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I love WhatsApp, but not with my neighbors.
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What’s app?
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There’s lots of discussion about staying on DST, but don’t count on my vote.
At the darkest point in the year sunrise wouldn’t happen until almost 9:00 AM.I would rather have an hour more of light in the afternoons in the winter – and in the evenings in the summer. Light in the mornings is a big thing, of course, but maybe because I start work at 07:30 it doesn’t feel like it makes much of a difference. When they turn the clocks back, I’ve got a little light again for my way to work for like two weeks and then it’s dark again…
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Light in the mornings is a big thing, of course, but maybe because I start work at 07:30 it doesn’t feel like it makes much of a difference.
Same here really, mornings for me at best have always been heading to school or work. The evening is your leisure time.
It makes no difference here because we’re so close to the equator its the same all year round (gets light and dark around 7.30am and pm) but when I was in the UK I was definitely pro more sunlight in the evening than mornings.
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What’s app?
Not much. What’s app with you?
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I’ve let you in but please in return update your avatar, I don’t like those things that look like QR codes.
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It’s real QR codes that link to a photo or nothing!
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I like Irvine Welsh’s summary of Spider-Man films:
Spoiler: nerd gets bitten by radioactive spider and has to choose between using his new powers to finally get his hole or fight crime. Chooses unwisely.
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I was looking up a couple of details on the Alien3 director’s cut for the thread in the movie forum, and I found this fantastic two-part blog from Ralph Brown detailing his experiences working on the troubled movie.
My Pop Life #171 : Praying For Time – George Michael
My Pop Life #220 : 3 A.M. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.) – The K.L.F.
Don’t be distracted by the URLs and titles, it is apparently actually him writing about his on-set experiences.
Some fantastic details in there about the set and the producers and Fincher and the rewrites and the other actors (including Sigourney Weaver – who he clearly did not get on with), but my favourite line of all might be “by now I am shitting maisonettes.”
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Love the file names!
me too!. On his home page he has a list on all the blogs based on his experiences. 245 of them and they are all titled with song names.
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Dog only knows
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I love the BBC, but it is a shambolic mess sometimes. I just watched something on the iPlayer and went to download it, which is an option they now offer, apparently. The button on the programme page wasn’t doing anything though, so I Lycosed how to download off iPlayer and it directed me to the page “How I can I watch programmes offline?” It says:
On a computer or laptop
You’ll need to install the BBC iPlayer Downloads application. Find out all you need to know about BBC iPlayer Downloads, including how to install it and how to use it, in the following pages:
Getting started with BBC iPlayer Downloads on computersSounds reasonable, so I followed that link, thinking it’d have the download link in it. Instead:
Getting started with BBC iPlayer Downloads on computers
BBC iPlayer Downloads is an application you can install on your computer to download programmes from the BBC iPlayer website. Here’s how it works:
Install the application
Download programmes from the website
Watch your favourite programmes in the application when you’re offline, on the go, or outside the UKHead to the How do I install BBC iPlayer Downloads on a PC or Mac? page for a step-by-step guide on installing the application.
Ok, bit silly sending me to another page, but whatever. I followed the link:
How do I install BBC iPlayer Downloads on a PC or Mac?
Go to the BBC iPlayer installation page and select the link to download.
Why isn’t it on this page FFS? Do I really need to go through 4 different pages just to get the link to download the app you presumably want people to use?
So, I followed that link and it finally gave me a download button. I downloaded the app. I went to install it and… the installer won’t open. Keeps giving me this error:
The procedure entry point SetDefaultDllDirectories could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll
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Alarmed goannas can mistake standing humans for trees and attempt to climb them to safety, which is painful and can be distressing.
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Tastier than trees though.
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So last night I dreamt that I was at a hobo-safari in Alaska, trying out to be homeless in -30C, with a group of people lead by a Native American. Then, out of nowhere, and old pal of mine shows up. A guy I haven’t even thought about in years and years. He was there on a “normal” vacation. We hung out for a while and talked about what a massive coincidence this was. Then I slept with his girlfriend and some local chic in the formers hotel room, before resuming the safari by chucking my jacket full of leaves and newspapers and going to sleep in an abandonded car.
When I woke up, one of my travel companions had frozen to death because of using wet leaves.
The end.
What the actual fuck, brain? You should charge admission for this shit!
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So I looked that up in a dream-interpretation book and it turns out you’re gay.
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So I looked that up in a dream-interpretation book and it turns out you’re gay.
Oh, no… Not again!
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If Korean pop is kpop, what is Chinese rap?
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Unsurprisingly, Ready Player Two sounds very silly (thread):
#ReadyPlayerTwo is everything I dreamed it would be pic.twitter.com/C7oocc3QJN
— Jacob Mercy (@jacobmercy) November 24, 2020
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“Numbered doors … each with a number stenciled on its front.”
As a professional writer/editor, I am in awe of anyone who would publish this
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“Numbered doors … each with a number stenciled on its front.”
As a professional writer/editor, I am in awe of anyone who would publish this
Let’s be honest, no editor bothered looking at this. It was only ever going to be dreck whatever was done to it.
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It’s like printing money.
