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  • I mean it in a most sincere and endearing way. Gave me a joy and chuckle.

  • good post, sounds like a copypasta

  • At my work, we maintain computers for a bio lab that use Nvidia glasses to view stereo images of cryogenically frozen protein structures.

    Nvidia doesn't support them anymore, and there was an email thread that was forwarded to us by the lab manager of some scientists discussing the issue. One of them suggested to the others that they could just cross their eyes and see the images that way instead of using the glasses. Funny stuff!

  • Damn.

  • I enjoy these types of movies. The most recent one I watched was Terry Gilliams Days of Heaven. I saw it described as a visual poem (This is accurate) about a boy running from his past with his girlfriend and sister, arrives to work as a farmhand on a Texas farm during harvest season.

    I enjoy Tarkovskys films, those are generally quite slow but philosophically dense. Stalker, Solaris, and Andrei Rublev. I haven't seen the rest.

    I also enjoy abstract documentaries. Baraka is a dialogue-less epic showcasing the alienness of human culture. Amazing visuals and music. Life changing for me. In this genre, I also love Chris Marker's Sans Soleil -- a directors reflections on memory and time. A more serious, focused documentary following several men responsible for the mass execution of communists in Indonesia in the 60s as they act out their atrocities for what they believe will be a great action movie, called The Act of Killing directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, is also powerful and surreal. These three films had a drastic effect on me personally are the greatest documentaries I've seen, though not much happens in them.

    More recent slow movies I've enjoyed: Past Lives, about childhood love. Scored by Daniel Rossen of the indie band Grizzly Bear, it is a beautiful and different outlook on love. Very touching. Not much happens.

    The other is The Brutalist, an epic about a Jewish architect escaping the Holocaust and moving to America, seeking the American dream. Haunting, looming.

    Edit: Richard Linklaters films generally have very loose plots. I've only seen School of Rock and Boyhood though. Love Boyhood.

  • I want our Brave ICE Officers to know that REAL Americans are cheering you on every day

    Oh, how subtle. If you're not cheering ICE on, you're not a REAL American. So you should be deported too!

  • Ye love yer rules, do ye?

  • Sometimes backing in seems easier than backing out

  • I found this fact particularly fun. thanks for sending me down a lil rabbit hole.

  • I think learning anything new is like this, yknow? No pain no gain, as they say.

  • I don't think there is meaning. I've never read Camus or Sartre and don't really know what determinism is (quick read on Wikipedia, I think I agree with it?), but

    I keep living because it makes me feel good for the most part, and because the thought of dying makes me feel bad for the most part.

  • It has radicalized my previously centrist brother-in-law to the left and continues to do so.

  • Darktable is a godsend to me for converting film negatives.But I pretty much only use image conversion, RGB curve, then fidget with the exposure and RGB sliders in negadoctor a little more then I'm done. No idea how to do anything else.

  • Btw for anyone reading this, the original is about a US judge of Mexican heritage who was presiding over the Trump University fraud case.

    Trump didn't actually say this about Pope Francis, as far as we know.

  • Recently found dadrock band Geese. So good. And their lead guy, Cameron Winter, also just released a stunning solo album.

  • I mean yeah you're right, that's what it should mean. But that's not what they mean by it. They want to "run the government like a business." That means cutting costs and distributing the cheapest product possible in order to maximize profit. It doesn't make sense, but it doesn't have to for their base to gobble it up.

  • Government efficiency is really just the worst possible version of a product or service that the market will continue to accept.

    And even that isn't what they're going for. They're just smashing the government to privatize everything. If a service doesnt get privatized, well you're shit outta luck

  • Do you like my hat