You’re not wrong, but anyone who leaves shit like this or the stupid church dollars as a tip is a special kind of asshole.

That was the point.

That’s actually a great movie, and it’s probably one of my most watched DVDs.

It’s some of the best early mo-cap cgi in cinema history. Photorealistic without diving into the uncanny valley.

And storyline is very engaging. It hits poignant notes about pacifism, environmentalism and reincarnation without coming off as preachy or condescending.

In the theater? Boogie Nights.

My friend and I didn’t know a goddamn thing about Paul Thomas Anderson when we went to the premiere. All we knew was that Heather Graham got naked in this movie about porn stars. We’d both had massive crushes on Heather ever since License to Drive… A crush which was only strengthened by her appearance in Swingers.

It turned out that the great nudity was only a bonus to what ended up being an amazing film with brilliant performances from everyone… INCLUDING Marky Mark. My friend and I ended up going to see Boogie Nights on the big screen close to 20 times. It helped that I had just gotten a job as an usher at a theater when the movie got it’s second run, so we could see it for free. It also became a point of local pride since PTA was North East Ohio television royalty, and my friend and I wanted to follow in his footsteps

They’ll do their own research and make their own well informed, reasonable conclu…

Sorry, I can’t keep that bullshit up.

Most groups will move their goalposts as far as they need to in order to make the new reality fit their narrative. They won’t actually change their minds about anything here on earth.

Other groups will start attacking the sources of the new information. The weaker will simply question the facts, like they did during the pandemic. There will also probably be a more militant arm, physically attacking telescopes and sources of extraterrestrial information like Gary Busey’s son did in Contact.

A few will embrace the knowledge that there is intelligent life outside our planet… and immediately start preparing missionary trips to spread the word of their upcoming redemption like some kind of latter day Prior of the Ori.

A very small group will see this as the truth it is… that their accepted view of reality isn’t correct, that maybe they should rethink things.

In short, we can absolutely depend on the religious to ruin things for everyone else, just like always.

But seriously, we should also be hopeful that whatever intelligent life we may possibly discover doesn’t have their own problems with religion… because that will not end well for anyone.

You’re not wrong.

it’s not earth that’s the trouble, it’s the people that live on it.

Good bot.

We really are just the universe experiencing itself subjectively.

So much of the dialog is Deadwood is absolutely brilliant, but one scene really stuck with me.

“Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or fuckin’ beatin’s. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man — and give some back.”

Ian McShane deserved an Emmy for his work as Al Swearengen. That slow stare at the end of the scene alway kills me. I know it’s supposed to be a drama, but they really go for some laughs.

A UPS strike would make my job VERY difficult, and if I can’t do my job then several other parts of the supply chain will not be able to do their jobs. I can’t wait.

I can’t wait to be one of the “I was part of the great Reddit migration” dudes when this lemmy stuff inevitably goes tits up in 15 years.

Real Shittymorph or not, the very fact that someone is trying makes me believe that everything will be okay.

I’ve used this specific nick for 20 something years, it’s a variation on my original nick “Lingo”. The “h0e” part was from #bluelight, back when bluelight had an IRC server. One random day those of us in the channel dubbed ourselves the chat hoes. Being the l33t kids we were, it quickly became ch4th0e. We started referring to each other by adding “h0e” onto our existing nicks. I became lingh0e.

That was over two decades ago. I was an aggressive asshole when I first started using it. I keep it because I like to remind myself that I’m a better, nicer person now… but that cynical asshole is still a part of me.

Yeah, no. There’s no complex or embarrassment here. I really don’t give a shit what anyone else thinks about my pale weird legs. It’s just personal preference. I’ve never been much for short pants.

But I absolutely, unironically appreciate your word salad at the end there. Masterful writing.

I agree with your overall sentiment, but I’m good keeping my ugly knees and hairy legs covered.

That’s the beauty of most tech based work. The actual labor isn’t “real” and associated costs are whatever the market will bear.

I worked for a photography studio that did almost all of the school photography work in NE Ohio. I was paid a pittance in relation to the profits the owner was raking in.

One of my primary responsibilities was cleaning up school rosters… removing duplicate entries, spelling errors, non-printing characters etc.

They had us going through the rosters manually doing this work. I made a suite of Excel scripts and macros that automated 97% of the work. I took work that would have taken 60-120 minutes to complete and literally made it a try 2 minute job. My boss used this as an opportunity to increase his prices and fire me for an unrelated mistake that I didn’t even make.

This is the same boss who tried to give me advice when I turned 40 by saying “a man’s boat should never be less in footage than his age”. Because apparently every 40 year old has the ability to buy not only A SINGLE PLEASURE BOAT, but is able to buy a new pleasure boat every year that is a single foot longer.

This is the same boss who only hired “temporary” staff through a series of dubious sources, so he didn’t have any actual staff and never had to pay insurance or any other kind of benefits.

And yet when these greedy fucks can’t stop their turnover it’s our fault for not wanting to work for these people.

Would it help to start liking/subscribing to videos that specifically debunk those kinds of conspiracy videos? Or, at the very least, demonstrate rational concepts and critical thinking?