58008

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[โ€“] 58008 9 points 2 days ago

It's hilarious that this warped little creep has arranged things such that he has a credible excuse to sit and listen to trans women pinching off loaves from the next cubicle, all while he's reporting his porn usage to his son via his iChrist app. He's definitely someone we want making policy around genitalia.

[โ€“] 58008 3 points 2 days ago

I'm sure this totally unprecedented plan is nothing to worry about. It's not as though history is replete with similar plans that went awry.

I'm sure that, once concentrated into this one location, the people being deported will be safe and sound and free of disease and well-fed. And when no country agrees to take them in, I'm sure they'll just continue to be well-cared for in the encampment and there won't be any problem and certainly there won't be any spurious stories of riots or uprisings that need to be put down and which sadly result in the killing of pretty much all of the immigrants being held there. It will be fine. This is all fine and very, very normal.

 

'Choose' rhymes with 'lose'? I mean c'mon, someone did that shit on purpose ๐Ÿ‘€

[โ€“] 58008 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Here's a related occupation, but significantly less 'glamorous' ๐Ÿ˜†

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_farmer

[โ€“] 58008 1 points 3 days ago

Wish they'd do another run of the OG Steam Controller. I love it, but finding replacements is a costly business these days. Can't even send it in for repair because they don't produce the parts anymore.

[โ€“] 58008 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I remember hearing that the basic form of pretty much all animals is that of a worm. Mouth at one end, chucklet dispenser at the other end. Everything in between is just busywork and weird penises.

[โ€“] 58008 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Woke really does just mean "anything that suggests any adjustment whatsoever to my pre-installed beliefs, behaviours or feelings". I would assume the Daily Mail would also consider uninstalling McAfee Anti-virus from a new Dell desktop to be "woke".

[โ€“] 58008 7 points 3 days ago

Also fails to mention mastery of nunchucks?

[โ€“] 58008 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's the path of least resistance to achieve Musklessness. The second two of the positives you listed are actually negatives to the average Joe. Choice paralysis, overwhelming number of apps and servers, these are things that put people off even trying, especially if there are easier-to-use alternatives that are familiar and instant.

Mastodon is great, but it's not quite there yet in terms of convenience. Too much copying and pasting and clicking through to different instances in order to read old posts etc. It needs to be more cohesive in a way that doesn't require constantly leaving your timeline or going into the settings.

It's also the case that the Twitter diaspora who are famous tend to choose BlueSky, and that brings a lot of people along with them.

And it's also the case that Mastodon doesn't have much of a marketing campaign outside of word-of-mouth, whereas BlueSky does.

[โ€“] 58008 3 points 1 week ago

How does the old saying go? Sex offenders flock together?

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[โ€“] 58008 4 points 1 week ago

Preserving good old games!

Asterisk: Unless the CCP don't like it, in which case it can go fuck itself.

[โ€“] 58008 3 points 1 week ago

I would comfortably bet my life that this man is a sexual sadist who would tear up if he were tutted at by an elderly bus driver for trying to pay a $1.30 fare with a ten dollar bill.

[โ€“] 58008 2 points 1 week ago

Haha bless 'em. He's a handsome chap!

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Running on fumes (lemmy.world)
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Not sure if he has the power to do that, or if he could do it but not make it permanent. But if he can, he really should...

 

Sorry fam, I can buy you maybe 5 minutes. Make 'em count.

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One of the few things I remember from my French classes in high school was that the letter is called "double V" in that language. Why did English opt for the "U" instead?

You can hear the French pronunciation here if you're unfamiliar with it:

https://www.frenchlearner.com/pronunciation/french-alphabet/

V and W are right next to each other in alphabetical order, which seems to lend further credence to the idea that it should be "Double V" and not "Double U". In fact, the letter U immediately precedes V, so the difference is highlighted in real-time as you go through the alphabet:

  • ...
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • X
  • Y
  • Z

It's obviously not at all important in the grand scheme of things, but I'm just curious why we went the way we did!

Cheers!

 

I've now watched both. I didn't know the 2024 version was a remake, or I'd have watched that second, but I actually think that watching them in 'reverse' order is a better experience. If you've already seen both, maybe you can sympathise with that view.

Both films are excellent, don't get me wrong. But there are subtle (and some not-so-subtle) differences that really, really make the overall experience very different, including the impressions and understandings you come away with. The newer film is almost insultingly Hollywoodised, as it waterboards you with exposition that the original has no problem risking you not figuring out on your own.

Please do yourself a favour and don't read up on either film before watching them. I've been reading reviews of the newer film that completely spoil scenes in the original that were different. It's unreal how cavalier people are with that sort of thing ๐Ÿ˜’

So, my recommendation is to watch James MacAvoy absolutely demolishing the scenery with his chompers (I mean that in the best possible way), and then grab a cuppa and a blanket and watch the original.

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