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What about the Lizard People? Where do they fit into this?

You are probably thinking of the Cardassians here. While they have been described as somewhat lizard like or reptile like, this is mainly based on purely superficial similarities. They are clearly a humanoid species, proven by their ability to successfully interbreed with Bajorans.

I knew Gul Dukat was in the mix somewhere.

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also - most likely they are 'chemtrails' (not contrails). depends on altitude and length, and whether it dissipates into a cloud (in which case its a chemtrail).
the ones spraying chemicals in the sky are most likely military, although sometimes they go in aircraft that looks like regular aircraft.

Oh honey, we gots a live one here!  Lol.

To the OP, youre likely fine as you probably cant identify the aircraft or company.

What about the Lizard People? Where do they fit into this?

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Personally I believe our Russian colleagues do not support the war.
Naivete 100%. There, 90-95% of people are poisoned by propaganda. Of course, some may not support the war in the literal sense, but ask them whose Crimea and Donbass and most will tell you that this is Russia. Putin's support there is huge. Almost all stockers from Russia, in the description of the photo from Crimea they write that Crimea is Russia. This is propaganda, this is support for terrorism, occupation, war and genocide of the Ukrainian people.

Among those who dont support the war, can they say so publicly? Even on an anonymish forum like MSG? Or will they end up arrested?

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Dreamstime.com / Re: New submission form
« on: February 14, 2023, 20:34 »
If this was my first time ever uploading to DT, the new interface wouldnt bother me, but its definitely slower than the old system and I dont like that it rechecks boxes that it used to leave however youd set them before.

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Never have I been more pleased to owe someone $20.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock + Bigstock 1099s
« on: February 01, 2023, 21:52 »
As I recall, Pond5 only sends out 1099s if youve earned more than $600.  I always have to compute my taxable income from them manually as a result.

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Tick, tock, tick tock,
60 days before the bet between cascoly and pigsinspace ends.

So far, no news but bad news in peoples mailboxes from Adobe.

A bet I would like to lose, not win.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Race to level 2
« on: January 19, 2023, 21:21 »
Been to Germany a few weeks ago, there are recycling machines at the super market, you insert one empty plastic bottle and out comes 25 cents, euro 25 cents.

Lucky. In the USA its 5 cents, and even then its only certain states. Except Michigan, where its 10 cents, but unless you can steal a large van loaded with cans to make the trip, its not worth it.

Lol, really? That's actually a Kramer/Newman idea in one of the Seinfeld episodes.  ;D



Who do you think Kramer stole the idea from!

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Race to level 2
« on: January 17, 2023, 22:18 »
Been to Germany a few weeks ago, there are recycling machines at the super market, you insert one empty plastic bottle and out comes 25 cents, euro 25 cents.

Lucky. In the USA its 5 cents, and even then its only certain states. Except Michigan, where its 10 cents, but unless you can steal a large van loaded with cans to make the trip, its not worth it.

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But requirements for 2021. were made in beginning of 2021. Requirements for 2022. were never made and 2022. has ended, so you know, it is not possible for AS to set rules for 2022. anymore and it is not possible for us to meet these rules because they don't exist.

Yes, AS people could theoretically be kind and give us codes because they like us  ;D (and not because they want us to upload, sell, earn money), but I don't think it is very likely.
of course it's still possible - all AS has to do is describe how they're going to select who gets the bonus. absolutely no reason they had to do it on 1/1/22

still waiting for any doom-prophets to make a $ bet on their 'knowledge'

Id put $20 down that its not coming back for this year, but what do I get if I win?
i'll take your bet - if AS doesnt give bonus codes this year i'll send you $20 by paypal

Wait a second, we gotta wait all year? I'll be hungry for some of the good ramen much sooner than 2024.

ok, we'll give AS until end of March? (which is when my current bonus ends)

{thanks for getting me my payment sooner!?! i'll tell you how tasty the ramen was!}

Its a deal.

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But requirements for 2021. were made in beginning of 2021. Requirements for 2022. were never made and 2022. has ended, so you know, it is not possible for AS to set rules for 2022. anymore and it is not possible for us to meet these rules because they don't exist.

Yes, AS people could theoretically be kind and give us codes because they like us  ;D (and not because they want us to upload, sell, earn money), but I don't think it is very likely.
of course it's still possible - all AS has to do is describe how they're going to select who gets the bonus. absolutely no reason they had to do it on 1/1/22

still waiting for any doom-prophets to make a $ bet on their 'knowledge'

Id put $20 down that its not coming back for this year, but what do I get if I win?
i'll take your bet - if AS doesnt give bonus codes this year i'll send you $20 by paypal

Wait a second, we gotta wait all year? I'll be hungry for some of the good ramen much sooner than 2024.

