrooms, but their desks, chairs, and everything else in the room, mostly with little buckets and rags.
Some students made lunch, some served it, and some worked in their little garden that grew the vegetables they ate.
….
A lot of the classwork they filmed, though, was rote recitation, in unison, of memorized lessons, no give and take, or experimentation. At a signal, they closed their books and went on to the next lesson, or a chore.
They also walk alone to school, along busy streets, and take city buses by themselves, even very young children.
It makes for a very responsible, obedient society.
My first modem was on a 2nd hand 286… before my first mouse.. before I had Windows.
So when I finally had animated graphics, especially interactive ones like that button, which seemed to move when you clicked it, it was something amazing and exciting.
This might be my favorite of the New Yorker puzzles StelBel did… hard to say when I’m not looking at all of them, but it’s definitely up there.
All the dogs dressed up for the dance, all the stereotypes of the attendees at any such party, human or canine.
I love the polite fellow asking the wallflower to dance, and another fetching punch for his date. The slick couple showing off their tango moves. I can hear the false bravado wisecracks of the single guys along the back wall.
Meanwhile, of course, we have TEN differences between the two sides.
Take a good look…. the dancers won’t mind… and after you find them… take a look at
Kiki !!!
Kiki in her own mind…
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Mounties rule, aliens drool!
The Mounties always get their alien!
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I love poppies.
So did Dorothy, Toto, and the Cowardly Lion. 🙂
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AI. Fake.
Photoshop more likely. I think.
It’s AI… I’ve been looking for the stuff I posted about it before, but I can’t find it.
The goats are real, but they’re pulled from other things, cos that’s what AI does.
There are a couple of videos that purport to show that they’re real…
But when i looked this time, one said AI in the description, and I couldn’t find the one where there are 4 goats, but two disappear right before your eyes
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I don’t remember those Mouseketeers.
We all (except maybe Steve 😁) know it’s
Episode of The Twilight Zone
Everyone, upon reaching young adulthood, has plastic surgery to be made to look like one of several socially acceptable models in a catalogue. One young woman rebels.
Is played by then world famous fashion model Suzy Parker.
I have to say, though, that just as with “1984”, the writer, IMHO, picked a date not far enough in the future to accommodate such radical change.
In reply to your “fun fact” comment, I have to say that the authors may have felt a close date to be appropriate in relation to their personal sense of paranoia.
True…. Especially as I think they were meant to be warnings.
“Look what’s going to happen if we don’t change the way things are going!”
They wanted to put “soon” in there.
To his credit, Orwell was only 40 years off…
Remember when the streets weren’t so crowded as they are today?
Look at that poor guy out there trying to direct traffic!
People were so much more polite in the 1930s, even in comparatively rude, aggressive New York City, it was probably much more possible than it would be today.
Look at them all standing and waiting.
Fifth Avenue, 1936.
Originally an ad for Republic Steel.
BTW, I never think of double decker buses in conjunction with New York City….
But apparently, they still have open top ones as privately owned tour buses, while the enclosed ones were part of regular public transportation until they were retired in the 1950s.
,,,
And you thought Uber drivers were a menace…
From my search:
Downtown Syracuse, NY, 1933
“Westbound train passes First Trust & Deposit Company as pedestrians cross Washington Street at S. Warren Street.”
I still say “Yikes!”
7.2 feet, not twelve…
2 questions:
1) Does it say 12 someplace? I’m missing something.
2) How does it walk with 7.2 feet?
and getting new shoes is a real problem
Sorry, I was extrapolating from the forced perspective of the photo. they’re trying to make it look more like twelve feet.
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I saw a video about Japanese schools, probably a couple of years ago.
I’m not sure what to think about it, but I have to say the children were amazing.
They had specific times to do rotating assigned chores, before and after school, and I think midday as well…. They not only cleaned the things a custodian would, like floors and bathrooms, but their desks, chairs, and everything else in the room, mostly with little buckets and rags.
Some students made lunch, some served it, and some worked in their little garden that grew the vegetables they ate.
….
A lot of the classwork they filmed, though, was rote recitation, in unison, of memorized lessons, no give and take, or experimentation. At a signal, they closed their books and went on to the next lesson, or a chore.
They also walk alone to school, along busy streets, and take city buses by themselves, even very young children.
It makes for a very responsible, obedient society.
that mentality has its bad side, as demonstrated in the thirties and forties
Obedience can go too far… I didn’t use “obedient society” as praise.
It’s great that the children are responsible, but I support educating young minds to think and compare, to experiment, and accept new ideas.
We need scientists, artists and philosophers, for example, who can do more than parrot the known facts.
He’ll be back often!
Did I just see this here, or elsewhere?
I can’t find it, and I feel like I’m losing it.
Okay, don’t answer about that last thing…. It’s probably unrelated to finding this gif.
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I can still hear the squealing in my mind.
My first modem was on a 2nd hand 286… before my first mouse.. before I had Windows.
So when I finally had animated graphics, especially interactive ones like that button, which seemed to move when you clicked it, it was something amazing and exciting.
Ok so I’m old.
I was among the first to joyfully plunk quarters into a machine to play PONG
over and over and over…..
…and then, this came out–in bars. Pitcher of beer and Pong, we were hooked
That was the first way I played a video game… It was Space Invaders.
Then my brother’s family got the Sears edition of Pong you could play on your TV…
Right in your own home!!
A black plastic box with an electric cord, and two corded joysticks… I think it was $149.
I remember reading online comics with dial up. Color ones on Sundays took FOREVER to load.
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This might be my favorite of the New Yorker puzzles StelBel did… hard to say when I’m not looking at all of them, but it’s definitely up there.
All the dogs dressed up for the dance, all the stereotypes of the attendees at any such party, human or canine.
I love the polite fellow asking the wallflower to dance, and another fetching punch for his date. The slick couple showing off their tango moves. I can hear the false bravado wisecracks of the single guys along the back wall.
Meanwhile, of course, we have TEN differences between the two sides.
Take a good look…. the dancers won’t mind… and after you find them… take a look at
I got seven of ’em, and consider myself lucky.
It was a tough one today, but I got ‘em all…
Thanks for posting the solution, Susan, for confirmation!
You’re quite welcome!
And yeah…. I thought some were quite subtle, but I finally got them all too.