@JonSnow50616798 @blightersort The electoral college favors California much more than the popular vote would
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Minas Tirith City Planner
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@blightersort It's literally the same argument as in 1776 -- without some sort of power-sharing agreement, small states would never join and would leave as soon as possible.
Nobody wants to be ruled by California.
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there are in fact good civic arguments for the electoral college but they hinge on the fact that the united states is a union of states so things like the president (and in its original conception the senate) should be decided by state which, yes, may have different populations.
but today no one understands anything so everyone thinks it should just be popular national vote for everything.
James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki
There's no good civic argument for the electoral college. It was arguably necessary to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, but it's an anti-democratic device that gives some American citizens far more voting power than others, based purely on where they live.
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@KathrynPaisner @admcrlsn I think Hamas sucks and does awful things but if someone lives in the same country as them, I don’t bomb them, their homes or their cities to smithereens.
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@admcrlsn I think the Chinese government sucks and does awful things, but if someone tells me that they like China, I don't verbally or physically assault them or organize a mob to harass them at their home, school, business, and/or place of worship, because I'm not a raging bigot.
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@JoshOorah @IsThisA3DModel Basically, talk to me when I don’t have to wear shit on my head for it to work
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@IsThisA3DModel This looks more ridiculous than that 3D TV stuff they pushed.
Regular flat screen is good for the next several hundred years.
Heck 4k on screens smaller than 28" is probably good enough for the next few hundred years.
Reinvention or upgrades become pointless at some point.
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no and why would anyone want to see this in a movie
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@tangotiger @BaseballCarl1 Heard a good point that hitters will start learning their personalized strike zones over time, and might end up with an edge if the challenge model continues.
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@BaseballCarl1 Of course theres multitude of reasons for abstaining on a challenge
The point is players are afforded that luxury, while umpires have no choice but to call every pitch
To suggest an umpire "missed" a call by half an inch is an absurd standard. That's the point of my post
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Players missed challenging ~800 calls, and incorrectly challenged another ~200
In other words, players got ~1000 calls wrong... same as umpires
In other words, humans are humans
Umpire Auditor@UmpireAuditor
Umpires missed 1,055 calls this past week. 208 of those calls were overturned by ABS challenge. These were the 10 worst called strikeouts of the week.
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@SinCityRoto @UnderdogMLB I mean he wasn’t hitting those out for two years
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@UnderdogMLB cement mixer sliders over the middle of the plate will do wonders for break outs
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Jordan Walker is tied for the MLB lead with 5 HR
Walker hit 6 HR all of last season.
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@NiceJackIn2026 @BigBobsCards I’ve been watching baseball for decades and I say “the MLB” all the time.
Are you one of those “RsBI” guys?
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@BigBobsCards The fact that you said “the MLB” tells me that you’re an embarrassment to discussion of MLB.
It literally proves that you don’t even know how sentences work. You’re a child.
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The fact that there are so many minor league levels you have to get through prior to the MLB tells me baseball’s gap is the biggest. Dylan Crews was the best college hitter in the country 3 years ago and he can’t even make the roster of the worst MLB team. Pro baseball is hard.
DUBBY@DubDotDUBBY
The gap between college and the pros has to be the largest in basketball
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I still have the same question or the same areas of curiosity. If a quarter of what we can see of earth from the space capsule is in sunlight and the rest of what we see is in darkness and the moon that we see is in darkness, can someone please map out or show in a chart where the sun is in relation to both, and what is the angle of illumination that is causing this illumination and darkness? Isn’t anyone else curious to see how this all relates?
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@SuperMajority18 @piersmorgan Wtf is the “regime’s civilization?” That doesn’t mean anything.
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@piersmorgan Piers, the entire fucking quote, you lying sack of shit. Trump means the blood-soaked mullah regime's "civilisation" dies—not the Iranian people he literally blesses at the end. You're not misrepresenting; you're fabricating outrage for clicks like the pathetic hack you are.
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Which part of ‘A whole civilisation will die tonight.. ’ am I misrepresenting?
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You are not being rational show me one action made by Trump that shows any indication that he wishes to kill millions of people? If you want to say he chose the wrong word that’s fine. You know his intent is not to kill all the people of Iran, but you are saying that is his intent because of his wording only.
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@stockpiledclay The positivity in this thread almost makes this place seem sane
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If you ignore the groupthink and recency bias, letterboxd is actually a great source of movie recommendations. It’s FAR better than IMDb for finding great classic films
Bub@letterbub
do you think letterboxd has had an overall positive or negative impact on film culture?
