Hahaha amazing

Whaaat what is that it’s so cool

You understood the joke! Alright! Nice.

Laptops, cuz I like to travel a lot and…4 years later now, I can still play the new games or go back to the old ones whenever I want to.

It’s very convenient.

If I was in one place, I’d probably get a PC just cuz it’s usually cheaper for the same hardware.

But I love traveling and I don’t love extra possessions! And I love playing games now and then.

That is the coolest pride flag I’ve ever seen. I want to find out more about the images behind each color.

That’s so cool!

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Uh, yeah it’s the same president.

It’s only been 8 months.

So you’re like, super uninformed?

Guess your little inaccurate tantrum bears that out.

Just to blast apart your irrelevances there, 1) Biden admitted that he was wrong about the babies as soon as he found out he was wrong about the babies due to faulty intelligence. 2) With complete non-involvement from the US, israel has enough other allies and stockpiled ammunitions to have started and continue this genocide for years(as they have been doing for the last half century); the fact that you don’t know this bears out your ignorance and renders your plaintive cries immaterial.

I know you feel safe on the bandwagon, but you might want to read a little before you start making things up.

The MOVIE!?!!

Goddammit

I do. They are delivering hundreds of tons of aid, even if netanyahu and the IDF are being real pieces of s*** about letting it get delivered.

It helps biden’s image, but to call it a “public relations distraction at best” is absurdly narrow-minded and dismissive.

Finally. Mic muting needed to be implemented decades ago. The unruly assholes who keep talking past their time going back years is why I never watch debates.

That and because it’s mostly fluffy b******* answers.

I’ve got a good “old” for you.

I was rereading an Animorphs novel and they made a South Park marathon reference, and I was like oh this must be the 2009 re-released version were they updated cultural references if they’re tagging South Park.

Then I checked: the animorphs book came out in '99, but South Park actually premiered in 1997.

That one hit pretty hard haha.

Oh, nice. I actually saw it in the theater I think a couple years ago or something for the 25th anniversary?

It was pretty great on the big screen. It’s so quotable though, that I remembered pretty much every single line and frame even though I haven’t seen it in years.

It’s too good. I’m going to have to wait like 15 years before I try watching it again.

Eczema medication costs a few cents to produce, you can get it for a few bucks in almost every country, but the patents in the US and the weakened regulatory system due to corporate pharmaceutical lobbying means that the patent holders can charge whatever they want and until healthcare reform occurs or unless a specific law is passed, like with insulin, US shoppers will keep paying literally any price the patent holders and their subsidiaries pull from the top of their heads and write down on your bill.

Undoubtedly.

One of the main characters has dubbed over his entire lines in post, so for the entire 2 hours of the movie, anytime he talks it sounds insane and fake.

Most actors deliver their lines with the energy of a faint sigh.

The “special effects” are live action Batman level. Like a generation behind the first X-Men movie back in 2001 or whatever that was?

The plot is absurd. There’s no reason for any of what is happening to be happening, and the choices that the characters make over and over are not just horror movie don’t go in that door, they’re straight up nonsensical while not driving forward the plot at all.

Other than rubbernecking at the train crash this is, which is what I did, there is no redeeming quality to this film. I literally can’t think of a single moment…except when I was sort of convinced that Sydney Sweeney was a young teenager instead of like 30, so that costuming was pretty impressive.

Oh she’s only 26 though, okay.

Still, the insignificant trial of making a 26-year old look like someone’s teenage daughter was the most impressive part of this movie, and it is more of a brief curio than an interest.

The dialogue and general screenwriting is unbelievable, as in not believable. I can’t believe it exists.

Sony should not have released this movie.

I’m genuinely baffled as to why they did, unless they needed a couple million back on their investment and are willing to take such a huge critical and commercial loss for that couple million bucks that they can spend on future projects?

Baffled.

I mostly agree, although this particular case was my ignorance showing.

I’ve never noticed before that economist articles don’t list their authors.

The economist uniquely states on their website that they deliberately don’t post the author s for their articles because many of them are collaborative and they think that the content of the article should be more important than who wrote it.

Which in most cases is a very admirable mission statement, but can obviously be frustrating in cases like this where you want to hold a party responsible and the only recourse is to wait for a possible internal investigation by the new source themselves.

There are obviously a lot of pros and cons there, and I’m not. Convinced that the cons outweigh the pros, but at least they aren’t deliberately hiding this specific author. The economist authors publish from anonymity as a matter of course.

Infinity pool 2023, very good movie. Super creepy and disturbing and goes way beyond what I thought it was going to. Definitely my favorite me a Goth performance, she finally is using her real British accent, which after watching x and Pearl, seems fake. Movie is great, very creative and original the further along it gets.

East of Eden 1955, James Dean’s second movie. Really good, lots of great themes and speeches and great actors.

How to build a time machine 2018 - an interesting BBC doc about time travel and the scientists working today on it, including some dude who built like a Time Crystal? Which is a real thing, or at least a theoretical thing with a prototype that I never heard about that I don’t understand because I wasn’t paying close enough attention. I feel kind of bad about that.

Barbarella 1968 - real dumb, but the ideas in it are interesting as long as Jane Fonda and everybody was in on the sexploitation joke, which I think they were. Edgar wright is in talks to make a new one with Sydney Sweeney.

Madame web 2024 - oh NO! This movie is literally unbelievably bad. The acting is terrible, the story is ridiculous, 8,000 hours long… I don’t think I have anything good to say about this movie. It was cinematically shocking like watching a train wreck live.

Right to try 2021 - Short documentary about a guy trying an experimental AIDS treatment that was not approved by anybody by this scam doctor who got in trouble later. But apparently the treatment worked for a while. Anecdotally? I can’t remember now.

Sin eater the crimes of Anthony pellicano - interesting doc about a Hollywood fixer who was a total creepy asshole but believes he was like a stand-up guy who just solved problems.

No they didn’t, and this wasn’t true the last time this single uncontrolled study about a single patient was reported on.

This took years of non-controlled trial and error weaning the single patient off of a medication without defining a specific undisputable treatment and has not been followed up by any corroborating controlled studies repeating the treatment on many more patients.

Again, a single patient.

I’m glad this guy doesn’t need to take insulin anymore, but a single momentary anomaly does not a cure make.

Makes sense to try to blitz oil sales as much as possible before renewables, commercial EVS and battery tech holistically tank commercial oil prices.

Now that the US has committed to sustainable energy and battery tech and renewables are advancing so rapidly, there’s no reason for them not to diversify.

I’ll be interested to know when the details come out if there is some sweetening of the deal coming from China though, given their economic slump and how this deal lapsing is going to affect the USD and RMB.

Actually, does anyone know any concrete details about this deal or any further context?

I would be fine with that, and the economist has lots of great international articles, but my concern is with this article in particular.

They are very clearly starting from multiple false premises with zero direct evidence to back them up, and then book-reporting on piecemeal unrelated content in the article.

It’s inaccurate and misrepresentative reporting of a straightforward and well-documented tech struggle.

Oh, okay. Thanks.

https://medium.economist.com/why-are-the-economists-writers-anonymous-8f573745631d

I actually like that reasoning, that what is written is more important than who wrote it.

This article is so poorly written and reasoned that I was curious, though.