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Andy

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14h ago

Fits surprisingly well
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Andy @slrpnk.net 14h ago
That was a great ep and this is a great meme

17h ago

What movie trailer was better than the actual movie?

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Andy @slrpnk.net 17h ago

Holy shit, really?

That is Sony levels of stupid.

17h ago

What movie trailer was better than the actual movie?

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Andy @slrpnk.net 17h ago

View from the Top.

I saw it when I was in my twenties with a friend because we (two mostly straight guys) thought we were going to see the latest silly Mike Myers movie. And then it turned out that he was barely in it! They just took all his scenes and put them in the trailer! The actual movie was a very dull romcom staring Gwyneth Paltrow and some guy who I don't remember being in the trailer at all.

When it ended, we walked out of the theater and just said to each other 'What the hell was that?'.

Also, I think Shallow Hal kind of falls in this too. I don't recall the trailer being great, but it had to be good enough that it got me to see that terrible movie.

Also, I don't know if this qualifies, but I remember that The Cable Guy staring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick was the first time I saw a movie and realized that a trailer can be misleading. They deliberately promoted it like The Mask and Ace Ventura. I think I was like 12 when I saw it, and it creeped me way the fuck out.

It wouldn't surprise me if it's actually a better movie than people remember, but the misleading promotion was a great way to ensure the movie didn't find its audience.

21h ago

Google

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Andy @slrpnk.net 21h ago

Please desist

21h ago

Google

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Andy @slrpnk.net 21h ago

Ulgh.

Blocked

4d ago

My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator

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Andy @slrpnk.net 4d ago

I feel like a lot of people are missing the obvious conclusion that everyone involved here is awful.

Maduro? Brutal dictator. His domestic opposition? Violent fascists. His international opposition? Absolute war criminals.

It's really sad. My primary opinion is that the US needs to leave Venezuela the fuck alone. If you want democracy in Venezuela, you can't get it through sanctioning the population into starvation if they don't vote the way Chevron tells them to. Did Maduro steal an election? Yes! But his opposition at home and abroad isn't mad that it wasn't fair: they're mad because they think it's bullshit for him to steal it after they stole it first!

Get the fuck out and let them actually decide what they want. The US is the clearly the greatest villain in a story with no obvious good guys.

5d ago

(UK) Schizophrenic neighbour has delusions about my brother and is harassing my entire family almost daily now on purpose, due to his delusions. We all have health problems. Can he be sectioned?

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Andy @slrpnk.net 5d ago

I don't know what your legal remedies are, but my first question is if your neighbor has any family that you could speak to.

I live in the US, but I had a somewhat similar problem with a neighbor. We saw his daughter come by from time to time, so one time we got her attention and shared our phone numbers and explained that we all wanted the same thing: peace and quiet. She was then able to speak to her father and possibly get him to take medication. In any case, things got much better, and when we had issues after that, we didn't go talk to him, we texted her politely to ask that she might do a wellness check and help keep him regulated.

5d ago

Just enjoy yourself because we enjoy you too

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Andy @slrpnk.net 5d ago

That's fine, but I want my shy players doing more accents, so no one teases anyone about all our awful accents.

6d ago

In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool

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Andy @slrpnk.net 6d ago

It would explain a lot

1w ago

Just enjoy yourself because we enjoy you too

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Andy @slrpnk.net 1w ago

Last night one player said of another, "wow, that cowboy accent drifted to southern real fast."

I was like, "we got a house rule: we don't talk about accent drift at this table, buddy"

1w ago

Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government

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Andy @slrpnk.net 1w ago

Whew.

The thing about these incidents that I find most interesting is that they basically reveal a widely held suspicion among many people that these government contractors are over-crexentialed bullshit artists.

This just shows what we've all suspected: they've been cutting corners, claiming underserved authority, and making up shit for years. But now some folks are checking and reporting on it.

1w ago

Pope Leo: Palestinian state 'only' solution to Israeli conflict

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Andy @slrpnk.net 1w ago

Respectfully, religion really isn't the cause, it's just correlated with ethnicity, like language.

1w ago

How many guys did Peter Thiel call the anti-christ?

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Andy @slrpnk.net 1w ago

He apparently had a whole seminar on how he assess who he thinks most resembles the antichrist , and I have no idea if this is some sort of thought exercise or is he's being literal.

The real added later of absurd irony is that if THE Jesus Christ returned to share his message of radically pious non violent service to the downtrodden, Thiel would call him the antichrist and demand for him to be tortured to death again.

2w ago

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Andy @slrpnk.net 2w ago

The up/down vote system directs the ranking algorithm on how to order posts and comments, and it visually signals to the user the relative popularity of a comment.

This, imo, is a wildly underappreciated mechanic for combating a lot of the harmful issues people associate with social media.

Most people recognize that discourse on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. is designed to divide and inflame people. the reddit-style downvote is remarkably effective at addressing this:

It does two key things in particular:

Downvoted comments are down ranked and hidden, so people are exposed to less toxic content.
If people do engage with unpopular comments, the negative score influences how people engage with them. On Facebook, commenting to defend Biden's Israel policy will get elevated and create viscous fights. On Lemmy, it will get flagged with a virtual dunce cap. You can dunk on it, but there's no point in arguing with it: we can all see that the argument is already over. Laugh and ignore.

Taken together, these discourage people from feeding trolls, and in doing so reduce the incentive to post something uncivil or stupid. It's a remarkably powerful tool to address a huge problem, and I wish more people understood this.

2w ago

UK Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture

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Andy @slrpnk.net 2w ago

First, this is a really well written article.

Second, this whole thing feels like a comedic farce. How does someone who clearly opposes their own party's agenda in it's entirely exist in this party? And why?