#MovieThread V: Definitely Not The Final Frontier, Chapter Eleven — November Edition
From 2020 to 2023 I watched 1492 movies. This year so far, I've watched another 388, for a total of 1880 movies.
Numbers still check out.
This month:
* 1945 Best Picture nominees
* Actually starting Elaine May.
* Probably some Star Trek.
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#MovieThread V: Definitely Not The Final Frontier, Chapter Ten — October Edition From 2020 to 2023 I watched 1492 movies. This year so far, I've watched another 356, for a total of 1848 movies. Numbers still check out. This month: * 1944.Beep Boop One
OK, my one and only political post as it honestly doesn't engage me.
Am I alone in thinking it's really messed up to allow a convicted criminal to even run for presidency, let alone be able to take office.
What kind of message does that send out?
There's probably some merit in the idea of the government we deserve.
We brexited. They've done a double donald.
I wonder what the world'll look like in a few years.
Don’t expect Chrome to support keyboard-operable scrolling regions until (maybe) version 132 (anchor link):
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Only 14 versions past its target release!
Keyboard-Only Scrolling Areas
I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page are accessible to keyboard-only users.Adrian Roselli
It's very disheartening to see so many already panic and talk of leaving a country when there's zero reason to worry until and if we reach any of those moments.
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Many years ago, around 1990, I was in a bus with a friend, discussing UNIX process management. After a while I realized the other passengers were looking at us in a very worried way.
Don't talk about parents outliving their children, or killing their children, without saying you're talking about processes.
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Now that it's no longer possible to rank in web searches, unless you're a content farm or a major publisher, it's a good time to ditch SEO, drop keywords, use descriptive headlines instead of catchy or clickbait ones, and write for humans. SEO won't help anyway, so let's help the readers who care.
Gentle reminder that most disabled people can NOT leave the United States. Countries don’t want to take in disabled, chronically ill and “high cost health users”. There are serious financial barriers to moving - leaving most people behind.
Spare a thought for all of us tonight - people are scared. Then regroup and find a way forward … we are stronger together.
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turns we should even if they'd never pay for it.
(I'm talking about a wall to protect Canada)
There are no parts of the world that do not in some way rely on the US. 🙁
Not that the world would collapse if we were gone, but hooooo boy would you notice.
Today is probably the right day to rewatch the best video essay ever made (IMO). Nothing stuck with me that much: Carlos Maza's "How to be Hopeless"
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How To Be Hopeless
To everyone who fights the plague -- on the streets and in our minds. If this video meant something to you, I'd love to hear about it.PATREON: https://www.pa...YouTube
I'll summarize the story for you so you don't have to waste any precious moments of your life reading it: Privileged American couple move to France and find out that France has its own culture **AND LANGUAGE** that they refuse and/or are incapable of learning so they hate it.
This was on the landing page of CNN, just under the election dross. This story of intolerance and incompetence was deemed important enough to be on the landing page. Marked as "featured".
Oh my, this reads so incredibly absurd: in France they have bureaucracy, we do too but it's different because we know it, also no frozen yoghurt.
What the hell.
Imagine, when you move into a different country they speak a different language and do things in different ways.
I'm sure moving is not for everyone and people will miss things, but it sounds like they just wanted to have the same experience, at which point why bother moving.
Yesterday's news leads me to forecast the next big thing in SF/F genre fiction: the Cosy Dystopia—a future or fantasy setting in which the backdrop is ghastly but the sympathetic protagonists are running a tea shop in the borderlands.
Think Warhammer 40,000 space marines, with added knitting. (Narrative focus STRONGLY on the knitting.)
Cinco apuntes sueltos:
1- Trump esta vez ganó el voto popular. Cortó fuertemente ventaja en lugares fuertemente demócratas. Eso se explica en parte por la insatisfacción con Biden pero también porque la persona estadounidense promedio (igual que la persona promedio en todo el mundo) se parece más a Trump que a Harris.
Esto que significa?
la persona estadounidense promedio (igual que la persona promedio en todo el mundo) se parece más a Trump que a Harris.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Horror season is year round for me, but the contrarian in me did go, okay, what's the least horror thing I've got lined up that I can watch, and I'm pretty sure this one's about a divorce, so, it's --
#1881, or #389, 1945 Best Picture nominee "Mildred Pierce."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Leaving now to go see --
#1882, or #390, 2024's "Juror #2."
But I never saw "Juror #1"!
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •In this one Walter Matthau *squints at notes* plays Animal Crossing, it's --
#1883, or #391, 1971 Elaine May picture "A New Leaf."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The motion picture that dares to ask, what if Carrie knew about cellular telephony, it's --
#1884, or #392, 2013's "Carrie."
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#1885, or #393.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •But I haven't seen "Transformers Zero"!
#1886, or #394, 2024's "Transformers One."
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"There's got to be something more we can do. I can feel it."
guy who looks like what if truck was guy wondering if he could be... some kind of... automotive vehicle