Tarantino & Nolan already got shouts in the thread, so:

John Carpenter for some of the best practical effects in cinema history

You’ve also got the likes of Stanley Kubrick & David Lynch, of course

Talking of Davids, David Fincher feels like he has enough good to make the list

I feel like you could go on a great journey through 80s-00s cinema with films having either Bill Murray or Arnold Schwarzenegger in the cast

There’s probably a lot I’m forgetting

My favourite is the difference between French french and Canadian French.

Many of the uniquely Canadian French swears are oddly religious compared to French french

FWIW I think it’s mostly gone the Aussie way in the UK over the past decade unless you’re taking to a pensioner.

Just the yanks now

6ish, I’d like 8 but I can’t really fall asleep until after midnight unless I’m truly exhausted, then work means I usually need to be up around 7ish

Not necessary preppers as that is someone who’s motivation is to mitigate some hypothetical future bad thing happening

I think most self-hosters are doing it out of a combination of technical exploration and mitigating real issues that exist today, e.g. cloud service outages or market exits causing something previously bought to be useful to become a temporary brick or permanent e-waste. Well, and cost in some cases, no one particularly enjoys having an extra bill for hosting.

Where someone is found wearing these entirely determines the level of threatening that everyone in the vicinity experiences

That’s totally going to be applied without bias

How would a general strike be neutral or positive for the economy?

General strikes have to involve a meaningful percentage of the working population and are only supposed to end when the demands are met. The people on strike stop working, reduce spending as much as possible and stop paying tax.

It’s hard to imagine a scenario where that wouldn’t affect it massively in a negative way, so I’m genuinely curious as to what you think would happen in that scenario

Edit: I’m not sure I understand why this has been met with downvotes and no comment? I don’t see how I’m saying anything false here

Unless it’s a misunderstanding that I’m saying people should not do a general strike, which couldn’t be more wrong. Tbf I think Americans should have started one long before this point.

Hurting the economy in a sustained manner is the mechanism through which general strikes are an effective tool of the working class

Nah nothing creepy

Just Americans thinking turning a class of children into keema is an acceptable trade-off for being able to burn through a load of fuel and not see the road

Pathetic twats buy this shit

I assume the recruiters use the sex offender register as LinkedIn

Tbf there being lettuce in there is somewhat unconventional in the UK

If there’s any greenery it’s often cress

Though that’s now an egg & cress rather than an egg mayo

Nope sadly, AI needs GPUs and it makes up the bulk of sales of these chips now.

It would be suicide for any of the companies that could make these processors to not go after the biggest market. The result of a company not doing that would be watching all their competitors grow and advance their products whilst their company’s value drops and products stagnate, possibly to a point that recovery to competitiveness would be hard if not impossible.

For anyone that’s not twigged it yet

They’re already turning this into another culture war to ensure they can continue to enrich the establishment.

The petrochemical industry has a lot of money to burn on propaganda if it’s facing an existential threat.

Remember this when you read anything other than “we should be decarbonising as quickly as possible”

The best thing for everyone (in basically every possible way) except petrochemical shareholders is heavy investment in renewable technology and the ending of petrochemical subsidies.

Whole fruits are pretty healthy in reasonable moderation

if you gorge on 3 boxes of grapes you’re still gonna have smashed through over a thousand calories

The big caveat is fruit juices which remove all the fiber that makes you feel full, particularly anything concentrated.

At that point you’re getting closer to a soft drink than fruit (though you’ll still at least get the vitamins)

Free liberal democracy to military dictatorship regime speedrun

I wonder who they are going to make into their next cartoon villain when he kicks the bucket

Terrorism

Putting myself in their shoes, the only condition they could possibly accept disarmament is a backed MAD security guarantee from a trusted third party.

The kind of thing where if Israel even attempts to start the conflict up again, it has unilaterally declared that the rest of the world has permission to bomb them until they stop.

Violence seems to be the Lingua franca with the current government there and I fear nothing less will end this.

This is a very good question that I’m now curious about

You do know that advertisers want the ads to be as intrusive as they can make them? Right?