myrrh's recent activity
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Comment on Movie fatigue in ~movies
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Comment on Movie fatigue in ~movies
myrrh (edited )Link...here's a random-access list, no particular theme but they're each great films in their own way, some forgotten gems, some iconic cultural touchstones, some cult films... Rebecca (1940) Niagara......here's a random-access list, no particular theme but they're each great films in their own way, some forgotten gems, some iconic cultural touchstones, some cult films...
Rebecca (1940)
Niagara (1953)
The Forbidden Planet (1956)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Seconds (1966)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Say Anything (1989)
Point Break (1991)
From Dusk till Dawn (1996)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
The Vast of Night (2019)(tried to name two per decade but since the fourties came up short, i threw in the vast of night as an outlier: it's proper-good and absolutely worth watching if you haven't seen it)
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Comment on What are your personal crackpot conspiracy theories about the world right now? in ~talk
myrrh (edited )Link...it's not at all current but i also don't think it's particularly crackpot to infer that on september 11th 2001, either united flight 93 was shot down or the USAF were grossly incompetent, and......it's not at all current but i also don't think it's particularly crackpot to infer that on september 11th 2001, either united flight 93 was shot down or the USAF were grossly incompetent, and whichever is true won't become public knowledge until well after everyone who was alive at the time are dead and gone from public influence...
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Comment on Who else is as excited as I am for the Backrooms movie tomorrow? in ~movies
myrrh Link Parent...it's been about twenty-five years since i watched it, but i don't remember the original cube falling into that narrative trap; i remember it ending as a tidy little low-budget take on man vs.......it's been about twenty-five years since i watched it, but i don't remember the original cube falling into that narrative trap; i remember it ending as a tidy little low-budget take on man vs. environment insitutional / existential horror...
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Comment on Starpath | Official announcement trailer in ~games
myrrh Link...yeah, we had profoundly better optics a century ago; perhaps they're going for an early-eighties-cheap-genre-film look rather than you-are-there immersion?.....yeah, we had profoundly better optics a century ago; perhaps they're going for an early-eighties-cheap-genre-film look rather than you-are-there immersion?..
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Comment on Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband in ~life.men
myrrh Link Parent...i am, and i wholly agree with sparksbet...obedience strikes me as antithetical to consensus; it's objectifying and inherently offensive to personal sovereignty......i am, and i wholly agree with sparksbet...obedience strikes me as antithetical to consensus; it's objectifying and inherently offensive to personal sovereignty...
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Comment on Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026 in ~tv
myrrh (edited )Link...i previously posted on another platform but i'll reiterate: this is an absolutely brilliant send-off, not only for his own program but for the broadcast-television late-night-talk-show legacy......i previously posted on another platform but i'll reiterate: this is an absolutely brilliant send-off, not only for his own program but for the broadcast-television late-night-talk-show legacy as a whole...
...it brings together both adult-swim metatextual bite and early-letterman energy in inspired metaphor which burgeons over the course of an hour through its very final frame; chef's kiss...
...i haven't laughed that hard nor sincerely in a very long while; call it catharsis?..
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Comment on Why airlines are always going bankrupt in ~transport
myrrh Link Parent...i flew often from the seventies through the turn of the millenium but since september 2001, i've quit flying unless absolutely unavoidable, as i loathe the twenty-first-century american air......i flew often from the seventies through the turn of the millenium but since september 2001, i've quit flying unless absolutely unavoidable, as i loathe the twenty-first-century american air travel experience...
...last time i flew to east asia, though, i was struck by how remarkably similar their airlines felt to peak-era western air travel; it was an unexpectedly refreshing turn of experience only spoiled when transferring to an american carrier on the return leg home...i expect a deeper analysis of economic and cultural cause-and-effect may present interesting correlations and hypothetical models for how airlines might operate more or less successfully as a private or public good...
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Comment on Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’ in ~tech
myrrh Link Parent...may well be good folks out there; i've only worked with outsourced HR services who come to the table with bad-faith policy + regulatory interpretations in the company's favor, cringey......may well be good folks out there; i've only worked with outsourced HR services who come to the table with bad-faith policy + regulatory interpretations in the company's favor, cringey mister-burns stuff, so my experiences are probably limited to the sketchier side of the industry...
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Comment on Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’ in ~tech
myrrh Link Parent...well some of us in senior management push back when we think the company's being unfair; we don't always win, but we're in a position to contest the owners and we often do win, whether or not......well some of us in senior management push back when we think the company's being unfair; we don't always win, but we're in a position to contest the owners and we often do win, whether or not they know it...
