Literal doctors trying to convince me that monitors emit cancer causing radiation.
I had to explain to a doctor what ionizing radiation was… And that’s how I learned that doctors are just like every other profession. And there are just as many morons that graduated med school as morons that graduated high school (proportionately).
And people rib me for having 3 screens. Yes yes, tell me how much cancer they are giving me per square second.
Ah, dang it! I didn’t know that lady was the arbiter of universal human experience!
Pack it up everyone. We’re having fun the wrong way! Someone make her CEO of Blizzard, stat!
Yeah, maybe try watching it from the suicide perspective. If you end up seeing it like that, suddenly that blue pill you swallowed is a death sentence. Perspective can essentially invert reality. Switch The real with the fake. The wrong for the right. The male to the female. The Good to the Evil.
Life to Death.
Light to Dark
Obi-Wan was right! It really does depend on a certain point of view!
The metaphysics in the whole series is honestly mind blowing. I even found the 4th movie to be oddly disturbing because it made it click in my mind that choosing a different reality than you were born into is akin to suicide. That blue pill kills your old self. It didn’t quite click for me in the first movie because I feel they were doing a lot of world building and it was easy to miss it in the fast pace.
The 4th movie they kinda lingered on that concept and it just screamed “this is talking about suicide” to me. And then I got kinda anxious. Because the blue pill seemed like the obvious choice until then. I know Cypher kinda makes a point about preferring the matrix, but it felt more like preference than suicide.
But he did say “if you told us the truth we’d have told you to shove that blue pill up your ass!”
As an autistic person I felt this in my bones. I cannot STAND email based authentication.
That’s totally reasonable. However, for what little anecdotal weight this carries, I showed 24 to my GF who had never heard of it and she absolutely loved it despite the change in times. The tech in the show is dated of course, but it’s like Seinfeld in that sense that sure, these problems could have been resolved differently in 2026, but the show takes place in the era it took place in.
I don’t like this thing, thus it could not have been popular and influential.
I think it was more popular than you give it credit for. Definitely not just a favorite of MAGA, that’s a very reductive claim.
Haven’t seen it, I’ll add it to the list! Perhaps I was wrong to say “invented” but instead “popularized” because it seemed to me like the number of new high production quality shows really started getting churned out AFTER 24 became a cultural water-cooler conversation level show that the entire country seemed to be watching. Then suddenly bangers anywhere!
But that could just be confirmation bias on my part.
Yeah, this is true. I just like to tinker. I already pay for one AI tool for like actual use as a tool in my life. The self hosted image thing attempt was like, hey my next home lab project, let’s see how easy it is to just get an image generated from scratch with nothing currently setup! The answer I found was, "you still need more training grasshopper. Much to learn. "
I tried to setup some kinda self hosted AI image generation last month. I didn’t know wtf I was doing and accomplished nothing. Need to give it another try.
24
24 basically invented cinema quality serialized drama in a mainstream over the air medium. It changed television as we know it. And it’s just plain awesome.
I am less financially stable but far happier.
If you like movies, I’ve been enjoying AMC Stubs A-List, been going to more movies with the gf, screen unseen is fun if you have nothing specific you want to see. And we keep costs down by sneaking food in.
The Core
It’s so fucking stupid that it is like a Trainwreck you can’t look away from.
Can you explain the benefits?
Male born in '86 here. Started in high school (2002), it was young love, fiery, passionate, everything was the most important thing, end of the world, high stakes. Silly times, but formative and important to me.
Regarding your peers, don’t feel like it’s a competition and you need to rack up body count like a score. Men and women tend to care about and value different things, so just be mindful about how your choices shape your values and how your values shape your choices.
Just merging the conversations: https://lemmy.world/comment/22910631
Far dumber than you might have guessed. And this is not even close to the dumbest thing I’ve seen working healthcare IT.