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Buddahriffic

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  • How many Musketeers?

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  • Funny thing is some looked familiar and when I looked them up, all three of the older ones were big names that I didn't realize were in that movie because I watched it before I knew them as actors.

    From left to right, Keifer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Chris O'Donnel, Oliver Platt. And of course the legendary Tim Curry as Cardinal Richelieu, though I at least already knew that one.

    Trying to figure out if the cast would have been considered stacked at the time or if the three main ones all just happened to become big names after. Keifer and Charlie were already established (eg they had already done "A Few Good Men" and "Platoon", respectively), but Oliver was still on the rise (most notable role I see for him prior to this was as the villain's assistant in Beethoven).

  • How many Musketeers?

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  • Harvey Weinstein didn't come out of a vacuum. So many songs about it, too, like Hotel California (more about the music industry, but same thing pretty much), Lost in Hollywood (more about those that don't make it or only kinda make it, but same shit different outcome), Celebrity Skin (focuses on the extra exploitation women face, but that doesn't mean men like the Stooges don't get chewed up and spit out when they aren't respected, too). And those are just three off the top of my head in a genre I like.

  • China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns

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  • Don't ban aftermarket exhausts completely, just the ones that optimize for loudness or dirtier air.

    I'd like to see devices that detect when a car is running too rich or lean (bad cases I can smell right away, so it should be detectable at a range), along with enforcement and seizing vehicles where they deliberately mess with those, especially if there's a switch or function present that can switch between legal and illegal modes to pass emissions tests and then go back to spewing out unburnt fuel or a much higher number of nitrous oxide compounds.

  • Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense

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  • It really depends on what you want to do. Word processing it can handle, scientific analysis it'll be slow at, 3d modelling it'll end up in power point mode quicker than newer machines. Coding would be fine, though compiling would take longer and testing may or may not be viable.

  • Now this is how we treat monarchs

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  • I don't disagree but hierarchies have military advantages over anarchies that I think will prevent them from ever rising, let alone "holding" power any time populists rise up.

  • What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

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  • Windows comes with its own set of challenges in the form of wanting things set up differently from how MS wants them set up and not wanting to be nagged about using their shitty programs and services. I got to the point where any time the OS or software initiated some kind of contact with me, it would annoy me even if it might have been helpfull because I'm so used to those being from the marketing department.

    Like I've noticed that Linux can do things without annoying me even if that thing used to annoy me on windows just because I don't have that expectation that it's trying to sell me something.

  • What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

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  • What even is the benefit of getting the users who don't even give a fuck about any of the things that are useful to learn (and have for those who did learn enough to use them)?

  • What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

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  • Yeah, plus there's other downsides to popularity, like it being worthwhile for advertisers and scammers to target. As much as I'd like to see MS fail, there are big advantages to having them run the noob friendly OS, similar to how reddit still existing benefits Lemmy.

    Last thing I want to see is Linux selling its soul to appeal to the lowest common denominator because it just gets worse from there.

  • What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

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  • Personally, I'd take choice over adoption.

  • Agriculture uses 98% of humanity's land usage

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  • It does seem to be missing mining/quary land, logging operations, oil fields, non-urban infrastructure (like highways), and parkland that kinda straddles human and wild land.

    Not sure any of those other than the parks would add up to over 1%, though.

    Around where I am, I could believe it, though. Outside of the cities, there's many areas where you just see farm fields split up by roads and power lines from horizon to horizon.

  • Russia plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next few years

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  • If there's a limit to how much heat a surface can radiate, cooling a more intense heat source just requires more surface area to radiate heat from.

  • Male Student Allegedly Created AI Nudes of 13-Year-Old Girl & School Suspended Her, Not Him

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  • Yeah, zero tolerance might as well just be called zero thought or zero effort.

    It would be ironic that schools so often pick the policy that avoids thought if I still believed schools were about teaching kids to think.

  • Why do people insist on doing this?

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  • Yeah, would make sense, they just aren't filtering the things I'd filter during that conversation.

  • Is your child far left?

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  • Is that just another name for libertarians?

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  • A man calls a waiter over to complain about his soup.

    "Waiter, there's a hair in my soup!"

    "Shhh, not so loud or the other customers might get jealous!"

    The sous chef minding the soup was wearing a hair net but disturbed it to scratch an itch on his scalp. Upon discovery of this while reviewing the kitchen footage (nothing to do with the complaint, the owner was just a control freak), said sous chef was fired. Which coincidentally benefited the customer because it meant the sous chef wasn't able to buy the last toy both of their daughters wanted, so the customer got it and won that year's competition of "buying daughter's love over divorced wife", but later bit him in the ass when his spoiled daughter threw a huge tantrum because the Mercedes he bought for her 16th birthday didn't have the right trim package.

    Of course, society was collapsing around them and this all became a moot point when the maintainer of a critical piece of software was put to death for daring to glance at a party member without even bobbing his head and even the best AIs couldn't fix the bug that popped up the next day (because they also relied on that critical piece of software) and the LLC that did the hostile takeover of his estate refused to let anyone see the source code unless they paid a billion dollars, which they wanted to but payment systems also depended on that software, so instead society just finished collapsing.

  • Why do people insist on doing this?

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  • And I hate how windows did everything it could to enable that shit, too. Like I've had devices (specifically wireless headphones and mice) that worked fine when plugged in, and then suddenly some installer pops up by the company that made the device because windows is all too happy to automatically run shit when you plug a device in. I hope there's at least some kind of authentication back end where it recognizes a device ID and grabs the installer like that, but I suspect that it just uses a standardized way to grab an url and just runs whatever is on the other side of that.

    Should have switched autorun anything to default off after the Sony rootkits over twenty fucking years ago. It should have never even been a thing in the first place, since viruses on floppies existed before CDs (where autorun first showed up) even existed.

  • What movies and shows had a positive influence on your life in your childhood?

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  • Anything Mr. Bean.

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  • He caught up in a flash!

  • Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason

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  • Yeah, I used to have the mindset that either I loved or hated foods and would only want the ones I loved. But eventually, I realized that there's a middle category of foods that I don't go crazy for but aren't bad, plus two reasons to revisit the ones that I still didn't like: good cooking can make almost any food delicious, and tastes change as you age (and/or nutrition needs vary).

    I have trouble respecting picky eaters after that. As long as your body isn't trying to reject the food entirely (and I do understand that some people's bodies will reject things that mine is fine with), it's just sensations that you can get past. It's a mental block that if you can get past it, you'll eventually look back and wonder what was so hard about it.

    Though my mindset plays a role. I like novelty more than familiarity (though ironically I don't think we test our new things enough to really determine their safety... I like the new stuff but also side-eye it).