Or he’s leaning in, as if trying to get in the frame for a group photo. The kids in the middle don’t look like they are being held and they look too old to be carried.
Unless he’s super short or super tall - Dad would have to be holding a half squat in the most awkward position possible.
Low content.
Had a zombie dream last night and came up with what i thought was a cool premise for a show/movie/book.
Zombie virus. But its only activated by panic/fear. So people can be infected and not know it until boom.
You can also dezombify if the panic subsides.
Obviously. A zombie attack is the kind of thing that causes panic, so you would have these big chain reactions and mass zombification scenes.
You have a lot of scope for people to switch between victim and monster. To hide that they are infected. Trying to rescue/save someone who has gone zombie. Guilt for what you did as a zombie. Etc.
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She could be significantly taller than him.
The little one is clearly sitting her lap. I don’t know how you can see it otherwise. The kid in purple is definitely not being held. Her hand is on his shoulder, so he is obviously standing and not being held.
The other explanation is that the artist sucks.
Watched WWZ en Espanol yesterday. The zombie metaphor for our times is pretty clear but nobody ever uses it. Is it too obvious or cliche or something? Pandemic= zombie apocalypse, people! Also MAGA= zombies. Etc.
The point about the Black Death being a boon for survivors, by raising wages for their labour as there weren’t as many people about, has been posted a few times, so figured there might be some interest in this paper. It argues that that process actually kick started Europe to being the most prosperous place for quite a long time.
This paragraph seems to be a good summary:
In a Malthusian world, the amount of land per person was the prime determinant of per capita output. Wars were so common, and their impact was so severe that they raised average death rates in early modern Europe significantly. In turn, this spelled higher land-labor ratios in agricultural production and thus higher per capita income (Voigtländer and Voth 2009, 2013). War therefore helped Europe’s precocious rise to riches because the survivors had more land per head available for cultivation. We argue that the feedback loop from higher incomes to more war and higher land-labor ratios was set in motion by the Black Death in the middle of the 14th century. As surplus incomes over and above subsistence increased, tax revenues surged. These in turn financed near-constant wars on an unprecedented scale. Wars raised mortality not primarily because of fighting itself; instead, armies crossing the continent spread deadly diseases such as the plague, typhus, or small pox. The massive, continued destruction of human life that followed led to reduced population pressure. In our view, it was a prime determinant of Europe’s unusually high per capita incomes before the Industrial Revolution.
What lucky people they were!
It also contains a sobering detail for those who point to progress on a large scale as a constant of history. It sometimes takes a really really long time.
European incomes peaked after the Black Death in 1350, reaching levels not attained again until the 19th century. In other words, it took until the reign of Queen Victoria (1819 –1901) for per capita incomes to return to the levels last seen under Richard III (1452–1485).
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Guillotines can be good for the economy if you use them enough.
That’s interesting. Again though, I just feel there are hard limitations to static image analysis like that. The lack of depth information seems like a huge problem that was behind some of the misbehaviour described in the article I posted earlier.
The companies are all mad at people using disengagements as a metric of who is winning anyway, because it obviously depends heavily on what your test conditions are. You can just drive back and forth on the I-5 if you want to pad your disengagement numbers.
Waymo have a simulator that they use to run billions of additional test miles, but obviously it’s a big question mark how realistic the simulator is. They have HD maps of the roads on which cars drive, so they can presumably paste new elements into that, lifted from real-world situations (animals, pedestrians, debris etc) and see how the car reacts in simulator.
This is called conservatism.
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Trump comes to power by releasing hordes of zombies across middle America.
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All pees are different. I believe Steve Irwin said that of all the animals he’s been around, domestic housecat pee is the absolute nut worst. Dog pee is lowkey. Human pee is in between.
Obviously I’m referring to drinking the pee btw. I put it in Bud Light bottles so people won’t think I’m a freak but you have no idea how many times people have exclaimed, “Omg why are you drinking that piss?!?!” Because it tastes great and is less filling, I think to myself once my shock wears off and I realize they didn’t actually soul read by bottle contents.
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The blue check Sweden account was wildin back in 2012
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LOL Palm Desert never disappoints. Not sure why anyone would need 14 bathrooms…
Honestly though, for 12k sq ft, 6M is kind of low? In terms of CA prices, I mean.
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I mean it has a swim up ice cream sundae bar, what else would we ever need 
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I am particularly fond of the neon accents. The replies to this are golden.
“This house built this city on rock and roll”
https://twitter.com/NotMYRep/status/1386544068424052739?s=20
Also, I figured out the bathrooms. Everyone needs a private spot to do their cocaine in comfort.
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