I cant find the clip online, but i seem to remember a scene in ‘Lucy’ where she, while on an airplane, pulls out two laptops and uses them both, one with each hand, to do some tech magic.

Do you also get flushed in the face? Seems like some kind of alcohol intolerance. Theres a gene thats common in east asians that can cause this. A vietnamese friend of mine has a similar reaction when he drinks.

On an existential level, a cosmic blip of conciousness inhabiting a stinky primate. Totally insignificant on the grand scale, but also my own personal god. Ultimately, my experience begins and ends with me, so who else but myself should I seek to please? Dont get me wrong, I’m not a sociopath, one of my many joys in life (for which I feel incredibly fortunate) is being kind and loving to my friends and family, helping others to succeed in their goals and being a positive influence in general.

I also beleive us to be in a deterministic universe, so you might call one a “perfect version” of themselves, in that they are exactly where they always would have been.

Was gonna say, nobody took shit, lol

So great on laundry day

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Totally agreed on the Frutiger style, with Sharper Image being the pure, distilled form of it.

Mars Express - Really enjoyed this one. Like Scavengars Reign and Blade Runner had a baby.

Manjummel Boys - Almost lost me with some corny intro stuff, but it picked up quickly after that and turned out really enjoyable.

Boy Kills World - I read “action movie fever dream” in the description and went for it. Story is a bit flat (it was based on a short film, so whatever) but the fights were pretty awesome, with equally awesome cringe-worthy gore (if you’re into that)

Civil War - I really appreciated the level of ambiguity in the movie, as it forced me to focus on the experience of the people in the story. Ultimately it doesnt really matter who the bad guys are, war is hell.

When i think about the “purpose” of a library, I think of it as a place where people can go to learn and be entertained free of charge. If a particular book doesn’t teach anything valuable, nor is it entertaining, I can’t think of any reason why a library should waste its space on it. Thats not to say knowledge shouldnt be saved for future generations, but thats what an archive is for.

I know they havent said what the punishments would be for non-compliance (Fines? Witholding of public services?), but without jail time attached to it, that just tells me the rich folks are gonna pay their way out (as usual), and those without the means are stuck getting totally-not-drafted.

I’ve been using Ground News for the last six months or so and quite like it. It does seem like you may have a misunderstanding of how it works though. Ground News is not, in itself, a “news outlet”, nor does it generate articles, its an aggregator. When viewing a story there is an AI generated summary of all of the articles related to that story, but its generally no more than 3-5 bullet points, and certainly not enough information to form an opinion (nor is it intended to be). The user should read several of the articles and form their own opinion based on that. Further, their bias and factuality gauges use data thats averaged from external organizations, so again, not generated by Ground News itself. They lay it out here:

https://ground.news/rating-system

I hate how long it took me to find the title of the movie, its called “The Substance” for everyone else.

I’ve come to realize that everyone is a product of their environment, in both setting and the human body that your conciousness resides in. You might be saying, “duh, you big dumb idiot”, but after REALLY absorbing the concept, I came to realize that people only ever do what they’re “programmed” to do. Its really helped me exercise empathy and reduce my level of frustration towards the people I encounter as I go through life. It’s also helped me be more introspective and suss out the origins of my own behaviors and ways of thinking.

Could you fill me in as to why Brave is only advertiaed as secure? I understand the ads/crypto thing, but if you arent opted into that and just block the ads, is there anythimg else? I also understand its a Chromium browser, but that doesnt mean google has their hooks in it (necessarily).

Laura Linney playing Wendy Byrde in Ozark, and Pablo Shreiber playing Sean Hauser in Law and Order SVU.

Nailed it, haha

The real question in my mind is who’s doing the soundtrack?

Bummer…

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He’s a caricature of himself at this point, making it next to impossible to take him seriously in a role like that.