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- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 4 days ago:
Right? Like, figure out how to sort and fold laundry.
- Comment on The difference between logical and pathological is a path 1 week ago:
The difference between path and pathos is metaphorically indescribable.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes, obviously.
- Comment on What's going on with Quentin Tarantino? 2 weeks ago:
So is Matthew Lillard. The whole thing feels oddly personal. Like if he had said “I didn’t like Dano in There Will Be Blood” you could understand that’s just a professional opinion. Maybe he thought someone else could have done better. But making it insulting undercuts his credibility as an impartial critic.
- Comment on What's going on with Quentin Tarantino? 2 weeks ago:
Criticism is fine, when you’re talking about someone’s work and how to improve it. Calling someone “weak” and “the worst actor in the SAG” is deeply personal and insulting.
Revealing a personal bias in a professional setting belies unprofessional attitudes and prejudices. Tarantino isn’t a critic, he’s a filmmaker, and an influential voice in the industry. Taking pot shots at a couple of B-list character actors is hurtful on a personal level, and wantonly destructive on a professional level. The power dynamic between producers and actors is massively unbalanced. It would be like the CEO where you work talking shit on LinkedIn about project managers at a rival company. If he’s saying this publicly, what is he saying behind the scenes? Is he trashing actors to casting directors to influence their careers?
He has every right to say “I don’t want these people in my movies.” It would also be professional to say “I did not like this specific performance for these specific reasons.” It’s extremely unprofessional to say “I hate these people because of who they are and anyone working with them is on my shit-list.”
- Comment on What's going on with Quentin Tarantino? 2 weeks ago:
He also took some totally unnecessary shots at Paul Dano, saying he was the worst actor in the SAG. That’s a bizarrely personal attack out of nowhere on a guy you never worked with.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 5 weeks ago:
Oh that’s a terrible plan. Veterans are far more likely to end up poor than rich, and that doesn’t include the ones who never come home.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 5 weeks ago:
Don’t forget be extremely lucky.
- Comment on Just FYI 1 month ago:
“Is that right? I had heard an alternate theory…”
You’re definitely wrong, and I know more about this than you do.
- Comment on If I were a waiter, I would describe the days soup as "Very hot, and very wet" 2 months ago:
I would just think you’re trying to be funny. If you keep a deadpan face, you might succeed.
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 2 months ago:
There have been several high-profile systemic failures in the past few years that give us a glimpse into the hypothetical you’re describing. Most interruptions have lasted mere hours, if not minutes, before causing mass panic and devastating economic catastrophes. Planes are grounded, banks stop operations, global trade shuts down, and hospitals can’t access patient records.
The question isn’t how long before it would be a huge problem. That starts immediately. The better question is, how long before people adapt to a world without the internet? How long would it take to build an alternative?
- Comment on God did not intend for us to fold fitted sheets, and if you can it's witchcraft. 2 months ago:
It’s not rocket surgery.
Stand up with the sheet.
Place your hands inside two adjacent corners so the elastic is at your wrists.
Bring your hands together, folding the sheet in half, and flip one corner over the other hand so that one is tucked in the other.
With your free hand, reach down and gather the other two ends which are not tucked.
Let go of the tucked corners, which will slip apart again.
Curse the gods, and then roll the crumpled mess between your arms until it’s small enough to stuff into a closet or drawer.
Profit.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 2 months ago:
Fake outrage was funnier when we didn’t have real problems to argue about.
- Comment on I do it at least 35 times just in case 2 months ago:
Right? Like, maybe the precursors to cancer reduce libido?
- Comment on Those were the good old days 2 months ago:
Yeah, but like a four foot turkey with sharp teeth and talons. I’m not sure I win that fight.
Like, I’m pretty sure I could beat up a 10 year old kid. That’s about the size (if not the strength) of a velociraptor. But if that kid is all coked up, has kitchen knives in each hand and a football helmet with razors on the face mask, I’m not nearly as confident. Then if there’s a second one waiting to attack from the flank, then fuck that.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 2 months ago:
This is the guy in charge of medical advice for the United States. Lacking even basic scientific knowledge.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated to anime where sexualization of characters is minimum and strictly no sexualization of minors (or minor looking "adults")? 2 months ago:
Oh absolutely. My point was that sometimes the sexy bits come out of (seemingly) nowhere.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated to anime where sexualization of characters is minimum and strictly no sexualization of minors (or minor looking "adults")? 2 months ago:
I don’t know about a community, but if you’re looking for suggestions, I can think of a few off the top of my head.
But anime, especially anything based on Shonen which is aimed at adolescent boys, is likely to have some “fanservice”. Watch 5 minutes of any episode of One Piece, and you might assume it’s porn from the outfits and figures. Even Cowboy Bebop has a few lingering scenes of scantily clad women. But these are great shows if you can get comfortable with the sexuality on display.
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 2 months ago:
My friend, it really is not.
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 2 months ago:
Because absorbed light is excess energy.
- Comment on In order for superman to keep his cover as Clark Kent countless innocents he had the power to save have to die every day. 2 months ago:
Sure, it’s fiction, and Superman’s powers and limitations are whatever the plot demands.
But if he could move that fast, and he was in a real major city with real people and real problems, then he would be saving people nonstop. Because he could. If he’s faster than light, he could go save everyone without anyone noticing he left the room (setting aside physics, of course). But he’d never be able to stop, and he would never run out of people to save.
And none of it would be supervillains and giant robots or space lasers.
But then, applying any sort of real world rationality to Superman never ends well.
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 2 months ago:
Just in case it wasn’t clear, that’s a horrifying discovery. Like the extinction of all life on earth.
- Comment on In order for superman to keep his cover as Clark Kent countless innocents he had the power to save have to die every day. 2 months ago:
He has super hearing and super speed, and can hear everything across the city. In NYC, an approximate analog of Metropolis, there are over 37,000 car accidents with major injuries or fatalities every year. That’s 100 car accidents each day, every day, just car accidents. If he were to actually try to save everyone he could, he would never have any time for anything else, not even sleep. It’s one thing to go take a sudden bathroom break when Lois is dangling from the ledge on the roof of a building. It’s something else to leave the room every 15 minutes of every hour because people can’t stop texting while driving.
- Comment on "fridging" is honestly the only good motivation to become a superhero or good person 2 months ago:
What the chicken fried fuck are you talking about?
Fridging is a form of reductionist misogyny. It’s not just that somebody died, it’s that a woman existed only to die in a brutal fashion.
- Comment on Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely 2 months ago:
Yeah but that’s because many human cells are really big.
- Comment on Explaining your traumatic past IRL feels so underwhelming compared to when a character in a movie or tv scene revealing their traumatic childhood. 2 months ago:
Fiction also usually includes a flashback to see how horrific it was, and then it cuts back to the person telling the story, as though they just finished describing everything that happened. In reality, nobody can ever describe a scene in such detail, and while you are reliving the moment, everyone else just hears you say what happened.
- Comment on Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely 2 months ago:
Bacteria constitute 56% of the cells in your body. You’re more bacteria than human.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 2 months ago:
I still double space after a period, because fuck you, it is easier to read. But as a bonus, it helped me prove that something I wrote wasn’t AI. You literally cannot get an AI to add double spaces after a period. It will say “Yeah, OK, I can do that” and then spit out a paragraph without it. Give it a try, it’s pretty funny.
- Comment on Why do people say "as sweet as canned beans"? 2 months ago:
Who says that?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Most Americans aren’t in the Epstein files. People in power don’t want the Epstein files released.