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Dakota Johnson on ‘Madame Web’ Blowback: “I’ll Never Do Anything Like It Again”
  • Yes and that too bad, I'm not sure if it was the novelty or just the naive rose-tinted glasses of youth but trailers seemed Awesome when I was a teenager.

    Now? Eh.

    I feel like I've seen too many trailers with shit exploding and the one and only funny scene of the movie, that they don't really attract me anymore.

  • Stupid German Dinosaurs
  • Yeah, we have chickens running around where I live, and those mfers can really sound creepy as fuck. That sort of muted muffled gutteral shriek thing they do? That's never mentioned in children's farm animals books...

  • What was the piece of media so emotionally overwhelming you just stopped it?
  • Don't Look Up. As an environmental biologist, I feel they really nailed the constant feeling of crisis that everyone either chooses to ignore or use for greed. There came a point where I couldn't stomach it anymore, I watch TV to escape reality not be reminded of it lol.

  • 2,000-year-old skull of a Peruvian warrior found to be fused together by metal
  • I'm no expert, but my first thought is, molten metal is so hot it would probably do more damage than it would fix. Also, the shape is quite neat/precise, rarely the case when pouring a liquid on a curved surface. There doesn't seem to be any pooling in the cracks and depressions. The edges are very clean.

    Furthermore, and to me, most convincingly, it looks like it's been hammered. There are no bubbles, thickness looks regular, the surface looks like it has been worked on, there are even what seem to be folds, to adapt the shape to the wound.

    The bones have fused back together, which shows that there was healing, which takes time. So that indicates that the person survived the wound (and the procedure).

    So that's what I would guess based on those photos.

    I'm very impressed it worked. Look at the wound. Someone seems to have had their skull crushed in by a big blunt object, rock or hammer or whatever. I wouldn't really expect anyone to survive that, even with modern medical abilities.

    Edit : I think I sort of misread your question. But either way, the info above still stands.

    I would add, re: the execution idea. In most early civilizations, metal is a rare resource. Why waste it one someone you want to kill?

  • What is it, that you currently imagine is stopping you from being content with your life?
  • My unwillingness to knowingly hurt people. I think I would be happier doing my own thing, but would hurt or disappoint do many people by leaving them (my boyfriend, family, colleagues, friends....). So I'm just wasting my own life instead...

  • As Someone Learning German, I Know This Pain
  • I'm semi-fluent in German and Spanish, and my strategy is guesstimate. I figure that I've probably read/heard the word before, so I just test out the genders on it and whichever one "feels more natural" or "sounds less weird", it's probably because I've heard it that way before, so I go with that.

  • As Someone Learning German, I Know This Pain
  • Sometimes it changes. For example, Covid in French, everyone was using "le covid" (i guess cos it's a virus, and virus is a masculin word), but then I believe the French academy weighed in that it should be "la covid" because it's not the virus but the disease (la maladie) we're talking about. Anyway. Yeah other than the official sources, many of us peasants all still say Le covid because by the time they weighed in we were all saying Le and so now saying La sounds weird.

  • What is the best TV show that you have ever seen?
  • A lot of shows I liked are mentioned here already, so I'm going to add Brooklyn 99. Recently finished it and it's a surprisingly rich show, really enjoyed it.

    Whole different vibe, but Don't Look Up. As an environmental scientist, that one really nailed the existential dread many of my colleagues and I feel every day...

  • Have you ever been accused of something that wasn’t true, yet you had no way to prove your innocence?
  • Yeah I don't think he is projecting in that sense, but I do believe he has really bad abandonment issues, that is making him "see" things that aren't the case, maybe to have a reason to push me away before I hurt him, too... I'm not sure what to do, he's so convinced that I've betrayed him already, and even if the offense is not real, the pain clearly is, and I'm not sure there is anything I can do to reassure him. It's so painful to watch (beyond the hurtful accusations..)...

    I appreciate you looking out for me, friend!

  • Can you drive a manual transmission?
  • Yes. Europe. We pretty much all do. Automatics are becoming a bit more common in recent years, but 90% of cars here are still manual. Especially the old beat-up cars we learn to drive on are all manual. And if by chance you learned on an automatic, and pass your driver's test on automatic, it says so on your driver's licence and I think you're not actually allowed to drive/rent manual cars.

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