[-] wjrii@kbin.social 34 points 7 months ago

I thought I had NSFW turned off... 🤣

[-] wjrii@kbin.social 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Most unrealistic part of the movie, and by god I'm including TIME TRAVEL, is that Scotty would be both dismissive of and insanely good at keyboarding text entry and use of a 1980s computer. Either he'd be pissed off because because there was no way to use this antique, or he'd be delighted at the chance to use his historical reenactment skills.

[-] wjrii@kbin.social 39 points 8 months ago

"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

As a white cis hetero American male, trying to have a little empathy is literally the least I can do.

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Bob and Steve from the Big Ten Show are back to gloat as their conference demonstrates that it is clearly better than the SEC in all facets of the game.

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Mizzou coach Eli Drinkwitz and Ohio State coach Ryan Day were on the same team when discussing potential changes to college football's busiest month.

[-] wjrii@kbin.social 34 points 9 months ago

And Australia, at least when they're not trying to suck up to the British.

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Apparently the white sands of the Florida panhandle are 100% salt.

The lawsuit was filed soon after in Leon County Circuit Court, claiming the ACC has mismanaged its media rights and is imposing “draconian” exit fees.

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Texas A&M and Duke's Mike Elko, a former Aggies defensive coordinator, have reached an agreement to make him the school's next head coach, sources told ESPN on Sunday, a day after the regular season ended for both teams.

Feel like with the Aggies, I may still be jumping the gun by posting this, but maybe by level-setting with Stoops, they made "younger Stoops with Aggie ties" look like a better get than he's likely to be.

[-] wjrii@kbin.social 35 points 11 months ago

Between the thousands of years of semi-selective breeding and the parallel evolution that made our ancestors want the selective breeding to happen, the emotional compatibility between dogs and humans is amazing. They're not humans of course, and we do well to remember that, but the connection is eerie, and when you see a dog display that kind of pack/family oriented behavior, it's heartwarming.

[-] wjrii@kbin.social 37 points 11 months ago

We have a dogsitter when we are on trips. According to her, our heeler would politely take blueberries that were offered and then wander off, returning not long after. It was only later that she found a stash of uneaten blueberries on the couch. My little man was a desperately skinny and frightened stray in a kill shelter before he came to us, and on the theory that whatever makes him feel safe and content is better than the alternative, he's, uhhh, put on weight. If he liked the blueberries, they would not be left on the couch.

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[-] wjrii@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago
  1. The Office (US) could have ended at the proposal in the rain.
  2. The Office should have ended at the wedding in Niagara.
  3. Dear god why didn't The Office end when Michael left?
[-] wjrii@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The squishy humanities version of this, in America at least, goes as follows:

In grade school you learn that the Civil War was about slavery.

In high school you learn that the Civil War was about a lot of complicated things.

In college you learn that the Civil War was about slavery.

[-] wjrii@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

There's also a reason that the "legitimate nerds" in show business become such cult favorites. The overlap of (1) "people who look like professional actors" and (2) "people who are believable while acting" and (3) "people who legitimately get into the fake logic of technobabble" is vanishingly small. If you are on a Trek show and not in that intersection, pretending to be a 3 is going to be one of the biggest challenges in pulling off 2 to your expected standards.

To cross franchises for a moment, "you can write this shit George, but you can't say it."

[-] wjrii@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago

Yes, mostly.

X.com was Musk's site after he worked at Scotiabank. They merged with another site that had a product called Paypal that was getting some traction. Musk tried to tie the other services X.com was offering at the hip with Paypal, and if you're old enough you probably remember a "Paypal by X.com" (or similar) branding back when you needed to buy a used 56k modem from eBay.

Musk wanted to rebrand everything to x.com, was a huge baby about it, and got pushed out as an executive and replaced by Peter Thiel. A few years ago, Musk purchased the X.com domain name from Paypal like it was a treasured childhood sled, and he's finally found something (very stupid) to do with it.

[-] wjrii@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

A prominent social media app was the evidence for, and partial cause of, her malpractice. It's very much a story about the cultural impact of tech.

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