Weird how Visa and PayPal didnt cut off payment processing to Google over porn. Weird how Itch.io, a company thats like 1 millionth the size of Alphabet, was able to take down and begin fixing their online store within a day. If only Google had put some of their thousands of "engineers" to work on this problem instead of sending hundreds of lawyers to try and make it go away.
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Ooh, I like this idea! I've always found physics (espeicsly cosmology) to have a few too many handwaves around some pretty odd ideas. Renormalization for one. The rapid inflationary model for another. It's just a silly suggestion. "The big bang happened, but then the universe expanded super fast for no reason before it slowed way down also for no reason. Inflatons maybe?"
An emergent model based in interactions of known forces would seen much more sensible to me.
Did you change hosts? The last couple of posts aren't loading for me, and now they all stopped. Can't get them to load over any VPN endpoints either.
Slowly sliding a switch labeled "Dubstep" towards on and checking the crowd reaction at each step like a DJ at a corporate event.
Other than what everyone else has said (great taste in film, lemmings) I'll throw out...
In the Mouth of Madness. People tend to rank The Thing as his best movie, but the other two parts of the "Apocalypse Trilogy" are also excellent. Prince of Darkness has plenty to reccomend it, but I actually have watched IMM at least 10 times. The practical effects hold up well, and I feel like I catch new little details or acting quirks on each watch. Sam Neill and Julie Carmen are both really on their game and amazingly bring a lot of both subtlety and camp to the roles. The soundtrack is really banging too, if you're a fan of Carpenter's synth-rock.
And for something completely different, but still an "at least 10 views" favorite: Rian Johnson's Brick. You'll probably need at least 2 viewings just to catch all the dialogue, which is very fast and uses a weird made up slang. The main victim makes a phone call in the first act that basically reveals everything if you understand what she's saying, but it takes the whole movie for that to happen. It's just a fun, good mystery story too. Great sense of style, great (slightly off kilter) acting choices all around. Its one of those movies that's a little like poetry or a great album, just fun to watch and enjoy for itself.
Yeah, its been pretty disgusting watching the worst people in the state working overtime to fuck up society. We've been trying to get folks in our friend and activist circles to attend these meetings in person when we can do it. But obviously they schedule them at random times, cancel discussion when too many people are there, don't announce reschedules, and so on. It's scummy, antidemocratic tactics and I'm not sure what we're supposed to do to counter them.
If you understand this meme, it's probably time to schedule a prostate or mammory exam. Early detection saves money and lives.
And now folks, realize that this is true of every single thing that humans think about.
You put a duck and a sparrow side by side and maybe it seems obvious that, while not the same, these two things have something deeply in common. But most people have never considered them in one thought. When you get into abstract ideas like "freedom" or "socialism" is it any surprise that most people can't even recognize them, let alone agree on any commonalities?
You spend all day arranging dogs next to bears going "do you see how these are both canine-form mammals?" and the public is watching a tiktok while dismissing you going "Uh bears aren't pets, what a dumbass!"
It's sad how deeply right wing people believe in magic words. They're convinced that if they just had the power to say this word in public, that would also reverse everything else. If they could just call their boss or landlord or a cop the N-word, suddenly, they wouldn't have to work or pay rent or be arrested anymore!
I mean Yarvin doesn't think that. He thinks rich assholes should be able to say anything, and invent new slurs for varying levels of poorness.
They do all seem to have forgotten that slurs don't make you fire or bullet proof.
It does really irritate me though, like who the fuck are they even mad about to say that specifically the Black billionaires are the ones causing me harm? Like, don't twist it, there's no such thing as a good rich person, but Beyonce is minimally responsible for anyone's current plight. Jay-Z funds terrible things but he's not a Koch, a Trump, the head of an oil company, etc.
My LinkedIn account (the stupid feifdom I need access to for job searching in my ridiculous field, you know?) locked me out for a similar reason (crime: using Firefox and a VPN to access M$ protected and owned data!)
There is no appeal process. No contact info. No way to even ask for help. Just... Hey sorry you did a thing or whatever, your account has been permanently locked.
I've fully divested from MS except for work devices provided by my employer. I won't use any MS products again, I've been putting up with degrees of this for years but in the last year MS has fully fallen off a cliff in terms of customer concern.
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Energy efficiency program killed; advocates say Louisianans will pay the price.
(floodlightnews.org)
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Energy efficiency program killed; advocates say Louisianans will pay the price.
(floodlightnews.org)
Hey folks! This Friday (y'all that's already tomorrow where does time go?! 😭) is Krewe Boheme's parade! Make yourself a Valentine's date to come out and see us! Catch a hand made throw, check out our cool costumes, and dance along to our amazing band, the Revel Force!
Here's the route (the news sites and trackers have been showing an outdated route):
And! Our ball is open to the public this year, and we got ABBA heavy metal cover band BAAB playing for us! Tickets to the ball are a little pricy but it's going to be a fun time, come join in!
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Seems I've been dup'd