Lumidaub

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this thing?! Oh...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit that was a bit of a jumpscare when I saw it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Batel regenerated into the statue. Including glowy regeneration energy hands.

  She’s the Doctor and the statue is a portal to another universe, on the other side of which Tecteun finds her. And then, MUCH later, she comes back to spend time with Pelia. That was her in the Tardis in The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail, trying to watch over Pike.

  I’m going to stop headcanoning now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kirk-Spock interactions

  I don’t know, it reminded me a BIT too much of how Supernatural handled (or didn’t really) two certain characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mercedes and BMW, eternal rivals on a race once again - this time to the bottom.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The point of advertising is to keep your brand in the public conversation. Whether that conversation is in favour of your brand or not is secondary at best. First and foremost you want people to know about your brand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Eagle screech]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kicking upwards. US-American culture dominates globally, the US is the most powerful nation on the globe. It is okay, might even be necessary, to poke fun at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Eagle screech]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You just can’t see the banana for scale because it’s so tiny in comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save the day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody go watch this, it’s SUPER interesting. (⁠づ⁠｡⁠◕⁠‿⁠‿⁠◕⁠｡⁠)⁠づ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you mean: www.imdb.com/title/tt22475008/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Before she was the CEO of BlueSky Jay Graeber worked in cryptocurrency⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep seeing people ask why people call Bluesky decentralised. I never see people call Bluesky decentralised.

  (Okay, “never” isn’t quite correct, I’ve seen the term used in relation to Bluesky maybe a handful of times but you make it sound like that’s their main selling point)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If taken in its totality consumed through post-modern deistic Western milieu the DIE HARD series is *Book of Job* retold.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything you said is a common storytelling trope you can find in other stories too.

  Take the hero’s family being endangered - the difference is that Die Hard dude then jumps into action and does shit, like what you’d expect from an actual hero. Job does fuck all, doesn’t seem to mind too much (at best he’s like “oh bother”) and, worst of all, does NOT get his family back, it’s a new wife and kids and that’s perfectly fine by him.

  The villains corresponding to the neighbours is far-fetched in my opinion but even then, common trope to have story elements trying to discourage the hero. You can find that “parallel” anywhere. They also have vastly different motivations: in Job, his neighbours are presumably worried for him, Die Hard dude’s villains are trying to save their own skin.

  What did this man do to suffer? Die Hard dude is devoted to his job, his family doesn’t leave for no reason and isn’t endangered for no reason. It’s a moral dilemma that he struggles with, rooted in the hero’s personality and informing his character arc. Job is just there, changes nothing and learns nothing.

  In general, there has to be dome motivation for the hero to start his (we’re talking about classic tropes here) journey and people around him and his property (sometimes seen as the same thing…) being endangered is the most convenient one. The interesting part is how he reacts to this situation - which couldn’t be more different between Die Hard dude and Job, as I said above.

  Person suffers, then gets happy end - that’s every story ever told by anyone (bad endings are a new-fangled modern thing).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If taken in its totality consumed through post-modern deistic Western milieu the DIE HARD series is *Book of Job* retold.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll have to explain that. Where Job refuses to have a character arc, staying completely passive, watching people around him die, until the very end (and even then only goes whining to his god), Die Hard dude is everything but passive and even willing to risk his own life for others. What do they have in common?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He really said this, look it up!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  corleone_massacred_boy.jpg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He really said this, look it up!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It loses some of its poetry in translation, alas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can turn it off. Opt-out is still bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. That sounds about right in the year of Our Lord Yog Sothoth 2025 in the planet’s richest country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I wasn’t dismissing this as a non-issue or anything, it’s clearly bullshit and yet another reason for you to burn cars and billionaires. But I remember when I first heard about this, specifically the “(file) for free” was INCREDIBLY confusing because as ridiculous many, many things the US does may seem to me, (what I understood as) the notion of paying your government a fee to process your taxes was juuust a bit too far out.

  You CAN still do it on your own though, just not online, yeah?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fellow non-USians: no they don’t have to pay their government for the privilege of being allowed to file their taxes. “For free” here means “without the help of a tax accountant (and online)”. I was SO SO SO confused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you slice it??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If that doesn’t get you some Nobel prize, I don’t know what will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Cast On How Series Was Last Hurrah For “Boys Club” TV Before Me Too Movement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel it necessary to mention that gem of storytelling called “Huh huh huh ur a dude and ur preggers huh huh huh”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you slice it??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Youth Today don’t know who that is. Then again, do they know how large a giraffe is? We may never know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia articles could have Context boxes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pages can “trend” on Wikipedia…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truly Lossless Music⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re bad at masking that ADHD ;D (tone indicator friendly ribbing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your thoughts on this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like it wants me to not care about trees because what did they ever do for us?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, definitely. But here we are, the reality is that people read first paragraphs at best (which there can be valid reasons for) and take away “ah yes, Hawking radiation is a thing black holes do, science says so”. A reader who is interested further and has the mental capacities after working 8 hours 5 days a week to scroll down and read about experimental observations might also realise “oh wait, it isn’t actually clear whether it does exist” but you can’t expect that from everybody (unfortunate as that may be).

  This particular instance may be harmless because it probably doesn’t affect anything in everyday life. But in general I think a first paragraph in an encyclopaedic source that wants to inform the general public should be very clear about it when a thing is hypothesised and hasn’t been shown to exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They… don’t like cars? I suppose?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, might have worded tat better. It says “The radiation was not predicted by previous models” and “is predicted to be extremely faint”, not “it is predicted to exist” - and also “[it] is many orders of magnitude below […]” which sounds like a statement of fact. I realise this may be nitpicky but I don’t know if people who don’t know anything about the subject would interpret that as “we don’t really know if it even exists yet”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I know, but realistically, many (most?) people just want brief, general information, which is what the introductory paragraph is for, no? So I’d argue it should say “hypothesised” or “predicted” somewhere in the, ideally, first sentence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a hypothesis though, right? They haven’t detected any yet afaik (which the article could make clearer in its introduction).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is exactly what copper would say⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, I am now reassured in my DuckDuckGo-fu after looking this up because I don’t watch the Simpsons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truly Lossless Music⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Headcanon accepted. I choose to believe that John Williams spends his time on some bus in (what looks like, judging from the surrounding ten pixels) some central European city reading sheet music.