I think it fell into a ton of tropes is all. Eh, it was a product of it’s time - as all films are - and I found it similar to Dances With Wolves. Banged up protaginist, left broken by his service goes to the frontier and finds a new life…
There it is…
Whatever FIFA puts up should be splattered with paint ballons launched from cars driving by with catapults or slings…
Oh - and I do think the idea of trees with shared root systems forming a planet-wide distributed consciousness is actually pretty awesome sci-fi.
Spot-on.
Never seemed to be marketed that way.
I like the films - then again, I’m a sucker for big cinema and IMAX 3D, so from an eye-candy perspective, it’s glorious. Is the story anything earth-shaking? Of course not. It’s escapist fluff… but oh… how it looks.
NGL, I remember when MasterCharge did it’s big rollout across the US. And when it changed it’s name to MasterCard… Fuck… that was a long time ago…
Ooo, I like!
I’ve looked at getting some watercolor pencils and dabble… what kind are you using?
Dullness is relaive and entirely subjective. As long as the content you’re writing isn’t too opaque to the non-science reader, I think it will fly.
Hmmm… If the reporting is accurate, some of it might have made for honestly interesting listening. The last bit about Grok… Perfection. LOL!
Here’s the rub of it: you know what the issue is, and where the chemicals are likely to be found and you can make sure your friends and that family which you want to protect can also know what to avoid. As much of it as you can.
PFOAs are all in the water where I live, a consequence of having a SAC air base (now decomissioned) in the next town over and for most of the time it was open, there was NO environmental concerns for the shit that got dumped in the ground. My father, who was an airman in 1962 and stationed at said former base, often was tasked with doing the dumping. (he always told me to be mindful of the water when I moved here in my 20’s) People ask me why I drive (quite a distance) twice a year to go get almost 100 gallons of fresh spring water form a VERY isolated source. The water where I live is unpalatable and is heavily treated. Often stinks like a municipal pool. On those days, I will opt for a PTA bath instead of a hot steamy shower. Testing of the city’s main well a dozen years ago revealed what I’d been warned of decades prior… (ofc it’s the most contaminated one in the area…)
At this point, I am firmly convinced that this is 100% a move by the Trumpists and their monied enablers to gin up as much disease in the population as possible. There is no one single sector of the economy as large as the Medical Industrial Complex and it’s driven by the rapacious maw of greed and nothing else.
YOU BET that the current administration sees the public as nothing more than a resource to be mined of all it’s capital and then left to die. After all Trump famously “loves” the poorly educated, and to double down on that, he’s also stated that “Smart people don’t like me…” (Gee… ya’ think?)
There are enough poorly educated so they can feed for decades… and they will. This is where they start in on it seriously.
Time for the smart people to be stepping and fetching like never before.
Take care of yourself and your loved ones.
Ben & Jerry’s Kahlua flavored ice cream. That was the absolute best!
No, it was not a mistake. It was a choice to race on a street and not on a track where crashes and collisions aren’t likely to kill anyone but the driver.
Throw the motherfuckin’ book at anyone street racing. Stupid reckless children. Utterly irresponsible.
I went looking at parts a few days ago. VERY discouraging. My gaming PC is pretty long in the tooth. It was originally built to be a hackintosh. Is an Asus Gryphon z97 logic board, i7-4790, 32GB ram, a 1 TB SSD and a second WD Green HDD for stoarge and a GTX3060 (with 12GB of memory!) that I push a 4k display (30fps) with, and Win 10 Pro…
The cost of new parts - FML!
Needless to say I’m not picking up any new AAA gaming title anytime soon. :(
LOL!
I’m sorry for laughing… but that must’ve been a blast to witness!
From the Department of Things You Won’t See Everyday: A parade of driverless cars.
Using old.lemmy.zip on desktop AND the same desktop site on mobile.
I’m on lemmy.zip and it’s tech-centric and so far appears tankie free. (I have the lemmy.ml instance blocked) Very little drama, which after being booted from reddit after almost 15 years – is pure bliss.
Not at first: At that point, it’s marketing.
About the time that the techbro overlords figure out the command to the chip that makes it so you can’t get an erection, is about the time you’re suddenly going to be on the hook for 80 hour workweeks.
Don’t think for a millisecond that can’t be a possibility.
Doesn’t matter… we all know you’re a 47 year old used car salesman from Peoria.
LOL!
Star Trek, even though as of late I have found it as hoary and overwrought as Star Wars.
It is in a very remote corner of the Northeast Kingdom that is far enough away from industrial centers that dumping wasn’t cost efficient. I actually lived near one of the OG superfund sites in New England, and recall the tanker trucks bombing up and down the road past my house - so when it all broke loose in the late 70’s (and all hell locally DID break loose - Beedee Road Landfill - recieved decades worth of industrial waste from two companies - Davison Rubber and Hooker Chemicals.) we were all… “ahhh, that’s what all that was about…” Then I moved in with different relatives, but have been hyper aware of where in the northeast - to avoid the water from. (Do NOT drink Poland Spring water.) I will always ask the older people who knew what factories and mills were where and what they made.