Unpopular Opinion: Billy Madison was his first and last good comedy movie.
Sure, Jan.
Yarrrr mateys, private torrent trackers don't have an age-gate!
There's definitely a handful of private porn torrent trackers.
Then you don't have to hit an age gate anymore because it's safely stored on your own hard drives.
Oh good, so that means we can just replace the C-suite with LLMs then, right? Right?
An AI won't need a Golden Parachute when they inevitably fuck it all up.
Interesting talk but the number of times he completely dismisses the entire field of linguistics kind of makes me think he's being disingenuous about his familiarity with it.
For one, I think he is dismissing holotes, the concept of "wholeness." That when you cut something apart to it's individual parts, you lose something about the bigger picture. This deconstruction of language misses the larger picture of the human body as a whole, and how every part of us, from our assemblage of organs down to our DNA, impact how we interact with and understand the world. He may have a great definition of understanding but it still sounds (to me) like it's potentially missing aspects of human/animal biologically based understanding.
For example, I have cancer, and about six months before I was diagnosed, I had begun to get more chronically depressed than usual. I felt hopeless and I didn't know why. Surprisingly, that's actually a symptom of my cancer. What understanding did I have that changed how I felt inside and how I understood the things around me? Suddenly I felt different about words and ideas, but nothing had changed externally, something had change internally. The connections in my neural network had adjusted, the feelings and associations with words and ideas was different, but I hadn't done anything to make that adjustment. No learning or understanding had happened. I had a mutation in my DNA that made that adjustment for me.
Further, I think he's deeply misunderstanding (possibly intentionally?) what linguists like Chomsky are saying when they say humans are born with language. They mean that we are born with a genetic blueprint to understand language. Just like animals are born with a genetic blueprint to do things they were never trained to do. Many animals are born and almost immediately stand up to walk. This is the same principle. There are innate biologically ingrained understandings that help us along the path to understanding. It does not mean we are born understanding language as much as we are born with the building blocks of understanding the physical world in which we exist.
Anyway, interesting talk, but I immediately am skeptical of anyone who wholly dismisses an entire field of thought so casually.
For what it's worth, I didn't downvote you and I'm sorry people are doing so.
It's a bit of an overused concept now, yeah.
That's because they aren't "aware" of anything.
Courts worldwide gotta get their shit together and get faster this is a joke.
Accidents still happen.
Foodles production company faced sentence today at Aylesbury Crown Court after previously pleading guilty to two counts of breaching its health and safety duties. A court had formerly been told that Ford could have been killed in the incident while filming at Pinewood Studios in London.
Such accidents are even more deadly for the elderly.
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The Legend of the Red Dragon / New Legend of Shaolin (1994) - Move over Kung Fu Hustle!
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
EDIT: FULL ENGLISH DUB ON YOUTUBE!
Whatever you do, find the English Dub.
Do not get the subtitled version. I know this is the opposite of what you usually want for a foreign film, but trust me on this one.
The English Dub for this film is absolutely unhinged and great.
I've been trying to find a list of the English voice actors for a very long time because I swear I recognize several voices from my Saturday morning cartoons in the 90's. (Most notably one of the young Shaolin boys that Hung Man Ting befriends)
Starring:
- Jet Li as Hung Hei Kwun
- Miao Xie as Hung Man Ting
- Chingmy Yau as Red Bean
- Deannie Ip as Red Bean's Mother
- Sung-Young Chen as Ma Kai-Sin
- Chunhua Ji as Ma Ling-Yee
- Damian Lau as Chan Kan-Nam
- Lung-Wei Wang as Commander
- Chu-Ko Liang as the Wax Sculptor
Ten years before Kung Fu Hustle, Jet Li starred in this comedic action film which sports a lot of elements of what you might call a "Live Action Anime."
As shown in the animated GIF above, the film starts off on full-blast with a Shaolin plus a baby fight. (and of course catbox.moe is down so the GIF isn't loading now, d'oh!)
This would be the first of two films Jet Li would star alongside Miao Xie as a father/son fighting duo, followed by My Father is a Hero / The Enforcer (1995). The Enforcer is a much more serious film than New Legend of Shaolin, and in my opinion New Legend of Shaolin is just a way more fun film.
The entire film really feels cartoony and over-the-top. Every step of the way it gets weirder until it results in an absolutely insane climax and ending.
"Those young women were my property!" vibes.
He just keeps digging the hole deeper... for anyone with a brain.