seanicus

You're absolutely right but also it works - stock went up 4% immediately.

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent etc etc.

Just leave this commenter to rot on the outside the way they've already gone to rot on the inside. You wrote a superb, enlightening comment.

Hey can you point out which unions consistently protect pedos & wifebeaters, and often even elect them to positions of great authority?

I can help you find the address of your local police department if you need some more boots to lick.

Whether or not it's staged it's the creation of a PR person who's likely never even so much as been on the inside of a squad car, trying to spread an insipid, demonstrably false narrative about a bunch of wife-beating knuckleheads hiding in their SUV's between bouts of extreme violence.

If anyone ever says "hackernews brain" isn't a thing I'll be pointing them to this comment

So many cops live in cop neighborhoods, surrounded by their cop friends, with blue lives matter stickers & flags, going to their FOP meetings & get-togethers regularly, & all the other signifiers. Their self-identification as a cop is stronger than 90% of how anyone self-identifies about even the most intrinsic elements of themselves like ethnicity and upbringing.

If one good cop won't snitch on one bad cop then there are no good cops.

Access to healthy and ethical food consumption does have a economic/class line drawn around it but that doesn't mean that a person who is decrying what should be considered substandard sourcing and production of food is mocking the plight of those who can't afford it (and often don't even have access to it).

Lol loving the complicated answers to this question but as an American I'll tell you that I live in an ontologically evil country that only cares that you survive long enough to reach the height of your productivity. After that you can go kick rocks/suffer death by cancer (and make sure it's on your own dime). 9 times out of 10 the US will consistently pick capital over people.

I find Netflix editing a joke out of Final Destination, which isn't a Netflix film in any way, to be far more egregious. I was surprised they could even do that legally - I assume it was done with the parent studio's permission.

When in hospital bring EVERYthing you'd bring on a trip + more. Due to lockdowns I was unable to get an Advil without being admitted to the hospital - which would separate me from the maternity ward. Refillable water bottle above all else.

The first 6-15 months are truly hell. Doctors call the first 3 months 'the third trimester,' which is apt because that baby could not be more livid about being pulled out of the womb. Go watch the Gitmo scenes in The Card Counter if you want an idea (mostly joking about that but it truly sucks).

But everything improves by .05% every day from day one and eventually (around 12 months for us) you look around and realize that you've entered the greatest time of your life.

But those first months suck.

Francis Ford Coppola said something to the effect of how having a bunch of kids served as a huge financial and artistic motivator for him. Not sure I'd recommend in that my kid is 2 and I'm not sure if I've done even 1000 words of creative since then.

I did turn down a near-lateral promotion that would've require 60%+ travel. Everyone has to do right by their families and values but appreciating and maximizing my time for me this era in my life is worth a price above rubies (though even I have a selling point, lol).

Re: guns, if the militia is well regulated then the militia needs to explain guns getting into the hands of people that kill kids as well as insanely high per capita murder rates (primarily in red states, it should be mentioned). Maybe time to disband a militia that can't regulate itself?

This is aside from the founders not being presented with a firearm that can put 6" holes into a kindergartner's body at the rate of 45 rounds per minute.

We're never going to fix the gun issue in this country but the reading of 2a has always been absolutely absurd.

RE: SCOTUS the powerful will always protect the powerful. Sotomayor just went on the record the other day to call Clarence Thomas 'a man who cares deeply about the court as an institution.' Clarence Thomas, whose wife was supporting and funding the January 6th insurrection and effort to overturn a legal election.

Every now and then I ctrl-f the constitution to find the words "supreme court" and somehow come up blank every time.

True. Look no further than Tim Apple.

“Our desire is to … confront the culture in which we all live today in ways which will continue to advance God’s kingdom, not to stay in our own safe territories,” Betsy DeVos said.

Cited from this article: https://religionnews.com/2017/02/06/5-faith-facts-betsy-devo...

Are you so far inside your bubble that you can't connect conservative values aligned to religious thinking to the conservative push to defund public education benefitting private parochial schools?

Possibilty 1a: microplastics causes reproductive issues that contribute to plummeting fertility rates, mass human extinction ensues and consequently the problem sorts itself out quite nicely.

I love love love watching animation reference ftg - https://twitter.com/NickTyson/status/1129904441153376256?s=2...

Lest we forget NYT being used as a mouthpiece for Dick Cheney and forming the foundation of the invasion of Iraq. I'll stump for the importance of journalism at any level (esp. the local level) but the willingness of major outlets to accept and regurgitate anything from cops/3-letter orgs is absolutely confounding.

Plenty of female otaku/anime fans out there but anecdotally I'd say that it's still primarily male. Nowhere near as male as it was in the 90's/00's, though.

And sadly you may end up getting a higher res version than what you'd get on streaming.

Certainly none of them are a patch on the original, which stands alone as a totemic duck press of action/sci-fi cinema, but Reloaded has some really fun wtf ideas that twisted my brain in the same way that the original did, as well as a set piece (the highway chase) that's on par with Matrix 1. I've tried to find value in Revolutions but it's a harder task for me.

I've seen Resurrections once and it's too early to say. I really enjoyed it but it hasn't sat well with me since viewing. Hoping to pop it on this weekend and get a better impression.

There's a great statement in the color palette of Matrix 4; the world inside The Matrix looks great! Pairs well with the ending of Matrix 3 - the terms of the détente between the machines and humans is that anyone who wants to leave the matrix should be able to do so. So surprise surprise, the machines have manufactured a matrix that looks like a postcard.

I have the Matrix 4K disc that ostensibly HBO MAX is using for it's 4K version and it's one of the most pristine discs I own. It was the first disc I loaded up on my home system post-upgrade and featured a level of quality of image so high that at one point I stopped to see how many of Keanu's pores I could count.

It looks so blown out in that post that I thought that it was an iphone shot of the writer's screen... I'm still not convinced that it isn't frankly; all those screengrabs look weird to me.

But definitely not impossible that these just looks like crap; streamers seem keenly aware that for the most part their audiences are happy to consume their media as low-contrast Tasty Wheat slop that they half-watch while scrolling insta/tiktok.

And don't even get me started on the effect of these vendors' compression methodologies. I watched the Burton Batman movies when HBO MAX debuted and I couldn't believe how dogshit they looked due to their dark palette not playing well with the very aggressive compression. Esp. wild when you consider the amount of money the the Batman movies have brought in for WB. It's their flagship franchise and I assume the highest brand recognition of any IP they own (sorry, Bugs).

HBO didn't roll out 4K content until months later, though, so things may have improved since then.

A key point being that both versions are available with the same quality of image and are both remastered with equal care on re-releases. By contrast, something resembling the theatrical versions of Star Wars not been available since laserdisc.

I say change whatever you want about your movie; but please make available the version of the movie we fell in love with.

There was a hasty and poorly implemented transfer of the LD's included as a bonus feature on a DVD release. No up-res so LD is the latest version according to moi.

And also a warm-up to see what ILM could do in Episode I. The people working on the SE pretty much rolled right into working on TPM when it was finished.

The gold standard set out by Syd Field in his famous screenwriting book is that for a 2 hour movie this is the breakdown: act 1 - 30 minutes act 2 - 60 minutes act 3 - 30 minutes

But of course rules are made to be broken and they're also adapting a novelistic story structure.

But now kind of curious to watch some of this writer's films and time out these 40 minute act breaks.

Weird that the surprisingly prevalent anti-vax, anti-safety measure crowd that's on HN hasn't shown up in this comments section yet.

There's like 30 ongoing threads right now about COVID.

But yes, someone getting sent to indefinite detention by the state is the same as someone asking you to mask up at the Arby's.