And yet you'd never heard of the Transformers before you saw the Michael Bay movies. I guess you were 11 or 12 at the time?

I'm told she's had some well-liked stories.

Still, James Gunn seems to have this obsession with pulling up C-list characters from the comics and putting them in central roles in movies. For a lot of the running length of Superman, it was a movie about some guy named Mr. Terrific that nobody's ever heard of. I assume this is because he wants to tell new stories, rather than rehashing the same old origins and motives for characters that everybody's known about for years. But it's not the same as actually introducing new, appealing ideas; these characters are C-listers for a reason. Nobody cares.

Haven't seen the movie, but I've heard it's not just that ... she also apparently spends a lot of the movie not seeming to believe there's much urgency to the situation at all. That has a way of hamstringing the idea of a "ticking clock" plot.

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I don't want edit, I want a browser grammar checker that's all client side.

The rates are bad, we don't focus on using the least bad estimate we produce, and we stave off crisis to a degree with mediocre public assistance programs which struggle to cover needs for lack of funding but which really amount to can-kicking. That's better than nothing, but still leaves us poised for disaster. If Cheeto Benito successfully terminates these programs (as he has been trying to do, and he has successfully been interfering with them) then the looming crises become immediate not quite overnight, but in literally more 10-30 days.

This is completely stupid. There can't be a copyright violation obviously.

or as Max Planck wrote "Aus nichts läßt sich nichts folgern." - No conclusion can be drawn from nothing.

Thanksfully the Max Planck society supported the Berlin Declaration on Open Access.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Fascinating, when could we read the scroll?

There are also lots of artefacts from the last century lost. Video games from the 1980s.

One could recreate music by optical 3D scanning shellac records and combining different prints to eliminate the noise. The quality gets better. Just image a new scan of Metropolis negative with current technology Or Robert Johnson even better than in the Centennial edition..

Today I'm mostly avoiding working on cars, but I do have some ongoing projects and they suck. I can't wait for "every" vehicle to be an EV, which isn't practical for me now, but hopefully will be in the future. But I really don't want everything phoning home with information about me constantly. That information could be used against me, so I don't want it to be collected. Nothing prevents it here except opting out by not buying the whatever-it-is, but sometimes you need the thing.

As vehicles age, they tend to get first cheaper but then more expensive to maintain, so just staying in the past forever isn't realistic. It would be nice to have some options without the constant oversight.

So you have been up close to the towers on ridge lines and you still think they have generators? You're lying about literally everything. Typical coward shit.

Whatever, Russian bot.

Anonymous cowards don't get to get treated like humans.

The difficulty of the job is based pretty much entirely on two this, difficulty of removing electrical connectors and ease of adjustment or lack thereof. The door itself has to meet crash standards so it has to have stuff in it. Therefore most aftermarket doors are for off road use only.

There is no "merely paying" in capitalism. That's literally what it's all based on.

Oh look, modded down by a clown, it must be a day that ends in y.

I know the tower near my home that I normally get signal from doesn't have a generator because it went out after the batteries ran out when we had our last quake, and Verizon promised to bring in a generator but didn't. They wouldn't need to bring one in if it were already there.

I know the tower near my work has a generator because I can see it. I could poke it with a stick through the cyclone fence.

There's a bunch of trolls on here who are mad that I know things. It's very fucking weird.

TBH I don't get it. Google was literally known (back when people cared) for being massively Linux-based. Then when they make their phone they ruin everything about Linux and then gradually un-ruin it

Apple is participating in the creation of the AI bubble. So yes, it is Apple's fault, in part anyway. Why do people give Apple a pass on behavior they hold Microsoft accountable for?