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This game console has no pixels. The Vectrex from 1982.
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Movie of the Week #3 - L.A. Confidential (1997)
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
This is the third movie we discuss of Academy Award Winners. Kim Basinger won for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and it won for Best Adapted Screenplay. It was nominated for Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Score, Best Sound and Best Director.
Did the movie deserve its nominations and awards? Did the screenplay and Kim Basingers performance in particular stand out? Feel free to add any thoughts, opinions, reflections, analysis or whatever comments related to this film.
The rest of the schedule is:
- 20th of November: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- 27th of November: West Side Story
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The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be (1999)
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Seventeen years, zero losing seasons: Mike Tomlin’s coaching genius rumbles on
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How David Zaslav blew up Hollywood
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The US is having a rail travel renaissance, but you probably didn’t notice
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Jimmy Kimmel to host 2024 Oscars ceremony
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Comixology app to be sunset, users directed to Kindle
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What If..? | Season 2 official trailer
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Exxon aims to become a top lithium producer for electric vehicles with Arkansas drill operation
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Lofi Girl - Snowman (2023)
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The Canterbury Tales Project collated the Canterbury Tales original manuscripts. It translates each line into modern English and reads it aloud into the way the text wold be read in its own time.
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Icelandic authorities are building protective walls around a geothermal power plant in the country's southwest to protect it from possible lava flows
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Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - retrospective and review
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The Game Awards 2023 nominations
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The ritual of the calling of an engineer
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The bodily indignities of the space life
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John Oliver backs ‘weird, puking’ pūteketeke as he takes New Zealand’s bird of century poll global
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Australian academics apologise for false AI-generated allegations against big four consultancy firms
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In Canada’s battle with Big Tech, smaller publishers and independent outlets struggle to survive
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The humble trash truck is ready for an all-electric upgrade
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The $2,000 phones that let anyone make robocalls
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Supreme Court, under pressure, issues non-binding ethics code for justices, without mechanisms for enforcement
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Special Ops bomb technician rates eleven bomb disposal scenes in movies and TV | How real is it?
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Will the switch to USB-C be good for repair?
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Folder-Dependent Git Configurations Using Conditional Includes
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Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts
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Handling Secrets in NixOS: An Overview (git-crypt, agenix, sops-nix, and when to use them)
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What is Classical Vaporwave?
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[Books explaining] why the heyday of the automobile is over
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Help me find an e reader
I am looking for an e reader with specific features, honestly I don't know if what I want even exists, but I figured this might be a good place to ask. Here's my wants: Charge via USB-C Open,...
I am looking for an e reader with specific features, honestly I don't know if what I want even exists, but I figured this might be a good place to ask. Here's my wants:
- Charge via USB-C
- Open, allows .epub files (I understand some brands don't)
- interfaces with Calibre
- Does not have any wireless radios ie bluetooth, wifi (I know lots of people would say just turn those features off, but I would just prefer the device doesn't have them to begin with)
Have you guys seen any devices that meet this criteria?
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Iceland volcano won't spew more carbon than humanity – social media is once again filling up with such claims, as it always does when volcanoes make news
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Mexican Congress holds second UFO session featuring Peruvian mummies
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The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
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The Brain Scoop relaunch!
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Corbin Carroll discusses 2023 Rookie of the Year honors
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Jezebel and the question of women’s anger
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Japan to create ¥1 trillion fund to develop outer space industry
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Claire Saffitz cooks her ideal Thanksgiving start to finish
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One huge contradiction is undoing our best climate efforts
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Graduated and moving to an apartment in a major city in the US, advice/tips?
I graduated in the spring and spent the last few months at home with family. I'm hoping to find an apartment/job in a major US city working as a legal assistant or paralegal. I've never rented...
I graduated in the spring and spent the last few months at home with family. I'm hoping to find an apartment/job in a major US city working as a legal assistant or paralegal.
I've never rented before, so I have questions, but due to circumstances related to the ones pushing me away from staying at home any longer, I don't have any parents or older siblings to ask for help, so I'm hoping to crowdsource wisdom here. I have specific questions, but also happy to hear any general advice for someone renting an apartment for the first time.
Some relevant context:
- Studio apartment is nonnegotiable. I don't know anyone I trust enough to be my roommate. If that weren't enough, I'm one of the only people still wearing a mask and trying not to get COVID, so it's gotta be a studio for me to be able to relax.
- I'm looking for a walkable neighborhood and good public transit in addition to affordability, so really looking at Chicago and Philly right now.
- I love to cook, but I know studios often have really lackluster kitchens. Hoping to find one with a usable amount of counterspace.
Those questions I had:
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If you offer to pay a landlord the cost of the lease in full, is it typical for the landlord to waive the requirement that you provide proof of employment, or if you asked them to waive that, would they be likely to say yes? I would really like to take some time off, and coming home was intended to be that, but toxic family means I've just been stressed the whole time, so being able to get a place without needing a job right off the bat would be a fantastic setup to make sure this new start goes well. (If I save up part-time earnings for the next 2-3 months, I'll have enough to pay a lease on a $1200 studio in full, furnish it with the necessities, and feed myself.)
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Recently I realized that when apartments are listed as unfurnished, that means no bed or mattress either. (I kind of see now why futons are a thing.) How do people usually address this issue? Do you buy a mattress and bed frame with the expectation that you'll take it with you whenever you move out to the next apartment?
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Since I don't live in the city I'll be moving to, I most likely won't be able to see the apartment in person before committing. Any particular ideas on how I could handle this or what I should be wary of? I've heard of services where you can pay someone to show up to a tour and video call you so you can follow along (https://www.gandertour.com/). $50 doesn't seem too steep, but I don't know if that specific service is trustworthy, or if there's a cheaper or simpler way to deal with this.
Those are my questions, and like I said above, any advice not 100% related to these questions is welcome too!
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Edith Piaf AI-generated biopic in the works at Warner Music
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The ‘Georgists’ are out there, and they want to tax your land
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The unstoppable rise of disposable ML frameworks
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The Garfield Movie | Official trailer
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From a scholar of genocide: Both Israel and Palestinian supporters accuse the other side of genocide – here’s what the term actually means
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Privacy win: EU Parliament decides that your private messages must not be scanned
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