GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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He tells a good story about prank calling Stewart's wife and convincing her that Patrick was going to be getting home late that night.

It's simple and early, but I love this bit from the Ed Sullivan show back in 1967.

Hoggle is my example of why most CGI characters in live-action movies are unnecessary. Hoggle is an incredible feat of puppetry combined with the performance of the actor inside the suit, and if that can be accomplished in 1986, then don't tell me that a practical character can't be done today.

L3-37 from Solo is a great example of how to merge practical with CGI. You get the actors real performance, the human actors on set get something real to interact with, and then CGI can fill in some of the gaps and do the things that physically can't be done in reality.

I got her autograph at Dragon Con and she said that they paid her garbage for that gig, but that she loved hanging out with David Bowie.

By the general public and the world? Absolutely.

But you could make the argument that Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and Kennedy were each more specifically hated by one particular person at a time.

There comes a point where it feels like people online are screaming at the collective will of the voters themselves. Chuck Schumer endorsed Mills, so that would have absolutely been the establishment choice. She was polling so poorly and having such a hard time raising money that she dropped out. The people wanted Platner; he was just shittily vetted. Does that suck? Yes. But clearly, the primary voters in Maine wanted someone with a similar message to what Platner brought to the table. It's just a matter of employing better investigators before someone achieves national prominence, because holy fuck what a shit show this has turned into.

How do you prepare the stuff?

TETSUOOOO!

I don't like to think about how much time I've spent ripping CDs, but it's better than being fed someone else's algorithm or relying on a functional wireless connection to play my music.

After not enjoying Applied Calculus, I took Modern Math, AKA Math For English Majors, to complete my math requirement.

It was a great class! Lots of useful, real-world math skills. It didn't use anything much more complicated than simple algebra, but we talked about the traveling salesman problem and ways to fairly split up an estate.

We also talked about election math, and how first past the post is objectively a terrible election system, and how there are several systems readily available that are mathematically more representative of the will of the people. I don't even know if the teacher had a specific political stance, or if she was just mathematically offended by our outdated democratic operating system.

Great class. Wish they would start teaching subjects like that in high school.

I could believe that little tetrahedron symbol on his polo is some cryptofascist bullshit symbol that he had embroidered on at a mall kiosk because he's too chickenshit to actually own his bigotry and wear a Hakenkreuz...

...but I could also believe that there's some athleisure company out there with that logo where when that photo went viral saw it suddenly appear everywhere and just went Fffffuuuuuucckk mmmmeeeeeee..."

People didn't move to America for the freedom to practice any religion, they moved here for the freedom to practice what they believe was _the correct religion.

Well...

Article 3. [Freedom in religion; right and duty of religious worship]

That all persons have a natural and unalienable right, to worship Almighty God, according to the dictates of their own consciences and understandings, as in their opinion shall be regulated by the word of God; and that no person ought to, or of right can be compelled to attend any religious worship, or erect or support any place of worship, or maintain any minister, contrary to the dictates of conscience, nor can any person be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen, on account of religious sentiments, or peculia[r] mode of religious worship; and that no authority can, or ought to be vested in, or assumed by, any power whatever, that shall in any case interfere with, or in any manner control the rights of conscience, in the free exercise of religious worship. Nevertheless, every sect or denomination of christians ought to observe the sabbath or Lord’s day, and keep up some sort of religious worship, which to them shall seem most agreeable to the revealed will of God.

State of Vermont Constitution, 1793.

I really wish we could have got that "attend, erect, or support" clause in the US Constitution!

Good thing the Law of Unintended Consequences isn't a thing!

DARE programs referring to "drugs, alcohol, and tobacco," and middle school me thinking "I'm pretty sure those are all drugs..."

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What I'm doing is merely swirling the water about! That's not a crime!

The movie Primer has a very limited time machine that works at -2X. You turn the machine on at, for instance, 2PM, and walk away, coming back in, say, eight hours. You then go into the machine, and you stay in there for eight hours. When you come out of the machine, it is now 2PM, the time when you first turned the machine on. It is a one-way machine; you can only ever use it to go backwards, and you have to go forwards in time the old-fashioned way.

It was made on a budget of $7000 and it's one of the best sci-fi movies ever made.

Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac.

Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How To Turn the Perfect English Phrase

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