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vpermar

@vpermar@mastodon.online

Editor of trailers, films and other editable things. Science groupie. Thought I was a nerd, but I might be a dork.

I am also at @vinc, where I post about weird cars.

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grammargirl, to random
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We smelled gas in our house, so now the fire department is here in full gear with masks and oxygen, and they’re clearing the house.

They smell it too, so at least I don’t feel like I’m crazy. Much excitement!

vpermar,
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@grammargirl Our gas company in Los Angeles tells us to contact them. Great to know that the fire department takes to those calls.

ai6yr, to H5N1

UNMC: "There’s no question H5N1 bird flu has ‘pandemic potential.’ How likely is that worst-case scenario?" https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2024/05/07/theres-no-question-h5n1-bird-flu-has-pandemic-potential-how-likely-is-that-worst-case-scenario/

vpermar,
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@ai6yr There has to be some context missing (for us, non experts) from that figure. A higher than 50% fatality rate is off the charts. Ebola averages at 50%, if I remember correctly.

vpermar, to movies
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Paul Auster, writer of “Smoke” and many other masterful stories about New York, passed away yesterday. Overseas, it is one of the main headlines of the day.

In the US, not even The New York Times, could be bothered to mention it.

Paul Auster, a life in images - https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-05-01/paul-auster-a-life-in-in-images.html

parismarx, to tech
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I don’t often share the fanblogs, but this is a good look behind the scenes: Elon Musk has been absent from Tesla for the past year, but now he’s reasserting himself by doing mass layoffs with little regard for the effects on the business. It’s a mess.

https://electrek.co/2024/05/01/elon-musk-throwing-weight-tesla-wrecking-ball/

vpermar,
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@parismarx Electrek is a rather well respected source for EV news, started by people from 9to5mac. So share without fear, fanblog it is not 😀

drahardja, to tesla
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Is this for real? Did Elon just lay off ’s entire Supercharger business division?

“Rebecca Tinucci, senior director of the electric vehicle maker's Supercharger business, and Daniel Ho, head of the new vehicles program, will leave on Tuesday morning, the report said.

Musk also plans to dismiss everyone working for Tinucci and Ho, including the roughly 500 employees who work in the Supercharger group, The Information said. It was not clear how many employees worked for Ho.”

The Supercharger system is probably Tesla’s most beloved and successful product. What is going on?

“Musk lays off Tesla senior executives in fresh job cuts, The Information reports”

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-musk-trims-senior-management-amid-more-layoffs-information-reports-2024-04-30/

vpermar,
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@drahardja Yes, it seems to be for real. And if there are any circumstances to make it not be an absolutely deranged move, I can’t think of them.

https://electrek.co/2024/04/29/tesla-conducting-more-layoffs-including-entire-supercharger-team/

vpermar,
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@yatil @drahardja Some have been saying that Musk is gutting the company to secure a vote in favor of his compensation package. By removing key talent, he becomes more crucial and has more leverage.

It sounded nuts at first, but now it is becoming the only explanation that makes sense.

Longplay_Games, to random
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I really miss design from before the era of "featureless black rectangles of doom"

vpermar,
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@Longplay_Games It used to be that when you went to an electronics store, you were amazed at how much smaller things were than what you had imagined from pictures. That time is gone.

jimmyb, to plex
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I just watched My Feet are Killing Me - Alien Baby (S03E04)!

vpermar,
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@jimmyb Unrelated.

Opens window and screams:

TCL should buy TLC already!!!!

ai6yr, to random

When I see people worrying about WW III and nuclear war, this quote (usually attributed falsely to Khrushchev) comes to mind: (from Nikolay Chukovsky)

"А те из вас, кто останется в живых, позавидуют мертвым!"

"Those of you who will be still alive will envy the dead"

i.e. forget about any real preparation you can do for that kind of thing (or war, for that matter).

(Although, one wonders if they did a remarkably good job of timing the launch of the "Fallout" TV series).

vpermar,
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@zalasur @paulc @ai6yr Very well put. We tend to see ourselves as the 20% who would survive, not as the 80% who would be gone in the first few minutes.

So people “glamorize” civilization ending events and prepare to become the heroes of their Mad Max movie, forgetting more useful approaches like, you know, prevention.

vpermar, to random
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Rewatching "As Good As It Gets", and I have discovered that in my mind, I had somehow blended it with "Jerry Maguire". Now I so badly want to create that movie...

ai6yr, (edited ) to Health

Hmm, I would like to see a double blind scientific study in "ear pulling" being connected to kidney health. (ps, completely different book here)

vpermar,
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@ai6yr @John One thing to keep in mind: “Traditional” Chinese Medicine is in some cases a somewhat recent invention, not ancient wisdom.

