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• whitroth commented on New guest blogger: qntm
  sigh She got paid to model for Playboy, and there's nothing "offensive" in the cropped pic. I mean, it's nothing like the ad that i got at a tech fair in the late sixties, where they were advertising, I think, a metal lab sink, and the flyer had a nude in the sink, and no, nothing hidden....
• whitroth commented on New guest blogger: qntm
  After I hit submit, of course, it's not even like the study book for anesthesiology students from the late seventies, with https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4c5pgp/the_ether_bunny/ in it....
• Paul commented on New guest blogger: qntm
  The other thing about the Lena image is that she was of course white. This continued the long tradition of optimising photographic stuff for white skin. No doubt the white men who selected the image didn't even think about that aspect, which is why the word "systemic" so often gets prefixed to "racism"....
• paws4thot commented on New guest blogger: qntm
  48 to 51 inc - These arguments rather ignore how the Japanese producers of "wet" film stock, both Fuji and Konica, used a cooler blue/green biased stock which is better for landscape work than a warmer red bias like Kodak....
• Scott Sanford commented on New guest blogger: qntm
  What's "Word mastermind?" - never even heard of it. It's exactly what it says on the tin: a variation of the Mastermind game where the player attempts to discover a word or other letter sequence rather than an arbitrary sequence of colors. (I remember playing this with my father and thinking myself clever for abandoning conventional English words, because I was an annoying smartass tween.) There's an example picture here....