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    You are an organic meme, not an advertisment being pushed by some big marketing firm to virally promote an upcoming movie, right?

    Why would I deceive you?

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    Um, ackchually, PNG does not mean that it has an alpha channel. Even JPEG can have alpha channel (though its not standard feature and might break compatibility with some readers), but also AVIF and WebM.

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    which one

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at wikipedia.org

    Common meanings

    Pip, colloquial name for the star(s) worn on military uniform as part of rank badge, as in the British Army officer rank insignia or with many Commonwealth police agencies
    The seed of some fruits
    The pyrena, also called a pit or stone, inside some fruits
    Pip (counting), a small but easily countable item, such as the dots on dice or symbols on playing cards
    Pip, a dot on a domino tile, refer Glossary of domino terms
    

    Arts, entertainment and media

    "Pip" (South Park), a 2000 episode of South Park
    The Pips, the backing singers in the musical group Gladys Knight & the Pips
    Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies, an art group
    PiP Animation Services, a Canadian animation studio
    The Pip, the nickname of a clandestine radio station of Russian origin
    BBC Pips or The Pips, a timing signal broadcast by the BBC
    Picture-in-picture, a broadcasting format
    

    Finance and management

    Percentage in point, a currency exchange rate fluctuation
    Performance improvement plan, a management technique
    Personal Independence Payment, a welfare benefit in the United Kingdom
    Personal injury protection, a type of car insurance
    Policy-ineffectiveness proposition, an economic theory
    

    People

    Pip, diminutive of Philip or Philippa
    Pip (nickname), a list of people with the nickname
    Pip (musician) (born 1992), contestant on Season 2 of NBC's TV show The Voice
    Pip Devonshire (born 1966), New Zealand weaver
    Pip Millett, English musician Georgia Willacy
    Pip Simmonds, New Zealand freestyle skier
    Scroobius Pip (born 1981), alias of rapper David Meads
    Josef Priller (1915–1961), German fighter ace nicknamed "Pips"
    

    Fictional characters

    Pip (Great Expectations), Philip Pirrip from the Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations
    Pip Pirrup, a student at South Park Elementary in South Park
    Pip (Moby-Dick character)
    Peregrin Took, (Pippin) in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy The Lord of the Rings
    Pip, a major character in The Railway Series of books
    Pip, in the British newspaper strip cartoon Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
    Pip (Chrono Cross)
    Pip the Troll, a Marvel Comics character
    Pip, in the Grailquest gamebook series
    Pip Bernadotte, in the manga Hellsing
    Pip, an Animaniacs character
    Pip, in the Nickelodeon animated show Back at the Barnyard
    Pip, a nickname of Chiana, in the Australian television series Farscape
    Pip, in the film The Halloween Tree
    Pip, a persona featured on the Tori Amos album American Doll Posse
    Pips, a fictional fairy in the animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest and its sequel
    Pip, an animated chipmunk in the Disney live-action/animated film Enchanted
    Pip, an otter in the television series Bear in the Big Blue House
    Pip the Penguin, in the animated series T.O.T.S.
    Pip, from The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "A Nice Place to Visit"
    Pip Fitz-Amobi, the main character of A Good Girls Guide to Murder
    

    Schools

    Pakistan International Public School and College (PIPS), a private residential school in Abbottabad, Pakistan
    Pakistan Institute of Physics, a physics research institute of the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in Pakistan
    

    Politics and government

    Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services, a Pakistani government institution
    Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, a Pakistani non-governmental organization
    Police information point, a kiosk run by British police
    Peruvian Investigative Police, a plainclothes police unit
    Puerto Rican Independence Party, a political party
    Personal Independence Payment, a British welfare benefit
    

    Science and technology

    Greenwich Time Signal, popularly known as the pips
    Predicted impact point, the location at which a projectile is expected to strike
    Profile ignition pickup, a term in automotive technology
    Proper indecomposable past set, a causal relation in a Lorentzian manifold
    Picture-in-picture, a video stream playing within an inset window of a TV or device screen
    

    Biology and medicine

    Peak inspiratory pressure (PIP), in mechanical ventilation
    Plasma membrane intrinsic protein, a class of plant aquaporins
    Poly Implant Prothèse, a former French breast implants manufacturer
    Polymerization induced phase separation
    Prolactin-induced protein, a protein in humans
    Proximal interphalangeal joints, interphalangeal joints of the hand
    Pairwise-invasibility plot in evolutionary invasion analysis
    Psychosis-intermittent hyponatremia-polydipsia (PIP) syndrome
    Pug impression pad, an object used for the census of tigers
    

