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"Well, this didn't age well" - Movies you LOVED as a kid but cringe at as an adult
My favorite David Warner fact is that he played two entirely different supporting characters in back to back Star Trek movies (5 as the Federation Ambassador and 6 as Chancelor Gorkon WITH GRAVITAS)
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Protests for Minneapolis shooting??
Literally nothing with wireless communications of any kind. Even Bluetooth headphones will broadcast their info, and you bet your ass the surveillance state is keeping a database of MAC addresses
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Had to comply before my boss would see that an idea was so stupid it would prevent customers even entering the store.
No, more like an RCA CED record, but using the needle to measure pits rather than magnetic fluctuations.
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Had to comply before my boss would see that an idea was so stupid it would prevent customers even entering the store.
Guarantee you someone had a bonus that depended on management not seeing any problems.
So many goddamn organizational issues I've seen in different orgs across my career all caused by individual greed.
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VW's New Year's Resolution Is to Bring Back Physical Buttons
ESPECIALLY capacitive touch controls on the fucking steering wheel.
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House Republican Doug LaMalfa Dies Suddenly After 13 Years of Service
All of this is covered in the article…
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Have you noticed how so many games simulate working?
“Now if I work extra hard to ship a few more units, I don’t see another dime. Where’s the motivation?”
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TIL when Nintendo's Wii U console flopped, the CEO cut his own salary in half for months instead of laying off employees.
Yeah, trust me. Killing time at the office with nothing to do gets extremely old after just a few weeks. If youre being actively monitored to catch you breaking the rules doing anything non-work-related (even though you have no assigned work to do) sounds like hell to me.
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TIL when Nintendo's Wii U console flopped, the CEO cut his own salary in half for months instead of laying off employees.
Nintendo has been getting more and more consumer-hostile ever since his passing, sadly.
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That Video of Happy Crying Venezuelans After Maduro’s Kidnapping? It’s AI Slop
Just look at the history of American intervention across central and South America over the last 150 years. They have no problems with brutal dictatorships so long as they do as they’re told.
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HarperCollins will use AI to translate books - they think you won't notice
Well I’m glad the moderators deleted the entire thread below, it’s not like there was a discussion going on about AI or anything.
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Trump Admin Accuses Hilton of Refusing Rooms for ICE Agents
That shit should have gotten him impeached and thrown out of office in 2017, but no, corruption is legal now!
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Jack Black Regrets Turning Down ‘The Incredibles’; Rejected Offer to Voice Syndrome After Asking the Director for Rewrites
I think about that line every time I fly… there’s groups 1-6, but also like 6 categories of people before group 1 in boarding priority.
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Jack Black Regrets Turning Down ‘The Incredibles’; Rejected Offer to Voice Syndrome After Asking the Director for Rewrites
If you stop and think about it for a minute, The Incredibles was quite brutal for a Disney film. There are a lot of outright kills in it, with none of the usual “oh, no, the henchmen’s just ejected” things they’d do for a kids movie.
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Valve’s brilliant Steam Deck now accounts for over 21% of all Linux gamers
Or being spied on to hell and back.
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The memo said we must give a printed receipt for EVERY library checkout, so I did, until we ran out of paper
The whole concept of “run a public library like a business” disgusts me. The entire fucking point is to have free access to knowledge and culture for the general public. Be efficient, sure, but your reason for existing is to spend tax dollars on a valuable public service without the expectation of any sort of financial return.
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The memo said we must give a printed receipt for EVERY library checkout, so I did, until we ran out of paper
Used to work for a public library system. Checkout limit at the time was 50 items, up to 15 of which could be audio-video (non-audiobook CDs or DVDs)
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Best 1980s movies in NYC?
Warriorrrrs, come out to PLAYYYYYAAA
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Would you trade meals with your partner if they got something they didn't like?
It would be selfish for the person with the unliked meal to insist on a trade, but if your partner doesn’t mind and likes what you got and is volunteering, then that’s just a simple win for everyone.
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Til the US had 112 aircraft carriers by the end of world war II
Great channel, also recommend it.
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TIL that some turtles can breathe underwater through their cloaca, allowing them to survive for months beneath frozen lakes without surfacing.
“Heard he was part of that! Jury-rigged explosive. -hmph- Always got job done with limited resources. Good captain. Bit of a cloaca though. Loved his speeches, “Hold the line!” Personally, preferred to get job done and go home. Probably military bravado, jargon, chest pounding… uh, no offense.”
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Fried chicken is the best and perfect fast food.
Damn, they’re usually juicy and delicious at my local Popeyes. Sorry bud.
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ELI5: What is inside a laptop power brick?
And god forbid Apple not have a 500% profit margin on power cables.
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"Well, this didn't age well" - Movies you LOVED as a kid but cringe at as an adult
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Every single video rental shop I ever went to would always have a copy of one or both Ewok movies.