Whatever, keep thinking I’m one

Here’s ever-so-slightly less JPEG:

but this ship is so cursed, it can’t be photographed at above 1 MP apparently

After 1 to 2 people, it would just be a version of Slap Dead Hitler

(rumored 1945 carnival attraction featuring a mannequin), more gruesome by the hour. I wonder how Stalin’s preserved remains would fare in the oxygen-rich atmosphere, receiving thousands of slaps each day.

LLMs almost never do this

The title and username might be a clue… Probably lots of pent-up frustration

The closest I can get to sauce is https://e621.net/posts/2547524

I don’t like stops where sitting runs the risk of missing the bus. (Most stops are request stops where I live)

I suppose there could be a button you could sit/lean/step on to flash a solar- and battery-powered blinking light when held (not a toggle switch, people would forget to turn it off). Durable, several in parallel and preferrably not finger-operated, since that is less hygienic and uses up one’s hand. A PIR or radar sensor might work but passers-by and animals could set it off, plus most require the subject to keep moving. Of course, bus drivers will need to get the memo on the signal: where I live, they don’t need to be waved at, the presence of a person “at the bus stop” should be enough and it usually does work except for bad visibility. Although they sometimes ignore the request buttons inside because people could have leaned on them accidentally, checking if someone has got up and is at the door (not very friendly for elderly people who can’t safely stand in a moving bus).

99.99 % ≠ 100 %

To be honest, such shot only appears 2x in the entire ad but I was simply too far into making it into an automatically looping embeddable image (GIF is the only cross-platform option despite the awful lack of compression) to pass up on it even after the annoyance became apparent. After all, that’s how I remember the shot because it was looped in a Czech YouTuber’s critique of the ad 10 years ago.

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. (By the way, top Czech singer Karel Gott was shown using a VCR in his luxury home in a 1984 TV film but I think it was staged, there are mechanical keys but he is also seen operating it with a remote control in another shot (which is pointed at the TV, not the VCR on the cupboard), he also pronounces “video” the German way despite the West German version of the TV film not featuring the VCR scene. At that time, only about 20 % of households had a color TV, about the same ratio as US households with VCRs…)

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 (only one is seen since one escapes the other), presumably your client is messing with that…
Try the 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