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  1. Comment on Trap | Official trailer in ~movies

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    Possible that you're right. Just as possible that a big movie director has zero interest in the online opinions and snooping those people go through in order to spoil movies for themselves. It's...

    Possible that you're right. Just as possible that a big movie director has zero interest in the online opinions and snooping those people go through in order to spoil movies for themselves.

    It's likely he just likes twists as much as Tarantino likes feet.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Trap | Official trailer in ~movies

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    M. Night's latest twist: Revealing the twist in the trailer.

    M. Night's latest twist: Revealing the twist in the trailer.

    7 votes

  4. Comment on Online shopping - how convenient is it actually? in ~life.style

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    I order from Amazon as little as possible and often just use them as a search engine for a product then buy it elsewhere, including in a local physical storefront. I prefer shopping in person, but...

    I order from Amazon as little as possible and often just use them as a search engine for a product then buy it elsewhere, including in a local physical storefront. I prefer shopping in person, but I'm also old enough to have ordered out of physical, mail-order catalogs, mail-order ads in magazines, etc. and understand that online/remote shopping has its place and Amazon isn't the first to have such a large presence in the remote shopping sphere (see Sears Catalog for the largest historical example).
    I'm also aware that much of my hobbies would range from impossible to much smaller in scope without online shopping. Even in a large metropolitan area I currently live in there simply isn't a market large enough for a storefront to carry many of the incredibly niche items I use.

    5 votes

  5. Comment on Astropulse: Reincarnation | Reveal trailer in ~games

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    Agreed, holding judgement until gameplay footage. Watching it gave me Blizzard cutscene vibes, then I read the description:

    Agreed, holding judgement until gameplay footage. Watching it gave me Blizzard cutscene vibes, then I read the description:

    from Imagendary Studios and accomplished Blizzard artist Wei Wang.

    5 votes

  7. Comment on The fish doorbell in ~enviro

    AugustusFerdinand
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    By that you mean endlessly spam F5 until I get to see the fish of course!

    Let's take turns people. :)

    By that you mean endlessly spam F5 until I get to see the fish of course!

    5 votes

  8. Comment on My 3D printer monitor livestream in ~hobbies

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    Good job! I used to do the same thing when I worked in an office several years ago. Two cameras, OBS, and streaming to Twitch (because for whatever reason YouTube was blocked on the office's...

    Good job! I used to do the same thing when I worked in an office several years ago. Two cameras, OBS, and streaming to Twitch (because for whatever reason YouTube was blocked on the office's network, but not Twitch), plus being able to remote into the dedicated PC I had hooked to the printer (pre-Octoprint) to cancel the print should it all go awry.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Eclipse plans in ~talk

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    I'm smack dab right in the path of totality. Set an alarm to go outside when it started, then another at 80%, at the second alarm my wife and I laid in the hammock staring through the glasses all...
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    I'm smack dab right in the path of totality. Set an alarm to go outside when it started, then another at 80%, at the second alarm my wife and I laid in the hammock staring through the glasses all the way through totality and the other side of 80% then back inside. Was neat to experience and the clouds broke just in time to let it all happen.
    Jokes were made, time spent next to the love of my life was had, no complaints.

    29 votes

  10. Comment on I bought a house, now what? in ~life.home_improvement

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    How old is the house? When the inspection occurred did they check the plumbing and by that I mean did they physically send a camera through the pipes? My house was built in the 60's, still had...

    How old is the house?
    When the inspection occurred did they check the plumbing and by that I mean did they physically send a camera through the pipes?

    My house was built in the 60's, still had mostly cast iron plumbing, started having drainage issues, sent a camera through the pipes (which did not happen during the otherwise very thorough inspection) to find breaks, cracks, and enough bellied connections to make the sewer pipes under the house and to the main line look like a rollercoaster. Cost $26k to replace it all and that was pre-COVID pricing.

