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Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
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I have an issue with the 3 Body Problem
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Alright, a 2nd spoiler disclaimer for those who accidentally clicked it anyway.
When it became apparent to me that the alien race had sent over two 10-dimensional supercomputers folded into the size of a proton trying to halt human scientific progression in an attempt to maintain its technological advancement while making the travel towards Earth, something doesn't sit right with me.
Why oh why, if you were a 10-dimensional supercomputer being nearly all-knowing yet having only the capacity to be at one point in time and space to deny or halt scientific progression, you wouldn't just write code to A) make copies of yourself to then B) hack all the systems and possible computers in the world to halt anything and everything and basically just plunge humanity back into the dark ages if not outright spreading a deadly virus that would eliminate us from the face of the earth if we are such a big threat to them.
And over the concept of lying and then not being able to coexist with that even though you have the technological head start? And why only communicate with a human to figure out about us if you have two quantum entangled super computers capable of overseeing everything and anything all the time anywhere to gather pure 'scientific' data about us as a species.
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Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender has been renewed for two more seasons
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Ripley | Official trailer
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Warrior, Max’s underseen martial arts series based on Bruce Lee's concept gets a second life on Netflix
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Nimona
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‘The Umbrella Academy’ final season sets August release date on Netflix
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‘Coyote vs. Acme’ now to be shelved forever as WB rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon, and Paramount
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Netflix to become new home of WWE 'Raw' beginning 2025
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Streaming wars are over and Netflix won
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Hit Man | Official teaser
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Spaceman | Official trailer
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Netflix is reportedly exploring adding in-game ads to its gaming service
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Arcane | Season 2 first look
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Paradise (2023)
Paradise is an exciting action sci fi with a really interesting premise. What if eternal youth, was available to anyone with money... yet it involved literally sucking the life force out of others...
Paradise is an exciting action sci fi with a really interesting premise. What if eternal youth, was available to anyone with money... yet it involved literally sucking the life force out of others less fortunate than yourself?
The movie focuses on Max, who after his wife is unexpectedly forced to give up 40 years of her life, he desperately searches for a way to get her youth back. The movie is filled with the usual plot twists, cool sci fi graphics, true love and the like.
There are two truly interesting elements to this movie. The first is the cynical idea that if the rich could live forever, then they would be much more motivated to think about and solve for the long term health of the planet.
In this movie, only the rich can afford to extend their lives for as long as they choose, so we also see how that would severely impact wealth inequality.
The second interesting element of this movie is a series of questions very similar to the trolley problem. If you could extend your life, at the cost of someone else's youth, would you, assuming they were somehow reimbursed financially?
What if your youth had been taken from you; or what if youth had been taken from someone you loved. Would you take it back? Would you take it back as ethically as possible, or ethics be damned?
Could you give up your youth to save a loved one from an extremely unkind yet uncertain end, or is it easier to risk your life to save theirs than it is to give up eternal youth once you have it?
At one point in the movie, we learn it is easier to take someones life passively through the forces of economics and medical science, than it is to actively kill someone with a gun to their head. Which is the essence of the trolley problem. But it is also the essence of wealth inequality.
We could easily flip the switch, to improve the quality of life and length of life for many people, at the cost of one rich persons riches, but those with power passively choose to not do so. The movie doesn't philosophize anywhere near as much as I am doing right now, instead focusing on fast action, true love and cool sci fi. But I think perhaps this movie is a very subtle warning to the rich. At a certain point of wealth inequality, some portion of the population will want their fair share of the wealth, ethics be damed.
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The One Piece | Special announcement
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So how is that One Piece adaptation, anyway?
I was reminded of that the first season (it's been greenlit for more) of the Netflix adaptation of One Piece came out, a good little while ago. How was it? Have you seen it? I've yet to see it -...
I was reminded of that the first season (it's been greenlit for more) of the Netflix adaptation of One Piece came out, a good little while ago. How was it? Have you seen it? I've yet to see it - I've heard good things about it but never saw terribly much discussion about it online.
