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Particle Man

@beamdriver

I run a particle accelerator. Sometimes I also do websites. Still watching out for Triangle Man. 🇮🇱

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Particle Man
Particle Man@beamdriver·
@ColeSandick All three sequel movies were bad, each terrible in its own particular way. TFA was a boring, uninspired retread of ANH. TLJ was an attempt to deconstruct Star Wars, pooping on everything fans loved TROS was just a loud, incoherent mess Three strikes and you're out.
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Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩
As a lapsed Star Wars fan I really think it’s all just the Rise of Skywalker. It was not only calamitous but nonsensical, insulting and because it was the climax of the trilogy it made people feel like their yearslong emotional investment in the sequels had been a waste of time.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias

Ten years ago, it would have been inconceivable to me for the release of a new Star Wars feature film to be this little of a big deal. The Last Jedi / Rise of Skywalker fiasco destroyed a staggering amount of cultural and economic value.

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Particle Man
Particle Man@beamdriver·
@dilanesper Years ago I read a book where the main character plays blackjack and it was clear the author had no idea how the game works.
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Particle Man@beamdriver·
@peterrhague Odds are a new ICE car is going to have a major failure and will require a repair that will mechanically total it before a new EV has battery degradation that would seriously impact its usability.
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Peter Hague
Peter Hague@peterrhague·
The reality of owning an EV. My 20 plate Hyundai Kona with over 70k miles, still has as much full charge range as when it was new. Battery degradation is minimal and the car has a “reserve” it enables as the vehicle ages. I will not need a battery replacement in the lifetime of the car. Fears of battery failure largely stem from the experience of the Nissan Leaf, which was an early attempt to make an affordable EV when the technology wasn’t quite up to it - so its range was short and lack of thermal management of the battery made it degrade over time. There is a meter on the dashboard that shows how much full capacity remains; sometimes unscrupulous dealers would reset the computer on second hand ones so they misreported the battery as perfect. This isn’t a risk with modern electric cars. They age well, and this means that you can buy with confidence on the used market - which is critical to wider adoption. We can’t all afford new cars, after all.
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Particle Man@beamdriver·
@HistoryBoomer I took may daughter to MOMA earlier in the year. One of the things I tried to show her is how experiencing art in person is different than look at a picture of it. Still a little pissed I couldn't get in front of Starry Night because so many people wanted to take a picture of it
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Carl
Carl@HistoryBoomer·
Botticelli's "The Calumny of Apelles" (1495) One of my faves from my Italy trip. A photo doesn't do it justice. It glowed in person. On the far left is Truth (naked) looked at by Repentence (black). Perfidy (red and yellow), Calumny (white), and Fraud drag an innocent man to his doom. Fraud arranges Calumny's hair while Spite (bearded man) gestures at the King. We know the man they are pulling by the hair is innocent because of his nakedness. King Midas, with donkey ears, is being advised by Ignorance (far side) and Suspicion (near side). Things haven't changed that much. Ignorant men in power still ignore the truth, and innocents are still condemned by evil whispers.
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Particle Man@beamdriver·
@Austen Plenty of Americans eat hamburgers several times a week
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Austen Allred
Austen Allred@Austen·
When I lived in Ukraine an old guy demanded that I tell him what food Americans eat nearly every night (looking for borscht equivalent). He was convinced I was lying. Eventually he stood up and said, “You mean to tell me your mother prepares a different meal every day?”
Brien Jackson@Brien_Jackson

I can stop you right at the first one: This idea that you just HAVE to have completely different cuisines every single meal is in fact a sign that you have a serious problem with dopamine addiction and social media induced psychosis

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Josh Barro@jbarro·
@daveweigel Although the guy with the worst sense of humor on the internet bought The Onion and The Onion got better, so maybe I should keep an open mind about how the humorless can interface with comedy.
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Particle Man@beamdriver·
@HistoryBoomer Not quite as fancy, but I like this with some extra cheddar and a lot of Franks Red Hot. Good for dinner or lunch at work.
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Carl
Carl@HistoryBoomer·
Lunch today. It's fine. You could cook better. But it took me 5 minutes to prepare. And I didn't spend $28 on DoorDash ($7.50 from Whole Foods).
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Ben@benwhite21·
@beamdriver @HistoryBoomer I think the family drama parts were an intentional bit, it gets really oscar bait checklisty around the same point in the movie that the novel is taking off
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Carl
Carl@HistoryBoomer·
Calling "American Fiction" woke slop is peak culture war broken-brain syndrome. I can only hope Russ tweeted his silly take without having seen the movie. Not everything that mentions race is woke! "American Fiction" was delightfully ANTI-woke. This opening scene has a tender woke white girl complaining because a slur is on the blackboard, and her black teacher shoots her down with a joke. That the class laughs at this line shows where the film's sympathies lie. Of course, he gets called on the carpet and has to take a leave of absence, which rings true to us academics. Most students are not the green-haired girl, but the ones who are, especially if they reach a critical mass, can make our lives a pain. (Even if other students find them annoying.) But if woke annoys sane people by exaggerating racial sensitivities, black people in academia can face their own very real problems, like always being expected to talk about "black" issues. "American Fiction" captures this beautifully. And best of all, the heart of the movie is a particular man's specific story, which isn't about race, but rather explores family dynamics and the histories that accumulate yet are never talked about.
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Russ@Russ__ATX