You mean it’s illegal (unless you work for the Department of the Treasury)?
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What is the fixation on the “daughter’s boyfriend comes round for dinner and it gets awkward” situation? It seems to come up a lot in the relationship thread. It feels like a relic of old sitcoms and bad romantic comedies.
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What age would you say a person should be into their goals, etc? Just asking randomly. I would say a person’s mid twenties myself as the big 30 comes quick…
I think it’s good to have ideas about what you want to do with your life at any age, but it’s also fine to not know and to be working it all out. Some people take longer than others to discover those things, and some people’s ideas change a lot as they go through their lives.
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What age would you say a person should be into their goals, etc? Just asking randomly. I would say a person’s mid twenties myself as the big 30 comes quick…
I don’t think there is a hard rule. Some people know it when they’re 8, others don’t find out ever. I’m planning to make the first steps when I’m well into my sixties
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Yeah… you have no idea how much I wanted to tell off those who asked me these “life” questions at a dinner table but I felt I had to be polite to make it all less awkward. Well, that is that.
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Watching a little of the Godfather 1 and 2. The first one was the best for all its intrigue. The sequel was good for the back ground of the family… Channel surfing during the holiday season has a lot of marathons and football games.
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What is the fixation on the “daughter’s boyfriend comes round for dinner and it gets awkward” situation?
Maybe he’s just really hot?
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I don’t think there is a hard rule. Some people know it when they’re 8, others don’t find out ever. I’m planning to make the first steps when I’m well into my sixties
What scares me most is those young people who already know exactly what they’re going to do at sixteen. It’s not just dreams and and unicorns either. I’ve seen them. They work hard to get the best grades so they get into medical school and five years later they’re medical doctors in their early twenties.
I think it is really important to waste your life a little in your early twenties. It’s good for you. It helps grow character, and not have a complete breakdown in your forties.
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Interestingly, some wanted to pattern Tony Stark in the movies after Elon but I digress…
Elon Musk does think he’s Tony Stark.
He doesn’t realise he’s actually Lex Luthor.
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Interestingly, some wanted to pattern Tony Stark in the movies after Elon but I digress…
Elon Musk does think he’s Tony Stark.
He doesn’t realise he’s actually Lex Luthor.
I don’t think he’s THAT smart.
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He’s Justin Hammer at best.
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Interestingly, some wanted to pattern Tony Stark in the movies after Elon but I digress…
Elon Musk does think he’s Tony Stark.
He doesn’t realise he’s actually Lex Luthor.
I don’t think he’s THAT smart.
He does, though.
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I don’t care how big Microsoft is or how rich Gates is.
I only care that their products have been getting steadily worse over the last 15 years.
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15?
I remember in my school days, all the compsci majors and professors telling me that the frustration was that for all the recourses that company had, Windows shouldn’t be so mediocre. What was worse, Microsoft was dominating the market and preventing others from competing, thereby hindering progress and making quality operating systems and products.
Now all the talk is on Bezos, when it used to be Gates’ shamelessness.
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Ok… but whatever happened to all that Microsoft bashing saying that the company was getting too big and Gates was getting too rich?
1. Gates made a pledge to give at least half of his fortune to charity, and more or less dedicated his life to philanthropic causes. (He’s still far too rich, but hey, it’s pretty much impossible not to be once you’ve amassed this kind of wealth.)
2. Apple got big.Are all people that are Gates or Bezos level rich, like over 10 billion, so rich because they own the majority of shares in a company they started?
The king of Thailand is worth over 30 billion and I don’t think he started Thailand.
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Ways not to get that rich- working for someone else, multi-level marketing.
Honey, I got just the essential oil for you!
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The thing I worry about though is that entrepreneurs will flee to other countries that will allow them to hold on to a company’s assets.
That’s why we need global communism.
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Ok… but whatever happened to all that Microsoft bashing saying that the company was getting too big and Gates was getting too rich?
The 90s ended and life moved on. Forgive me for this assumption, but a lot of your conceptions are very dated, Al.
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The thing I worry about though is that entrepreneurs will flee to other countries that will allow them to hold on to a company’s assets.
That’s why we need global communism.
Multiversal communism or STFU.
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I’m sure that will work.
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I’m sure that will work.
Marxism as a snack, bourgeoisie propaganda for lunch and dinner.
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But then you have to wonder how the people they inherit their fortune from got so rich.
In the case of the Koch brothers, their dad developed a patent for a new process in refining oil. There’s usually someone at some point who did something pretty ingenious, but then there’s also generations of people just inheriting and investing, basically.
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There’s usually someone at some point who did something pretty ingenious, but then there’s also generations of people just inheriting and investing, basically.
In Britain, it’s more likely to be someone at some point who picked the right king in a war.
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There’s usually someone at some point who did something pretty ingenious, but then there’s also generations of people just inheriting and investing, basically.
In Britain, it’s more likely to be someone at some point who picked the right king in a war.
Or was given the right to exploit an indigenous people’s natural resources (including the people)
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There’s usually someone at some point who did something pretty ingenious, but then there’s also generations of people just inheriting and investing, basically.
In Britain, it’s more likely to be someone at some point who picked the right king in a war.
