That was a culture shock for me when I moved to the US. I knew that back in the day, in rural areas of my country, the markets only opened once a week. I was shocked to find that happen in urban/suburban areas in the US. Back home I could just go to the closest market any day. Morning news would have a report comparing prices in different markets across the city, so you could pick the one that has the best price for what you need that day.

2024-12-07 is not “American style”, it’s ISO standard date format.

The Lynch movie is what the characters will always look like in my head. I liked the Syfy miniseries too (which I watched shortly after reading the books). And I also like the new movies.

I notice that a big percentage of “hated” movies tie in with existing fan-bases. New movies in existing franchises, book adaptations, etc. Guess people go in with certain expectations and hate it when those are not met.

I didn’t know Prometheus was supposed to tie in with the Alien series (which I loved), so I had no expectations related to that. I enjoyed the movie and I was surprised at the end to see what looked like a Xenomorph.

That being said, I also have my share of movies I hated because they didn’t live up to my expectations from the books. I love the Harry Potter movies, but I was disappointed by how much they left out. I couldn’t watch The Expanse past the first couple of episodes because of how much was changed. And then there’s Foundation, which so ridiculously misses the mark that I’m able to enjoy as a series that just happens to share a title and some character names with the books, but is otherwise an unrelated story.

I absolutely loved Cloud Atlas and I was crying at the end. I didn’t know anything about it, didn’t know about the book, didn’t know it was hated until now. Just a movie that I liked the trailer for, so I watched it and I’m glad I did.

its worse than lemmy

I recently was looking for help troubleshooting an issue and ended up checking reddit and I was shocked at just how bad it got. There were AI generated comments that seemed to provide a solution, but the link went to some spam URL instead of the product they were supposedly talking about (and these were recent comments, not old dead links). The kind of stuff you used to see on unmoderated comment sections on WordPress sites that nobody maintained.

it IP blocks people and tracks IP’s linked to editing

Unless something changed, this part was at least partially true at one point. But only for anonymous edits iirc. Usually happened for IPs shared by a lot of people like from a campus or some VPNs, probably due to a lot of vandalism from such IPs.

Vasectomies without Borders

Ah yes, the quick run to Costco to grab some tissue boxes that ends up with a $200 cart and no tissue boxes.

If your phone is connected to the cell network, then you can be tracked.

https://youtu.be/wVyu7NB7W6Y

My cars are not modern enough for that, but I always carry a surveillance device in my pocket to make up for it.

Invoking Clark’s Law is saying “there’s no magic, just stuff we don’t understand yet”.

But yeah, no answer on Q’s species, that’s literally magic.

That article about magic talks about religious ritual and advanced technology. No actual magic, except in one alternative universe.

Had a project due date through which I procrastinated heavily

Pretty much all all-nighter I’ve pulled in my adult life have had this exact cause.

And also the conflating of eugenics and fixing birth defects is completely off base

It’s not off base and what you’re describing is called liberal eugenics, or new eugenics.

[…] some critics, such as UC Berkeley sociologist Troy Duster, have argued that modern genetics is a “back door to eugenics”.

I’m sure the laws set in place after the eugenics wars would be strict enough to not leave such wiggle room.

I’ve always done that. If it’s not a contact, I let it go to voicemail. If it was actually important, they leave a message.

The problem was not the fan, it was how the actress reacted.

In my country unlimited fiber was $6/mo. Imagine the shock when I moved to the US (also in Mountain View initially). Eventually I got AT&T fiber for “just” $40/month, but now I moved to an area outside their coverage and it’s back to Comcast :(

Yeah, they’re more like dirigibles than airplanes. But same as airplanes, people have had a hard time believing that something made of metal can float.

I vaguely remember seeing a video that explained that how it’s usually explained is wrong. That’s what they’re probably referring to. But it wasn’t that we don’t actually know how it works, just that the common simplification is not technically correct (which happens often with these things).