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13 votes
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California police search and detain trans women at [very] high rates
9 votes -
Fart jars and NFTs
5 votes -
What were the best books you read this year?
Any book you read this year counts — not just 2021 releases. What were the best books you read this year, and what made them so good?
20 votes -
Sweden, which is holding a general election in September, has joined France in creating an agency to combat disinformation
10 votes -
The manager of this Japanese second-hand shop covers famous songs using broken instruments
5 votes -
Changing Brussels neighborhood Molenbeek tries to leave stigma of terrorism behind
4 votes -
Webb telescope successfully unfurls its tennis court-size sunshield in space
26 votes -
What Taiwanese think of China
5 votes -
Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen aiming to play at World Cup 2022 after suffering cardiac arrest at Euro 2020
4 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
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...
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.
5 votes -
There I Ruined It - Creep (2022)
8 votes -
JPMC's Guide to the Markets - 1Q 2022
5 votes -
A look back at Q3 '21 public cloud software earnings
3 votes -
How helpful is venting your feelings exactly?
7 votes -
What were your personal highlights for this year?
Rounding out my year in review posts with something not media focused: what were your personal highlights for 2021? This can be anything that was great for you: a success, a milestone, an...
Rounding out my
year in review
posts with something not media focused: what were your personal highlights for 2021? This can be anything that was great for you: a success, a milestone, an achievement, a fond memory, a new love, etc. What were the best things that you did or that happened to you this past year?I know this was undoubtedly a difficult year for many of us, but I do think there's worth in looking back and panning the past year for gold, even if it's hard to come by.
15 votes -
ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory
3 votes -
2021 was the year lawmakers tried to regulate online speech
10 votes -
A kind consideration: Sign up for your country's bone marrow registry
As the new year is setting in, I wanted to give a shout out and advocate to this great cause that has the potential to drastically change someone's life. Be The Match is a US-based organization...
As the new year is setting in, I wanted to give a shout out and advocate to this great cause that has the potential to drastically change someone's life. Be The Match is a US-based organization that supports signing up people for the national bone marrow registry where if you are a match, you could help someone overcome a variety of ailments such as leukemias, lymphomas, aplastic anemia, immune deficiency disorders, and some solid tumor cancers.
Signing up is very easy. You will use the previous link to sign up, they mail you a swab which you will use to swab your mouth, and you mail it back. The information is added to the registry and if you are a match, will receive some communication letting you know of the need. They compensate you for travel and expenses so if you have to miss work, you will still receive money for any lost wages. I know the actual procedure can sound frightening but I can guarantee if you are called upon to donate, that it will be one of the rarest opportunities we get in life to truly assist someone in need. I have personally not gone through the full donation process but was under consideration a couple of years ago as a potential donor. If you don't meet the qualifications to donate, please consider sharing the sign up link with someone who you think may be willing.
I'm not aware of similar organizations in other countries but if you have the knowledge for a specific country, please post in the comments below.
15 votes -
Nirvana attorneys seek dismissal of ‘Nevermind’ ‘child porn’ lawsuit, calling it too late and too ‘absurd’
9 votes -
Sibille Attar – Dream State (2021)
3 votes -
Spotify Wrapped 2021
Spotify Wrapped seems to be rolling out to users today. I haven't received my slideshow but can see the playlist. I figured a thread for us to talk about our listening habits over the past year...
Spotify Wrapped seems to be rolling out to users today. I haven't received my slideshow but can see the playlist. I figured a thread for us to talk about our listening habits over the past year would be fun!
18 votes -
NFTs, why do people hate them?
I was just thinking and wondering why people are so incredibly anti NFT. I recently posted about my art here and someone was compelled to post an angry comment about NFTs. I have come to expect...
I was just thinking and wondering why people are so incredibly anti NFT. I recently posted about my art here and someone was compelled to post an angry comment about NFTs. I have come to expect this and just wonder why?
It is a strange thing to collect digital items, I get that. Personally I find it hard to understand most of what people do including collecting stuff. I'm try to get rid of stuff.
We know some crypto is bad for the environment. This is why I didn't buy bitcoin in the first place, it seemed like a huge waste of energy for nothing. Many companies support this now though. If you invest in Tesla, you invest in bitcoin. You may not even know or care that your 401k hedge fund is investing in crypto.