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4259

ai6yr, to random

LOL The other "wrong key" story for me was in 2018 or 2019, when I ended up driving to a motel along old Route 66 and got room "6", took a shower, and collapsed in bed exhausted. A couple of hours later I was woken up by someone who ALSO had the key to room "6" and it ended up I had actually checked into "Room 9" but the key also worked for "Room 6". We just traded keys (not that we needed to, LOL).

vpermar,
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@ai6yr When visiting Xian in 2010, the hotel randomly gave us an absurdly large suite, rather than a regular room. Later that evening, as I was in the shower, someone just walked into the room, saw that I was there and walked away without saying anything. Then we got a call to tell us that the room was needed and we had to move to a different one.

Moral of the story: there are not such things as “keys” in China.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I don't understand why people keep using the word "election" when it comes to Putin.

vpermar,
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@StillIRise1963 Truly curious about the process. Do they bother counting votes or just come up with an approved random number?

paninid, to Insurance
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“Insurance of various different kinds—housing , but also automobile insurance, and things like that—that’s been a significant source of over the last few years”

vpermar,
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@paninid @ai6yr Not much of a stretch to draw a direct line between current economic concerns and climate change then, as the article states. That should be the headline.

https://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-costs-americans-insurance-rates-headed-spike-1741133

cairobraga, to random
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I now realised that I spent hours of my teenage and uni years learning and experimenting with authoring, to the point of creating interactive animated experiences, and by the time I reached a time in my life when I could try to make it into a job, the DVD was already dying as a medium. being a is having a lot of things like that happen to you.

vpermar,
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@cairobraga @petes_bread_eqn_xls One generation ahead of you. Same, but it was with film stock and other celluloid related knowledge. Learn a technology that is 100+ years old, just to have it become irrelevant as soon as you hit the workforce.

vpermar, to space
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Yes!!

NASA 'worm' logo crawls onto Artemis 2 moon rockets.

https://www.space.com/nasa-worm-logo-artemis-2-moon-rockets-astronauts-video

ai6yr, to random

Although not all here on the lefty-leaning Fediverse like the brand of the cargo pants I like (tactical-style pants favored by law enforcement), I must say buying them used off eBay is a bargain. Lots of departments use them as uniform pants, but they have to be spotless, so there are a lot of "pants are perfect except for an ink stain on the leg" inventory out there.

vpermar,
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@ai6yr please share links!

GottaLaff, to random
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asks judge to dismiss tax charges, arguing that prosecutors bowed to political pressure

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/hunter-biden-asks-judge-dismiss-tax-charges-arguing-prosecutors-bowed-rcna139702

vpermar,
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@GottaLaff Shouldn’t this be bigger news in the US? Or, like, news at all?

“Mr Smirnov allegedly said the recordings could be used as "kompromat" (compromising material) during the 2024 election campaign.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68353303

vpermar, to movies
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What a great idea! The Portland Airport has a small movie theater in the departures area. It is free and they play shorts by local filmmakers.

vpermar, to tv
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In 1952, the top show on TV had a 4-minute-long scene fully in Spanish, without subtitles, during prime time.

People often talk about the courage of Lucille Ball when she refused to hide her pregnancy, but there was much more than that.




https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=re-k5m0OsTY

vpermar, to random
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I want to believe…

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/tim-burton-gillian-flynn-remake-attack-fifty-foot-woman-1235894570/

vpermar, to random
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Please no! No! No!

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/20/warner-bros-paramount-merger-discovery-streaming

vpermar, to random
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The copy of “Miracle On 34 Street” available on Roku had so much cleanup done that it feels like a new Richard Linklater rotoscoped extravaganza.

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ai6yr, to random

Just realized tonight that the employment of Oompa Loompas in "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory" displaced an entire factory worth of workers, and cast Charlie's family into abject poverty--so much they all shared a bed and only had cabbage soup for food. 🤔

vpermar,
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@ai6yr It was sanitized for the silver screen because (checks notes) Quaker Oats paid for the movie in order to get into the candy business by releasing the Wonka bar.

https://www.thedailymeal.com/1296976/reason-nostalgic-wonka-bar-discontinued/

grammargirl, to random
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My computer failed tonight, and I lost the entire hard drive. Fortunately, I have everything doubly backed up: once on a local hard drive and once on a cloud service. It's still stressful, but it could be a lot worse.

Consider this your reminder to back up your computer.

vpermar,
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@grammargirl A great reminder to not just have one, but two backups. I lost most of my early work samples when my hard drive failed, and then the backup drive also failed as I plugged it to get the files. It turns out there was a problem with the power outlet.

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