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MurrayL

@ MurrayL @lemmy.world

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  • What is your cinema hot take?

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  • The Hobbit trilogy was filmed and released in 48 fps (in theatres only, now lost media), and pretty much everyone hated it.

    I saw it and can confirm it looked really fucking weird. I thought I’d get used to it after a while but the effect kept pulling me out of the movie throughout the entire runtime.

  • if you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock) a meteor will fly across your screen

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  • Also fun fact: ‘a meteor killed the dinosaurs’ is more or less universally accepted now, but younger folks might not realise it’s a pretty recent theory.

    It was first proposed in 1980, they found the likely impact site in 1991, and it was officially endorsed by an expert panel in 2010.

    I have books on my shelf from the 90s that say no one knows what killed the dinosaurs.

  • How do you intake caffeine and how much?

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  • I have a cup of black coffee once a day, usually made with an aeropress. On weekends I might have black tea instead, depending on how I feel.

    I try not to have my first cup before about 10.30-11.00am, so my body has a chance to wake up naturally. I don’t really know if there’s any science behind that, but I feel like it helps make me less reliant on coffee to get me going in the morning.

    I mostly just have one cup a day and then switch to Barleycup (caffeine-free hot drink) in the afternoon, but on very busy days I might have a second coffee around 4pm. I try not to, because if I do that too many days in a row I can feel my body starting to need caffeine to operate at a baseline level.

    If it gets to that point, I avoid coffee for a few days to ‘reset’. Again, not sure if there’s any scientific basis for that but it seems to work for me.

    In my experience, people build up a tolerance to caffeine pretty fast. It doesn’t take long to go from ‘a cup gives me a boost’ to ‘I have no energy until I have a cup’, which are very different things. I see people saying they drink an entire pot per day or more, and I have to wonder if they even get any benefit from it at all, besides holding off the headaches and fatigue of caffeine withdrawal.

  • Married people, do you have a wedding ring? Do you always wear it?

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  • Yes, but I only wear it when I remember to put it on, which is rarely. My wife is similar.

    It’s for the best, really - whenever I wear it, there’s a 50% chance I misplace it. The typical scenario is: I go to wash my hands, pop the ring in my back pocket (so I don’t lose it down the sink), and then forget to put it back on. Then the trousers go back in the wardrobe, and three days later I’m turning the house upside down trying to remember where I put the ring.

    It’s gone in the washing machine several times. Fished it out of a drain trap once. I lost the damn thing on our honeymoon and had to spend an hour retracing my steps. I can’t be trusted to wear it every day.

  • Hands off?

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  • Because to them it’s only an issue if it affects them personally. If it’s someone else’s kids, they don’t care.

    Most conservative double-think like this boils down to a lack of empathy.

  • Iceland Foods Finally Surrenders In Trademark Fight With Iceland, The Country

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  • Sorry for your experience but I assure you we do have freezers. Freezers are in fact very common, just not in small apartments where space is at a premium.

    Vast, American-style double-fronted fridge freezers are uncommon, but I’d venture a guess at most UK & Western European households having a freezer of some sort - either a tall fridge/freezer unit or two separate under-counter units.

  • Can too many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies?

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  • It always makes me smile when this community lives up to its name

  • The excellent fusion of Balatro and chess in Gambonanza releases May 1

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  • If you’re waiting for this but still looking for an offbeat chess game to play in the meantime, check out Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.

  • The Anatomy of an Impossible Port: Bringing Dead Cells to the R36S

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  • Sorry, didn’t mean to cause any stress - clearly I was wrong here. Reading through I saw a lot of sentence structures typical of LLM writing, but like you say this is partly because they were trained on writers’ work.

    I’m a writer myself, so I’ve seen first hand how LLMs are rotting our profession from the inside. That’s not an excuse for making false accusations, but I hope you can understand my exasperated tone when I found what seemed like slop on my feed.

  • The Anatomy of an Impossible Port: Bringing Dead Cells to the R36S

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  • Edit: Apparently my AI-detector is malfunctioning today. Keeping the original comment below for context.

    Tried reading the article but it’s clearly written with AI. There might’ve been some editing but the stink of slop is all over it. Disappointing.

  • It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country (1921)

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  • I’m genuinely not sure if you agree with the poem, misunderstood it, or didn’t read it at all.

  • Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators

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  • Finally, a way to indulge in exhibitionism without having to leave the house!

  • What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it?

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  • I think people make fun of it because to a non-American it comes across as deeply insecure. The trope is that the USA has no history of its own and so its people latch onto the smallest scraps of foreign heritage as a way to give themselves some cultural context and cachet.

    I don’t think it’s invalid - in many cases the ancestry is genuine, even if distant/fractional. If it helps them find meaning or feel connected to something then I’ve got no issue with it. Humans like to feel connected to other humans, and it’s fun to discover that you have things in common.

    The issues only really arise IMO if someone starts weaponising that ancestry or insisting they now have the authority to speak for a people they have no tangible connection to.

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • You got a 2017 laptop with an A18 Pro chip? Wow that’s incredible!

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • I switched my phone to Times New Roman

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  • Yeah, it seems like it. The most common fonts intended to actually help dyslexics seem to be Dyslexie and OpenDyslexic, although I’ve also seen people say Comic Sans is good.

  • I switched my phone to Times New Roman

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  • I think it makes it look like a cheap drop-shipped device from China, but if it improves readability for you then go for it!

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • Except for them to be directly comparable you’d also have to get a keyboard cover for the iPad, making it more expensive than the MacBook, and it’d still have one fewer USB port and no audio jack.

  • ard

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  • See also: haggard, laggard, braggart (this one changed to a ‘t’ for some reason), dastard, dullard, and a few others. It’s uncommon but it’s out there!

  • cool websites @lemmy.ca
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    Digital Museum of Plugs and Sockets

    plugsocketmuseum.nl /index.html
  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    I miss play-by-email games

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    If you screw something up it's bad, but if you nailed it it's good

  • internet funeral @lemmy.world
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    dissociation