So one of my nephews is fire truck obsessed. And I found him a cardboard playset that is a fire truck. He can sit inside it, there are buttons and a steering wheel. And I got him a siren and lights to go on top. My sister is not pleased.
A+ Uncling though
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i just finished my C# class with a 100 and prof asked if she could use my final project as a lesson for future classes because it was so good
i am basically a professional programmer now and also maybe the best programmer that has ever lived
Is there any good movie about a depressed person where the depression is never shown as fully going away but mostly as something that can be managed and decently ameliorated?
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I bought Die Hard on blu ray off a friend while she had a moving sale last year. I suppose I should watch it.
it's good to be informed about how wrong the people who say it's the best Christmas movie truly are
some day I plan on watching the Dawn of the Dead remake just so I can be justified when I narrow my eyes at people who say it's better than the original
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But the gritty remake is better than the corny original.
This is what I'm talking about, I know the fiery, pulsating hatred I feel right now is 100% justified, but I can't in good conscience say so until I watch the remake
That's the thing, "disruption" is an ideology about rapid change with little preparation. That's the explicit motto, right--move fast and break stuff.
I agree that institutions should be audited and constantly pushed to reform and improve, but that's a process that demands rigour, research, expertise, familiarity, cost/benefit analysis, etc. It's a lengthy, neverending process, and trying to shortcut it has nasty long-term consequences
The problem is that institutions necessarily have to exist in an environment where they're competing with these forces of rapid change regardless. I think a major issue with our existing apparatus for putting our foot on the breaks is that it just can't keep up the pace and it's failing us for this reason. The pace has changed, we need people with more knowledge of these fields regulating faster.
I think there's something to be said for the need for more drastic interventions. Sometimes institutions hit dead ends and need to be ripped up and re-planted. Revolutions can become necessary, particularly when we're stuck in these configurations where what ought to be a normalizing process is shredding us in half. Acknowledging that there is significant cost involved in this is vital, but iterating isn't always an option.
do you have an example where iterating isn't an option
i agree it's not an option for like NYC and Boston cabbies, but Uber is also very very bad
it seems like you're excited about technology and so want to accelerate things and are thus tempted to decide things are failing us when in fact it just kind of always sucks you can't improve results by going faster
I mean, our data and security regulations are completely non-existent, net neutrality is dead, no one is lifting a finger against the massive tech trusts, our entire democracy was blind-sided by the advent of internet disinformation, social media platforms are completely unregulated, massive amounts of money has been stolen in cryptocurrency scams and we are being completely and utterly raided by corrupt oligarchs. Meanwhile companies like uber are manipulating existing laws to do things to contractors that were never imagined by the people who wrote them. Our government has no idea what the fuck is coming for it when machine learning reaches the next level of development and the human rights abuses that will inevitably lead to, and the people who realize this is all going on are completely powerless to do anything about it. Our institutions are being absolutely trampled.
I'm not excited about technology, I am horrified of it, and how completely under-prepared our institutions are to defend us from it.
All of this sounds to me to be trivially fixable with iteration. How disruptive an answer needs to be is kind of unrelated to how bad things get if we just ignore the question forever
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Also not to grind on your nerves any further, but lunch with sister is still upcoming, yes?
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So one of my nephews is fire truck obsessed. And I found him a cardboard playset that is a fire truck. He can sit inside it, there are buttons and a steering wheel. And I got him a siren and lights to go on top. My sister is not pleased.
A+ Uncling though
Yeah, he'll love it. And it annoys my mother. The woman who firmly believes she is the world's best gift giver, despite mountains of evidence that she sucks at it.
Home alone did teach me the true meaning of Christmas.
Which is that if you are being assaulted on the most holy of days, a homeless man who looks vaguely like Santa Clause will come save you at the last second by murdering your assailants with a shovel.
Home alone did teach me the true meaning of Christmas.
Which is that if you are being assaulted on the most holy of days, a homeless man who looks vaguely like Santa Clause will come save you at the last second by murdering your assailants with a shovel.
It really warmed my heart to the holiday.
Point of order they were not murdered
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I didn’t see a Christmas story, so I guess nightmare before Christmas
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yeah Big Bear is just a 2 hour (depending on traffic it's LA im legally obligated to say that) drive vs 5 hours for Mammoth, Mammoth gets just fucking dumped on though with Pow so definitely worth checking out at least once if you're in the area
yeah Big Bear is just a 2 hour (depending on traffic it's LA im legally obligated to say that) drive vs 5 hours for Mammoth, Mammoth gets just fucking dumped on though with Pow so definitely worth checking out at least once if you're in the area
Fun fact: "Powder" was the third thing I came up with after reading "Pow", despite the context
First was - Is that a really racist way to refer to natives? (Powwow)
Second - ... America doesn't keep POWs on a mountain in California, right? :P
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A+ Uncling though
i am basically a professional programmer now and also maybe the best programmer that has ever lived
I want to both awesome your achievement and agree with the sentiment
but they're listening to every word I say
Whoof, it's so weird to not hear the "normal" french voices for them.
AND That is despite the fact that the english dub voice actors sound very similar to the original ones.
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Do you Quebecois get your own local voiceovers?
All of this sounds to me to be trivially fixable with iteration. How disruptive an answer needs to be is kind of unrelated to how bad things get if we just ignore the question forever
Yeah, he'll love it. And it annoys my mother. The woman who firmly believes she is the world's best gift giver, despite mountains of evidence that she sucks at it.
Which is that if you are being assaulted on the most holy of days, a homeless man who looks vaguely like Santa Clause will come save you at the last second by murdering your assailants with a shovel.
It really warmed my heart to the holiday.
shark diving!
That chef has a French accent. Sort of. That has to count for something. I still chuckled when he didn't want to family of horses to be separated.
Big bear is closer, Mammoth is better. There's one back side of the Angeles NF that's even smaller, but closer.
That's a pretty good weird thing! :surprised:
Have a good time, don't get eaten, all that usual stuff
No, we got the France versions. I mean, it's be weird to have an ancient gaul speak like a modern quebecois, you know.
Most cartoons from France we didn't redub. Too expensive when we already dub all the other foreign stuff.
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Point of order they were not murdered
Oh, right on :P Yeah I was curious, I'd never looked into it personally so I figured I'd ask someone on the inside
i am pretty much always there for arnold in a comedy
fair question, don't apologize, lol.
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The Santa Clause series
You would have loved his stint as the governor of California!
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Fun fact: "Powder" was the third thing I came up with after reading "Pow", despite the context
First was - Is that a really racist way to refer to natives? (Powwow)
Second - ... America doesn't keep POWs on a mountain in California, right? :P
lol I am so glad I abstained from beef
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Yeah that was one of those "She just went from one fetish to another."
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Do we have a name for those butts yet? :surprised:
Elf is the best christmas movie, how is it not an option!