Aww, a couple’s costume!
!Couplememes@sh.itjust.works

At least the TNS one has a YT reupload as part of a collection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYK7kmBNlCI&t=1172

It starts with the animated “Mr Egg” who announced ad slots

Also, some products had English on the package despite never being sold abroad, to increase the appeal… Maybe that’s why this ad is in English? (OK is the Czech(oslovak) aviation country code, we should have got CZ or CS but our delegation to ICAO screwed up)

And did you know about bagged milk and syrup in motor oil bottles?

Edit: ripped the loosely-DRM-protected “ČT-Mediatheque” video playable in the Czech Republic (or if you have a VPN) but couldn’t be bothered to get higher quality, enjoy 288p

Intermissions were common, the TV studio often experienced telecine jams or blown tubes, cutting to a “sorry, it’s not your TV” card or similar.

They did have adverts, too. Most were for normal products and services, but longer, milder than Western ones (e.g. products slowly rotating on a tray) annd almost never mentioned prices. There was little risk of litigation so overpromising with phrases like “ensure”, “indestructible” and “only at” was common even though many things required frequent repairs (especially TVs) or were easily beat by gray market imports or underhanded services. I saw a Czechoslovak 80s ad collection and two stood out:

• one presented TNS, Eastern Bloc’s objectively best computer terminal system by JZD Agrokombinát Slušovice (the Asianometry video is good except it’s pronounced Slew-sho-vi-tzeh), of course nobody could just buy a terminal, they were installed at farms and factories. The ad featured basic 3D graphics and synthesized speech.
  • 288p:
  • “Introducing new technology, new possibilities, programs and connectivity, with the new TNS microcomputer from JZD Agrokombinát Slušovice, distributed by ZZN Brno, Gottwaldov branch. TNS JZD Agrokombinát Slušovice. ZZN Gottwaldov.” (JZD means Collective Farm. Slušovice was by far the most “capitalist”. ZZN means Agricultural Distribution Center. Gottwaldov is a town named after our worst Stalinist president, now bearing its original name Zlín (Eviltown). Slušovice (Politeville) is a random village near Zlín.)
• one had surreal music and showed Brutalist architecture. After a while, a well-paced documentary presenter voice talked about how concrete is the stone of the 20ᵗʰ century and mentioned its advantages over one whole minute. Then it showed the dirty process of concrete being poured into the rebar cage and the voiceover thanked concrete workers, none of which are seen in the video, for their contributions to society. (What do you mean it’s not selling anything specific? It’s the most concrete ad you’ll ever see!)
  • 288p:
  • “Mankind seems to have an insatiable yearning to build and rise. Across ever broader areas, over ever deeper valleys, to ever taller heights. These daring engineering challenges are possible thanks to a material contemporary in every way: malleable, hard and flexible. Artificial stone, stone of today: concrete. This material is shaped by concrete construction professionals. Our society needs and is grateful for the hard work of concrete construction experts.”

I wonder if there was also more blatant propaganda they cut from the collection, or if adverts were just like that.

And ads they were never expected to make money, they had bottom-of-the-barrel budget. Which is not bad, considering they don’t create value. An example of a low-budget technique was in the ad for Rekord chewing gum, where rapid zoom in/out on 12 people chanting in an empty stadium was presumably employed to make them seem like a crowd…

Like dude, I get you didn’t have compositing tools, but you could have used a shot from an old newsreel (TV alternative from back then), not like anybody cared about copyright…

By the way, the comic appears to show a cartoon, many of which (Slovak Pat a Mat, Polish Bolki i Lolki, Hungarian Mézga család) beat current production because acclaimed film creators who didn’t quite ideologically align with the party were delegated to children’s programming, and many of the resulting productions were enjoyed by all ages. Also, dubs of Western films/shows were uncommon but very good.

Of course, nobody but party cadres had a VCR so people were very careful not to miss episodes.

Before you knew the xkcd reference, that would have been an understandable conclusion, but the comic has solid logic which should have made it clear enough.

Well said. Just one tip: include a backslash or 2 spaces at the end of a line to make a line break.

Edit: That’s 2 backslashes, presumably your client is messing with that… Try 2 spaces instead

Do you think all the 10,000 random people are Lemmy users? And into yuri?

Yes, it’s shitty but not worth more than 10 upvotes. It’s not like seeing things numbered 6 and 7 together is rare.

!prague@feddit.org

The church is a small part of the complex. The “Mordor of Prague” is the Emmaus Monastery, whose 17th century Baroque towers (on the otherwise mostly Gothic building) were destroyed by American bombardment meant to target Dresden, and the spires replaced them during a rare Communist-era (1964-1968) reconstruction of a church building. During the time, a Brutalist “mushroom” was added into the monastery park (thankfully too short to be seen from the river), and the Architecture and Urban Planning Centre is located there now.

Palestinians 'cause you’re getting your numbers from Google

They are elevators 6 and 7, anything funny otherwise?

I think these are muyhiram’s original characters, and it makes more sense if all three are lesbian

I think it isn’t in VSCodium

The obvious tell of it being AI-generated is the lack of any brown liquid around him

It seems to be a Unicorn 2 picosatellite, which includes the power, inertia control and communication systems and a telephoto camera as default payload. See the original Xitter post (via Xcancel) for details. Like most cubesats, they don’t use shielding and it works.

There’s one left

Requires weird IDE to build

I shifted 8 GB of files to an older machine just to be able to install Android Studio on barely-supported hardware, and now I’m cloning the repo and the .gradle directory alone is 1 GB?

Yup, disappointing especially considering it cost way more than a simple 1940s rocket+camera that took decent pics of land thousands of kilometers wide

Yup. You’re basically right, clarification on “anything”:

• Not the celestial body you’re on (that’s called night)
• Not a structure on the celestial body you’re on (that’s called being in the shadow)
• Not an object with too small angular size to cause much dimming, such as Venus or the ISS (that’s called a solar transit)