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@devvidoo @JeremiahDJohns you can proactively text before you get in the car
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I've never understood the whole 'share your location' thing and it has me worried I'm turning into Old Man Yelling At Clouds
Neither I nor my wife have ever shared location (with anyone). I didn't even know it was a thing people did. Seems bizarre, but apparently is normal?
mads campbell@martyrdison
i once dated someone and we got into a playful argument about why they wouldn’t share location “i’m a very private person, this feels like it’s moving too fast, that’s a big step” months later, after it didn’t work out, we were friends and i said “ok i need your location for logistics” he admitted the real reason he wouldn’t share it was because he never left the house and didn’t want anyone to see
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@JayAtkins2583 @PatriotBenn @AndrewKolvet Serial killers are more rare now than when he was active
goodreads.com/book/show/5262…
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@clkerst @PatriotBenn @AndrewKolvet Ironically the reason people like that had names that live on in infamy is in part because they were so rare.
You aren’t making the point you think you are.
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The Red Sox posted video of opening day in Boston in 1950s. The decline is insane.
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@PatriotBenn @AndrewKolvet Actually, no. Looks like this is about ‘56 and for some reason I assumed ‘50 on the nose. So he was about 25. And about 6 years closer to killing his victims.
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@PatriotBenn @AndrewKolvet The Boston Strangler was 19 years old when this was filmed.
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@cryptopunk7213 “Pixar-grade” is a description that comes from the fact that Pixar has now existed for 30 years. Which is the only reason AI can do this so easily.
And if artists rely on AI to make their work, all we’ll get is another 30, 50, 100 years of the same.
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genuine question: why are the arts and gaming communities so fucking touchy about ai?
i get that 99% of examples are slop but we’re reaching a point where ai-generated media is indistinguishable for 90% of the world
that shouldn’t go un-acknowledged just because you want to hide behind a professional identity
ai isn’t going away, it’s getting (a lot) better, so why not try and figure out how to work with it to your advantage? isn’t that what a bunch of hollywood is realising now?
doomer: “NO THIS IS NOWHERE CLOSE TO PIXAR GRADE”
8 year old (target audience): “haha that’s awesome”
what am i missing?
Is this a 3D model?@IsThisA3DModel
no and this is nowhere close to "Pixar-grade"
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@Jbelkin1 @CinemaPrincipia @DarkI3INARY @GuyonLI @OchoYMedioGama @CyrilH44 The good news is there’s no list, so no need to wait around for it. There’s just people making movies now and in the future who’ve seen and admired all these movies and are influenced by them.
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@clkerst @CinemaPrincipia @DarkI3INARY @GuyonLI @OchoYMedioGama @CyrilH44 Great, when your obscure pretentious indie flick gains new found popularity in 20 years, we can reconsider its placement the list.
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This is why most actors have terrible filmographies.
It’s the difference between Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale. Leo is famously a cinephile and seeks out great directors, whereas Bale, on the other hand…
ana⁴⁴@anapau_villa
Robert Pattinson critica a sus colegas por su falta de interés en el cine: “Creo que soy muy snob con respecto a esas cosas. Hubo un largo periodo en el que te reunías con cualquier actor y ninguno había visto ninguna película. Y pensabas: "¿Por qué no han visto nada?". Es muy raro. Muchos actores nunca han visto ninguna película y no les interesa.”
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@Jbelkin1 @CinemaPrincipia @DarkI3INARY @GuyonLI @OchoYMedioGama @CyrilH44 This is such a straw man. The Velvet Underground is a highly influential band that “no one” listened to at the time. Literally an art house indie band.
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@CinemaPrincipia @DarkI3INARY @GuyonLI @OchoYMedioGama @CyrilH44 Films that no one sees, cares about, or has any lasting cultural impact, by definition, are not “defining” films. I’m sorry your art house indie project doesn’t make the short list.
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@GermanicFren @SomeRndmGuyUT @NASA For one they aren’t clumped.
The ISS is visible from earth almost every night, it’s the size of a football field and even only 250 miles away it looks like a fast very bright dot moving by itself.
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so how does the spaceship fly that fast and dodge all the satellites and debris? i am pretty sure if i saw all these satellites clumped together, like thousands of ants, i would see em, alongside the debris, but nope, you get just a plain old clear picture
a sucker born every minute.
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@Darkdeedfiles @CNN It appeals to junk accounts with ai profile pics
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@CNN Put the worst of the worst on an island with no way out. Honestly what's the argument against this.
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President Donald Trump is seeking $152 million to cover the first year of costs to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison as a secure facility. cnn.it/489qnfO
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