The videos, which were published by IS’s news agency Amaq, showed the gunmen filming themselves as they hunted concertgoers through the lobby of the Crocus City Hall and fired at them from pointblank range, killing scores of people. At one point, one of the gunmen tells another to “kill them and have no mercy”....
900 episodes if you go across all series. And then there are the movies.
Come to think of it, even though it’s a sequel to a TOS episode, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan wouldn’t be the worst place to jump on. Pretty much all you need to know about the background is recapped in the movie. Many people (myself included) consider it top tier Star Trek and maybe the best Star Trek movie. It’s sort of a cross between a “submarine” battle in space and Moby Dick.
That was what the original game Monopoly was stolen from was intended for. Monopoly’s lesson is “make as much money as possible, buy as much shit as possible, fuck everyone else over and you win.”
And The Landlord’s Game being plagiarized by capitalists and turned into one of the biggest if not the biggest moneymaking board game of all time is some horrible fucking irony. But not surprising in our society.
Cooperative board games are so much more fun to me. Have you ever played Scotland Yard? All but one of the players work together to catch the one player playing the criminal in a chase over a map of London. It’s one of my all-time favorite game and it’s all about strategy and coordination.
In TOS, the Enterprise encounters Trelaine, the self-titled Squire of Gothos. A seemingly omnipotent being that toys with the crew for his own amusement....
Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...
Hi, that’s me now that everyone has access to a video editor. Even though most of them don’t understand how to use it properly. They don’t think they need people with actual editing skills anymore. I’m 46. The last job I had involved checking designs for quality control issues at a company where mostly businesses ordered a personalized product with their own art on it. It paid nothing. I’m kind of fucked, especially since I’ll now have a gap in my resume because I had to leave to put my daughter through online school. If she stays in online school until she graduates, I’ll be “out of work” for five years. At that point, no one is going to be a video editor anymore. I can’t go back to school when I’m 51!
“Cigarette Girl” likely had sales and customer service skills.
I don’t know about that. They stood with trays of cigarettes in clubs. It’s about as much of a customer service skill as people selling peanuts in the stands at a baseball game.
Babbage had some interesting ideas and produced one machine that was not especially useful. He didn’t even really understand the idea of software. That was Ada Lovelace.
NASA’s “computers” got us to the moon. They literally calculated Apollo 11’s trajectory. They saved the men on Apollo 13 by plotting their directory back home. All with paper and their superior knowledge of mathematics.
They were women and they were black, which is why they were mostly forgotten for many years and why you probably don’t know about them yourself.
Apparently there’s a dolphin that Johnny needs to connect his cybernetic implant to in order to let it decipher the code that will stop the bomb in his brain from exploding.
That should give you an idea of why I walked out even before there was a dolphin involved.
Considering I saw enough of the rest of the movie to know it’s bad, the silly “jack in to a dolphin who can solve a code to stop a bomb in your brain from exploding” plot arc is, to me, a good reason to not have watched the rest.
“We put a bomb in your brain” is stupid enough.
Poor Keanu. He really picked some stinkers for a while.
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Stupid evolution. (lemmy.world)
New Islamic State videos back claim it carried out Moscow concert hall attack (www.theguardian.com)
The videos, which were published by IS’s news agency Amaq, showed the gunmen filming themselves as they hunted concertgoers through the lobby of the Crocus City Hall and fired at them from pointblank range, killing scores of people. At one point, one of the gunmen tells another to “kill them and have no mercy”....
Hello folks, any recs on where to start with star trek?
Capitalism at its most cynical. (monopoly.fandom.com)
Was Trelaine a Q? Let's discuss.
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What did we learn from Covid? (Jen Sorensen) (lemmy.world)
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