This Pitch Meeting sums up nicely just how far Marvel Studios has drifted from the sublime to the ridiculous. Secret Invasion looks like the movie equivalent of eating a jar of live maggots. Hard pass:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=T8z4CNl25YM
Like I said the other day, I'm so done with the MCU. In fact, I'm done with Disney's horrific butchering of the favourite story worlds in general. Life is too short to be insulted while just trying to enjoy a bit of escapism.
#movies #SuperHero #Marvel #MCU
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> 1 AM. I cannot sleep
This was me about 3-4am for the last week or so : /
Anna Begins has been a breakup song for me since my first really serious girlfriend introduced me to August and Everything After. Counting Crows were one of the first "soft" bands I learned to appreciate thanks to her influence, along with The Cranberries.
I serenaded my wife with Anna Begins while we were courting, so singing it is a good acid test of how well my broken heart is healing. Today I only cried a little, maybe more out of sentimentality than heartbreak. Progress!
#love #HeartBreak
Anna Begins has been a break-up song for me since my first really serious girlfriend got me into the August and Everything After album. The Counting Crows were one of the first "soft" bands I learned to appreciate thanks to her influence, along with the The Cranberries.
Singing along to Anna Begins is always a good acid test for how well the healing of my broken heart is going. Today I only cried a little, maybe more out of sentimentality than heartbreak. Progress! : )
#love #HeartBreak
Anna Begins has been a break-up song for me since my first really serious girlfriend got my into August and Everything After album it's on. The Counting Crows were one of the first "soft" bands I learned to appreciate, along with the The Cranberries, thanks to that girlfriend's influence. Singing along to Anna Begins is always a good acid test for how well the healing of my broken heart is going. Today I only cried a little, maybe more out of sentimentality than heartbreak. Progress! : )
#love
"This time when kindness falls like rain
It washes me away and Anna begins to change my mind
She's talking in her sleep
It's keeping me awake and Anna begins to toss and turn
And every word is nonsense but I understand and
Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing
Her kindness bangs a gong
It's moving me along and Anna begins to fade away
It's chasing me away
She disappears and
Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing"
#CountingCrows, Anna Begins
#music #quotes
"When I was inside, I often found myself using it with an external monitor using it’s included dock.
With this setup, I was surprised at how capable the PinePhone was as a laptop. I often found myself editing documents in LibreOffice, and at one point even managed to edit a video using Kdenlive!
Overall, even with its quirks, my year with the #PinePhone went quite well,and I never really found my self longing for my Android."
#JacobCrume, Jan 2022
https://news.itsfoss.com/pinephone-review/
#mobileGNU #Android
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> I am so hard in the old hacker camp
Is that an offer to do code review? 😁
Also, let me know if you too are willing to offer mentorship to someone struggling to get started in digital tech or stay in the field; particularly the Free Code/ Open Source field. Reply here and we'll see if we can't match some needs to offers.
#mentorship
Anyone out there getting started in tech - paid or voluntary - and looking for a mentor?
Someone whose brains you can pick about stuff that affects your participation in tech, whether professional or personal. Someone who's seen some shit, and is socially liberal (but also 'all corporations must die' far-left economically).
I'm thinking particularly of Māori, women, the neurodiverse, etc etc, but all approaches will be given fair consideration.
Hit me up by Direct post or matrix.
#mentors
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> I gave a rat's ass about sportsball for like 6 months when I was 10
I guess I cared for the 4 years I played soccer as a kid. But only about playing, not watching games on TV and carping endlessly about the refs and the coaches etc
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Because if you're OK with investments from capitalists, plus RoI, being paid back by "the taxpayer" (not how it works, see MMT), then...
... why are you so horrified by public debt, ie loans from capitalists, plus interest, being paid by the same "the taxpayer"?
The interest is probably lower. More importantly, unless the state defaults on public debt (which can't happen unless it becomes a "failed state"), loans don't require the public to give away any ownership of our infrastructure.
(2/2)
"... you want a second harbour crossing, you want light rail... you are not going to get that through the tax revenue, it's going to need private capital to do it."
#DamienGrant, 2013
So... are you proposing to have our public infrastructure partially owned by these private capitalists? Or to pay back their private capital over time (plus a generous return on their investment, of course)?
(1/2)
#podcasts #Aotearoa #NZ #NZPolitic #TheWorkingGroup
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> I just cannot get excited about it. I’m trying. I just can’t
I know, right? It's like watching paint dribble.
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> Might be cryptographicaly solved by signing the new key with the old and transfering the old rights to the new one
Is this significantly different/ easier than using the verification system to share keys with the new account? I'm a bit out of my depth here but keen to learn.
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> It's generally better to not interact with these people anymore for your own sanity... These will mute anyone with an opinion that differs from their own
Ae, they're a self-serving problem.
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> The very first thing I ate when I arrived in the country back in the 80’s was a soggy wheatbix
Isn't that an obligatory part of the immigration policy? ; )
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> almost everyone of their acquaintances uses FB the abnormal are us
Every group of pioneers starts out as an ignored minority, doing things some consider to be... unnatural ; )
Watching the laws coming down the pipeline, I suspect the redecentralisation movement is just in the process of transitioning from being mocked to being actively attacked.
Watch this space...
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you."
#NicholasKlein, 1913
https://apnews.com/article/archive-fact-checking-2315880316
(A quote similar to this is commonly - and apparently falsely - attributed to Ghandi)
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> almost everyone of their acquaintances uses FB the abnormal are us
Every group of pioneers starts out as an ignored minority, doing things some consider to be... unnatural ; )