blivet

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[–] blivet@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

The past couple of days I’m constantly being signed out. I have to login several times a day, practically every time I visit.

This seems to happen much more frequently on the mobile version of the site, and whatever Artemis is using to scrape data.

[–] blivet@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I haven’t had live TV in years and it’s quite shocking to see what the average user deals with. Junk TV + ads that play 30% of the time is absolutely insane.

Yeah, I’ve had the same experience. We don’t have live TV, and when we occasionally hang out with friends or family who do I’m always flabbergasted at the frequency and length of ad breaks nowadays, and similarly amazed that despite a nearly endless list of channels there never seems to be anything I actively want to watch.

[–] blivet@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They should go with Kubrick’s original idea of having the same actor portray Major Kong as well. Sellers hurt his leg toward the start of filming and claimed he couldn’t move around the B-52 interior set easily, but he was also having trouble with the character’s accent and was glad to bow out. He had an easier time with the president’s accent because he just imitated Kubrick himself.

[–] blivet@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not seeing any font tags, sonny. You can't have a real web page without <FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="3" COLOR="red">Welcome!</FONT>

[–] blivet@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I suspect that a significant amount of the negativity on Reddit really was was organized by state actors in order to sow division. The constant ageism, for instance, always struck me as suspect. Someone would inevitably bring up how awful boomers were no matter how irrelevant it was to the discussion.

[–] blivet@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I upvote everything I post. If I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t have submitted it.

[–] blivet@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Also, they've really doubled down on the interconnectivity. You used to be able to follow the main arc without difficulty if you saw most of the movies, but now you have to watch absolutely everything including the TV shows or you have no idea what's going on.

[–] blivet@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, unless you want to watch the show spending every moment objecting to what is on screen, you have to accept the core premise that future scientists and engineers know so much about space-time that they can essentially manipulate it at will.

[–] blivet@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not really. There is some discussion of "emotionally sticky nodes", but they aren't really defined, just described. Which is fine, and it's actually an interesting article, but when you start throwing around terms like "nodes" it makes it sound like you want your readers to think you're talking about something that is empirically valid, not just giving your opinion.

[–] blivet@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I suspect what the article is describing is actually happening, but I’m curious how the writer a couple of quotes deep goes about identifying “emotionally sticky nodes”. They are using verbiage that makes it sound like they are describing something objective, but I have my doubts.

[–] blivet@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Same. So far it’s really nice.

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