58008

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[–] 58008@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

That pizza cutter feels almost racist in this context πŸ˜† If Luigi was named Paddy Murphy, would he have brought a potato masher instead?

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 84 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Cops have a stressful, often life-threatening job, no doubt. But so do a lot of people. My family has a history of working in psychiatric lock-ups with extremely violent mentally ill and developmentally abnormal patients, most of whom are being held because of murders and rapes they've committed (usually of their own families), and who would murder you if they had the chance/inclination to do so, because they simply don't know any better. The nurses don't carry firearms, they're trained with a few restraining grappling technique and a lot of deescalation tactics. They don't even have tasers. Put an armed cop in that situation and you'd have a ward full of corpses within a few days. Hell, put a regular prison guard in that situation and you'd have a similar outcome. But my family members aren't MMA experts, and have never been [seriously] injured in their job. They've been properly trained, that's all. Cops are trained like they're being shipped off to 'Nam in 1969 to fight an unseen, non-uniformed enemy.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Kristi's braincell: don't say you were just following orders, don't say you were just following orders...

"It was Stephen!"

Kristi's braincell: nice 😎

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 221 points 3 days ago (28 children)

At least they have an AI-free option, as annoying as it is to have to opt into it.

On a related note, it's hilarious to me that the Ecosia search engine has AI built in. Like, I don't think planting any number of trees is going to offset the damage AI has done and will do to the planet.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Shoot back already.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sometimes you don't know how good you have it until your "rock bottom" turns out to be an elevator which is now headed down a mineshaft 😭

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (9 children)

An ICE pastor is the craziest part of this story... has the cunt ever read his supposedly favourite book?

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Always wondered why Bart's hair is made from his flesh. Same with Maggie and Lisa. I also wonder what a trip to the barber must feel like for them. Imagine getting your fingers shaved off your hands every couple of weeks with no anaesthetic. Is it any wonder the boy's a menace?

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure she stole that slogan from Stephen Paddock.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I'd sooner trust the word of Jeffery Epstein's island gynaecologist.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

In any other business, having 6 simultaneous failed projects would be cause for dismissal of the CEO and probably the majority of the management staff. If I owned or had a large amount of shares in a company where this happened, I would not be a happy chappy. But I'm assuming the Ubisoft upper echelons are patting themselves on the back for their business acumen and financial savviness, already penning their bonuses into their calendars.

Meanwhile, regular workers are dropped like pubic lice the minute it's convenient to do so.

Parasites.

 

As I understand it (see: not at all), if you leave a spaceship with no suit on, you'd get baked like Marie Curie's ovaries from the radiation. It's mainly our atmosphere that protects us from most of the nastiest stuff. Would a giant cable reaching from Earth all the way to a platform outside the atmosphere become dangerously-radioactive over time? And if so, would that eventually cause the entire planet to get radioactive over hundreds of years? Kinda like if the hole in the Ozone layer were replaced with a Mario pipe.

And if that is the case, maybe we could forget the elevator aspect of it and just aim for a free eternal source of radioactive energy, like a really shitty Dyson sphere πŸ‘€

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

You need to work pretty hard to make FIFA embarrassed about anything.

 

"How do we ensure our patient drops and loses ~80% of his pills and that he slices the absolute fuck out of his fingers in the process?"

They're locking my mental health goals behind a fidgety Saw trap built from scissors and miserliness.

I've had boxes where there were several single pills snipped from their blister packs rattling around in them. These pills in particular are tiny, like you can't even feel them in your mouth when you take them, but they expect me to be able to finesse one out of a single blister with at least 3 extremely sharp and piercing corners on it πŸ˜’

If you're a pharmacist and you do this, please go ahead and take the pills yourself, you clearly need 'em more than I do, ya sick fuck.

 

I need to load a second page to enter my password in some sites. Why is this? I even have a site I use that has the username, password and 2FA entries on separate pages that each need to be loaded one after the other.