But some crypto like Tezos (which is what I use) is in line with energy use you would expect from credit cards and the like.
The other thing is that some people are making huge sums of money from crypto and maybe there is jealousy involved. I've felt it too! Then I remind myself what life is all about, that I am happy where I am, and that fame would not help me create better art, in fact it would likely work against it. Money is much so much easier to make then art, it's not even close.
Thoughts?
19 votes -
By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship.
26 votes -
Fifteen YouTubers play the telephone game, Telestrations
2 votes -
What did you learn in 2021?
I really want to keep the question as broad and open-ended as possible and don't have much to add. Title.
11 votes -
Ten minutes with indies: Bloks
3 votes -
Maps Are Fun! (1946)
3 votes -
Why is NFT art so ugly?
20 votes -
Linux in a Pixel Shader - A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat
12 votes -
The Matrix Resurrections: A review
Just finished watching it, and while I’m sure I need to process and reflect a little more on it, I can at least give my initial impression: meh. I came in not expecting much because, to be honest,...
Just finished watching it, and while I’m sure I need to process and reflect a little more on it, I can at least give my initial impression: meh.
I came in not expecting much because, to be honest, the trilogy didn’t end as good as it started. I was pleasantly surprised that it didn’t end up a kaleidoscope of colors either, since the promotional material seemed to insinuate it might take after some of the other Wachowski’s works.
The first hour felt like a rehash of the first Matrix. While the callbacks were good fan service, it felt uninspired and something I would expect from a Disney franchise. The second half seemed to lose the thread and the plot got rambled through to the point that you forget what the whole point of the movie was supposed to be. It basically ends as a…love story? The deeper philosophical elements of the trilogy were eschewed for predictable tropes and artificial suspense.
The characters lacked depth, and I was particularly disappointed in the new incarnations of Agent Smith and Morpheus. The younger actors lacked the gravitas that the original duo brought to the screen. The bated, deliberate delivery that provided weight to the characters was replaced by trite, pithy lines that don’t do the original characters any justice. Neil Patrick Harris is also better suited for a comedic role rather than a dramatic one, and his character failed at both in this movie.
The movie had a decent environment and art direction, but it got ruined by overuse of CGI and green screen. The action scenes either had stilted fights with aging actors, or had so much action that they lacked any real sense of danger (there were scenes with throngs of people attacking the main characters with bullets never seeming to hit anyone important).
I had hoped that after 20 years there would be some real contribution to the canon, but this movie answered enough questions to explain why Neo is alive, without contributing any further philosophy into the series. It ends with a clear open ending for future installments, which would only serve as cash grabs.
The movie started off with many meta-references to itself, making a joke about sequels being unoriginal. I had hoped this self-awareness would have translated to either a new level of meta-discussion or at least an attempt to not fall into the folly of most half-assed sequels. Apparently that line was solely a joke, and it cheapens the movie because of it.
Was it a good movie? Not really. Was it a bad movie? Not necessarily. It was entertaining in the same way a Michael Bay explosion is entertaining, but those looking for intellectual stimulation will be left empty-handed.
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
4 votes -
What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
3 votes -
Map drawn from memory helps man reunite with family decades after abduction
4 votes -
Tokyo: The big city that is also pleasant to live in
6 votes -
Scissor labels
6 votes -
Public Domain Day 2022: Works from 1926 are open to all
20 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 27
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
6 votes -
Classic social networking in 2022: SpaceHey
12 votes -
Blocking users
I'd like to block certain users to keep the pro-nft content off my retinas and l'm on a browser that doesn't support uBlock Origin. What can l do to accomplish this?
16 votes -
Analyzing Seated's restaurants by reversing their API
6 votes -
No meaning without justification
6 votes -
Nautilus (GNOME Files) icon view retrospective and future
5 votes -
The tech industry's accessibility report card for 2021
4 votes -
'If you eat here, you're dining with rats'
8 votes -
I won't let you pay me for my open source - David Hansson (creator of Ruby on Rails)
6 votes -
Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of December 27
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
13 votes -
Fifty years of text games
11 votes -
What happened in Colorado was something much scarier than a wildfire
14 votes -
Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux
8 votes