dparticiple

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Superb. I've never thought that I looked good in a hat, so my sartorial headgear consists of a baseball cap for driving open-topped cars, and a large straw hat with a chin strap for gardening and lounging in the pool. Functional, but neither would win me any style points.

on Vac-U-Form ad (1965) · c/vintageads · 19 pts · 6d

I'm going to sound old here, but Lego isn't Lego anymore. Rather than selling bricks and objects that could be creatively combined, a glance at their contemporary lineup shows mostly kits that have a pre-defined build path. Even the nominally engineering-focused Technic line (for example, compare a vintage Technic set, e.g. https://www.brickeconomy.com/set/8860-1/lego-technic-car-chassis which had a huge number of connection points and opportunities for customization with the current Technic line, https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/technic , with little to no extensibility and almost exclusively custom formed pieces with few to no points visible).

on 29 August 1988 · c/foxtrot · 2 pts · 6d

This comic dates itself a bit. At least where I live, school has been back in session for at least a week now. Summer vacation used to be longer!

And also, thank you for being bold enough to put out new looks as often as you do. You have an appreciative and supportive community here on Lemmy!

For some reason, perhaps because of the style, the wording or the typefaces in the ad, it brought to mind some vintage pharmaceutical advertising from the same year -- http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/thorazchild.html (the whole Thorazine ad series is really something: http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/thorazine.html )

Perhaps the young chap in the ad would benefit from a friendly chat on the phone before heavy antipsychotics are brought to bear!

Tried 5.6. Didn't like it. Specifically, it plunged right into the codebase and started making changes without asking clarifying questions or offering analysis of the problem or any visible explanations, unlike Opus or other frontier models. Disconcerting.