My uneducated guess is that it makes it harder for bots, but I can't imagine it being that much of an impedance πŸ€·β€

Cheers!

 

For example, is there a 'laws dot gov' kinda URL I can go to and type "importing raccoons to Northern Ireland to create a self-sustaining population" into the search bar?

Or maybe something like a multi-volume book series I can check at the library to see if "raccoon husbandry; N. Ireland" is mentioned?

Maybe an AI chatbot on the local council's website that I can ask "is it legal to raise baby raccoons by feeding them from miniature wheelie bins to teach them where food comes from and how to open the lids"?

I'm not about to do anything [potentially] illegal, I'm just curious.

Cheers! 🦝

 

Is it an affectation that they're trained to deploy? (If so, why?) Or is it just a natural thing that happens in the very specific circumstance of being a politician on the campaign trail, and that's why no one else seems to do it?

I don't think I've seen it in any other context πŸ€”

Cheers!

 
 

This might be my most stupid question yet, but what the hell:

I'm reading about the GTA VI leaks on Wikipedia, and it talks about the various impacts the leaks had, one of which was low morale amongst the developers. Why is that? The response from the internet to the GTA VI leaks in particular seemed to be positive and caused renewed excitement in the game. Everyone [seemingly] understood that it was early, non-final work, but were nevertheless impressed/excited, as far as I could tell anyway πŸ€·β€ Besides, it's GTA, it's not like they're gonna break much new ground in terms of gameplay mechanics that need to be kept secret. Things were more or less set in stone in that regard in GTA III.

Why so sad?

 

Cynical copyright-maintaining or quick-buck-making remakes are obviously not great. We can all agree on that. I'm talking about remakes/reboots done by people who are passionate about the project and who want to do the best they can with the material. I think, in a perfect world, we'd have a new Godfather II or Goodfellas every few years, made by directors and writers and actors who bring their own interpretation to the material. I want to see Quentin Tarantino's version of The Exorcist. I want to see Martin Scorsese's version of The Godfather. I want to see Ari Aster's version of Spaceballs. I want to watch Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman playing Grumpy Old Men.

Shakespeare's plays are done all over the world all the fucking time. You can't get away from the cunt. His work is remade and remolded into different forms, like West Side Story or The Lion King. The themes and story beats are stolen and remixed and given different spins by pretty much everyone. No one says "no, I only like the FIRST recorded version of his plays, anything after that is shit by default" or "why are they re-recording Macbeth in 2025 when we already have the 1889 Talkie version??"

Recorded media should not be treated as a final, authoritative version of anything. It should exist and be respected and all that jazz, but Taxi Driver isn't going anywhere just because they make a Muppets version in 2032 (god willing). Being sold as a commodity doesn't bestow a story with finality and immutable perfection.

I love films and I love having them on Blu-ray. I would be even happier if I had 10 other interpretations of my favourite films made by film-makers I respect that I could also enjoy. I want people to treat recorded media the way they treat plays; that is, they are never "done". Storytelling is an organic and squishy affair. I believe recorded media, for all the good it brings, also brings a weird sense that once something is printed on a DVD or played in a cinema, that the process of storytelling is completed and that's that, forever. It's really, really weird to me.

Most people are tolerant of, and in fact get very excited by, the idea of cover versions of songs they already love. Many of us have cover versions of songs we like better than the originals. Most of us take cover versions to be tributes to the original artists inasmuch as they're unique interpretations. Why can't we have the same attitude toward movies or TV shows? No cover version is "needed". No cover version is expected to either surpass the original or die on the vine. But when a film remake is announced, the comments are always "what's wrong with the OG?" or "the OG is only 10 years old!" or "this isn't needed, I wish Hollywood would have original ideas for a change" etc.

Let's lighten up a bit and be happy that we're blessed with remakes at all. A world without the concept of remade movies would be a very bereft one, in my [unpopular] opinion.

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