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lauren, to random
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SpaceX releases ‘cringeworthy’ Elon Musk staff meeting video at the center of Wall Street Journal drug allegations - https://fortune.com/2024/01/09/spacex-video-wall-street-journal-elon-musk-drugs/

klausfiend,
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@lauren I'm not sure this hefty bag of popcorn and a gallon of whisky is going to be enough to get me through whatever is in that video.

klausfiend,
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@lauren My PCP will either be delighted or apoplectic as a result.

lauren, to twitter
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Don Lemon is reportedly starting a program on /X, and instantly becomes totally irrelevant to me.

klausfiend,
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@lauren ... you mean he was relevant to you before? Lol

lauren, to random
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It wouldn't be accurate to suggest that I'm "obsessed" with seeing videos and films in the correct aspect ratios, but damned I want them to be right! - https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/barry-lyndon-aspect-ratio/

klausfiend,
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@lauren That's an eminently reasonable thing to be obsessed over. The wrong AR can completely alter the experience, especially if it's they resorted to 4:3 and P&S.

lauren, to Youtube
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Well. What can you say about the 1985 film "Weird Science"? Directed by John Hughes, it's arguably the quintessential 1980s "nerds make good" movie, about a pair of, well, nerds, who stumble onto a way to use technology to create the "perfect" woman. Title music by "Oingo Boingo" so yeah, very 80s.

The plot? Oh hell, who cares about the plot details? Either you go with the premise or you don't. It's not rocket science to figure out where this one will end up. Definitely has achieved cult status over the years.

Currently free (probably U.S. only) on Movies & TV. Be careful what you wish for!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW5v9tJ0wnU

klausfiend,
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@lauren Weird Science is fun, but like a few others in Hughes canon, parts of it have NOT aged well, culturally speaking.

vantablack, to random
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female professors at MIT keep loads of plants in their offices to ward off richard stallman

klausfiend,
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@vantablack I remember my first (and last) attempt to contribute to the GNU project started and ended with rms hectoring me via email that I should call it "GNU/Linux" and not "Linux", and completely ignoring the thing I was volunteering to contribute. I gave up trying almost immediately, and never tried again.

I can only imagine what kind of sociopathy he'd have gone into if he'd been born before general-purpose computing.

mekkaokereke, to random
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The T Pain live cover of War Pigs is fire 🔥🔥🔥

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=91ck0vJBygo&t=48m56s

klausfiend,
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@mekkaokereke Well now that was a whole lot of alright! I really dug the stylistic change into a soul song on the last verse, reminded me a bit of Charles Bradley's amazing version of "Changes".

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Nimarata is a beautiful name. It's also Nikki Haley's first name.

Every time racist and xenophobic people in her base see that her name is Nimarata, she loses voters. The name has no impact on non-racist/non-xenophobes.

Her performing anti-Blackness and transphobia to try to win the presidential seat, or help Trump get elected and win the Vice Presidential seat, is bad.

Not bringing up the name Nimarata, helps her maintain the white supremacists in her coalition. That is what I don't want.

klausfiend,
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@NoBeerToday @Dubhes @cohomologyisFUN @mekkaokereke I have a friend who, years ago, gave me the metaphor: "you're feeding the alligator, thinking it'll eat you last". It never works out that way. A lot of folks in groups like the Proud Boys think they're not gonna be next against the wall.

klausfiend,
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@NoBeerToday @Dubhes @cohomologyisFUN @mekkaokereke Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro have apparently picked today to offer an object lesson in how little loyalty there is in America's fascist Right.

mekkaokereke, to random
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After watching Rebel Moon, my respect for George Lucas as a writer and world builder doubled. Maybe tripled.

I'm pretty sure that it's illegal to take that much acting talent and VFX budget, and produce waves hands in exasperation that with it. A crime against my eyeballs. Don't get me wrong, the visuals were pretty, and you could see the actors doing their best to try to make something happen... But no.

Now I need to go rewatch Rogue One and Andor, just to rinse that mess from my mind.

klausfiend,
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@chris @mekkaokereke They're what happen when you throw Oscar-worthy talent at the Star Wars universe. The Gilroys have a pretty good track record elsewhere, too.

lauren, to random
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BREAKING: Trump insists he's never read "Mein Kampf". (But apparently didn't say anything about audiobooks and movies). Actually, I don't have difficulty with the idea of Trump never having read it. It's not written at a third grade reading level, after all.

klausfiend,
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@lauren There was an illustrated edition for a hot second, and it included a free pack of crayons. Sadly, they were all white.

klausfiend,
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@lauren That's the thing about these folks: none lead you off the cliff as a first step. It's always where things are headed, but radicalization and acclimation come first. No one joined Jim Jones to die from poison in a barren field in South America. But once that was on the table, even the unwilling were too bought in to escape. IMO, the first step of radicalization is lying on the monster's behalf; if you can do that, you can do anything.

