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GraniteM

@ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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  • TIL Riff-Raff from Rocky Horror Picture Show (also its creator) voices the dad on Phineas and Ferb.

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  • I fucking loved him as Mr. Hand. When he gets the John Murdoch memory upload he starts doing Rufus Sewell's mannerisms and it's honestly a little uncanny. Great performance.

  • With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program

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  • How many college educations could have been fully funded for $3 billion? How many elementary schools built? How many other worthwhile problems could have been solved, rather than building a bunch of worthless crumbling garbage out in the desert?

  • [Sephko] ZORORO

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  • Honestly, given the available evidence, this is just as likely an outcome as any other.

  • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • "Mr. Franklin, of what use is this hot air balloon contraption?"

    "You can take ladies up in it with a bottle of wine and a blanket and you know, they can’t refuse, because of the implication. Think about it. She's floating up in the middle of the sky with some dude she barely knows. You know, she looks around, and what does she see? Nothing but open air. 'Ahhhh! There’s nowhere for me to run. What am I gonna do, say ‘no?’"

  • 29% of adults couldn't go hour without internet - survey

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  • Surveys indicate that 100% of people respond to surveys.

  • What's your fav Nicolas Cage film and why?

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  • Pig is a masterclass in not telling the audience more than they absolutely need to know. I've gotten so sick of movies where the dialog repeats itself for the benefit of people who weren't paying attention thirty seconds ago, or else it constantly spells out stuff that rightly ought to be conveyed by the actions of the characters. Pig is the antithesis of that. Characters hardly say anything that they don't need to say, and everything else is left to the viewer to figure out. I fucking love it.

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    warmth

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  • Oof, ouch, my bones.

  • Trump coveted a military spectacle but his parade proved underwhelming: ‘Just kind of lame’

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  • FUCK

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  • Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: ‘We will kill you dead’

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  • Great opportunity to update a woefully out of date operating system!

  • Some things don't change

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  • Someday I'd like to replicate Eratosthenes' experiment with a long north-south road trip, but I never remember to make the measurements.

  • Iraqi book market culture

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  • We do this at a used book store. It's books that we don't think we can sell inside for whatever reason, and we put them on shelves outside. There's a big awning so they don't really get rained on unless it's raining sideways. We sell them for a dime or a quarter, and there's a slot for overnight drops in case people want to get books at night. Every morning there's at least a couple of bucks from the previous day/night.

    We donate the proceeds to public radio, and over the years we've donated over $100,000.

  • Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation

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  • There are people who, disturbed by "big government" today and its tendency to curb the advantages they might gain if their competitiveness were allowed free flow, demand "less govern- ment." Alas, there is no such thing as less government, merely changes in government. If the libertarians had their way, the distant bureaucracy would vanish and the local bully would be in charge. Personally, I prefer the distant bureaucracy, which may not find me, over the local bully, who certainly will. And all historical precedent shows a change to localism to be for the worse.

    —Isaac Asimov, Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981

  • ‘RANDOM FLUFF #97’ [OC]

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  • A tery

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  • I think your cat has depression

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  • I'm reminded of the movie Long Way North where a heavily-accented sailor tells a girl about a dog that lives on the ship: "He is punished. He chews the rigging and steals."

  • [C-Section] Bedtime

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  • I usually read sci-fi / fantasy, but I've come to recognize that certain authors are dense, and Tolkien is one of them. Trying to read too much of Tolkien at once is like trying to eat too much rich food; you've got to take a break from time to time. All the annotations in the above book make the text even more dense, but it's still interesting stuff, like the mythological origins of Gandalf, or the tiny changes Tolkien made from early editions of the book. So I want to read this, it's not like I'm forcing myself to read some godawful textbook, but I think when I'm reading it at night, my brain gets to a point where it just goes "Ah fuck it," and I start to nod off.

    Also pretty good for this: Isaac Asimov, or Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August.

  • Teleportation problem

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  • If it's a wormhole or Niven-style teleporter, it's unarguably you coming through the process. Star Trek... I'll grant that the conversation gets a little more complicated.

  • [C-Section] Bedtime

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  • This right here

    was my drug-free go to sleep solution for a few months. Just barely interesting enough to want to read it, but also tedious enough that I'd get maybe a page or two in before I'd be nodding off.