Yeah I think that if you correct for miles driven the US’ roads are actually safer than most other countries, and the difference comes down to how much of our infrastructure is built to separate cars from everyone else. Still the least total deaths are in the places with the least driving, since having good car-centric infrastructure can’t fully solve the problem.

the idea of watching a spin-off series

For me, it feels more like a redemption arc. Nothing can undo how bad GoT’s ending was, but maybe another story in the same universe that’s shorter and has a planned, satisfying ending from the very beginning can create the closure that the original series failed to deliver.

I dig it. The best part of GoT is the scheming and the war and the fucked up families, and HoD cute out all of the other stuff and focuses on just those aspects of the universe.

mOdRiNtH sTrIvEs To TaKe An EtHiCaL aPpRoAcH tO aDvErTiSiNg

I have never even heard of “no iron clothes” until now, and I haven’t ironed any of my clothes except when I absolutely had to do it because I was in the Marines.

Hey now, some of us like to iron patches onto our jackets of things we like!

Solar and wind power are cheaper and more viable than ever. Regardless of US sanctions for the rest of the world capitalist market forces will demand a green transition, and the oil industry will not be able to hold it back.

I saw Matt Christman at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

(watching Mike Stoklasa talk about George Lucas’ politics)

SAY “VIETCONG” YOU CENTRIST FUCK! SAY THAT THE REBELS ARE THE VIETNAMESE AND THE EMPIRE IS AMERICA!

EDIT: OH SHIT HE DID IT

lol

lmao

I got over this by getting a sidecar motorcycle. Yes, car behind me, I do have to take this right hand turn at 5 KPH and not one bit higher, thank you very much!

North Korea: develops a custom version of Linux for government computers and operates a threadbare internet infrastructure with leftover servers that they found on the side of the road that can somehow serve the entire country

Westerners: Wow North Korea’s internet really sucks!

I remember having the Extigy, and having problems getting it work properly with basically every single game I owned.

Why would I want my prompt to be private if I don’t want to use the result in some malicious way

Do you think that the only thing people use AI for is making deepfakes and CSAM? AFAIK the most common use is generating porn. Now, I don’t think generating regular porn is “malicious”, but I certainly understand why most people (self included) want to keep what they generate private.

I’m thinking Saturn is up there at S tier. Those rings are hot.

D tier is Mars. Just stupid ass-rocks.

I watched one Critical Drinker video that was recommended to me, I think it was on Mulan, all I needed to know that he’s a twat because he was deliberately misrepresenting the original animated film in order to make a really tortured point about moral lessons in modern movies being bad.

cinemasins, hoonest trailers, the critical drinker

Don’t know much about the other channels, but these three will do it for ya. The average level of media literacy among youtube reviewers is the absolute pits, and if you teach yourself to think about movies on that level, then you’re playing yourself. I’m not like, Mr Cinema Buff certified expert or anything, but I’ve curated my subscriptions to reviewers with interesting things to say and points of view that I don’t have, so that it feels like more of a complement to watching film and TV to me than something that drags the whole experience down.

Even back when Wikileaks stories first broke and I was a lib I was shocked at how bloodthirsty everyone around me was for him. Same thing with Snowden and Manning - the most humanist-seeming libs will drop all that shit instantly if you can be portrayed as an enemy,

So yeah not surprised at all that Stormfront is in full on “enemy of the state” mode.

I find that describing more than one character in detail really kills the pacing of a scene - and even describing one character requires a moment of downtime in order to fit in. So for example, if I have three characters, I’ll describe one in detail and the other two in passing in the first scene, and then in later scenes I’ll find a slow moment to describe the other two.

I suppose you would also be fine with every one of your google searches being in a database? Every video you’ve ever watched, even the ones in private browser tabs?