ShadowRam

I mean, she’s making them a lot money…

CPAP

You likely have sleep apena, and when your blood oxygen drops low you get sleep paralysis.

The popularity of Predator is both the premise, and not assuming the audience are complete idiots, and providing them just enough information for the audience to figure it all out, without the movie explicitly spelling it out.

Going into the movie, audience isn’t sure if what was killing the commandos was some kind of ‘monster’, magical entity, etc.

The suspense and trying to piece together “Just wtf is it that’s hunting them an why” is the entire point of the movie.

As the information slowly trickles in, we find out that it is an alien species on a safari hunt. Because why not? It makes perfect sense that we drop into a different world ‘jungle’ and hunt big dangerous game. Why couldn’t an alien species want to do the same?

Why wouldn’t an alien species want ‘sport’ in that manner and only hunt the armed males.

And the movie explained all of this, without some random character just saying all of that information out loud to explain it to the audience. We piece that together ourselves.

This is why Predator movies as of late fall flat on their face.

We already know what it is, and why its there. So everything after that is pointless.

Predator 2 was ‘slightly’ interesting, as it filled in some gaps on the species itself.

• is there more than 1
• do they hunt other things?
• what kind of other technology do they have?

But beyond that, any Predator movie afterwards is a complete waste of time, unless it’s an audience member going into something like “Prey” completely blind to what a Predator even is, and/or has never seen any previous movie.

Once you see the first movie and know the premise (or know the premise before ever going into it), the magic of it is already gone.

After he lost in the election,

Some rando step aside and give him his conservative seat.

Him and all the other Billionaires are pouring $$$$$$ into AI

So it will make their blackmail tapes irrelevant.

I started up Reddits functional print many years ago to serve as a gallery/showcase to inspire others that 3D printing has a lot of useful uses.

I left Reddit with the Exodus, but I believe it still exists, although it’s probably bot filled garbage now.

But it had a huge list of useful things.

I have a similar thead here on the fediverse, but the original site (kbin.social) died out and I haven’t bothered to get another going.

BTW, Commodore got bought out.

They are releasing C64 again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fGP59mJ5M

https://www.commodore.net/

It doesn’t need to be a ‘protected class’.

If you were hired as an accountant, and job description explains what the job entails.

The boss can’t tell you to go out front and mow the grass, and fire you if you refuse.

It’s not in your job description.

Same with remote work. If the job description said 100% remote work.

It would be the same as hiring someone in one city, and then demanding they move to another city, and firing you if you refuse.

Sure, they can let you go, but they’d be on the hook for compensation. (in most civilized places anyway)

You don’t get a letter of employment offer?

I think you’re still kind of screwed if they want you in the office and you’re officially remote.

Depends on what you mean by ‘screwed’. If they hired you with certain expectations, like in writing job is ‘remote’, then you can refuse.

If they fire you as a result, yes, you are ‘screwed’ in the case of you’ve lost your job,

But you then sue for wrongful dismissal, in which case you have some recourse.

But if you live in a country/state that doesn’t allow you to do that, and offers no employee protections,

You were screwed from the beginning by accepting work in such a place to begin with.

Money saving measure?

Every stall is a unisex stall.

Problem solved.

If you accepted a remote job, you should have it in writing that the job is ‘remote’ work.

If your job wasn’t remote initially, but assumed it would be remote going forward, you should have demanded that the job has changed to ‘remote’ in writing.

If your job wasn’t initially remote, was temporarily made remote, and they are now changing back. Be prepared to walk.

Laws are a social contract and don’t mean shit unless enforced.

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Interesting, I hadn’t heard this one. Proof?

Trump Admin using national security as a pre-tense to take control over X/Twitter away from Musk, and effectively killing it in favour of Truth Social

Is it truly a deviation from outsourcing code to a 3rd party?

He said his name and position at the end in all caps.

You know he’s being serious.

God help everyone if he starts to count to 3

He might even turn the car around.

Was this in the US?