Some vague stories around my grandfather before they migrated that sound like a godfather film but which no one knitted anything about.
Yea, let’s get the “puppet cut”!
It was clearly a fuck up, and the film is almost lucky to have been so good in almost every other aspect that we can forgive the ash synth CGI.
It would be really cool if someone just put the work in to clean it up for a blue ray release or something, just for the fans and the franchise, which is going on 45 yrs now, as old as Star Wars.
Ha. Oops! I got the vibe that the conversation had become more general. But also I’m genuinely tired and tired and not wearing my glasses. Sorry!
Electric guitar and the quality of digital amplification. Takes all the pain, inconvenience and expenses of the traditional amp as a PA system away while letting you sound good. Really awesome TBH.
Maybe, I’m not in the US, so I’m not sure. Time and date dot com C (see link in post) says CT is no different from CDT, so I figured it was convenient. But I’m going there’s a more commonly used Timezone that would be better?
Yea I agree, a simpler approach could have been taken. Though I don’t think any of the film’s fan service was intended to be subtle.
I personally liked the appearance of an Ash type synth. I think it adds weight to the sense of synchronicity of Romulus and Alien 1. Shame about the execution of it and the focus they put on it, of course.
Yea, absolutely. Just as the Omicron variant broke out, I came to the conclusion that we had basically added a new virus on top of Influenza. One that was generally worse and not at all seasonal like Influenza. And that the net effect was and is humanity's global prosperity taking an easily measurable hit. Before Omicron, IMO, there was hope that we could beat it.
The way Omicron happened and the way we responded (IE "didn't you know the pandemic is over!") made it pretty clear what people's attitudes were. The only thing that really got us through the pandemic was bio-medical scientists nailing their job, and it will be the only thing that will help us, and as much cause for celebration that is, the dark side is that hyper-individualism has prevented any other faculties to help out in the mean time (or, as I said above, prevent us from going down a darker path).
I formative experience for me was that amongst my internet COVID bubble (mostly a particular sub-reddit) I was the first to hear about Omicron and share news about its many mutations (this was before it really spread anyway and just when the first analysis of its genome came out). The response from people, who were generally concerned enough about the pandemic to be on a sub-reddit about it, was entirely dismissive. "Fear mongering", "viruses evolve toward being less severe" ... etc ... were the universal and popular response. All when it was black and white as anything ... more mutations meant more immune escape, just like with influenza from year to year.
But no one wanted to hear that. They were all done with the lockdowns and panic and had subscribed, essentially religiously, to the "promised coming of the end of the pandemic". And then the variant turned out to have plenty of immune escape, spread like wildfire, and in my area cause the greatest spate of deaths in the whole fucking pandemic. Now it's probably fair to say that it was the second pandemic and we welcomed it with arms wide open (all variants since are direct descendants of omicron, AFAIU, and omicron itself was not descended from any of the other variants around at the time but a separate branch from or near the original strain).
How dumb it all is. Seriously. The highly regimented structure of curricula and examination is a shitty way to learn. It’s optimised for making teaching and grading easier. And also teaching young people to be obedient facile production line workers.
But intellectually and academically, it always seemed obviously bad and boring to me. And I’ve since gotten to understand a number of academic topics relatively well to know how true this is. Proper understanding, intellectually, and skill in application, are things that are far more organic and purpose driven than the shitty curricula that pencil pushing educators spit out as though the human mind were an excel spread sheet.
The 5 year mark of the pandemic is just around the corner now. And it’s interesting to reflect on how well things are going compared to early forecasts.
My memory is that 3-5 years was put out there as the likely longest horizon for the pandemic. Objectively, it’s seems pretty clear that it has not gone away at all and that any progress on actually reducing its prevalence is either speculative (eg new nasal vaccines) or ”unacceptable” civil or infrastructural measures (masks, remote work, air filters etc).
All of which is basically a failure.
Another way of cutting it though might be to view the Omicron variant as a second pandemic that is proving generally worse than the first in part because it’s catching us at our most indifferent.
I feel like there was a point there where a good vaccine roll out could have contained the delta or preceding variants. Which to me only highlights how all of the civil measures we were taking and could have taken were not just about maximising health at that time but also about preventing us from going down a darker path of no return which seems to be where we are now. If global measures were taken to limit the spread of the virus and so prevent its evolution, I’d wonder how good of a chance there’d be that a vaccine could then have quashed the virus.
As someone who has worked in science, this passes the sniff test.
That is, science isn’t perfect, at all and is a constant process. Trying to win an argument by “citing the science” is often unscientific, however problematic it is that this can be leveraged by unscientific folks pushing an agenda.
IMO, app developers in general are lacking imagination or ambition over ideas like this. I’ve even suggested it directly to a developer or a popular mastodon app, who was entertaining the idea of making a lemmy app … and they said they couldn’t see how it would work.
Fucking lol!