    If your inspector did not send an actual camera through the pipes, call a plumbing company to do so, give you a report, and the video. A couple hundred bucks now can save you a multi-thousand dollar fix later.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Manga’s dark side: An interview with filmmaker Sybilla Patrizia in ~anime

  13. Comment on Hard rock band Kiss sells brand and songs for $300m in ~music

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    Now they can have "farewell tours" for all of eternity!

    Now they can have "farewell tours" for all of eternity!

    3 votes

  14. Comment on ‘Matrix 5’ in the works with Drew Goddard as director, Lana Wachowski as executive producer in ~movies

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    Because the last one wasn't terrible and tongue-in-cheek enough to say it shouldn't have been made in the first place that they should just go ahead and make another?

    Because the last one wasn't terrible and tongue-in-cheek enough to say it shouldn't have been made in the first place that they should just go ahead and make another?

    7 votes

  15. Comment on UT Austin lays off around sixty staffers to comply with Texas DEI ban in ~life

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    UT Austin has eliminated multiple staff positions focused on diversity, equity and inclusion in the latest effort to comply with Texas' anti-DEI law.

    Around 60 staffers were laid off Tuesday, according to the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors and the Texas NAACP.

    Senate Bill 17, which bans Texas public universities from having DEI programs and trainings, went into effect Jan. 1. At the beginning of the year, UT Austin closed its Multicultural Engagement Center, which housed student groups like Latinx Community Affairs, the Asian Desi Pacific Islander American Collective, and Queer and Trans Black Indigenous People of Color and Allies. It also shut down Monarch, a program that offered support and scholarships to undocumented students. Members of these groups say they have struggled to continue their organizations' work on campus.

    12 votes

  17. Comment on Fisker's EV prices slashed by up to $24,000, Tesla freezes them as trades in ~transport

    AugustusFerdinand
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    You aren't the only one. I'm at a loss as to why someone, anyone, is willing to be a beta tester for a 5-6 figure appliance. This era of incomplete consumer products really needs to end.

    You aren't the only one. I'm at a loss as to why someone, anyone, is willing to be a beta tester for a 5-6 figure appliance. This era of incomplete consumer products really needs to end.

    24 votes

  18. Comment on Early spring brings a ‘hungry gap’ for bees – here’s how you can help in ~enviro

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    I don't disagree, it is something to keep an eye on, but the honeybee industry, for lack of a better term, has been around at capacity for so long, that if a collapse of major disruption of native...

    I don't disagree, it is something to keep an eye on, but the honeybee industry, for lack of a better term, has been around at capacity for so long, that if a collapse of major disruption of native pollinators was going to occur, it would have by now. The honey industry is pretty much saturated, so there isn't going to be a doubling of bees/hives to exacerbate any issue that may or may not be present.

    That's because they have been dismissive. You've made statements as if they are fact with no consensus or evidence to back them up. Stated that the honeybee is invasive which is a definition used specifically for a species that causes harm to an ecosystem, when all evidence thus far shows they are merely a non-native species, a designation for things not from here, but also not cause for concern.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Early spring brings a ‘hungry gap’ for bees – here’s how you can help in ~enviro

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    All the save the bees calls I saw were to plant flowers for pollinators and don't use pesticides, nothing about "buy honey." Regardless, the primary point here is you say "Don't buy honey, it...

    All the save the bees calls I saw were to plant flowers for pollinators and don't use pesticides, nothing about "buy honey."

    Regardless, the primary point here is you say "Don't buy honey, it hurts native bees." and then none of the sources you have for such a statement actually justify such.

    6 votes

  20. Comment on Early spring brings a ‘hungry gap’ for bees – here’s how you can help in ~enviro

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    Again, nothing conclusive to justify the blanket statement of "don't buy honey in North America". Some evidence of honey bees outcompeting natives in the Canary Islands, the reverse in Patagonia.

    Again, nothing conclusive to justify the blanket statement of "don't buy honey in North America". Some evidence of honey bees outcompeting natives in the Canary Islands, the reverse in Patagonia.

    3 votes