Dagwood222
@Dagwood222@lemm.ee
- Comment on How some UK parents created a “Smartphone Free Childhood” pledge, signed by 124K+ people, after the UK government watered down a bill banning phones in schools. 2 days ago:
There’s a story that therapists use all the time. Kid sees a butterfly trying to break out of its cocoon. Kid tries to help the butterfly get free, but when it gets out the insect can’t fly. the parent explains that the butterfly needs the struggle to build up its muscles.
All smartphones do for kids is teach them how not to deal with other people.
And yes, I am aware of the irony here.
- Comment on If our present was a dystopian future, you wouldn't believe it 2 days ago:
[off topic?]
“Stand On Zanzibar” won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel of the year.
It’s set in the early 2000’s and got so many of the details right it’s uncanny. Some of the ideas that people in 1969 laughed at were mass homelessness; well paid folks needing room mates to make the rent; random school shootings, etc etc.
- Comment on Horror 4 days ago:
Actually, the most logical thing is VR. Give folks full exoskeletons to mimic actual real world conditions and a five sense helmet.
Boring to look at from the outside.
- Comment on Horror 4 days ago:
Don’t go down the rabbit hole.
Next we’ll be trying to explain why they needed a garbage disposal on the Death Star.
[Two reasons. first, the builder was trying to slow things down so he threw in extraneous stuff. second, there were regulations about ships over a certain tonnage, because no one wants tons of trash falling onto their planet.
- Comment on Horror 4 days ago:
Curses! Foiled again!
- Comment on Horror 4 days ago:
What about hydrogen plasma as hot as the surface of the sun, contained in a weightless force field? The 'balloon is simply a decorative wrapper? Remember, it’s the future year 2025!
- Comment on Horror 4 days ago:
C-. You didn’t show your work.
- Comment on Shower drains and storm drains are the same thing in theory but not practice 4 days ago:
In theory, theory is the same as practice. In practice, it isn’t.
The earliest strong match located by QI appeared in “The Yale Literary Magazine” of February 1882 which was written and edited by students. Benjamin Brewster who was a member of the class of 1882 wrote about an argument he had engaged in with a philosophical friend about theory versus practice.
- Comment on They said the packaging would be discreet! 4 days ago:
Life Pro Tip.
- Comment on Horror 5 days ago:
Superheated hydrogen in a monomolecular unbreakable balloon.
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 5 days ago:
Cheeky trull! Away!
- Comment on They said the packaging would be discreet! 6 days ago:
LPT.
If you’re using a toy that big, the neighbors and the police already know what’s going on
Responding for a friend
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 6 days ago:
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 6 days ago:
Varlet! I bite my thumb at thee!
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 6 days ago:
Dos’t thou thinks’t that the wiley mechanicist can not create an operator that can plumb the depths of language with ease? Our language is as unchanging as the mountains, and shall ever be so.
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 6 days ago:
Think of it this way.
There’s an actual medical condition known as Chauffeur’s fracture.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauffeur's_fracture
Back in the day, before the invention of the self starting engine, drivers would have to hand crank the cars, and sometimes a backfire would cause a particular type of injury.
Also, there’s a great line in the movie “The Interpreter” with Nicole Kidman.
Two UN interpreters are chatting about work. "I had a good one today. The American said it was “pie in the sky.” "
“Oh, that’s a tough one. What did you use?”
“Castles in Spain.”
“Nice.”
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 6 days ago:
My personal opinion is that it’s 2025 and translation is free.
- Comment on What exercises should i do at the gym to correct winged scapula and rounded shoulders? 6 days ago:
Get a well fitting back pack.
Put in enough weight that you feel it. A textbook is usually enough.
Wear it all the time.
It will remind you to stand up straight and it works your abs too.
- Comment on How You Doin? 6 days ago:
I always say “I’m another day older and deeper in debt.”
- Comment on Get cancer screening guys 1 week ago:
One of the saddest stories I ever read was the hard working, self employed carpenter who waited until he won the lottery to get a medical checkup.
He died of a preventable cancer because he couldn’t afford to get seen
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 week ago:
Sorcerer is a remake of the original. There are a lot of changes. Both films stand the test of time.
There was an incredibly awful remake using the title ‘Wages Of Fear.’ 2024 on Netflix.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 week ago:
Haven’t used that a lot yet.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 week ago:
Thanks
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 week ago:
There’s a lemmy sub ‘free movies on Youtube’ or something similar.
Enjoy.
See if you can find the original ‘The Day Of the Jackal’ with Edward Fox. Still the best assassin movie ever made.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 week ago:
What’s crazy to me is that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of great old movies that are mostly forgotten.
Look up a movie called “Sorcerer.” Incredible action, fantastic acting, impeccable script.
Full movie.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Absolutely. Also, a lot of people who were slightly left of center snapped right back after Kent State shootings showed them which side had the guns.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 1 week ago:
I’m not an expert, but I don’t think Putin or anyone who succeeds him is going to be the co-operative type.
- Comment on Terrorists 1 week ago:
The FBI agents have their own agenda. If we’re smart we’ll use them to stop Trump.
The Afghans used the US before they opposed it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The Vietnam War draft was very unpopular and that War coincided with MLK’s push for equal rights. There were a lot of vocal protests. Also, you had the hippies and ‘Woodstock Nation.’ Those weren’t overtly political, but they were counterculture, which the Right took as an attack on them and their values.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 1 week ago:
Book review time!
Alan Furst has been writing WW2 era spy books for a while now. “Night Soldiers” is about a young Bulgarian fisherman whose brother is killed by a fascist mob. He gets recruited by the KGB and after training in Moscow he is sent to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
Philip Kerr wrote a series of books about a Berlin private eye. Ex-cop Bernie Gunther is a WW1 veteran who loves Germany and who could have left any time, but stayed on until it was too late.