Commented from Voyager
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Kermit the frog catching major strays in this thread. Don't do him dirty like that.
LOL I totally identify with this. I don't remember upvoting, but it looks like I already did. Just un-upvoted and re-upvoted for good measure.
Commented from Voyager
That may be true for some people individually, but I believe if no one at a company is able to build any connection (even on a professional level of base rapport ), that's much more an indicator of the company's failures to build a proper company culture that supports that.
People have been making close friends over the Internet with zero in-person interactions for decades now. And that's even without video chat being the primary way of doing it. I work 100% remote at a company with ~2500 employees. I'm pretty introverted, but I've managed to make a few friends mostly over slack that I would ask if they wanted to grab a drink or something if I were traveling through their area. There's no pressure or expectation of that from the company, there's no "we're family" nonsense, they've just created a company culture where that can happen.
Plex is truly great! I forgot to mention it streams music in addition to movies and tv. The Plex web app is not particularly fantastic for streaming music, but they have a separate app called Plexamp that is really great. So all in all you can use this setup to eliminate all your streaming subscriptions.
I think fear is an important part of our development, and sanitizing children's upbringings is rarely the best approach. I love when my child communicates that they're afraid of something because that gives me an opportunity to guide them through how to encounter and process that fear, and how to continue functioning in life when fear is present (which is always for a lot of people).
Also, for kids who are scared of their closet or under their bed at night, if you remove those triggers I would be surprised if other triggers did not arise. It could easily turn into a never ending game of whack a mole.
Pay for a seedbox and install Plex on it (something like whatbox.ca). You'll have your own streaming service that you can add anything you want to, and it only costs as much as the seedbox. It will give you insularity so you don't get ISP notices, you can access it from anywhere, it's great.
From there it's just finding where you want to get your torrents from and getting used to adding them to the torrent client on your seedbox.
If it's summarizing articles, wouldn't that make it reductive AI, not generative?
Between Everything Everywhere, Banshees (probably my fave), Bodies3x, and Northman (and others I haven't seen), 2022 was a truly fantastic year for original movies.
And while it was a franchise movie, Prey was also one of my favorites of the year.
Three Minutes: A Lengthening - documentary about three minutes of recovered video footage from a small town in Poland in the late 1930's. The scope of it started small and it expanded continuously throughout the movie. It was really impactful. The only footage shown is the video footage itself, the narrator is Helena Bonham Carter. I highly recommend it if you like documentaries.
Let The Right One In - 2008 low budget Swedish horror film. I'd always heard it was well regarded and it did not disappoint one bit. Delightfully tense, cathartic, and unsettling.