@HistoryBoomer by the way, this woke slop flop movie won Best Adapted Screenplay over Oppenheimer.

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Particle Man
Particle Man@beamdriver·
@benwhite21 @HistoryBoomer I wasn't that interested in the family drama. It seemed like it was all from a different movie. One I wouldn't have cared to watch. I would have liked more exploration about why so many people, including his girlfriend, liked his book. It can't be that they were all rubes.
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Ben@benwhite21·
@beamdriver @HistoryBoomer Something I haven't seen pointed out that often is that the oscar-bait family drama plotlines also operate as meta level bait for overly-self-serious audiences just like his character's novel does within the film.
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Ben Dreyfuss
Ben Dreyfuss@bendreyfuss·
@daveweigel “Lynching is not a joke. That’s worse than rape” is going to bouncing around my brain for a while
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Particle Man@beamdriver·
@SonnyBunch @bendreyfuss In the audio documentary "An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill", one of the things they talk about is people who are homeless carrying a George Foreman Grill around with them so they can cook a meal if they find an outlet to use.
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Sonny Bunch@SonnyBunch·
@bendreyfuss I just like to imagine Gen Z cooking off a sterno can or some shit like a hobo. “My crooked landlord won’t even pay for a hot plate in my $3,500 studio!!”
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Ben Dreyfuss
Ben Dreyfuss@bendreyfuss·
There are certain situations where I think the “doesn’t have the capacity to make home cooked meals” thing isn’t absurd, if you live in a studio apartment with a tiny kitchenette, you’re not going to cook a lot, but even then you still COULD.
Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz

This is bc they do not have the time or capacity to create home cooked meals. It’s an issue countless ppl have tried to raise w leftists but big leftists online continue to shame/abuse poor ppl for being forced to rely on these services for meals, which act as a tax on the poor

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Particle Man@beamdriver·
@bendreyfuss I occasionally cook a meal in the tiny kitchen we have at work, either in the combo Air Fryer/Toaster Oven or in my little Dash electric griddle. No matter how meager your apartment, as long as you have a table and an outlet, you can cook meals there.
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Particle Man@beamdriver·
@Texas_Charles @HistoryBoomer I moved out on my own at 22 and I had no idea how to cook anything. Somehow I learned, and this was pre-internet. Today there are a million YouTube videos that show you how to cook anything you might care to eat.
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Carl
Carl@HistoryBoomer·
I have a jar of peanut butter (extra crunchy) and a loaf of raisin bread always say in my fridge. That’s a standard lunch for me at least a couple times a week. Why can’t zoomers do that?
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns

The biggest thing happening behind the scenes in the "expensive lunch" discourse is that Zoomers are eating out at ridiculously high rates. It's a silent assumption for a ton of young people that restaurants are a basic necessity, not an occasional treat.

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Particle Man@beamdriver·
@HistoryBoomer I don't feel any kind of way about black Helen of Troy, but for those making fun of people objecting to it, I would like to remind them that people lost their shit over this film because they felt very strongly the robot Scarlett Johansson played should have been an Asian robot.
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Carl@HistoryBoomer·
Yes, I get it, there has been something of a double standard with casting. But people keep showing Gosling as President Obama. That is a very pointed jab, but I know of no films with black actors as white presidents. For the jab to work, shouldn't there be a black Reagan? In other words, while there may be issues, the genre of films that this image is spoofing (major biopics of modern figures) have not been cast color-blind. This is why we haven't seen Denzel play Nixon (and he would be awesome).
Carl@HistoryBoomer

People keep sharing this because they're angry that supposedly black actors can take white roles, but not the reverse. But has the reverse happened? Has Don Cheedle played Ronald Reagan? Has Denzel Washington played Richard Nixon? (Btw, Denzel as Nixon would totally slap.)

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Sam Block@theblockspot·
If These Were The Choices: • Shedeur Sanders • Tyler Shough • Bryce Young • JJ McCarthy • Jaxson Dart • Mac Jones • Cam Ward • Drew Allar • Malik Willis • Ty Simpson • Will Howard • Carson Beck • Michael Penix Jr. • Fernando Mendoza Which QB would you build around?
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