lauren, to random
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BREAKING: Civil rights groups sue Texas over new state immigration law.

klausfiend,
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@lauren Gonna be "interesting" to see what kind of gymnastics the conservatives on SCOTUS will engage in to make the TX immigration laws stand while tossing the CO election ruling, all in the name of "states' rights". </s>

carnage4life, to random
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Performance review season brings with it the excitement of potentially being promoted. No one tells you about this part.

klausfiend,
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@carnage4life Ugh, I have a 3 point item on my current sprint that was totally untouched because I just went to meetings.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Something you can't unsee once you see it:

The Harvard alumns making the loudest noise about "Fair admissions" and not "lowering the standards..." are legacy admission babies. 🙂🙃

Wake me up when they start campaigning against legacy admissions.

For people outside the US: legacy admissions is where Harvard says "You might not meet our academic standards, but your parent or ancestor did, and that's good enough for us! Welcome to Harvard! Continue your legacy!" 🤡

klausfiend,
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@mekkaokereke The folks over at Matt Stoller's org published something just recently about what they called "the Ivy League Cartel", which aligns a whole bunch of points you've made here over the past week, especially concerning recruiting:

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-to-crush-the-ivy-league-cartel

lauren, to random
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SONY Trinitron color TVs were superb for their time. But once you noticed the two black, thin, horizontal CRT aperture grill damper wires across the screen, one about a third of the way down from the top of the screen, the other about a third of the way up from the bottom, you could never unsee them.

klausfiend,
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@lauren My last tube was a Wega, and it was a thing of beauty. When it finally died, I fought hard to put it in the hands of a tinkerer who'd appreciate the engineering, but ended just having to put out for bulky collection. :-(

Still, it was notorious with every group of movers I ever hired. 240 lbs is one hell of a television.

lauren, to random
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Literally five minutes ago, I accidentally learned that in 1966, there was an unsold pilot for a TV series version of the wonderful 1959 film "The Mouse That Roared" -- which I discussed here very recently. The pilot stars Sid Caesar in the multiple roles played by Peter Sellers in the film, with Richard Deacon in a supporting role. I do NOT understand how I never knew about this pilot until it popped in front of me literally minutes ago. Watching it now, in amazement.

klausfiend,
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@lauren hahahah, of course it is ... did you ever happen to see this gem reminiscent of Saul Bass?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JIts1xIalg

lauren, to random
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If you're a fan of "B" movies like I am (or like me, "C", "D" or "F" as well), there is no deeper well of entertainment than anything that was produced by Cannon (Golan-Globus). Trust me on this.

klausfiend,
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@lauren +1. Watched Ninja III the other day, and it's straight up bonkers.

klausfiend,
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@lauren The first one. "Flashdance meets the Exorcist, in a ninja movie" is a generous way to describe. Bonkers.

flexghost, to random
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Alex Jones owes $1.5 Billion

He has yet to pay a dime

One of his victims, Erica Lafferty, has to crowdfund her lymphoma treatments
Yet he has a yearly spending budget of over $1 Million
And multiple month-long trips to Hawaii yearly

And now Alex Jones is free to spread his lies on Nazi dumpster-fire X/Twitter as he has been reinstated…

On the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting.

klausfiend,
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@flexghost The timing of this seems too coincidental to be anything but cruelly deliberate.

lauren, to Youtube
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While director Blake Edwards may be best known for his "Pink Panther" comedy films that began a year later, in 1962 he directed a very dark thriller about a bank teller being forced to rob her bank for a sadistic killer - "Experiment in Terror."

Starring Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, and Ross Martin (as the really, seriously bad guy), it was shot on location all over San Francisco and is a time capsule of the area during that era, ending with a rather remarkable chase at Candlestick Park during a Giants-Dodgers game. With a notably creepy score by Henry Mancini, I recommend it highly.

Currently free (U.S. only, most likely) on Movies & TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcB7i1FI4w

klausfiend,
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@lauren I remember watching Days of Wine and Roses years ago, and it is definitely a product of its era (in the same way that The Lost Weekend leans a little too hard into its moralizing tone.) Lemmon and Remick and fantastic, though.

lauren, to random
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If ordinary non-technical people had any concept of how incredibly complicated all this technology is to keep going ... they still wouldn't care.

klausfiend,
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@lauren In fairness, when is the last time any tech nerd you know thought hard about where their water or power came from? Complexity tends to get ignored when something "just works" consistently.

klausfiend,
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@lauren We apparently know different techies :-)

lauren, to random
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While original reports claimed two people were killed in the car that exploded, there is now discussion that it may only have been one. Also, the car reportedly had just been at a nearby casino.

klausfiend,
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@lauren watching you unfold the events of this story reminds me of the old "Operation Hell on Earth" planning sketch from Mr. Show

lauren, to random
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In the 21st century, your pen will demand a firmware update.

klausfiend,
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@tantramar @lauren please upgrade to Consonant 2.0

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