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politics, unserious reply 

@mavica @noelle *brings in... I dunno, Eminem for the audiobook version*

if you have 20 seconds...

@mavica double especially for anything with eight legs

they're the natural enemy of those of us with eight arms

(for real I'm arachnophobic though)

@noelle they all look like renders anyway so it might not have been a primary concern but ease of photoshop is always helpful

@noelle this of course is less of a concern for digital watches but a lot of the time the tradition is carried over

@noelle 10:10 is actually a long-standing standard for photographing watches for marketing materials, everyone does it

it's a position that's nice and symmetrical, doesn't cover up any of the bits on the dial like date window, text at the bottom, etc, and it frames the brand name and/or logo that's usually at 12

also it looks a little like a smiley face

@mavica if they're a couple bucks a month cheaper I might give them a shot but massively cheaper? hell no

considering it's a hemp pattern I'm expecting the green version will be repeatedly set to about 20 past 4

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And now in actually interesting watch news, these have been announced by Seiko

Seiko Presage "Sharp Edges" series

Nicely finished, 39mm cases, 6R35 movements

The dial is inspired by a traditional hemp leaf pattern from the Heian period (794-1185) and apparently symbolise growth and prosperity

And you can buy all 4 of them for less than the cost of one of the recent Rolex releases (they're $1,000-ish each)

@Jo well... yes

basically that

but specially produced to hold that bit of software

with like, box art on them and stuff

I want software to come on cartridges again

Not like, SD card sized, that sort of data density scares me, but like size of a cigarette lighter and they go into a little compartment in the computer

guess 

@mavica is it a trick question and they're all real?

@zatnosk @noelle oh, also this apparently applies to the personal data of persons who are not citizens of the EU and to organisations that may not be based in the EU

last night was... interesting

@zatnosk @noelle that was exactly the interpretation that was given when this came up

because apparently "deleting data" can somehow be interpreted as "processing data" and it's against the GDPR to process data without the consent of the person whose data it is

or at least that's how far I managed to reason it out before I got a headache

re: something that's been bugging me for close to 30 years 

@dickmandrake @noelle well you've got to have fun with it, yknow?

@douglasfur tempting but that would require me to have a shrek

if I get on the waitlist now I might get one some time in 2030

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