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Thoughts on Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes?
I watched it in theaters yesterday and enjoyed it! Beautiful post-apocalyptic imagery, decent writing, great digital graphics, great story boarding. I’m always excited for sci fi epics and this scratched that itch.
One facet I thought could have been more robust was the question of human vs ape intelligence (which obviously comes up a lot). I felt there was competing messaging without a lot of complex exploration of intelligence or speciesism which could have deepened the film.
My 6 CD changer is the envy of my friend group
Michigan reports a human case of bird flu, the nation’s second linked to H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows
All the US cases and most cases worldwide are linked to people working closely with infected animals according to the article—no mention of raw milk.
Also capitalists for some reason: Without the threat of unemployment or a pay incentive noone would ever be motivated to wash their dishes
Idk, seems like one way to peacefully make a system illegitimate and obsolete
They make that peanut butter and jelly combo jar but it’s not fully blended like this. I could have sworn there was a squeeze version with both too back in the day but I can’t find evidence.
you only get to trick or treat on the property you own
Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney,” he said in a statement. “I thank the Board for its thorough investigation, and I approve their pardon recommendation.
pesky juries and DAs thinking they have legal authority!
But in a response to her visa application, the Home Office told Ashkar that it had been denied on the grounds that granting it would "harm the public interest", without giving any further reasons or explanation.
I’m not following your logic here
I hope it makes some men (looking at the commenters on r/tinder who speak in terms of a marketplace) understand that they aren’t necessarily competing with other men, they’re also competing with the null hypothesis: Would she rather be alone (or with a bear).
It’s part of a shifting norm and shifting norms are always controversial. Especially norms that involve opening up bodily autonomy, dignity, or respect to previously excluded groups.
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Even though we generalize that we’re attracted to categories like men and women I think most people are only attracted to a handful of singular people rather than a whole gender (or a more muscled or less muscled subset of one).
Yeah and also your comment might be illegal in the US soon
Boys becoming Men, Men becoming Bears
A third take: Authoritarian groups have been historically successful in wiping out (usually by force) less authoritarian groups and their methods of organizing.
This is not a right wing resource, but if you’re interested in learning about the arguments and historical evolution of ideas that underpin economic liberalism/neoliberalism, I highly recommend Geoff Mann’s Disassembly required : a field guide to actually existing capitalism. It’s concise, relatively short, and treats the ‘other’ side like rational actors (which is important for understanding, I think).
Ofc this would only help understand people who are quite well informed.
Efficiency should correlate with leisure
Vanguard’s updated account agreement—anyone know more about class action suits in this context?
Carbon offsets are like meeting stormwater basin requirements for construction by digging holes 1000 miles away
something
Egg pricker to prevent boiled eggs from cracking during the boiling process
If you like slightly heavy handed satirical technodystopias (think Veridian Dynamics) you should check out the book Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling
a cautionary tale of corporatism gone awry, told lightheartedly, with robots.
More than 1/3 of voting eligible americans are russian conspirators didjahknow
A utopian strand of economic thought is making a surprising comeback
www.vox.com A utopian strand of economic thought is making a surprising comeback
It was once normal for economists to imagine a world with less work. What happened?
Ideas for setting up a media server compatible with xbox viewing?
I have a TCL tv with (with google smart TV software) and have been ingesting TV shows, games, and movies primarily from an xbox using various paid streaming apps for like 15 years. As streaming costs go up I’ve wanted to set up a media server compatible with playing stuff from the xbox and have had some friends suggest Plex so that we could potentially share media. People here seem partial to Jellyfin but the internet seems to feel it doesn’t work smoothly with xbox (buggy app/integration). Any suggestions for the most elegant setup possible for hosting a home server for streaming TV shows and movies from xbox?
Developers of Fedi, have you been asked to implement functions that clearly reduce the functionality of the app or website you contribute to? How do you handle it?
I have a sense of how these decisions look in the board room— just curious what they look/feel like on implementation given that people presumably don’t enjoy putting in effort to make a thing worse, obviously don’t dox yourself and get in trouble at work!
Feddites who live in countries with elections, do you generally feel morally responsible for your government’s actions? Why/Whynot?
Exaggerated and made up example of what I’m curious about:
My country has legitimate elections. When my government wrongly convicts someone I feel as if I have personally wronged that person by voting for the person who appointed the judge. God will judge both me and the judge for it.
Cross posting norms and etiquette?
I still don’t really understand crossposting or the multiple link options on kbin. What should kbin users know about crossposting and linking?
Is it normal for white vinegar to sizzle like peroxide when you use it as ear drops?
Google is not helpful.
Most people’s responsibilities rely on other people’s responsibilities, so when we tell ourselves “not my job” there’s almost always an “as long as they do what they’re supposed to” addendum.
If someone else doesn’t do it and it is a precursor for something you need than it is your job.
When do you think violence is justified?
Self defense? Only on the battlefield? Only to achieve a ‘noble’ end?
I picked up Peter Watts’ Blindsight a few weeks ago not realizing that it was ‘hard’ sci-fi.
Whew! What a ride. Will definitely need to re-read to absorb everything. Consciousness, algorithms, game theory, “like us” reasoning, hierarchy/control, disability—lots of stuff going on.
TIL that over 60% of jurisdictions in the US use algorithmic pretrial assessment tools to help determine who should be jailed before their court date and who should not.
Why YSK: In many places it can take years for a case to come to trial. Judges have to make a decision in such cases to determine whether an accused person should be jailed in the interim. In recent years many jurisdictions have adopted algorithmic tools that essentially create a “risk profile” which assigns a value. Threshold values are used to classify the scores (for example “High Risk”). Some models include iterative algorithms (machine learning) and some do not.
The use of these models in pretrial assessments can have some major consequences. As you might know—aggregate data cannot be used to make sound predictions about individuals. What aggregate data allows you to do is model trends, correlations, and averages across groups.
We often use these profiles to help us make predictions on behalf of individuals. This is what “risk factors” in the medical sciences are usually doing. If 80% of people who are vegetarian and weigh 120 lbs have bone density issues later in life I might wa
Why do I have to re-map my network drive so often at work?
It’s constantly becoming unmapped (sometimes randomly in the middle of the day). File explorer pages close out by themselves somewhat frequently too. Just curious what might be going on in IT (they’re the ones who showed me how to re-map).