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Spaceman | Official first look
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F | Official teaser trailer
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Netflix reveals viewing data for its entire catalogue for the first time
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Netflix and Apple open door to bundling with streaming rivals
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I edited the Netflix Castlevania show's first two seasons into a single, slight-over-two-hours movie
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Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance | Official teaser
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Two documentaries about Twin Flames Universe. Is the Michigan based group a new cult?
Prime has the documentary "Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe" while Netflix is running "Escaping Twin Flames" which were produced by different investigative reporters but...
Prime has the documentary "Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe" while Netflix is running "Escaping Twin Flames" which were produced by different investigative reporters but take a similar approach to exposing this new group. Both rely on the testimony of ex members of the group to expose the founders power and control and how things changed when the group wasn't working out as they planned.
Apparently the group has a strong presence on facebook and there is also an entire reddit sub for its adherents.
I watched both of these multi part documentaries and was fascinated by the origin and rise of this group. The founders, Jeff and Megan (who now goes by Shaleia) are preying on the desperation of mostly female followers who are desperately seeking their 'one and only true love', their "twin flame". Using a technique of turning all hurts and pains inward the pair asserts they will help heal people who will practice their 'mirroring' technique.
But it starts to get really strange. Shaleia appears to be the one who started with the 'spiritual' aspect of the enterprise and Jeff appears to be the one with a fervent entrepreneurial bent who has turned it into a money making proposition.
They were living in a run down apartment when they began, but now a few years later, have bought a large home with a lake view in Michigan, with Jeff boasting about his Corvette and Porsche in the driveway. Even stranger, they have people living and working in their house to keep their enterprise running. There are shades of other religious communities with a strong 'messianic' leader that have started this way with Waco being mentioned in the documentary. Jeff even suggests, very strongly, that he may be the Christ.
The adherents pay for private or group facetime sessions with Jeff and Shaleia and are encouraged to take their video courses, which can be anywhere from $100 to $8,888. And those who have taken on the role of being life coaches under them are also encouraged to find more life coaches - it seems to be a combination of multi level marketing, religion and some kind of mass delusional 'teaching' to desperate and gullible people.
Jeff and Shaleia encourage people in their group to cut off relationships with anyone who is not supportive of Twin Flames, a sure sign of a cult, and there are several testimonials from hurting parents who are desperate to be back in touch with their children.
And in probably the strangest twist, when very few people were finding their "twin flame" to be responding, Jeff proclaimed that their twin flame already was part of the group - but since most of the group were women, he insisted that several of the women pair up and that one of them was now a "divine male", to the point of asking some to change their clothes, hair and go by a new male name.
It's all quite fascinating, and I couldn't believe that in an age where information on cults and cult activity is so easy to find, that so many people would be sucked into Twin Flames Universe and not see the control and manipulation going on in their lives.
Both are well worth watching but if you only have time for one, I'd recommend Prime's documentary - seems to be a bit more professionally produced.
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The strange $55 million saga of a Netflix series you’ll never see
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Scott Pilgrim: Takes Off | Teaser
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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off - Discussion Thread
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Hades is coming to iOS via Netflix Games
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Avatar: The Last Airbender | Official teaser
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Arcane | Season 2 teaser - November 2024
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Queen Margrethe of Denmark is embracing her first passion – royal served as costume and production designer for Netflix film ’Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction’
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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off OP1 - "Bloom" by Necry Talkie
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The Killer | Official trailer
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Is cinema dying? And if so, who is responsible? – A murder mystery
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‘Netflix effect’ returns as studios license old shows to their streaming rival
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Netflix is testing a game streaming solution in Canada and the UK
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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off | Official trailer
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Star Trek: Prodigy to stream on Netflix
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The death of Netflix DVD marks the loss of something even bigger
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How Shane Gillis both plays to and mocks red staters
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The One Piece adventure will continue
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Netflix lands Richard Linklater and Glen Powell’s ‘Hit Man’ for $20 million
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Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths”
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Official trailer
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One Piece producers on winning over manga fans, finding Luffy and six-year plan for hit Netflix series
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Netflix landing Anna Kendrick’s ‘Dating Game’ serial killer tale ‘Woman Of The Hour’ for $11 million in first big TIFF 2023 deal
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Hollywood’s latest pirate site blocking injunction covers ‘future content’
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May December | Official social teaser
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One Piece creator hopes to defy a history of failure
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