gedhrel

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[–] gedhrel 8 points 1 month ago

It does make me wonder about quantum suicide.

[–] gedhrel 14 points 2 months ago

Being a whiny entitled prick is not a protected class.

[–] gedhrel 6 points 2 months ago

The Sixth Sense.

[–] gedhrel 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The lizardfolk brigade.

In 2016, 96% of UKIP membership voted for (some version of) Brexit - their raison d'etre. 4% is a typical fraction of any group to be chaotically bonkers.

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

And 51 feels prime. Someone sgould write a letter.

[–] gedhrel 3 points 2 months ago

The lazy autosm-washing aside: Turing went to his grave never speaking about his accomplishments - still under the OSA at the time. He was neither involved with the decision to use or not, things that were discovered via cracking enigma. The acts that film lays at hia door in the sake of some lazy drama repreaent a vilification of his character.

[–] gedhrel 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Historically speaking it's a lazy character assassination.

[–] gedhrel 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's "revelation," singular. Like trivial pursuit.

[–] gedhrel 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's around one in two million.

[–] gedhrel 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The story is at least semi-plausible, but Turing also still had friends in the right places (not enough to dig him out of the hole he got himself into with the local plod*) and there was a strong social taboo around suicide.

(* At the time there was good reason to believe that the end of the outlawing of homosexuality was just around the corner, so offering a genuine explanation was not necessarily Turing acting as such a naif as is often portrayed.)

[–] gedhrel 13 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure about that (the icon bit). I've gay friends who have been surprised that Turing was gay - personally I knew about it since I knew about Turing, but I was a nerd who was interested in the theory of computation. It's only relative recently (with the popularity of unbelievably lousy character-assassination like "the Imitation Game"*) that he's been more in the general public eye, I think.

  • This is a shit film that represents the worse of pandering, and casts Turing in an appallingly poor light, whilst leaning into the "autistic savant" trope hard. It's abysmal.
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