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  1. Comment on ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ follow-up in the works with Brad Pitt starring, David Fincher directing a Quentin Tarantino script in ~movies

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    Someone saw the "You get to choose your favorite director's next project" topic before this one and is now ecstatic.

    Someone saw the "You get to choose your favorite director's next project" topic before this one and is now ecstatic.

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  2. Comment on You get to choose your favorite director's next project. What is it, and why? in ~movies

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    Thanks - my mobile keyboard adds them automatically, and they're on different lines so I didn't see it.

    Thanks - my mobile keyboard adds them automatically, and they're on different lines so I didn't see it.

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  3. Comment on You get to choose your favorite director's next project. What is it, and why? in ~movies

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    I guess someone saw this topic, and made a wish. EDIT: I continue to fail to understand Tildes hyperlink formatting.

    I guess someone saw this topic, and made a wish.

    EDIT: I continue to fail to understand Tildes hyperlink formatting.

  4. Comment on The maverick pioneers of rocketry outside government programs in ~space

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    "In German, und Englisch, I know HOW TO COUNT DOWN...und I'm learning Chinese", says Werner von Braun

    "In German, und Englisch, I know HOW TO COUNT DOWN...und I'm learning Chinese", says Werner von Braun

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  5. Comment on The origins of Dwarf Fortress (Episode One) in ~games

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    The Boatmurdered saga has been adapted into a narrated video by Fredrik Knudsen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI1UmlfP1Cg

    The Boatmurdered saga has been adapted into a narrated video by Fredrik Knudsen:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI1UmlfP1Cg

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  6. Comment on Cat clause: Pet ‘loan’ disputes spread in China in ~life.pets

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    See I think this could be a positive business model. It takes away the incentive to abandon / dispose of pets by ensuring that the owner is on the hook for their care regardless, and makes them...

    See I think this could be a positive business model. It takes away the incentive to abandon / dispose of pets by ensuring that the owner is on the hook for their care regardless, and makes them consider ongoing costs upfront before they buy.
    Unfortunately, it's clearly being abused to maximally monetise animals that the pet shop hasn't taken care of, by putting all responsibility on the owner.

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  7. Comment on Cat clause: Pet ‘loan’ disputes spread in China in ~life.pets

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    Nationwide complaints about cat “adoption” businesses are exposing the darker side of China’s booming pet industry.
    Stores across the country, often in shopping malls and labeled as pet ‘adoption’ companies, offer animals for free, so long as customers agree to future pet food and accessory purchases. They have become the subject of court cases and government warnings, and generated intense online debate.
    A hashtag complaining about one such company has garnered over 18 million views on social media platform Weibo. On rival platform Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, a hashtag used by posters seeking help to cancel their contracts after their adopted pets fell ill or died has tens of thousands of views. Users jokingly refer to the contracts as “cat loans.”

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  9. Comment on EU paves the way for iPhones and Android devices to ditch USB-C entirely in ~tech

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    Sounds like the problem any platform faces with third party accessories, which is usually solved by offering selected products a certification declaring their products compatible, which the...

    Sounds like the problem any platform faces with third party accessories, which is usually solved by offering selected products a certification declaring their products compatible, which the manufacturer then uses for advertising.

  10. Comment on Confess your food crimes in ~food

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    I do the same thing with kiwis, as long as you don't chew the skin itself (it has a very sour taste) it's fine.

    I do the same thing with kiwis, as long as you don't chew the skin itself (it has a very sour taste) it's fine.

  11. Comment on Ho-hum, ho-hum: ‘Snow White’ opens to $43m — what poisoned this princess at the box office in ~movies

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    Live-action Jafar got one moment of this deeper theme, by saying he and Aladdin are both thieves but he aims higher. Unfortunately it's basically his only characterisation that isn't generic...

    He's a thief so it makes more sense to effectively "steal" wealth and power by magic and social adroitness than gain it by conventional historical means of allies and armies.

