Black Widow and Bucky? It’s gonna be one of those multiverse plots isn’t it?

It certainly can pay more.

Weeds are often more nutritious than straight grass.

Southern culture even made it local cuisine, out of economic necessity, like poke(weed) sallet.

Similarly, I can’t imagine someone started eating collard greens because they tasted better than more standard vegetables.

The d symbol for the English penny, comes from the Carolingian denarius, the smallest denomination in the currency of Frank King Charlemagne’s empire, which became the model currency for several European currencies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny

Snafu and Fubar are WW2 acronyms used as slang, there are many other acronyms in the same family, and new ones that have been added since.

Radar is also a WW2 acronym.

Nice!

There’s usually some way to watch livestreams.

For sports, there’s apps like Sopcast, Acestream, Kodi, Veetle, also any number of dodgy streaming websites that change all the time.

Hmm, good question, and a quick google later:

Chinese EVs may not have to pass USDOT crash tests, but they do have to pass Euro NCAP crash tests, and Chinese NCAP crash tests, which are similar.

And a lot of them did quite well in that regards.

And and they also have to pass however Canada does crash tests as well.

I remember initial critical reception to Star Wars in 1977 was mixed

But it was a wee bit successful at the box office anyway.

I’m not saying MK2 2026 is Star Wars 1977, but there’s nothing new about there being a divergence between critics’ review scores and audiences speaking with their wallets.

That’s where the late famed movie critic Roger Ebert excelled: He was a serious movie critic who also knew when to have fun watching a movie.

Re: Mouth guards

Many years ago, my dentist advised me to have him make a mouth guard to protect my teeth.

I didn’t do that, thinking it wasn’t needed.

About 10 years later, these last few years, I have had root canals, tooth extractions and expensive dental implants on my rear-most molars.

The oral surgeon showed me an X ray of my teeth in those areas: My molars were ground flat and were cracked because I grind my teeth so hard because of snoring/apnea, and probably stress.

Take some advice from someone who has experience: Get the fucking mouth guards.

And look into getting fitted for a CPAP machine:y dentist said it helped somewhat with the grinding, but it wasn’t a cure-all in the end for my teeth.

I haven’t noticed any difference from before, but my wife has stopped nudging me awake to get me to stop snoring.

Temu Darth Vader

😂

How well does AI perform compared to human corporate executives?

That’s where the real salary savings could come from.

Snoring, medical term apnea, is a medical indicator, placing you at higher risk of serious medical conditions such as diabetes, strokes, and heart attacks.

Your life insurance rates go up if they find out.

My wife snitched on me to my doctor, I had a sleep study at a clinic, and now I use a CPAP machine when I sleep, which supposedly helps.

Edit: Oh yeah, and snoring/apnea is linked to grinding your teeth, which can lead to root canals, tooth extraction.

Not fun or cheap.

The greatest danger is spam invasions overwhelming human mods, and infiltration of AIs and trolls attempting to influence thought, even in this relatively tiny space, just because it’s open and free.

It’s really an event for local Trekkies.

Of course STIV is set in San Francisco, so therefore there should be some good stories about the filming here.

Some stories about the filming of Meyer’s Time After Time, which is also set in San Francisco, which is a nicely worked promo piece for the event.

The Prequel memes work because everyone has seen those movies, not because the Prequel movies themselves were good.

Never heard of the connectasong /c’s but I like it!

It turns out there are 2 of them:
!connectasong@lemmy.world
!connectasong@reddthat.com

The latter is not too populated though.

There’s a ton of music by the decades:

!1950smusic@lemmy.world
!60smusic@lemmy.world
!70smusic@lemmy.world
!80smusic@lemmy.world
!90smusic@lemmy.world
!2000s_music@lemmy.world
!2010smusic@kbin.earth
!2010s_music@lemmy.world
!2020s_music@lemmy.world

Put 'em all together, and there’s a decent stream of music.

A couple of people post music every day on their own channels, I don’t know how they keep it up:

!crimeschneck_music@sopuli.xyz
!KinguNowPlaying@sopuli.xyz

As commercial as Star Wars ever was, there was a message of “scrappy scruffy rebels triumphing over the Evil Empire” that was at the heart of its popularity.

IMHO, of course.

They used that to sell endless toys and crass merchandise, and made tons of money.

But along the way, Lucas, and doubly so for Disney, put their heads up their asses and believed it was all the exotic designs, and spaceships, and special effects, and fights, and and and and that was what made Star Wars Special, instead of a simple inspiring message that good can triumph over oppressive evil.

Modern Hollywood doesn’t know how to make a good movie anymore.

It’s not Hollywood just “doesn’t know”, it can’t, period.

When modern Hollywood movies are financed, by banks, there is a risk assessment: The stars, director, script summary, etc are put into an algorithm to minimize the risk that the movie will bomb and that bank loan will be repaid.

The result is that only the movies that are approved for production loans are those that roughly match all the hit movies that came before it.

The result is a system that can only make the same fucking movies, with the same fucking old man stars, directed by the same octegenarian directors, because they’re designed to please the financial algorithms as much as…, you know, audiences.

It’s like a roundabout way to get AI slop: Hey this movie approved by the algorithm made money, so let’s make copies of that, instead of new ideas, or something that’s in tune with the times for which there is no precedent.

Incidentally, this type of algorithm is also used by popular music producers to find hit songs, which is why all modern pop music sounds the same.

Tl;dr we were better off when the Mafia was in charge of financing movies because at least a real human with good taste could decide which movies got financing, instead of an algorithm.