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steeznson

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  • What's you favourite movie with big plot-holes?

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  • Agree that somehow these movies all come out in the wash despite these blunders.

    They should take a look at TV shows which prioritise realism in the future: The Wire features reporters making up serial killers and Nation of Islam assassins; both of which are just every day facts of the street. Characters are named after catchphrases they use, I.e. prop Joe, and they never get tired of saying these catchphrases. Small details but it is REALISM. The world has been brought to life.

    See also, a middle aged man successfully taking on an entire cartel in Breaking Bad. Everyone knows that criminals are stupid and a sufficiently motivated vigilante can run rings around them. They've EARNED my trust with attention to detail like this plotline and the main character's wife nagging him.

  • What is your choice for a dedicated Linux audio player?

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  • Kind of splitting hairs there imo. MPV does show the album art if it is on the audiofile metadata for example. I think cmus would fail to be a dedicated music player given your definition.

  • What RSS feeds to you follow?

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  • I still get reddit content by using old.reddit.com/r/subreddit.rss so that I can consume certain content without interacting with their hellsite or bloated app

  • What's you favourite movie with big plot-holes?

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  • Every Jackie Chan film: he claims he doesn't want to fight or have any trouble but then ends up kicking a tonne of ass

  • What's you favourite movie with big plot-holes?

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  • Perfect Days: the toilet cleaner has a humble and fulfilling life but there's no way he can be happy with his low status job

    Past Lives: Korean woman struggles when her childhood sweetheart shows up in America despite her having a new man; if she still loved her old flame she'd just ditch the new guy

    The Master: Cult leader finds animalistic man interesting/arousing but they are not intellectual peers

    Parasite: Poor family stumble upon a dark secret after ingratiating themselves with a rich family but the rich family should be too clever to fall for their scheme and are generally better than them

    Casablanca: Humphrey Bogart is supposed to be in love but he lets her go for some reason

    Brief Encounter: Married woman has emotional affair with a stranger on a train but doesn't act on her feelings for some reason

    Rashomon: None of the characters can agree on what happened even though some events must have objectively happened

    2001 Space Odyssey: Super intelligent AI is outsmarted by humans it is supposed to be more clever than

    Alien: Perfect killing machine fails to kill everyone

    Goodfellas: Gangster gets his commuppance despite the film establishing in the first half that he's a winner

    The Exorcist: Ancient demon is supposed to be the ultimate evil but is defeated

    Grave of the Fireflies: Child starves despite knowing they are eating mud balls instead of rice - they should have just eaten rice

    Big Fish: Man reconciles with estranged father after falling out with him over tall tales by becoming immersed in more tall tales

    I could go on but I think I've demonstrated my superior media literacy with the examples I've given already. Movie makers need to start portraying evil as winning, humans as uncomplicated and magic as not being real to improve their artform.

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  • To flex on strangers online and post to unixporn fora

  • Did you go to college, why or why not?

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  • I studied philosophy and history of art as a double major for undergraduate. Doing a humanities degree was the right decision at the time for me. Should mention that I didn't have to pay tuition fees as a Scottish person in Scotland.

    During that degree I ended up getting interested in Linux since I enjoyed seeing a practical example of altruism in the real world. Laterally I did a masters in Computing at a former polytechnic uni and have been working as a programmer ever since. Analytic philosophy actually maps onto coding really nicely since they are both ultimately concerned with discrete mathematics. I did have to take on a student loan for that degree but it didn't take me long to pay it off. It wasn't computer science since I didn't have the prerequisite STEM undergraduate degree but it focused on practical aspects of computing like developing desktop applications with Java, webdev with C# and JS, databases with SQL and introduction to operating systems.

    It also helped that in my advanced logic classes in philosophy I'd studied the Church Turing thesis, which is just about the most fundamental concept in Comp.Sci.

  • Great guy

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  • I saw Keanu Reeves at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

  • 15 Signs Linux Is Not For You

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  • Shh we're trying to circlejerk here! Keep your voice of reason down and grab some lotion

  • What exactly is this behaviour called?

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  • Maybe OP was meta-posting

  • China - Hong Kong: Civil society organisations urge UK PM to stand up for Jimmy Lai

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  • Not much we can do after giving it back

  • Yep, Xbox Is Bleeding Out

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  • My pixel 1 phone was fine. Went back to Samsung after that though.

  • Is entertainment getting worse or am I getting old?

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  • There are also full Afred Hitchcock movies you can watch for free on YouTube, presumably since they are now out of copywrite. Sometimes when people lament the state of modern entertainment in a "born in the wrong generation" way, they are forgetting that media from other decades are more available than they've ever been.

  • Is entertainment getting worse or am I getting old?

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  • I'm tired of the Honeypop slander - it's a perfectly respectable series of puzzle games

  • Ask me a science based question, and I'll research a good answer. Then edit your comment to make me seem like a terrible person.

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  • I suspect your answer to the original question was right in the sense that these two have the worst physical dependence but I believe another measure is Capture Rates where they survey users over a decade and they report the number of user still using the substance during the last survey who were using it in the first one. The highest capture rates are around 20% for H and cocaine when I saw the data last time which is worse odds than Russian Roulette!

  • What exactly is this behaviour called?

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  • Actually it's quite funny, if you take a broad interpretation of sealioning that does not involve the internet, Ancient Athens sentenced Socrates to death for "sealioning" in 400BC lol.

  • What exactly is this behaviour called?

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  • This one I've always been wary of. I studied philosophy so I know a bit about arguments and sealioning is unusual because it can only really take place over the internet where someone is asking questions in bad faith and you can't 100% call them out because you don't know their identity for sure. Firstly I don't like the idea that questions can be bad faith - especially seemingly trivial or obvious ones - since that goes against the Socratic method of questioning all your beliefs/shibboleths. Secondly, it is so context dependent that I think it is hard to universalise it like you can do with other fallacies like false dilemma (everyone is either a tequila or a whisky person, etc.)

  • Robin Ince forced to quit [BBC] Radio 4 over pro-trans views

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  • Overton window appears to have shifted from a decade ago

  • Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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  • I like negative income tax better. Basically you declare an amount that is the basic amount someone can live on, I.e. £20k and if you earn less than that your income is topped up by other tax payers. This has the advantage of high tax payers not being given a payment every month that they don't need.

    The downside of it is that means testing still requires some amount of beaurocracy. That means you'd be unable to completely axe the department of work and pensions (DWP) for example here in the UK. My understanding is that you could do universal basic income and pay everyone in the UK £1000 per month and those costs would be totally offset by no longer having to finance the DWP so it's a budget neutral policy in terms of government spending.