    Live-action Jafar got one moment of this deeper theme, by saying he and Aladdin are both thieves but he aims higher. Unfortunately it's basically his only characterisation that isn't generic villainy or misogyny towards Jasmine.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBca1MPILPw&t=45s

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  12. Comment on Official Sonic the Hedgehog game timeline as recognized by Sega in ~games

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    Possible, but their post list is still very lengthy and the linked post has a short comment history not fitting one that was up for a while and deleted in the transition. Also, I found it!...

    Possible, but their post list is still very lengthy and the linked post has a short comment history not fitting one that was up for a while and deleted in the transition. Also, I found it!
    https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/vle5ap/american_comics_an_abridged_history_of_archie/

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  15. Comment on A sodium-ion portable power bank comes to market in ~tech

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    I thought about that, especially with regard to the Australian energy storage facility Tesla built given its tolerance for a high temperature climate, but that's when the for-now higher price per...

    I thought about that, especially with regard to the Australian energy storage facility Tesla built given its tolerance for a high temperature climate, but that's when the for-now higher price per Ah becomes a weight around its neck. You can probably get away with selling a 10 000 mAh "plane safe" power bank to frequent fliers for twice the price, especially if it's in the airport shopping area where passenger baggage has already been weighed, but doing the same with a three acre power storage plant is a non-starter.

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  16. Comment on A sodium-ion portable power bank comes to market in ~tech

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    It still sounds useful for applications where charging is readily available but the environment is hazardous, or special "safety" power banks for consumers travelling on planes / trains.

    It still sounds useful for applications where charging is readily available but the environment is hazardous, or special "safety" power banks for consumers travelling on planes / trains.

    7 votes

  17. Comment on What are some good stories told from non-human perspectives? in ~books

  18. Comment on What are some good stories told from non-human perspectives? in ~books

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    Xenofiction is the name of the genre FYI if you want a keyword to search for. I looked through Baen Books because I read a short story like that but can't find it now. Human children, and one...

    Xenofiction is the name of the genre FYI if you want a keyword to search for.

    I looked through Baen Books because I read a short story like that but can't find it now. Human children, and one adult, crash on an alien planet, and the aliens in question are kind of like cuttlefish with hard shells that flash colours according to their mood. Female aliens are much bigger than males, who either individually or together live inside their mate's shell.

    Humans freak them out because their skin colour is static, so it looks like they're in constant state of x emotion - in blind rage all the time, in stoic calm all the time, etc. They also move much faster than the aliens and use this to their advantage in combat by getting under the aliens' shells to skewer the soft flesh inside. The one adult with the group is a historian, and she realises she was chosen for the escape pod because she's watching the birth of a new civilisation - or rather an old one reborn, the Khanate.

    EDIT Found it! Mother of Demons by Eric Flint. No prizes for guessing who the "demons" are.
    https://www.baen.com/mother-of-demons.html

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  19. Comment on Hollywood’s IP dilemma | Whether it’s “Novocaine,” “Mickey 17” or the “Oceans” director’s latest, audiences are slow to show up for original films in ~movies

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    That's funny, cause I was interested in Mickey 17 and watched a spoilerfree review, and thought "But I've already seen Moon..."

    That's funny, cause I was interested in Mickey 17 and watched a spoilerfree review, and thought "But I've already seen Moon..."

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  20. Comment on What mattress would you recommend? in ~life.home_improvement

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    I have to move around a lot for a few years at a time, and rather than buy a new mattress (the ones in the apartments are almost always incredibly hard) every time I simply bought a 10 cm memory...

    I have to move around a lot for a few years at a time, and rather than buy a new mattress (the ones in the apartments are almost always incredibly hard) every time I simply bought a 10 cm memory foam topper and take that with me instead. It's incredible, sits on the hard mattress and essentially replaces it. I looked up the brand, it's called MLILY and they sell whole mattresses too.
    https://mlilyusa.com/collections/mattresses
    (I swear this isn't an ad)