The study of this is called allometry, and if you know the bone lengths of a creature you can generalize the formula to figure out when that animal will change from any one gait to another (like trot, canter, gallop, etc). This was used on Jurassic Park to figure out when the T-Rex would run (although I believe they ended up fudging it for coolness factor).

That sounds like a “premultiplied alpha” issue. Although I’m not familiar with this specific workflow, I always suspect premultiplied alpha issues when there’s a halo like that. If there’s an option try toggling it.

Back when corporations were first really being invented a judge complained they had “no body to kick and no soul to damn”. That was 18th c. England when 12 guys would form a corporation to build a bridge, or whatever, and that was basically it.

You know what’s also funny, the gorillas were different sizes because of sexual dimorphism. Decades later I was at a lecture about animal morphology and the lecturer mentioned that, among primates, humans are actually fairly androgynous. I think about that a lot too.

For all the cruelty we inflict on one another about it, an orangutan probably couldn’t even tell you what the fuck we’re talking about because male humans don’t even have giant cheek flaps. Like the “angle measuring” bullshit that so-called “transvestigators” do would be absolutely hilarious to other primates because we invented this four hour long Voight-Kampff test since males aren’t literally three times the size, with a nose like a tomato.

Plenty of choices out there…

Not for me unfortunately. There’s a number of businesses with zero online presence. They maybe have a facebook page with one entry congratulating Becky’s son Roger for graduating with the class of 2015, and that’s how you find the phone number. It’s like the 90s again, except there’s no phone book now. I don’t understand it. These guys must be making a living purely off the business they get at church.

The guy who dug my well asked why I decided on him specifically and I said, “Honestly? You’re the only one who returned my call.” I asked him why guys with a lease on a million dollar drill rig wouldn’t return calls and he wasn’t sure.

I really didn’t want to interface with Facebook at all but, fuck me. I have to join the Ruritan Club, or some shit, just to find an electrician.

Yeah, disappointing.

I ended up making a burner account for this. I used a proton mail address and a plausible but fake name. My vpn kept getting flagged for special review where they, I shit you not, want you to send in a photo of a government ID. Eventually I found a VPN server that, for whatever reason, got passed this.

Then I spent 15 minutes hiding and locking every privacy setting I could find because I really didn’t want to be shown to other people as a potential “friend”.

I use the account just to monitor local emergencies and whatnot. An infuriating amount of local businesses and services only use facebook.

Trans people are vulnerable, that’s it. You did nothing to deserve it.

When I was a kid I remember being at the zoo during feeding time for gorillas. The zoo keeper was chucking sweet potatoes and other things into the pit. Two gorillas were sitting next to each other, a big one and a small one. The big one got hit on the head with a sweet potato and immediately responded with violence onto the smaller gorilla next to him.

Gorillas are smart, there’s no way he thought that the small gorilla was responsible for the yam to the head. But he couldn’t attack the one throwing potatoes. That other gorilla was vulnerable and accessible. That’s all. I think about that a lot.

Also, same gorilla enclosure where Harambe would be killed years later. It’s like “come to Cincinnati, see our pit of cruel metaphor!”