Uploading receipts associated with your art process, such as progress pictures and files associated with the art program you used to draw the pictures. Not only does this quell accusations of AI being used, it also serves as a means of proving that you are the creator of the artwork.

On-prem still has its uses
Platter harddrives are still useful
Tapes and tapedrives aren't obsolete

The influences of capital on academia have been disastrous.

I'll go first:

Matte black shower sets and kitchen faucets are the shit now. I've installed so many of these during the past year.

College students fucking LOVE blow-up bounce houses.

75% of people working shifts around or inside an aircraft are alcoholics. Never before or at work, but days off are a shit show.

Social workers are all recommended to have a personal therapist for themselves. And its possible for the personal therapist to also have social work degree

We like to leave Easter Eggs everywhere. Everywhere. Fully aware they may never be noticed.

No one currently makes shine-through ASA (or any SA variant) profile keycaps, partly due to the fact that current trends for mid-to-high end keyboards favor south-facing LEDs; the theory (I guess) being that since south facing is pointed toward your face instead of away from it, it’s better. But HOW is it better if there are no key caps for them to shine through?! Front-printed caps are gaining in popularity, but so far I have only seen them in OEM or Cherry profile. OEM is tolerable, but I don’t want to spend money on something mediocre, and I cant stand stubby little cherries. I see zero reason why we could not have SA profile caps with the shine through legends (the letters and symbols) on the “Bottom” of the keys, or even the front frankly. I am not the only one looking for a product like this.

Your insurance company isn't just fucking you with premiums, they also expect the guys that come and fix things up after a disaster to lose money doing it, 0 overhead, 0 profit

Feds are loosening up Eagle take and to a lesser extent peregrine take for falconry in the US.

Golden eagles used to be illegal for falconers to take from the wild until a few years ago, now there is a lottery to take problem eagles off of ranches. They used to issue permits for ranchers to shoot them, and wind turbines to hit them, but wouldn't let falconers take them as hunting partners which was very silly. It's loosening up a bit now which is good. Less dead eagles this way.

Most states have a lottery system to take peregrines already but their population is thriving. I can see states getting rid of the lottery in the next few years. The 50 or so birds taken by falconers each year across the US would be a rounding error to their population anyway.

Since covid, the insurance industry has been hemorrhaging people. At my company, most people that 3-4 months before they quit. No one knows what they're doing because of this and many claims are denied/mishandled.

There's a lot of buzz going around the UFO community about something BIG coming. I've been hearing people talk about 2027 a lot.

Not sure if this is everywhere but I’ve been a software developer for two years almost and I was shocked that when some presses delete on anything we just toggle Archived to true. All hooks that get data exclude archived by default but we can pass a flag to get those too.

I'm a birder. Lots of birds were named after people...Scott's Oriole for example. You may think a guy named Scott discovered the bird, but nope, just a friend of the guy that did. Scott wasn't a good guy according to history (re: killing native Americans), so there's a big committee that's going to rename a ton of birds that have eponymous names. The birding community is very split on the topic and it's interesting to see the drama.