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it's literally cursed lmao

project hail mary was unfortunately a middling adaptation of a good book. the script has the unfortunate affect of “language model populism” - where every single line has to be some sort of punched up comedic zinger yet still unremarkable. visuals were uninspired and trite and more or less identical to other space movies. everything good about the film comes from the wonderful world scaffolding of the book and the hard science fiction of it all that lets you suspend disbelief on the alien rocky the movie doesn’t really try to get into the xenolinguistic stuff even at the depth the book tries (someone called it “arrival for idiots” which unfortunately hit ) the thing that elevated the book is the commitment to a hard science fiction engineeringporn fiction at a level nobody else is able to write. the direction of the movie doesn’t really convey the same feeling successfully, and you’re left with flat characters, an alien that is more human than several humans i know, and a marvel populism gosling and the german woman are great as actors, but this movie will not be remembered in a year. it is disappointing to see people do so little with a quarter billion, insane acting talent, and incredible source IP

I need to make some clarifications! It's common to talk of needs in a hierarchy, such that comfort and creative expression are needs even though they don't contribute directly to your survival! Think Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

lmao they mixed up Sweden and Finland

You can make your writing more feminine just by using more names for colours and fabrics. Turquoise. Chiffon. Wow You can make your writing more masculine by using words related to explosions. Cannonade. Artillery. Wow

Bigger story here: implied range of an Iranian IRBM from a launch box in central Iran, with a range of ~4500 km (distance to Diego Garcia). Theoretically could also target sites into Central Europe.

Software people tend to be culturally liberal, but economically they tended to embrace free markets, because the market was rewarding their human capital very handsomely. They didn't unionize, they were generally libertarian on economics, etc.

Canada has observed the largest decline in happiness in the world (along with the UK)