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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 3 points 31 minutes ago

Definitely true. I’ve heard the same and it’s another one of the reasons I want to appreciate it.

A other example of this that’s frequently cited and happened in my own life time which makes it easy to see first hand and understand is The Matrix/bullet-time.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 37 minutes ago

but I'm just as happy to hold someone accountable who has lived a long life getting away with a crime

Wait - what crime? I read the article and it didn’t make clear that there was a crime revealed in the recordings. This is the first I’ve heard about this whole thing so I’m way out of the loop on these recordings…

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 5 points 43 minutes ago (2 children)

Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
Citizen Kane

These movies are so well regarded and spoken so highly of (ok - maybe not Blade Runner); their champions are so passionate and enthusiastic, every time I hear folks go off on how great they are I get, once again, excited to watch them. But every time I try, I just can’t get into them. 2001 is a particular slog with its ~30 minute intro of no dialogue. It almost inevitably puts me to sleep before even the first word is spoken.

I hate that they’re so well regarded and I really want to enjoy them but I just can’t get into them.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seems like maybe OP was offended by the original text?

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Hope they’re not buying g the shelf stable bottles after falling in love at a restaurant. They will be sorely disappointed when they get home…

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I think my company’s VMware licensing fee increase after the acquisition covered the whole thing…

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Change.org petition urges city officials to rename Wabash Avenue “Barack Hussein Obama Ave.”

It was only then that I realized it’s:

(Petition to rename Trump Tower’s Chicago address after Obama) racks up thousands of signatures

…not:

Petition to rename Trump Tower’s Chicago address (after Obama racks up thousands of signatures)

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Username checks out…

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I have watched it, but don't recognize those chins

EDIT: You know - I just realized Pawn Stars isn’t Storage Wars, so I haven’t actually watched it…never mind…

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 76 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He’s right!
…worse is different…

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Reminds me of Nachos Flanders Style…

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Hope you’re a fast reader…

 

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What’s the best way to deal with them?

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ALT Text: Scene is WAITROSE. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone.

BECKY [on phone]: Yeah, hiya...

2 BECKY: Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs.

3 BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]: Sorry what was your name again?

4 [Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.]

PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility

5 BECKY Sorry - Your name is Easter…?

PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre.

6

[Vicky pauses, trying to take this in].

VICKY: Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs.

7 PAGAN GODDESS: Sorry love, what’s your name?

BECKY: Becky

PAGAN GODDESS: Well, Vicky -

8 PAGAN GODDESS: If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here -

TEENAGE BOY: Muuum…

9 PAGAN GODDESS: ….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too!

10 PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!

11 BECKY: You mean… Jesus…?

PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky.

12 PAGAN GODDESS: Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4?

 

"I requested that if Thai ships need to pass through the strait, could they ​assist in ensuring safe passage?" Sihasak told reporters late on Tuesday.

"They responded that ⁠they would take care of it and asked us to provide the names of the vessels that ​would be transiting."

Iran has ​told the United Nations Security Council and the International Maritime Organization that "non-hostile vessels" ​may transit ⁠the strait if they coordinate with Iranian authorities, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

In a post on X, Iran's embassy in Thailand said that passage of the Thai ship reflected the close ties between the ​two countries.

"Friends have a special place," it said.

 

Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota formally announced her campaign for governor on Thursday with a call for unity and decency in her troubled state, which has been roiled by political violence, President Trump’s immigration crackdown and widespread protests after two killings of Minnesotans by federal agents.

Ms. Klobuchar, a popular Democrat with a history of winning by double-digit margins, has spent nearly two decades in the Senate as a common-sense centrist with a folksy demeanor and a carefully cultivated history of bipartisanship.

Now, with her run for governor, the self-proclaimed “senator next door” is gambling that her message of moving past partisan divides can still work even amid one of the most volatile domestic conflicts of the second Trump administration.

 

With Tim Cook’s persistent support of the Trump administration and mealy mouthed finger-wagging regarding ICE, consider joining me and others in voting against TIm’s position on Apple’s board of directors.

 

A federal judge ordered agents not to retaliate against people “engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity” in the state and not to stop drivers who are not “forcibly obstructing” officers.

 

A federal judge ordered agents not to retaliate against people “engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity” in the state and not to stop drivers who are not “forcibly obstructing” officers.

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