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  • Depending on the kind of show it is contextual, but here's some.

    If it is a tight self contained story that ends...and then more things happen. Stranger Things for example pretty much perfectly ended in season 1. There was a tiny dangling mystery regarding Eleven's fate. Such things do not need to be a sequel hook, they can simply exist to tantalize and never be expanded on. This is like if Inception 2 was made and it answered the questions about Cobb's spinning totem; it would utterly miss the point that the story was over and the ending was intentionally ambiguous.

    If the actors or voice actors are simply getting too old for the part. Personally I have a good ear for animation's voice acting. It drives me absolutely crazy when I hear noticeably aged actors reprising role or continuing them as if nothing has changed. Obviously some performers can last longer than others but for example modern Simpsons is unwatchable to me entirely on the basis of the voices. Even if somehow the writing turned around I simply can't get past the voices. Similarly I could barely sit through The Incredibles 2, which supposedly picks up right as the first movie ends but all the voices are aged 14 years and I can hear it.

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    ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

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  • Perhaps delete this thread and put it !general@lemmy.world or put up the video as the post in a suitable community.

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    ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

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  • This is a community for questions, perhaps your link to somebody's thought would be better in a community for it.

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  • Not my problem.

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  • I want to be scattered at Disneyland (note: I do not wish to be cremated).

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • I'm not taking advice from an obvious night monster.

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • If you have black coffee either because you're out of creamer or doing a non-diary thing, sprinkling a tiny bit of salt into the coffee will take the bitterness out of it without tasting salty.

  • What are some product categories where the mainstream option IS the best option?

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  • I'm genuinely having trouble thinking of a consumer product where the most widely sold brand or version is the "best" (highest quality, most durable, most features, best flavor, or whatever meteoric would be used).

    I can think of a number of products where getting the "best" is a case of steep diminishing returns compared to the increasing price, and for the purposes of the "average" person the "best" product isn't any better for them than the mainstream one. The "best" versions of some products are only better for those with the skills to make use of them or the need for the "best" quality or features.

  • The clues were right in front of us.

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  • I'm pretty sure this is actually my exact crop of the meme (I cropped out an ugly ifunny logo).

    https://lemmy.world/post/41780741

    But you know, I stole it from somewhere else anyways.

  • The clues were right in front of us.

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  • How do you argue against "I have nothing to hide" in relation to privacy and security?

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  • A notebook at home would suffice, but it’s not great for the same reason as word based passwords.

    I'm aware. I've explained it elsewhere, but having dealt with irrationally tech adverse older people myself, I've learned sometimes decent solutions they'll actually use are better than great ones they'll resist. I've found that any new software, like a password manager, no matter how user friendly and logical is treated with suspicion and disdain.

  • How do you argue against "I have nothing to hide" in relation to privacy and security?

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  • While being aware that leaking passwords and reusing them is a major risk, I was just asking about the construction of the password as it relates to being attacked directly.

    But also, no one wants to try to remember a hundred different unique passwords so it’s also a good idea to use a password manager.

    Absolutely. I recommended the notebook approach only because I think people of a certain mindset would be more open to it than a password manager, even if it isn't as elegant of a solution. At the end of the day it still diversifies passwords. I'm vividly picturing my mom throwing a fit any time a doctor or other office wants her to fill out a form on a tablet instead of paper.

  • How do you argue against "I have nothing to hide" in relation to privacy and security?

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  • I'm going to be real. I was part way through an explanation before I deleted it. What you are dealing with sounds like a situation where you simply won't win by using logic. To continue to labor under the presumption that a good and logical reasoning will have an effect is just going to stress you out and achieve nothing.

    Google password because I recommended against it being a word.

    IT nerds help me out here, but I've been under the impression that the best defense against brute force attacks is a very long password, and the idea of sprinkling in special characters or numbers is outdated. Something like "iwenttothestoreandboughtabirthdaycake" is a more secure password than "$6jds_*WghP6".

    edit: Also the mantra to never write down any passwords is more of a workplace piece of advice. I personally think, and this would probably be helpful for older people, that writing down passwords in a notebook which is kept secure in their home is pretty safe. Short of a home invasion, that notebook is safe, and having it can encourage them to diversify their passwords on different accounts. So, if you are going to keep at the issue, taking an angle of using something they are more comfortable with like a paper notebook is going to be accepted more easily than trying to sell them on a password manager or something.

