Chip Meyer
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Chip Meyer
@RealChippy
Technology consultant. I grok grok. Proud husband, father. Marked safe from being in the Epstein files.
Los Angeles Se unió Mart 2022
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@CynicalPublius @BarackObama Obamacare failed every single goal it was supposed to accomplish.
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I had an amazing employer-provided PPO that cost me next to nothing. You stole it.
You stole my doctor.
My brother just died of cancer. He had no health insurance because he could not afford your premiums. It was cheaper to take the tax hit.
You are a disgusting, fetid liar who did more to harm America's health than anything since tuberculosis.
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The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.
The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more.
But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.
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@JWhitebread1 @RuntimeAnxiety @sudsmixer In my head, he looked a lot like it came out in the movie. Except the eating part.
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@RuntimeAnxiety @RealChippy @sudsmixer Yeah, he had a rock like surface texture but was more like a radially symmetrical sea star, sea urchin or sand dollar in my imagination.
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Project Hail Mary is an exceptional film. Great adaptation of the novel. Go see it. Anything I could criticize about it would be nitpicking.
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BUT HEY! THAT'S WHAT THE INTERNET IS FOR! SO LET'S DO THIS! NITPICKS AWAY!
If you loved the parts of the novel of where Grace "sciences" his way out of problems, a hallmark of Weir's writing, you aren't going to get much of that out of this film. They chose instead to focus on the relationship between Rocky and Grace, which was the right call. It's mostly a story about a man finding his courage through an unlikely friendship.
Still, there are hints to those problem-solving scenes in the movie. One of my favorites is near the end of the novel where Grace uses the spin-drives on the Hail Mary as an improvised IR LiDAR to find Rocky's disabled ship. If you look at the displays, you can tell that's what he's doing, but they never explain it, it's more of an Easter Egg to fans of the book to let us know, hey, we love that part of the book too.
Still, the movie has a LOT of musical montages, and long cinematic scenes where nothing much happens other than gorgeous visuals. They are beautiful, but, they could have cut a few minutes of those and put a LITTLE more of the science into the movie, I think.
Overall, very great film though, great performances, great sets and visuals and really heart-warming.
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@Dystop1anFvtvre @johnkonrad Absolutely! It's so much more complicated than a single "comment" can cover. But I discovered a lot in the process. For instance, I can tell "bias" (political affiliation) from the importance a person places on a story. Predictions are tough, especially about the future.
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@RealChippy @johnkonrad The crazy thing is, knowing the most about a subject and being able to make accurate predictions about a subject don’t necessarily overlap all that much.
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@johnkonrad I put the whole project aside when Elon stepped in, but I will take another look.
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@mitchellvii I think we should go back to senators appointed by the state legislators. Not the popular vote.
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The problem with six years for senators is they become too comfortable, and they're too vulnerable to lobbyists and outside interests. They forget who elected them.
The problem with two years for House members is they're always running for re-election.
We need to change it to four years for both, and elect them at the same time we elect the President.
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@HillsEmilyJ I agree! This was the best theater experience I have had since pre-covid! (Twice now, I have seen it twice so far).
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That was INCREDIBLE. The theater wasn’t very crowded at all, but a couple had reserved seats next to mine.
When they sat down, the wife apologized, and I said “no, now it doesn’t look like I’m at the movies alone!” 😂
She replied, “You’re with us!” 🤗
What a wonderful film, and a great experience getting my toes wet back out in society :) 11/10, movie and the day! 💜
Emily Hills@HillsEmilyJ
First time in a theater in a decade… waiting to see @projecthailmary in @IMAX 🍿😁💜
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@SarahAHoyt Somehow, the right person at the right time always seems to emerge.
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@sudsmixer @JWhitebread1 At least Rocky looked more like the book than the ship did. (Not complaining, the movie was far better than the book sketch on this).
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@RealChippy @JWhitebread1 They couldn't blow off the dust since movie Rocky was the wrong shape and had no radiator like the book...
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@JohnnyLCKai When Back to the Future 3 came out, I took a group of friends to a premier in Hollywood. 8 hours. First, they showed #1 and #2, then the premier for #3. I never did that for Matrix.
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@RealChippy Right now Back to the future is running away with it
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This is #JohnnyLawrenceMovieMadness
128 films in one tournament down to 64 across all genres and eras that lets you decide which will be number one🎬🏆
🎥There is a poll in the thread for you to vote and please remember to share these so we get more people involved🎥
We’ve got Marty and Doc going back in time and spawning a trilogy of epic movies taking on a bleak futuristic film fighting to save humanity that also led to a trilogy plus 1.
(#3 Seed) Back To The Future
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(#30 Seed) The Matrix
#Follow #Share #Vote #Movie #Tournament #Poll #BacktotheFuture #TheMatrix #Films #Movies #Repost


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@seangois @JWhitebread1 @bmariner The movie did a better job at the relationship between Rocky and Grace. For that alone, it's worth it.
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@JWhitebread1 @bmariner Haven’t seen the movie but the engineering was the only thing I liked about the book. Otherwise it was unimaginative for an alien encounter. Their differences were only superficial.
But solving engineering problems might not work for a movie.
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@JWhitebread1 @bmariner Heh. In the Martian book, they "joked" about playing Iron Man. In the movie, they skipped the science, did it anyway, and created a great scene.
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Fair. One of the few things I DISLIKED about the novel was that he pulls the "science the shit out of this" gimmick a bit too often. I get that it is Weir's schtick, it's what made him famous, but once you determine that a pencil is falling too fast for normal gravity, do you really need to do a pendulum test to determine if you are in a centrifuge? It kinda drags in the beginning, once Rocky shows up, it gets much better. The movie very wisely glossed over that too.
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@LionelMedia Same reason a bullet does more damage when fired than when dropped.
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Tell me why this is not a valid observation.
bu/ac@buperac
So you mean to tell me, an airplane can go right through the World Trade Center that had steel structure beams of 4 inch plate every 40” using 12 different grades of steel with a yield strength of 100,000 psi but if the same plane were to run into a firetruck on a runway the plane is completely destroyed. Got it!
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