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  • Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

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  • I read the same, and I feel like that is a negative feedback loop.

    Like the more the content is written so that people don't have to pay attention and plot and scenery is verbally stated by actors, the less people will feel like they need to pay attention.. and then they'll turn to their phone.

    Its gonna come back to bite them when they dumb the content down and people realize they don't actually need to pay for Netflix to run in the background, and can instead just have YouTube videos of people reciting the plot to them while they doodle on their phones.

  • Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

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  • Yeah that's a good point. It's a psychological hurdle.

  • Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

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  • Except that if you look at the stats, most Netflix viewers binge watch (88% here), and most engage in long binges (70% here reported 5 episodes or more at a time), binge watching is by all accounts 'the norm' for streaming service users.

    So while you may be able to 'decide if you want to continue or stop' the statistics show that the vast majority of people end up watching much, much longer than a movie runtime - which was my point.

  • Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

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  • Not to completely invalidate your point but have you ever noticed the [pause] button when you're watching a movie?

    The exception is for cinema films, and any cinema film over two hours long (which is very rare) will generally have an intermission. Not that we were limiting the discussion to cinema entertainment anyway.

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    Is it okay to put emojis in your LinkedIn bio?

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  • Nobody reads them except recruitment bots, so it's probably fine.

  • Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

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  • Love that people complain about the length of movies while simultaneously happily siting through eight, hour+ long episodes of Stranger Things over two evenings.

    Especially when many hours could have easily been left on the cutting room floor of most streaming shows, but they need to streeetch the runtime so that the writers can meet their contractual, or whatever other internal requirements.

  • Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

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  • Did you have an iPad/phone shoved in front of you during mealtime, or when waiting for a sibling during their sports practice or game, or while waiting at the doctors office, or if your parents had guests or were visiting a friend, or in literally every single potential moment of boredom that could be filled with learning patience, reflection and just enjoying silence?

    Because that's the new normal for a whole generation of kids.

    I have young kids in gen alpha, bought them up with quite minimal screen time, and the behavioural differences between them and their peers that have been bought up with heavy screen use iPad as the primary tool of choice is stark and very concerning for those kids' future.

    And lemme tell you, none of the parents I gently tried to encourage the importance of boredom with over the years changed their behaviour much. As soon as it became a regular tool to deal with an child needing attention it became a very hard thing to part with.

  • Me, who has went through multiple race riots since the 90s

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  • I like this meme, but then I realize it could be just as easily posted by a MAGAt and my enjoyment is muted somewhat.

  • Me, who has went through multiple race riots since the 90s

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  • Or, and bear with me on this one because it is a crazy thought - maybe they are from a different part of the world that is not the USA.

  • We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands)

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  • Does the screen at least have some other functionality - like telling you when the tank is full, or something?

    Or is it just a little digital billboard of sadness.

    (Edit) - dunno why so many people feel the need to give 'um actually; that's redundant' replies when none actually answer my question - I still don't know if it only displays ads.

    Gonna answer all questions at the same time instead of sending three identical replies:

    To this day many (perhaps even most) people still don't know that petrol tanks in vehicles require some air space at the top to allow room for fuel expansion and vapours - and that you should definitely stop filling at the first click.

    Overfilling by continuing after the first click often leads to liquid fuel getting into the charcoal canister or fuel tank breather. A reminder to stop filling on the little screen could be beneficial.

  • Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020

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  • The same Melius Finance that gave Tesla stock its highest rating of "must own" due to Elon lying again that Full Self Drive is being deployed imminently to Teslas via their in-house "AI chips" eta Dec 2025?

    https://finance.yahoo.com/video/tesla-stock-must-own-melius-220721932.html

    Tesla stock is currently at $416 after a high of $474 in November, around when this call was made.

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  • Tesla kills Models S and X to build humanoid robots instead

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  • I think they're only not 'discontinuing' the Cybertruck because they have a massive backlog of them to sell, and they don't want to spook the few potential buyers that remain.

    They have scaled them back though, discontinuing the cheapest RWD model, and a bunch of trim options. The writing is definitely on the wall.

  • Deuterostomes

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  • Skin, probably. Everyone forgets that your skin is an organ.

  • Has anyone seen/heard any mention of Loops on the corporate media this week?

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  • As a Fediverse user, I have barely heard of Loops (I mean no offence).

  • ICE Agents Want Out of Minnesota: Trump’s ‘Battle Is Lost’

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  • It doesn't just cover service members, they would classify as appointed officials.

    "a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government"

    Edit: Jeez, just read it, it's not even long. They would absolutely fall under it.

    The act gives the president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court".

  • Systemd Founder Lennart Poettering Announces Amutable Company

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  • I think they're referring to the name of the company being very similar to "immutable", no?

  • ICE Agents Want Out of Minnesota: Trump’s ‘Battle Is Lost’

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  • TikTok is investigating why some users can't write 'Epstein' in messages

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  • US to send ICE agents to Winter Olympics, prompting Italian anger

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  • Well well, some very lucky ICE agents moving up in the world - first they were just Gestapo but now they're graduating to full SS.