  • In 2021 Designer Kenya Hara earned $300,000 by turning Xiaomis Square into a Squircle.

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  • I have no doubt creating the design was much less intensive than his rambling story, but the company spent the money on him specifically and I'm sure they expected the rambling story.

    That's why I hate this part of art culture, the fakeness of it all. The obvious fakeness that people clap for because they think it makes them look more intelligent by nodding along.

  • In 2021 Designer Kenya Hara earned $300,000 by turning Xiaomis Square into a Squircle.

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  • The corporation wanted to give him all that money. They are both playing a stupid game.

    I'd say I agree with the instinct to just get that bag, but the fact that such people even exist and the fact that they steer the culture of the art world drives me crazy. The CIA has done irreparable damage to art.

  • In 2021 Designer Kenya Hara earned $300,000 by turning Xiaomis Square into a Squircle.

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  • Andy Kaufman tier.

  • In 2021 Designer Kenya Hara earned $300,000 by turning Xiaomis Square into a Squircle.

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  • Even if that is factual, the company went to this high profile designer because they wanted a story to go along with their logo.

  • In 2021 Designer Kenya Hara earned $300,000 by turning Xiaomis Square into a Squircle.

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  • Obviously they overpaid, but it was the company's choice in a form of conspicuous consumption.

    I feel conflicted because graphic design is a necessary job, but just from skimming over Kenya Hara's history and work he strikes me as an avatar of all the most pretentious and pseudo-intelligent aspects of the modern culture of art that I hate.

    The claim that it took him four years to design the logo is, on its face, garbage, but for people like him the process and the story of making the logo is how he created and maintains a veneer of being deep and working on a heightened creative and intellectual level. Had he taken the contract and returned in a week with the exact same logo and said "Yeah I messed around a little in photoshop and I think it looks pretty nice." then it wouldn't be worth $300,000. Everything in the world of these people needs an overdrawn explanation and story of creation and meaning and it makes me want to projectile vomit on or near them.

  • Do you have any recommendations for podcasts, that are as well produced and "deep" as video essays?

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  • 'History That Doesn't Suck' by Prof. Greg Jackson. It is a history of the U.S., told in a flowing narrative type format that's easy to listen to. I like it because it counteracts my biggest peeve in the presentation of history where it is taught as discreet chunks that are seemingly disconnected. In this podcast, it follows the flow of historical figures and events as they naturally lead to new things rather than talking about each section in a vacuum.

    'HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast'/'Strange Studies of Strange Stories'. A podcast with two hosts and normally a guest reader. The hosts talk about the relevant real life history of the story, as well as talking about the story itself, edited in between a reading of some or all of the story (depending on story length). It gives a good overview of the works and is tightly edited so that the host banter never rambles off topic. The podcast changed names when they ran out of HPL stories and fully branched out into other authors.

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    The NOAA has a commissioned officer corps so that the personnel have status as military officers, to give them protection of laws of war and prevent them from being treated as spies

    en.m.wikipedia.org /wiki/NOAA_Commissioned_Officer_Corps
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    What are your thoughts on skub?

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    Toy overload

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    When is the last time you witnessed a real life situation where you were like "Wait, what? No."

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    Shark attack

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    Do you have trouble explaining your job to people?

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    I admire its purity. A survivor...unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.

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    What are you looking forward to this week?

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    Can you draw the Hamburglar from memory (and post the results in the thread)?

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    Can you draw Vin Diesel from memory (and post the result in the thread)?

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    Pizza time

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    Cat during a power outage

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    What's the latest interesting thing you've accomplished ?

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    Can you draw a kangaroo from memory (and post it in the thread)?

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    Can you draw a horse from memory? (And then post it in the thread)

  • Star Trek @lemmy.world
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    Random Trek Review: Voyager S04E07 ‘Scientific Method’

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    What is your niche knowledge?

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    When did you (literally or figuratively) dodge a bullet?

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    What's the last thing you bounced back from?

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    If you don't work IT, retail, or food service what do you do for work?