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Comment on Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’ in ~tech
myrrh Link Parent...i've ever only dealt with HR from the management side of the table, but yeah, they're totally there to serve the company, not its employees......i've ever only dealt with HR from the management side of the table, but yeah, they're totally there to serve the company, not its employees...
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Comment on ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ reviews mixed: “Boring and lifeless” vs. “best Star Wars in years” in ~movies
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...we had a coworker return from china in december 2019 with a horrific respiratory infection which took out more than half our studio for about a month; it was particularly frustrating because......we had a coworker return from china in december 2019 with a horrific respiratory infection which took out more than half our studio for about a month; it was particularly frustrating because none of us had accrued sufficient PTO to cover a four-week leave so we all ended up taking salary deductions over the holiday, to boot...
...we all tested negative for influenza so our doctors' best guess was some severe strain of the common cold; stories of CoViD didn't break until about a month later, which sure sounded like what had just wiped us out but we'll never know for certain...
...i'll note that when i eventually 'officially' caught CoViD after our return-to-office mandate in the fall of 2020, it felt exactly the same except recovery was about a week quicker...
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Comment on Tesla’s newest electric vehicle could jolt the trucking industry in ~transport
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Comment on Chaser 6 in ~books
myrrh Link Parent...i was thinking of greg egan's diaspora; similar themes......i was thinking of greg egan's diaspora; similar themes...
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Comment on Once dismissed as weeds, native plants are now flying off the shelves in the US in ~enviro
myrrh Link Parent...the ecosystem of bugs, birds, + fauna which move in are wondrous to watch evolve over time......the ecosystem of bugs, birds, + fauna which move in are wondrous to watch evolve over time...
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Comment on Once dismissed as weeds, native plants are now flying off the shelves in the US in ~enviro
myrrh Link Parent...species depend on the region; i'm in central texas, so for the first decade we sowed the habiturf blend developed by the johnson wildflower center, which grows to about eight inches, tall by......species depend on the region; i'm in central texas, so for the first decade we sowed the habiturf blend developed by the johnson wildflower center, which grows to about eight inches, tall by lawn standards but short turf grasses by meadowland standards...
...more recently we've switched our deep meadow over to douglas king seeds' native grass mix, which introduces more variety and reaches around eighteen inches with some healthy variation...
...bear in mind, any native meadow's going to nuture a lot of volunteer species, too, but that's half the fun...
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Comment on Once dismissed as weeds, native plants are now flying off the shelves in the US in ~enviro
myrrh Link Parent...we mow + sow native prairie grass blends once a year, early spring, and likewise native wildflower blends in the fall, but otherwise leave our meadow alone to evolve its own equilibrium habitat......we mow + sow native prairie grass blends once a year, early spring, and likewise native wildflower blends in the fall, but otherwise leave our meadow alone to evolve its own equilibrium habitat (a process of years rather than seasons) in which native + naturalised plants generally outcompete introduced 'weeds'*...it's low-maintenance and cultivates a lush ecosystem pretty much on its own...
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Comment on San Francisco Sign Guild in ~arts
myrrh Link...you could riff on the old golden gate tunnel campaign to sow some real mayhem......you could riff on the old golden gate tunnel campaign to sow some real mayhem...
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Comment on ‘Monster Wolf’ robots deployed in Japan amid spike in bear attacks in ~enviro
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...japan's population is overwhelmingly urban, though: just 8% of its population live in rural areas, which comprise about 268,000 km2 of its land area for a rural population density around 37......japan's population is overwhelmingly urban, though: just 8% of its population live in rural areas, which comprise about 268,000 km2 of its land area for a rural population density around 37 people/km2...it's not an apples-to-apples comparison of rural population densities, but that's about the same as alabama's or missouri's population densities taken as a whole (and, coincidentally, the whole of the united states, to strain the comparison further)...
...point being rural japan isn't so crowded, but it sounds like japan has a much hungrier bear population recently, which likely drives most of the increased human-bear interactions...
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Comment on “Rediscovering” the operating system (AKA: the desktop is the killer app) in ~tech
myrrh Link...there's a lot to like in OS/X but the macintosh lost its killer application when apple abandoned the spatial finder and discoverable usability as their core mission......there's a lot to like in OS/X but the macintosh lost its killer application when apple abandoned the spatial finder and discoverable usability as their core mission...
...the iron giant is woefully underappreciated in popular culture; an absolute titan of creative work...