JonCecil

joined 1 year ago
[–] JonCecil@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

It didn't go out of business in '97, I was 1000% there for a birthday party in 2000 or 2001. It seems the company went bankrupt in 1997, and the assets were sold multiple times over the years. Locations stayed open, and, according to Google at least, there seems to be at least a couple left in Ohio, and California?

Either way, this took me down a nice nostalgia hole, very nice.

[–] JonCecil@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

[–] JonCecil@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

otherwise you don't realise his movies are often in large part a collage of other movies.

Isn't that the definition of filmmaking? All movies are just collages of influences, style, and form. All art is a remix on previous forms.

It's okay to not like Tarantino, I don't care much about that, but your argument doesn't really hold up for me.

[–] JonCecil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I work on a helpdesk, my phone rings around 8-12 times per day, and most calls are less than 10 minutes. I work a 7.5 hour shift, and at most am on the phone for an hour or so total on an average day. I'm also in an office cubicle farm, not working from home, or behind a series of closed doors.

Lately, between taking calls, I've been reading books, looking at my phone, practicing French, and watching episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation on my iPad. The upper management knows I, and my coworkers, kill time this way between calls.

We're efficient problem solvers who get our jobs done with no issue, so the downtime is spent how we see fit.

 
 

I went out to try and catch some evening light around my house. When I took my camera out of the bag it immediately fogged up due to the quick change in heat and humidity. I snapped this one while I waited for it to acclimate.

[–] JonCecil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Personally, mine was ninjas.

Power Rangers, 3 Ninjas (original one only), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

But also, the early 90s Dick Tracy movie? I never actually saw the movie, still haven't, but the imagery and products really captivated me at 4.

 
[–] JonCecil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I thought my chest was going to cave in multiple times while watching this one.

 
[–] JonCecil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is a lot of what I was concerned about, for sure. Well said.

[–] JonCecil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do agree, but it's also had ads for a very long time.

 

The Fediverse as it stands now is super ambitious, prospering, and honestly really exciting to see and be a part of.

I worry about the sustainability, though. The current model of donations, volunteer mods, and so on is working as intended, and the experience is flourishing. I see this model standing up for at least a couple of years as-is, barring any major changes of any kind.

My question becomes: How do we plan for the future entry of corporate influence into all of this? Because it will happen. I've watched most social media platforms and systems come into being in my lifetime, and also watched most of their demises. Money, marketing, and ads always come for them in some form.

What's being done now to help prevent toxic corporate influence in the future? Can anything be done? The best part about defederated instances is a corporate influence could get ahold of one instance, but not all of them. Great in concept, but how do we plan for a future when corporate interest reaches these platforms and they throw enough money around to shake things up for the worse, as it always seems to?

 

I routinely take my camera to work with me. I sometimes go out and walk around the campus during my lunch hour and see what I can find. It doesn't change much from day-to-day, but the surprises are worthwhile.

 
 
 

I've been wanting to get this shot for months, finally had a day off to catch it at the right time of day with minimal traffic about. Standing on a fairly slim concrete median was a little hairy, but worth it.

[–] JonCecil@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ferrari not pitting under the safety car.

Count that as the first strategy blunder of the day!

[–] JonCecil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Jenson in the safety car, cheesing like a kid haha

[–] JonCecil@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is what I'm worried about most, losing those long form communities, and the niche subs. Not just for being on reddit, though, but searching site:reddit.com when I'm looking for info about something.

Yes, there are a multitude of message boards out there to search, but the voting system makes better responses easier to find from reddit.

Even if a lot of us don't go back to reddit in any real way it's going to take a long, long time to replace it entirely for the broad range of uses it has, outside of it being a community.

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