dustyData

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[–] dustyData 5 points 1 month ago

She made the common blunder of making long term hyperbolic predictions based on short term trends and immediate events.

[–] dustyData 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Usually campuses are the only places rationally designed to be highly accessible to people. So they can be walked. You can go from place A to place B on foot, usually under shade, either from a canopy, tree sided paths, or human scale adequately proportioned buildings. They also tend to consider and include amenities like parks, snack and drink stands, on the way. And also several cool third places like libraries, auditoriums, study halls, athleticism stadiums and cafeterias. Places where you can exist and occupy without having to consume. Finally, they usually confine cars to parking lots and prohibit their traffic inside the campus, making it a quieter and clean air space.

My point is, college campuses are sometimes literally how humans are the happiest to live.

Add: also consider how sometimes luxury resorts resemble the layouts and characteristics of college campuses. Self contained spaces where you can go everywhere and engage in all activities without having to sit on a car.

[–] dustyData 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd love that too. But those books have become essentially a parody of themselves in today's context. Without the 60's mental POV, they're nonsensical, racist, rapey and sexist. You'd end up in a unironical Austin Powers. I mean, the books are literarily fun fiction to read. But let's not pretend they're not cringey white male power fantasies. Spies were the coldwar's mall ninjas. I'd rather revisit the spy kids universe.

[–] dustyData 1 points 2 months ago

That's unnecessarily hostile. But whatever...

[–] dustyData 1 points 2 months ago (6 children)

But why the downvote? Just because things suck we should just lie down and take it? We can at least talk about how it sucks and we wish it were different. There's nothing silly in wanting the world to be better.

[–] dustyData 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

Is the school providing the license? because if they're not, then it is a rough call to require and force parents to pay for a non essential tool. This is why FOSS is such a powerful education ally. It doesn't cost any of the end users any money. This kind of things is why people still think MS products as the default. MS spent a lot of money in marketing to force education to treat them as such.

[–] dustyData 4 points 2 months ago

One of McConaughey's most iconic characters. The fact he is introduced as a crazy evil antagonist but transitions to badass bro of the protagonist by the end of the movie is genius.

[–] dustyData 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It flopped at the box and was regarded as a ripoff of the matrix's aesthetics by critics. But it was well received by home audiences. I remember it fondly as a quick to syndication movie. It definitely has some lows in quality at points and the plot could've been stronger. But its highs were very solid.

[–] dustyData 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Still bold things to say from someone who declared himself emperor of the world a la Roman style and opposed most of revolutionary ideas of freedom and democracy…twice.

[–] dustyData 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never been to New York, eh?

[–] dustyData 39 points 2 months ago (15 children)

If the latrine was in the cellar under the first floor. Can you imagine the awful smell in that cathedral?

[–] dustyData 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think it was part of the story that some group had already broken into the tomb but got wiped out by the traps. You're looting their equipment. You even fight them in between puzzles.

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