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But requirements for 2021. were made in beginning of 2021. Requirements for 2022. were never made and 2022. has ended, so you know, it is not possible for AS to set rules for 2022. anymore and it is not possible for us to meet these rules because they don't exist.

Yes, AS people could theoretically be kind and give us codes because they like us  ;D (and not because they want us to upload, sell, earn money), but I don't think it is very likely.
of course it's still possible - all AS has to do is describe how they're going to select who gets the bonus. absolutely no reason they had to do it on 1/1/22

still waiting for any doom-prophets to make a $ bet on their 'knowledge'

Id put $20 down that its not coming back for this year, but what do I get if I win?

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Im with Her Ugliness on this. While I wish the program would continue, its clear the program has been discontinued. Thats disappointing, but its Adobes software and theyre free not to continue the program.

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I would say you absolutely do. Just think for a moment about all those important features that are visible and eminently recognizable - eyes, hairline, eyebrows, ears, not to mention other parts of the body.

Jo Ann, just because my hairline *is* recognizable doesnt mean I want it to be.

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Ive done sky replacement on some gray sky images in Photoshop and had some success there, but Im very intrigued about this idea of adding lens flares. I go out of my way to avoid lens flares when taking photos, because I always felt like theyd be less likely to sell. Adding them artificially AND getting sales from that? Wow.

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PayPal is basically a bank at this point. If my bank took money from me because I lied on the internet, theyd get beat down hard in court. PayPal should be no different. I am freaked out by the abundance of misinformation on the internet and what that means for democracy long term, but this isnt the answer.

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Adobe Stock / Re: PNG files on Adobestock - Some Questions
« on: August 07, 2022, 22:18 »
As the person who posts a lot about stock industry and company news, it must be new if Jo Ann didnt know about it!

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Selections are happening. I nominated seven images (big total, I know), and one was selected two weeks ago.

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Uh oh Jo Ann, what happened to your shower!

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This thread convinced me to look at my numbers over the last year. Like Zero Talent, my downloads are up, but my RPD is down. I was happier before I knew this

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Wordplanets point is well taken. At first glance, the image would be fairly easy to make in Photoshop today, but in 1981, I dont have the faintest idea how it could have been done. What may have been transformative then I dont think should be looked at the same way now.
All that said, Im very skeptical of a court case decades after the work was made and nearly as long since Warhol himself died.

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Brandon beat Trump, so keep cheering him on.

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Are you seeing the image pop up in reverse image searches on lots of websites?

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Adobe Stock / Re: Very Angry After Adobe Stock
« on: May 21, 2022, 23:08 »
When Adobe remade their tiers three years ago and increased payments for most contributors, I was excited and thought it would push other stock companies to increase their payments or at least not decrease them. Then along came Shutterstock less than a year later with their cuts

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Thanks to the incompetent idiots in charge, we're on our way to a recession.

I anticipate that many companies with either start downgrading or cancelling their microstock accounts from sites like SS and AS.

My SS sales has dipped in the last few weeks. Less big sales and less daily downloads.

Just brace yourselves for what's to come and stop supporting people who are economically illiterate.

More a Covid/Putin/China recession... Covid for stopping worldwide production.. Putin for raising transport costs worldwide with higher energy cost (due to war).. and China for slowing down its economy with their "Strict 0 Covid" policy..

Inflation levels and oil prices were incredibly high before the war in Ukraine started. China only started the lockdown.

The US economy shrank by 1.4% in Q1 and it wasn't caused by China locking down. China's GDP went up by over 4% in the same time period.

The main cause of the situation is because of energy scarcity and uncontrolled spending. Both of which are caused by policies of the current administration. The war in Ukraine doesn't help, it's certainly not the main cause of it.

The highest inflation in 40 years is caused by the federal reserve printing money it doesn't have. Failure to hold the people in charge responsible is reason why we're in this situation. So let's not make excuses for incompetent people.

So, if you were the government.. what would you do ?

Stop spending so much money. Stop trying to stop domestic energy production.

Oil prices and Natural Gas spiked after we slowed down our own product of energy. This caused food prices to spike, along with everything else. It's self-inflicted inflation.

Unfortunately there is literally no elected politician in either party with any interest in cutting any spending. The Republicans made that clear before the pandemic when they cut taxes but didnt cut spending at all. Its just silly that some are now arguing to cut spending. If they meant it, they would have done it when they had control.

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