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@ Tlaloc_Temporal @lemmy.ca

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  • Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.

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  • Oh, that chemistry is great, but I don't think he plays the investigator part well, especially when trying to follow the clues left by Dr Lanning. Will Smith's style is very off the cuff and anti-authority, and while that works in MIB where there's the very strict Agent K to play off of, I don't think he works as the sole driver of a light mystery. Sonny and Spooner's interactions are fantastic, but they're usually driven by Sonny giving exposition. Spooner is usually just running from things as they unfold.

    All in all, not a bad performance (there were plenty of objectively worse ones), but I don't think it does the movie any favours. There are plenty of great things about i, Robot, but Will Smith is not one of them in my opinion.

  • Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.

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  • I don't particularly like his acting style, completely outside anything he does as a person. iRobot and Men In Black are some of his better roles, but like Jeff Goldblum or Eddy Murphy, he can only play himself. I don't think it works in iRobot that well though, but that's more of a casting choice than bad acting.

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    Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant.

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  • The crucifix is an implement of torture and execution, upon which the titular Christian god was executed to fulfill a blood oath. Executionists, torturers, blood magicians, nailers, death cultists, the forsaken (Psalm 22)...

    Being shephered by a higher authority is also a common theme. Sheep is right there, although some actually use that directly.

    Another common theme is the second arrival of their god, starting the end of the mortal realm and the death of all mortals. Death cultists again, apocalyptics, doomsdayers...

    There's lots of heinous things in their book, but most reject them or are unaware. You could call out lots of things there.

  • At least I didn't vote for a fascist

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  • Eh, if your state goes 70% R and has for the last 50 years, there's not much you can do. Unless there's a big movement, 100% of those votes go to R. Getting better local representation might be more worth it.

    It's a really shitty system that promotes really shitty incentives, and has even shittier outcomes. I generally advocate for strategic voting, but in some places your vote literally doesn't matter.

  • I'd ring that

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  • Hermi wan Kenerbi, yer me ernly herp!

  • I'd ring that

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  • I disagree with the word hyperbole. In speech, it comflicts with the namespace of -ly words and always sounds like an adverb, which derails my parsing. In writing, it conflits with the namespace of nouns like hole, pole, console, casserole, and letrozole. The only -ole word that I know that doesn't sound like this is guacamole, which doesn't sound like an adverb.

    It's a word actively harmful to my understanding and should be stricken from the language. Just use hyperbolic.

  • I'd ring that

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  • "kazum" is acceptable in my book. "Toom" is strange for a book though.

  • I'd ring that

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  • For the record, I like this one better.

  • Lemmy be like

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  • The dot-com bubble isn't the internet. The internet existed long before and continued to grow after. Companies that used digital posters on the internet had a crash, but the internet kept growing.

    Digital posters do still have a use today, and there are still companies running on promises, but digital promises are simple and cheap. AI is not. At least not in this form.

    Big tech hype will continue after this tech hype bubble pops, but that doesn't mean the tech is good.

  • Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.

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  • There were good parts in that movie, but Will Smith wasn't one of them.

  • The virus she told you not to worry about.

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  • And many bacteria can live for years in hard vacuum. That doesn't tell us anything about the environment they need to live though.

  • GET FISHBOARDED IDIOT

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  • Nyou guys nan shtill shmell?

  • Stripes! 🐅

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  • Blaschko's lines happen mostly in mosaicism, where an embryo is formed by the fusion of two embryos, gets a mutation early in development, or otherwise gets two different genotypes. It can also be caused by X-linked genes. If those genotypes produce different skin colours or react differently to skin diseases, you can see the lines directly.

    It looks like any visible form of mosaic disease may present along Blaschko's lines.

  • Eastlink Plans Rural Internet Shutdowns After Ottawa’s Telecom Ruling

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  • I kinda think communication hardware over 10 years old should be public anyway.

  • Black Holes

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  • There's lot's of issues with current physics, mostly in cosmology. String Theory was partly invented to describe the interior of a black hole. The characteristics of the Higgs field are still unknown. Gravity is still not unified with the other forces, despite appearing to couple with everything. Our current best models for the formation of the universe predict huge amounts of invisible matter, and we have no idea what that could be, from new particles to microscopic black holes formed in the first nanoseconds of the universe, to reinterpretations of relativity. Those same models also predict that out universe is dominated by strange energy inherent to space itself, which has no basis in the Standard Model at all. I wouldn't call these perfectly fine answers.

    And even if the nature of the interior of a black hole what the only issue, the final part of physics we haven't explained, I would say we've thought that before. About a century ago, the scientific community though they had mostly solved physics. The last big question was why ultraviolet light didn't extend out to infinite energy as predicted. Then photons happened and we discovered quantum physics.

  • Featured

    ‘It speaks to me in brain rot’: Theorising ‘brain rot’ as a genre of participation among teenagers

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  • As far as I can tell, brain rot encourages no thoughts, head empty enjoyment. It expects and promotes the lowest common denominator thoughts, like a thought stopping cliche but for entertainment instead of propaganda.

    There's plenty of mature brain rot and it's only non-productive in the same way most media is. I can see calling it decompression-driven, but more as a form of escapist relaxation, like coloring books or knitting. It's main focus is mininal mental effort, hence the name.

    TL;DR: Ye, paper is garbo.

  • Carney becomes second sitting prime minister in Canadian history to march at Pride

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  • For real, this is the first bit of completely good news I've heard about him since the election.

  • Zuckerberg says Meta will build data center "the size of Manhattan" in latest AI push

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  • They don't even have plenty. 7 Terrawatts is twice the total average power use of North America from all sources, including electricity, gas, solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, and so on.

  • Zuckerberg says Meta will build data center "the size of Manhattan" in latest AI push

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  • Also for comparison, in 2005 the US consumed on average 3.34 Terrawatts of power from all sources (not just electricity). In 2022, the world consumed on average 20.4 Terrawatts from all sources.

    US energy consumption has stayed pretty flat since 2000 (surprisingly), so a 7 Terrawatt facility would triple US power consumption, and be over a third of all power used by all humans.

    Completely ridiculous.

  • What were your parent's rules on video games?

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  • Well there you go, you got it.