niktemadur

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

...but she's got more money for Miner Joe!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sounds like the same type of ignorant, idiotic narcissist who insists on his purity and bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe

The horizon looks equally distant from all directions, so he must conclude that He is at the center of the multiverses! Unilateral stomping of rights, cruel chaos for domestic minorities within and also entire nations abroad, is a price he is willing to pay from a comfy distance, as he fondles his smelly little purity, sniffs his fingers, and exhales in smug self-satisfaction... "you're welcome, people of the world, you're welcome".

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

An unskippable stream of The Imperial March.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, I'm gonna get weird on you here, check it out:

As a very young boy back in the 70s, I remember being taken to a local theater by my brother, sister and their friends, and this theater was showing old movies or pre-movie reels, so my first cinema memory was what I now think was black-and-white Flash Gordon!

When the Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges version of King Kong was still in big city theaters, another theater in my town screened... check it out... Godzilla Vs Mechanikong! And I was taken to see that one.

My very first proper movie in a large city experience, was to go to two separate theaters that day, the first was to see the star-studded war film A Bridge Too Far in the afternoon. Then the other, later one in the evening, was... drum roll, please... Star Wars. Which involved standing in line, waiting for three hours, or so.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

But hey... you know... both parties are the same, amirite?
WHATABOUTBIDEN?!! He was just the same!

It's incredible just how many people are lazy ignorant and can be easily manipulated into doing NOTHING over and over again and again and again...

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

At least they (boomers, exers, millennials, zoomers... whatever) didn't vote for... (gasp)... a woman!
Because a woman for president?!! When PIGS fly!!!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Everyone: "C'MON, SEED!"
Bugs Bunny: "NO"

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You could also switch it around with Lot's wife turning back to catch a glimpse of Sodom and Gomorrah.

"Couldn't resist the urge to sneak a quick peek? The punishment is DEATH BY STONE! And never mind poor widowed Lot and orphaned children, I don't give a fuck!" - the just and merciful god of the desert.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Do you flop at slop? Stop!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna go old school on you, remembering some of the pioneers from an age long past.

In 70s comedy, there was MASH (deftly balancing war and humor), Barney Miller (like a gritty urban Sydney Lumet movie, turned into a sitcom) and Taxi (Danny Devito, Christopher Lloyd and Andy Kauffman, WTF?!!).

In early-80s drama, there was Hill Street Blues (once again, like a gritty urban Sydney Lumet movie, turned into a brilliant ensemble cop drama) and St. Elsewhere (another ensemble, a Boston hospital drama with a good splash of magic realism, this is where Denzel Washington got his start!).

Later in the 80s and early 90s, there was yet another groundbreaking ensemble, Northern Exposure (a quirky and sophisticated half-serious drama, with LOTS of magic realism, about a small, remote Alaska town).

Finally, I can't go without mentioning my favorite #1 all-time GOAT series, Mad Men. I've watched the entire thing at least four times, it's like reading and re-reading the proverbial "Great American Novel".

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

How the did know there be Batman to?

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, but what about loneless asian men who live ashirt?

 

This is what I'm visualizing:
A liquid ocean pressed against the inner side of Europa's ice crust, during high tide. Then the tide shifts and the water rushes away, leaving a gigantic hollow shell high above the ocean's surface, like a vast dome stretching towards the horizon in all directions, in total darkness.

Meanwhile, the tidal bulge has rushed halfway across the hemisphere, the water is now pressing against the ice crust there.

If the Jovian system's tidal forces can stretch and knead Io's mantle like silly putty, its' rocky surface rising and falling as much as 100 meters (about 300 feet) each tidal cycle... I can't even imagine how violently the water may slosh under Europa's ice crust.

One final note: considering that Europa is tidally locked with Jupiter, and it is Ganymede and Callisto that can pull in other directions, how long are the tidal cycles there? The principle is like on Earth, but there are extra gears in the mechanism, so to speak, different high and low tides may vary widely between each other.

 

The voice and the diction and the rhythm, Sir Alec elevates further what is already a stunning masterwork.

 

Wherever there is matter in an ever-thinning universe, there might be an entire cosmologically-sized era dominated by an entirely different chemistry to what we have now.

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