Blueacre
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Blueacre
@blueacre
Whatever you call me, don’t call me late for dinner.
เข้าร่วม Temmuz 2009
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RX Needs his own series. Most under appreciated character in the original trilogy
Star Wars Daily@StarWarsDaily_
What are your thoughts on the Gonk Droid?
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@Strangeland_Elf I don't know who that guy is but I agree.
I detest photos of people pointing to something. If it's important it can be noticed.
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Officer spots car, enters license plate #, state registry reports that it cannot confirm car has valid insurance. CA8: This created reasonable suspicion to stop car, at least given that defendant didn't challenge reliability of the state registry.
ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/03/2… #N
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On the other hand, Apple products are also reportedly not functioning perfectly. The astronauts noted this morning that the fancy iPhone 15 Pro Max cameras are badly washing out photos of earth from space.
Rafael Rivera@WithinRafael
NASA Artemis II crew is troubleshooting a tablet right now w/ Optimus software issues. (Sounds minor.) And in that discussion "I have two Outlooks and neither work". Oh no, lol.
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Honest to goodness why don't state just use the firing squad? It's more humane than lethal injection.
WSB-TV@wsbtv
A Georgia inmate wants to die by firing squad; he just learned if it will happen #Echobox=1774996095" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">wsbtv.com/news/local/geo…
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@PJMorell @neontaster Yes that is how I discovered her and what will keep me watching her on occasion.
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@blueacre @neontaster Her post-mortem on The Hobbit movies is still one of the best videos to cover the failures of those movies.
Its one flaw is the relatively brief insertion of identity politics really late into that video essay. But it's easily overlooked thankfully.
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It's kind of remarkable how much Lindsay Ellis just disappeared after she got cancelled as a racist and moved most of her shit to Nebula.
allowableman@allowableman2
Dear Lord, they want us to pay money for this
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@Gormogons The divide over the Superman movies does not follow a normal pattern, it's fascinating.
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RX I’ll take the Superman who saves a fucking squirrel (Lookin at you Ch’p & B’dg) over the one that doesn’t save his own dad.
Ambiguous Indigenous@abo_boi
@jazbrogonzo @JoshuaM37848390 Yeah I love when Superman does nothing to save people
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A German tourist in NYC tried some green salsa from a taco shop.
The salsa was too spicy for him. So he sued.
He alleges that he is extra sensitive to spicy foods, and he got diarrhea and mouth sores that lasted for days.
Court says it's not on the business "to ascertain consumers' individual needs and guarantee that each consumer has all relevant information specific to its situation."
He could have just asked how spicy their salsa was, but he didn't, and so he did not act reasonably.
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@emzanotti Does he enjoy Star Trek or other space science fiction? Or does the fiction part turn him off to it?
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I know y’all are out to mansplain this to me, but I have an ND kid with a special interest in the NASA space program and I assure you, I am explained to more than enough and so is every adult in his orbit, including an astrophysics grad student in Grand Rapids who got the number of Saturn’s moons woefully wrong
Emily Zanotti 🦝@emzanotti
To be fair, they’re not going to the moon…yet. Wednesday, they will launch for a lunar flyby, similar to the route (accidentally) taken by Apollo 13. This is in *preparation* for a moon landing, sometime in the next two years!
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@jinijane_ Well she must have had good credentials and positions on the issues!
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My high school neighbourhood just elected a local 59yo councilwoman who campaigned in the local paper with an AI photo. Her statement: ‘I used an internet program to enhance the image because the resolution of the photo was bad. It’s simply my photo, that really is me. I use medication that’s why I look a bit different now. But yes, I do look much younger than my age. When I’m out with my son people think I’m his girlfriend. I hear that I look super young for my age all the time.’
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@HoegLaw The distinction never made sense to me. I consider them synonyms.
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See, the way “ethics” works is that no one, not your parent, not your boss, sure as hell not The Verge can proclaim for you what may or may not be ethical…to you. Take in the information you can, make your own decisions. Or in the alternative, declare “There is no ethical consumption of any content claiming itself an arbiter of all ethics.”
The Verge@verge
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series theverge.com/report/901818/…
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@RichardHanania I don’t understand the lack of basic reading comprehension.
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This is so incredibly funny. Trump can’t bully libs into giving him a Nobel, but evangelicals are glad to toss out their entire theology to guarantee him a place in heaven.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump just posted a letter from Franklin Graham assuring him that says "you commented to the media that you might not be heaven bound. Maybe you responded in jest, but it is an important issue to know for certain that your soul is secure and will spend eternity in the presence of God."
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@Andrewnsnyder I’ve resisted to replying to so many people lately who declare Tolkien a bad writer.
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People who say that Bombadil serves no purpose or “brings the story to a halt” misunderstand the purpose of Tolkien’s writing.
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When people refer to that one guy as “POSO” I’m confused as to what the second O stands for.
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@jk_rowling Now you’re going to have skateboarders of a certain age mad at you.
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I fear this might be my most controversial take ever, but I agreed to put it to a vote so here we are.
Hoodies should only be worn by men young enough not to look silly carrying a skateboard.
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Someone brightened a couple of still shots from the Harry Potter TV series trailer.
Look how much better it looks with some brightness and color!
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@RobGeorge @ReemAmirIbrahim Defining the line between personal responsibility and others addictive (or is it merely very appealing) offerings seems tricky.
Although gambling sites already do face lawsuits….
espn.com/espn/betting/s…
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@ReemAmirIbrahim Bars can be sued for serving someone overly intoxicated, so there is precedent for third party responsibility in addictive circumstances.
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Should gambling addicts sue casinos? Should overeaters sue supermarkets?
Obviously not! So why are social media companies being sued?
We're entering a world where companies that create something other people actually want are at risk of being sued, banned, or heavily regulated.
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@Strangeland_Elf I expect this painting will be referenced, snarkily, by dark movie apologists.
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Did you know Viggo— nah I don’t need to do that bit again.
WikiVictorian@wikivictorian
My Friends, by Danish painter Viggo Johansen (1887). Philadelphia Museum of Art
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People wonder why movies today are so darkly lit, and it's because we don't know how to light them like movies in the past. All the gaffers have retired or passed away, and there is no one left who knows how light works. Is it a particle or a wave? It's confusing.
Axel🦇@AxelTalksFilm
the contrast is insane
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