skuzz

Yes, that was a good film, although it didn't stay completely true to the book or reality/history (which makes sense when making a film adaptation), but still was good cinema.

While campaign finance laws are dogshit these days, isn't there some kind of upper limit on how much one can donate to a campaign?

I have watched maybe 1% of them. There were occasional gems that may not even survive a rewatch, but it's all just so tired rinse-and-repeat, with a booming soundtrack and swooping/jiggling camera angles that let you know how to feel at every second. There's no creativity. The people making these movies should be forced to watch films from the 1920s-1960s to learn how easy it is to create drama with absolute silence.

I feel it's also a disservice to reality right now in a time when everything is falling off the rails.

We shouldn't be filling people with false hope that some magic superheroes are going to save us from our current plights and we all just gotta Disney+ and chill, and wait for the post-credit clip showing the next twist that the next superheroes will have hammer-shields that fall out of their butt, and their joking sardonic sidekick talking cactus pilot actually has a family.

Even civilian concealed carry training has some hands-on courses to teach why it is trained this way. You're also taught, "only draw your weapon if you have intent to kill," which is sobering in and of itself.

This leads to the bigger question: why does US cop training paint every scenario as "time to pull out the hammer, I see a nail!"? That's fundamentally wrong at its very core. "Oh, shit, an acorn! blam! blam! blam!"

It seems the very antithesis of the US legal tenet "innocent until proven guilty" as one can't be innocent nor proven guilty if they're already dead.

You gotta remember the tape delay on moves by big corps. Google/Microsoft/Apple/etc. all are suffering after their top talent left. So they're all slowly backpedaling their behavior.

Big Corpo always lags behind what the FAANGXRAGNAROCK tech companies do, so they'll likely realize the same problem has happened in another couple of quarters, mimic the behavior again, and silently backpedal.

I've already seen more job listings claiming "hybrid/remote" and even companies like AT&T and Verizon are offering remote-only technical roles on their job sites now.

Sure would be nice if these idiot companies didn't keep copying each other and just realized that, no, I don't want to sit in a shitty loud hot office all day. If you want me to be productive, let me work where I am. If some people like it, cool, let them!

They should all recognize this as a cool advantage to cut down on their commercial real estate offerings, or sublet some of the space they don't need. There's tons of money to be had and/or saved by making these adjustments.

Also NSA: Gently caresses fiber splits in NOC

The quality of store brand stuff seems on the decline as well.

Or, "the bad guys will just heat my car to open my windows and steal my kid," probably

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484722012021

AI is the new rule 34.

Artificial intelligence (AI) models for refrigeration, heat pumps, and air conditioners have emerged in recent decades. The universal approximation accuracy and prediction performances of various AI structures like feedforward neural networks, radial basis function neural networks, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference and recurrent neural networks are encouraging interest. ... Thus, complex multi-objective problems that require high precision solutions to optimize the cost and performance of ideal RHVAC are solved using artificial intelligence techniques (Mohanraj et al., 2012).

Granted, this is modeling, not implementation, but.

Are you in my state? HVAC peeps had little to no idea about heat pumps and claimed they were $20,000 to install and only rich people had them.

Lemmy has been around long enough to have an always?

Eat brown rice?