Nope, the movie takes place in Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow), Alaska, which is one of the northernmost populated areas on earth. From the Wikipedia page:

When the sun sets on November 18, it stays below the horizon until January 23, resulting in a polar night that lasts about 66 days.[37] When the polar night starts, about 6 hours of civil twilight occur, with the amount decreasing each day during the first half of the polar night. On the winter solstice (around December 21 or December 22), civil twilight in Utqiagvik lasts a mere 3 hours.[34][38] After this, the amount of civil twilight increases each day to around 6 hours at the end of the polar night.

Edit: to OP's point, most depictions of the Arctic aren't that far north. 30 Days of Night happens to be one that really does have that level of continual darkness. Even so, while it's night for several months, it's really just the day shortening to the point that you don't see the sun with that civil twilight reducing to a few hours, and then as the "days" get longer eventually you start to see the sun again. The reverse happens for the summer, where eventually the sun doesn't set enough to be out of view.

We don't know a lot yet. This recaps most of what has been revealed so far.

https://mtgrocks.com/mtg-designer-reveals-mystery-2025-plane-isnt-so-mysterious/

How do you feel about the direction that new planes have taken? I think it's fair to say the scope of what can be a magic plane has increased dramatically recently, from the guns of New Capenna, the tech in modern Kamigawa and Duskmourn, and the increasing variety of intelligent animals that aren't humanoid like lionen.

We're getting an Omenpath racing set and a space plane this year, which I think will be distinctly different from previously explored tropes and backdrops.

I understand that WotC wants to capture the potential for MTG as a game and framework to be applied to nearly anything, and that for whatever franchise they choose to expand Universes Beyond to there will be a bunch of fans who are thrilled to see cards for their beloved characters.

What worries me is that the more MTG is everything, the more diluted the game's own identity becomes. I fell in love with a game that depicted its own worlds and told its own story. I came to accept that Universes Beyond had a place in MTG and it felt ok when used sparingly, but I think 2025 is the year that we cross the threshold into hugely expanded scope for crossovers.

I just hope Magic still feels like Magic a year from now.

Moo Deng

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moo_Deng

Tigers Are Not Afraid is great, definitely worth seeing.

I really liked One Cut of the Dead (Japan) and The Wailing (South Korea) a lot too.

Is there a reason it needs to be an app? I was in a similar situation and what worked best for me was just replacing the YouTube app with a Firefox shortcut to YouTube.com. I'm still logged in and the uBlock Origin extension strips the ads out. I think the Sponsorblock extension should also work with this system.

In general I've just started replacing apps with annoying ads with either a Firefox webapp or a Firefox shortcut. Works great and reduces the app count on my phone too.

At the risk of being dogpiled, I'd like to try to have some discussion on this.

Up front, I want to say that Ohio does a lot of dumb shit, trans rights are human rights, and weaponizing random laws against queer people is bullshit.

It seems clear to me that:

• There is a reasonable motivation for requiring reporting of recent name changes, and the exception for marriage is due to this being extremely common. The article states that this usually came up in the past when people wanted to run with a nickname rather than their given name.
• Not stating this requirement on the form is stupid and bad.
• This is compounded by the lack of a box for a former name, practically guaranteeing that this information is omitted.
• All of this is a problem that should be fixed. The Republic governor has acknowledged this, according to a quote from the article.

What isn't clear to me is that this is selectively enforced against trans people. We only know about the cases where it has happened to trans people because those are the cases that are being reported on. It is not surprising that a cis person encountering a bureaucratic annoyance because they put the name they go by rather than their birth name on the form was not considered newsworthy.

The vibe I get from this is that this is ragebait where the headline invites the reader to jump to conclusions while the contents of the article suggest that this is actually just a stupid case of the government being bad at making a form (something I have personally encountered a lot).

I'm totally fine with being proven wrong, it wouldn't be surprising in the slightest if there is malicious intent here. Is there evidence of selective enforcement here?

I'm going with Hanlon's Razor on this one and assuming this is just a really stupid bureaucratic failure where a form doesn't have a box for required info that it doesn't tell you is required. Curious if there are similar examples for name changes by cis people, which I wouldn't expect to be newsworthy. Regardless it needs to be fixed.

Before you can even entertain the arguments in this article, don't you first need to address the barrier to entry of installing an operating system in the first place? This isn't even a hurdle specific to Linux, I don't really think the average user has the technical know-how to install any operating system onto a computer.

The issue is that this presents as false equivalence. While that is clearly not what you believe for this situation, the meme reads as a difficult choice between two equally bad options.

Look, I'm just asking you to do anything