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RoidingOldMan

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  • What is an old movie that couldn't be made today?

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  • "Buckman! There was a fingernail in my food, ya fatass moron! Yesterday, it was a Band-Aid!"

    Buckman: "Sorry, sir. The Band-Aid was holding the fingernail on."

  • What is an old movie that couldn't be made today?

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  • No Way Out (1950). Depicts a race riot. At one point a character uses the N word dozens of times in a row uninterrupted. Much of Sidney Poitier's career would be hard to remake these days. Pressure Point (1962) where he's a therapist trying to deprogram a Nazi. Maybe that's exactly what the world needs a remake of right now, but we're not gonna get it.

    Basic Instinct (1992), Body Heat (1981), that sort of thing. They might remake it into a TV show, but they're not putting that much sex in theaters.

    Charlie Chan. A series of detective films about a Chinese detective who was always played by a white guy. Though you could make this movie in 2026, you wouldn't cast a white person.

    Countless movies where the subject matter is painfully out of date. They used to make anti-alcohol pictures when prohibition was a thing. Couldn't vs. wouldn't, I guess.

  • If you could ask one question and be guaranteed the correct answer, what would you ask?

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  • Can you give me the exact locations of all lost civilizations? Ideally any that have Pompeii-like level of preservation.

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  • XP was the business standard for like 20 years. Windows 7 was the next one to do that.

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  • Sounds like it might be fun in the moment, problematic in the medium, and then not problematic in the long run.

  • Men with higher IQs are less conservative, study finds

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  • Okay but I'm not smart.

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  • OP said 1800-present. If you're talking about the 1899 split, then that's the colonial powers. What am I missing?

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  • Tiny island nations that were largely the victim of colonization by others. Trinidad and Tobago. Samoa.

  • Straight people, would you date a non-binary person?

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  • Within reason, yes. Not looking for anything complicated.

  • Are you experiencing any shortages where you live?

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  • Gas is up about $1/gal in the last month or so. It was up 10 cents a day for a bit.

  • AI 2027

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  • It also suggests that by 2029 we could have "an incredibly luxurious universal basic income." Which seems absurd here in 2026.

  • At Pentagon Christian service, Hegseth prays for violence 'against those who deserve no mercy'

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  • I get what you're saying, but jihad has a more complex definition. This is closer to shouting 'deus vult' during the crusades.

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    What's your impression of a person who says they're Machiavellian?

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  • Uh... it was like the default example for "evil leader" before Hitler.

    Sounds like someone who wants attention. Enjoys the edginess and obvious absurdity in a statement like that.

  • Does Internet still care looking onto steganographed/enciphered data?

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  • If it's on the internet archive, then it's probably been scanned by AI.

    Not sure I understood your question.

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  • People enjoy costumes. There's a category for it at the Oscars. It's a career occupation.

  • Who could have seen this coming

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  • He bought it for the headline.

  • What's an online service you happily pay for?

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  • There are those Visa cards that charge you like $4 every time you load money on them. Western Union does a similar thing too. It's how people with bad credit/no ID get a card.

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  • Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade tells oil tankers to go through the Strait of Hormuz: "Show some guts and go through that strait and do it"

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  • Lol the peer pressure argument for oil tankers.