    Computing

    Peripheral Interchange Program, a DEC and CP/M file transfer utility
    Point in polygon, a concept in computational geometry
    Policy Information Point, in eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
    Private Internet Protocol
    pip (package manager), a Python package installer
    P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian, known as P.I.P.S.
    Precision Time Protocol Industry Profile, an IEC 62439-3 standard
    

    Other uses

    Battle of the Pips, an incident in World War II
    Palisades Interstate Parkway, a highway in New York and New Jersey, United States
    Pip Cliffs, Graham Land, Antarctica
    IATA code for Pilot Point Airport, Pilot Point, Alaska, United States
    Pips, a logic puzzle in The New York Times Games
    Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate, also known as PI(3)P
    Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate, also known as PI(4)P
    Phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate, also known as PI(5)P
    The Pip-Boy, a wrist computer in the Fallout video games
    
    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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      What is wrong with the bottom of her face? I didn’t know, I can’t put my finger on it. Like it’s out of proportion. Someone fucked with her character creation sliders too much and said “fuck it, ship it! We’ll fix it in post.”

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      I know this is the sad reality at most companies but when I put someone on a PIP I 100% expect them to improve and recover from whatever got them in the PIP.

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        Guarantee you there’s a non zero chance you are the reason for their pip.

        I’ve been a cpo, a cdo, a head of design, a design mgr and an individual contributor. The sad reality is that rarely has a pip corrected anything and mostly it is used to push out individuals… individuals that often contribute great things.

        You work with people you want to succeed… others throw them to the wolves and it’s called a pip.

        I’d love to hear the situation that describes otherwise?

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    Cant wait to see this. She’s terrifying and Fielder is imho the perfect foil to interview her.

    Its weird cuz she just ripped off a bunch of rich people, I dont really have any reason to hate her really but she’s sort of emblematic of what is problematic of startup and tech culture and in a sense identify culture where being the first ___ founder/CEO or one of few ____ founders/CEOs/whatever is part of the pitch.

    In a better world it would never have entered the equation much less overshadowed the actual lack of viable product/IP. How did no blood scientist/dr/expert not easily point out their premise was fatally flawed in a way that doomed the whole exercise, both internally and publicly?

    There were some after the fact and it was exposed who were casually like "ya, the blood available from a pinprick to the finger doesnt suffice for the grand vision Theranos was sold as and predicated upon

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      she just ripped off a bunch of rich people

      Her company was sinking its teeth into the medical field though. That could’ve killed people if they weren’t found out soon enough.

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        How was it gonna get FDA-approved tho? Im sure its happened before in the past but i wonder what the plan was for that

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          Under Trump’s FDA, she could just make a “donation” and it would be approved. Don’t kid yourself that these institutions are— or ever were —sacrosanct.

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          I’m not sure what they were doing needed FDA approval since it was a blood test and not something that actually goes into or touches a patient. Though I’m not expert on medical regulations so thats just a guess.

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          They were using an actual proper machine made by a competitor i thought? Like wasnt their flagship Edison thingy just a competing actually developed medical device?

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      How did no blood scientist/dr/expert not easily point out their premise was fatally flawed?

      They did. Every expert out there pointed out it’s impossible.

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        I remember one former employee posted on reddit without naming the company, saying everything they were claiming was bs. A little later the scandal blew up and it was confirmed the guy worked for Theranos.

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      The most depressing thing about this entire ordeal is that the woman stole lots of money, got busted because that money belonged to rich people, and is now after having been convicted and literally been to prison as far as i know, able to cash in on that further. Lets make a movie about that wonderful successful scammer.

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        I think there’s a law in the states that criminals can’t profit from the story of their crime. If I remember correctly, the money that would have gone to the criminal goes to restitution for the victims.

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          Assuming that is indeed the case, she still benefits considerably: she gets to stay relevant, develop celebrity, change or affect the public opinion on her. A normal criminal cant even get a job cleaning toilets sometimes.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      I would imagine in many cases for images uploaded to an image host, the host is automatically changing the actual format of the image (this happens to me on some sites tho it is pretty rare in 2026). Or it was saved by someone who took a screenshot of the image instead of saving the actual image.

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      Why do PNG images with alpha transparencies exists?

      Because when put on a background gif transparencies look dithered since gif transparencies are either on or off. There are no 50% or any other partial opacities.

      If you are using gifs for like moving pixel art, that’s great but if a designer wants a realistic still images with moving clouds in the background, PNG would be a way better option.

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        Yeah, it’s just the thumbnail or whatever for the real image that truly has transparency. If anything, you should be angry at the search engine for even displaying this as a result when you select that you’re querying for images with transparency.