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OMG. I looked up the KFC / DC comics crossovers. I’d forgotten that there were THREE

OMG. I looked up the KFC / DC comics crossovers. I’d forgotten that there were THREE of them. The third one apparently involved Colonel Sanders getting a Green Lantern ring and trying to send chicken sandwiches across the universe, only to find that Larfleez (the Orange Lantern powered by greed instead of willpower) has been stealing ALL of them for himself.

W.
T.
F.

https://screenrant.com/green-lantern-best-kfc-dc-comic/

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yeah, they did 3 promotional comics with DC a few years ago.

They were utterly bizarre.

The first one had Col Sanders team up with GL & Flash against his doppelganger from Earth 3 who wanted to open a knockoff chain staffed by supervillains. The second one had him team up with Flashes from 11 different parallel universes, because someone had stolen his memory of the secret recipe and scattered the ingredients across the multiverse.

Couldn’t report the missing items through the website or through the app, had to call …

Couldn’t report the missing items through the website or through the app, had to call customer service. Best they could do was refund the items so I could place a new order.

Of course some of them are out of stock now, so I placed the new order for shipping.

Sure hope I don’t actually *need* that pulse oximeter in the next week.

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covid tracing

California finally has an app that links the Apple/Google contact tracing API with the state public health system

https://canotify.ca.gov/

This is the one that exchanges rotating random numbers between phones over bluetooth, building a pseudonymous list of other people’s phones you’ve been near. You can use the app to report a positive covid result linked to your numbers, or check for exposures against its local list of contact events.

https://www.google.com/covid19/exposurenotifications/

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I remember listening to a podcast on the design way back in…May? It’s an interesting approach to balancing a legit use of tracking vs. limiting chances for abuse of the data by limiting how much is actually collected.

It’s woefully incomplete, of course, but then it’s not like interviews would be complete either, even if we had enough trained people to run them for every single patient.

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Kid wants to learn animation. He’s used Wick, but it can’t do everything he wants …

Kid wants to learn animation. He’s used Wick, but it can’t do everything he wants to do, and he’s used up a trial of Adobe Animate.

I don’t want to support Adobe’s Creative Cloud keep-paying-every-month-forever subscription model.

Question for the fediverse: What animation drawing programs have you used? Which ones have you found to be easy to learn, capable, reasonably priced, etc?

We’ve looked at some of the other programs here, but I’m hoping for more context:
https://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-flash/

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covid

I’m shocked, shocked to find that a student at the kid’s elementary school has tested positive for covid-19 during the week after (checks notes) a holiday that traditionally involves large gatherings over an extended period of time with lots of talking and eating.

OK, not that shocked. Especially with cases *already surging* in the LA area before Thanksgiving.

I wonder if they’re still planning on opening up the TK-2 grades to hybrid on-campus learning.

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This is cool: recycling discarded PPE into plastic bricks

This is cool: recycling discarded PPE into plastic bricks for construction.

“First, the PPE material from body coverings, masks and head caps is isolated for three days. Then Desai’s team of 20 employees sanitizes the fabric and uses a machine to shred it before sanitizing it again. Next it is mixed with 47 percent paper sludge and a binding agent and pressed by hand into various molds. Each brick weighs around 3 pounds and costs about 4 cents.”

The pandemic is generating tons of discarded PPE. This entrepreneur is turning them into bricks.

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