For Total Recall, the point was that the state of the film was ambiguious. Were the events on screen the memories bought and paid for, or was it a real spy thriller.

The remake answeres that question and ruins the entire premice of the film. This is a key example on why these Hollywoo “remakes” are widely panned, they usually miss the point of the origional art and audiences are dumber for it.

Hey now…

That song rocks when its played by a proper brass band, it only sounds silly when you make it silly. Otherwise its a good march.

The main issues a lot of the FF purists on this site take with Brave is-

1. its a chrome fork, which is a hard stop for them, and thats a good enough reason alone to avoid a product given how anti-corporate and anti-google the residents of this site are.

2. the systems in the opt-in list are still part of the application. There is an anxiety that the developer may decide at a future time that those features are not opt-in/enabled by default after an update.

So the natural response is to advocate for browsers that simply do not have those features and are open-source so that users can verify rather than trust the dev team to not put features like that in the product. Or rigoursly vet every update installed on your system to prevent that stuff from being installrd in an update, which is not viable for most people… (Run apt update/upgrade and manually approve every package change, we will see you in a few days).

Who’s on first?

Ok, ill bite.

Was reluctantly on Hinge a while back (was 31M at the time). My sibilings twisted my arm to make a profile and helped design it (I dont take pictures of myself so it was challanging to make). Overall expirence was negative to neutral, over ~2 years of minimal useage just to the profile active, threw 15$ at the app to see if it changed the algorithm (it does). IIRC ~12 replies, 3 first dates/meet-ups and 0 second dates. Cant say I put a ton of effort It so I wont lose sleep over anything.

The shocking part of the whole thing was compairing results with my sister. She functionally did not need to go to the default feed, dozens if not hundreds of contact requests… We had a joke back when she was in college that if she felt like it, she would never have to pay for a dinner (obviosuly that would be a dick move, and she never took advantage of anyone, but the data was there).

Once it became obvious that the platform was full of bots, dumby accounts, and was noticably trying to prey on desperate people with credit cards, I just moved on. Over all advice, if you find an app thats very new and not owned by match group, go for it, you will likely meet people earnestly trying to make connections. Otherwise, dont bother, go find a date the old fashioned way, outside.

• BEANS, CORN, ONION

Our memes feel very old internet and I miss those times.

The latest patch reduced the file size dramaticly, so it runs a lot better.

And as stated by others, for best expirence, play with friends, sweaty players tend to bounce off it as there is no rankings or ratings and global progress is slow. Have fun, Freedom and managed-democracy await your support.

My Fluke Intelatone copper cable tracer and pin mapper. Had one as a company tool back early in my career. Bought one for myself when I moved and just carry it around in my magic bag of tricks. It is just the best at finding its other half, so much so that ive had multiple employers buy their own because I use my own and wanted me to stop using the shitty cheap ones they get off amazon.

No, im of the opinion that the Amsterdam model is the most ethical response (so far) to drug abuse and mental health assistance. If addiction is a factor, punishment is not a deterant (and atleast in The US, an excuse for authorities to abuse the carve-out in the 13th ammendment). Treating people as patients instead of criminals provides the most good to society.

WELCOME TO THE OFFICE OF SECRET INTELIGENCE SAMPSON!

[Co. Gathers jumps out of the plane without a parachute]

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was, and now what I am isnt it, and what is it is weird and scary to me.

And it will happen to you.

There have been UBI trial runs in the EU, they usually dont. Once peoples needs are met, they tend to want to want to continue doing things as they are. If they wern’t buying fancy cars, UBI isnt going to change that, and if a car is a need for that individual, then the system is working as intended.

Plus, the thing every counter argument to UBI seems to forget is that not everyone will be responsible with the funds or onboard with the program. The system will need to have to buffer for abuse and poor habbits, but unlike now, an unwillingnes/inability to participate in the workforce does not mean poverty. Plus a well designed system will help people use it effectivly and get them the help they need (see the current failures of the US mental health system).

Hubbard trash is fun with friends. We used to do shitty movie night before the plague, and one of the last events before lockdown was “Drinking and Dianetics”… It was a choice, really eye opening and deeply stupid. Plus the story of how the nerd herd aquired the DVD was hillarious.

It started off normal enough, a self-help video with a bunch of sunny California people and a higher than expected budget. Tons of power imagery and hints that you would get if you watched south parks “Scientologists believe this” bit.

After that it starts getting weird, bad psychology, incorrect biology and theories that were clearly written by a sci-fi author. The worst was their search for “the original trauma” thing, absolute hog-wash.

People were already out of it by the time we got to the DvD extras, but we all remember the skit with the panther and the actor putting up his dukes like Popeye the sailor man.

The showing was all in good fun, but there was a thing in the back of peoples heads, this is a cult that ruins lives and people fall for this crap.

If you see that book or film, help that person and be excellent to each other.

Thats the neat part, I dont. I simply continue the routine of putting food in my face and if anything bad happens… Try and deal with it.

Due to my job, if about half of the fortold “end-timed” occure, its not an issUe not an issME. Ill probably be at ground-zero of what ever it is, or atleast down the block from it…

Have fun in the apocolypse. If its zombies, I get to do that one.

Exactly that. Tech enthusiests will have smart everything, their fridge will tell them when the milk goes bad. Tech workers know where the IoT data goes, if they have smart things, they built them themselves… Except the printer, but there is a loaded gun kept next to it, just incase it makes a noise they dont recognize.

It is the most unrealistic, dispite [gestures broadly to everything] because.

1. President Dwayn Elezondo Mtn. Dew Herbert Comacho has a problem.

2. They find the most qualified person to solve it, even though they are not sure 😉

3. They (reluctantly) listen to his advice.

4. Finally, once the day is saved, President Comacho does not take credit for it.

That is the most unrealistic part of the film.

No one ever truely grows up, some people are just better at hiding it.

I look out at Lemmy and see all these wonderful and creative instances, then go back to eating my glue.

.world has a reputation, but I dont care, sorta just waiting for an account migration feature and then ill go spool up my own instance, but until then. \shrug.

Welcome to Port Royal, Mr. Smith.

Ha [Internet high five], there is a thing about EvE online players and being opinionated nerds about VOIP solutions.