niktemadur

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

Do you flop at slop? Stop!

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

How the did know there be Batman to?

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Splurging on gut health! I mean... the nerve of these... these... (shuffles cards)... uppity whippersnappers!

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

Now A.I.-powered by A.I.!

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

Patrick Ghost!

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

Head banging to the latest Carolingian chant!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Change the caption on the gears, and instead of pointing fingers at political parties, make it "We may or may not vote" on the left, then "Definitely not voting" on the right.

If you neglect elections and there's a seesaw every two years, sure, that's exactly what happens. But god forbid, to generate the requires electoral/political inertia for long-term change would require you people to... gasp!... make a tiny amount of effort one day a year. And we can't have that, now can we?

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

Oklahoma has been lying its' ass off for so long, its' nose now touches the Pacific.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was not looking for not something
and then I found everything of nothing
and heaven knows I'm miserable now

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

That's because you were looking for the upvotes.
It's right there on the study. If you had been troll-posting looking for the downvote lulz, you would have gotten the reverse. The reverse of. The reverse of the thing of the thing of the reverse of.

 

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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