MossyFeathers

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

Mhm, as a former projectionist I can confirm that those files average 200~300gb.

Why would they sell them? Cinemaphiles. Your average person won't spend $200 on a 500gb drive containing The Room, but a hardcore cinemaphile might. My boss at the theater I was working at was the kinda person who would have bought that. Well, maybe not The Room, but he probably would have spent the money for something like The Godfather trilogy.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It'd probably, unironically be legal for CAH to go in there, literally guns blazing and kill anyone who stepped onto their property. Texas has some very, very broad stand-your-ground laws that allow property owners to shoot people running away from them.

That is to say that Musk could be in a hell of a lot of trouble for the danger he's putting his workers in if you take that into consideration.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You know what, fuck it. I'm putting this on my list of movies to watch. Mainly because I just can't see movie gore as being that shocking or horrifying after the nightmares I had when I first started taking pristiq (they eventually went away, but they severely downplay how bad they can be). I'm curious if it's bad enough to actually shock me.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 11 points 11 months ago

I think 80% of the world would look up, go "huh. Well, anyway..."

The remaining 20% would be split at either side of the spectrum, with 10% on one side freaking out and trying to whip the 80% into a frenzy, while the last 10% would be a mix of, "PLEASE TAKE ME WITH YOU DON'T LEAVE ME HERE PLEASE", "HnnnnnnNNNGGG IM COOOOOOMING", and "Why do we all have to wear these ridiculous ties?"

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

It has a practically infinite set of images. Seriously, I've seen people do geoguesser and get nothing but back roads in the middle of basically Anywhere, Earth; I've seen people get stuck inside malls, go into caves, walk down random-ass rabbit trails in the middle of a forest surrounded by miles of fucking nothing (I wish I could remember what video I saw that in, it was fucking insane). Geoguesser pulls from the full catalog of Google Street view images, and there are a lot of street view images.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm also into BDSM!

Big

Dragons

Smooching

Me!

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I know, I'm kinda complaining by illustrating how difficult it is to get official movie files nowadays; especially if you want lossless, master-quality files.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don't expect a scientific article to be understandable for someone outside the field, but do yourself the disfavour and ask a random scientist, what it is they're actually doing and to explain it in simple terms. Most can't. And that says to me, that these people never learned (or were taught) how to actually boil a concept down to its essence. And that I think is pretty bad.

As an example, two scientists from different fields could work on almost the same problem from different angles, but they would never know that if they talked to each other, because they are unable to express their work in a way the other person can understand.

This is why I believe scientists should be required to take liberal arts classes; especially related to written and spoken language. Trying to read a scientific paper as an outsider is painfully hard because you're trying to understand what the Big Words are trying to say, but then the paper also takes a borderline meandering path that loops back on itself or has sections that mean nothing, leaving you (or at least, me) confused. Like, c'mon man, I'm trying to understand what you're saying, but your narrative is more convoluted than House of Leaves.

How can you expect to truly make a breakthrough in science if you struggle to accurately and precisely convey your ideas to your peers? Study the great writers so your papers can have great writing and results.

If it helps, try doing it from a scientific perspective - as if you're studying a brand new creature or property of physics - and make notes on things like,

How the author expresses their ideas.

Was the author easily understandable?

What, if anything, made it easier or harder for you to understand what was written?

What elements made the writing more precise, concise and/or accurate to what the author was trying to convey (using outside sources)?

...and so forth.

(And yes, I also think liberal arts students should be required to take some level of hard STEM classes (not watered-down "libarts-compatible" stuff, but actual physics, chemistry, biology, etc) as well.)

Edit: you might even end up with a reputation for being more intelligent than you actually are, simply because you're able to convey your ideas significantly better than your peers.

Edit 2: or alternatively, study a programming language until you're decent at it, and then write your papers as if you're trying to explain them to a computer.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 12 points 11 months ago

Dude, Knower is great. You should also check out songs like Time Traveller and Butts Tits Money

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 55 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (17 children)

What is the context for this? I am extremely entertained by the idea that this might be a thing.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Don't even have to watch, I already know what song this is.

Edit: yep. The government knows.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One thing specifically about Irish vs Israeli is that, if I'm not mistaken, Ireland and Israel are not on remotely good terms and haven't been for a while. If the Israeli was a natural-born Israeli citizen they may have truly meant to piss Anon off.

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