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If those Marines could read they’d be very upset!

You’re overthinking it. I know because I do the same. But realistically most women are quite relieved when you can take a kind “no” in stride because the bar is so low in this regard.

#1 Tarsiers. #2 black nosed sheep.

You know there’s plenty of control freaks micromanaging everything underneath them even if it pisses off their best people to the point of quitting.

Especially those 1 or 2 rungs higher up the chain who need to make up problems to solve so they can justify their existence and build their profile.

For most people it’s unfortunately just “is it like Twitter” - both in terms of accessibility and algorithmic content suggestion.

pdfSAM. OBS. Veracrypt. A bunch of macOS usability tools that I am definitely taking for granted at this point.

This isn’t about recommending an instance but a community.

Not just to drivers.

There’s nothing more annoying as a pedestrian than a vehicle whose driver has seemingly decided to run into you because they 1) didn’t think to use their signals and 2) mostly just checked for car traffic until you’re right in front of their bumper.

Who’s to say pedantry is useless? I’m learning new things!

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That’s a new one.

And the commonly accepted authority on the definition of mental illnesses is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The current edition is referred to as DSM-5.

Yeah but I won’t because I like dopamine.

Futureless or featureless?

Always-online locked down ad-riddled spyware on cheapass unfixable planned obsolescence hardware.

Have you experienced what passes for “an actual TV that plays Netflix” these days?

Miss me with that shit.

Not universally hated by any means. But there are plenty of people that expect a movie to fit a certain Hollywood formula, which includes not challenging your audience too much. And so they judge movies by standards that an epic artistic endeavor like Cloud Atlas was never trying to meet.

Also the whole “gender- and race-bending” made some people uncomfortable, even though it’s merely the same actors portraying completely different characters.

Add to this that certain influential studio voices in Hollywood had previously rejected the project outright when they were first approached by the Wachowskis. So it was clear they would never give it a fair shake after it was produced in Europe, against their judgment and without their blessing, and under such unconventional circumstances.

Lots of people love to hate Cloud Atlas. I see it as flawed work of art with a good message and an amazing cast, produced under such nearly impossible circumstances that we are more than lucky it ever saw the light of day.