Or was given the right to exploit an indigenous people’s natural resources (including the people)
… as a reward for picking the right king.
It’s monarchy’s fault, all the way down.
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Actually that’s not entirely true. Cecil Rhodes, for example, didn’t come from old money or a titled family, he worked his way up from fairly humble origins until he was able to do all his exploiting funded by the Rothschilds.
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Forgive me for this assumption, but a lot of your conceptions are very dated, Al.
… it is not dated. I always asked in other threads “Whatever happened to…” because changes don’t happen in a vacuum. Now I said I can remember the Gates and Microsoft bashing, and asked whatever happened to that. Christian gave the better answer how Gates’ charity changed things and others like Bezos and Musk overtook his place making Gates a lesser target. I can go with that.
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In related news, just how long was Bobby Ewing in that shower?
20 mins – 13 years, give or take.
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Out of pure randomness, Has anyone else seen the Nissan ads with Brie Larson(MCU Captain Marvel)? In the most recent one, she talks about going Rogue because there is a Nissan model called Rogue. Every time I watch it I can’t but think of that Southern Belle of an X man and wondering if Brie is enough of a nerd to realize she is tweaking millions of obsessed x men fans. Occasionally I have the urge to say “Don’t do it, Brie. Stay away from the power sucking mutant” I know on some level that she is just an actor and rogue is just a car but the shittier Life gets the more I want to go to that fantasy world.
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What is this new way of doing mathematics that is being taught to students these days?
The wrong way. It’s the modern equivalent of counting your fingers and toes.
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Has anyone else seen the Nissan ads with Brie Larson(MCU Captain Marvel)?
She annoys the hell out of me in those ads. Comes across as smug and superior-than-thou. I don’t know what Nissan was thinking.
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is she actually in character as Carol?
I doubt it — she’s not wearing a costume, and she’s driving a Nissan rather than flying through the sky.
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She annoys the hell out of me in those ads. Comes across as smug and superior-than-thou. I don’t know what Nissan was thinking.
Similarly to her Cap Marvel performance, I’d say she comes across as cocky to me.
Where her Carol is concerned, I think her performance is pretty clearly supposed to be a female variation of Tony Stark, who is smug and superior-than-thou. It’s about how being cocky can be fun. Worked for me.
As for what Nissan were thinking, hey, I think it’s working out better for them than that other ad they’re running right now:
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I found out that I was doing parts of the ‘new math’ by accident most of my life. At least in basic arithmetic.
Despite being taught the traditional way, my way of thinking has always done it this way, which I find easier.
I found the old way of placing the numbers on top of each other and carrying the one very difficult to do when not on paper.
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placing the numbers on top of each other and carrying the one
When I do adding in my head, that’s the way I do it. I guess I’m just an old man stuck in his ways. And I didn’t learn the new way.
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I found out that I was doing parts of the ‘new math’ by accident most of my life. At least in basic arithmetic.
Is that what that is? When someone verbally explained this new math it sounded very odd, but what you just showed is the shortcuts I’ve done mentally all the time. I am working it, but I was one of those that saw a lot were just memorizing ‘times tables’
Back about grade 8 I’m noticed but challenged by a hardcore that had to “show your work” and would take marks off correct answers.
B’s were rare for me, but he did give me my first B+Grade 9 teacher talked to me and got that fact, let me just solve the problem (obvious I’m not cheating) and grow.
Algebra is my first ever “A”. That year for no reason we did the Provincial test they gave the Grade 10’s (to see where everyone was) and it’s kind of obvious it was to see how some of us would do (they weren’t giving it out to grade 9’s). I got second in the class and the top 3 invited to stay afterward and told how happy he was and encouraged to keep at it and make college/university happen.Well (to shorten this up a bit), no scholarship for me (and I’ve done well being a tradesman like may father), but if their was a point to me over-sharing it was that teacher. I’ll always remember him and his perfect mix of challenge and encouragement.
Shame I never saw him again, or a teacher like him. Also, shame on teenage rebellion, daddy issues, alcohol, marijuana, and a bunch of other shit and bad decisions I had to go through.
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And I didn’t learn the new way.
Neither did I, I’m 47! My brain just worked its way into using that logic to add up.
s that what that is? When someone verbally explained this new math it sounded very odd, but what you just showed is the shortcuts I’ve done mentally all the time. I am working it, but I was one of those that saw a lot were just memorizing ‘times tables’
It’s a lot more than that I think but that style of adding up created the most fuss when it was discussed in newspapers a year or so back (I think because it’s easier to talk about than stuff like algebra). We have an expert here in Bruce who is a maths teacher but that’s my understanding of part of it.
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I found out that I was doing parts of the ‘new math’ by accident most of my life. At least in basic arithmetic.
Despite being taught the traditional way, my way of thinking has always done it this way, which I find easier.
I found the old way of placing the numbers on top of each other and carrying the one very difficult to do when not on paper.
That’s how I’ve always done it in my head too. Made for a very awkward lesson at primary school once when my teacher kept demanding I “write out my answers in full”, I didn’t get what her problem was, so basically explained that in full descriptive sentences.
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