procrastitron
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- Comment on "[Hopefulness] is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion."' 1 day ago:
I’m glad I took the time to watch that. That was wonderful.
- Comment on White House Says “No Final Decisions” Have Been Made on Movie Tariffs, Still “Exploring All Options” 1 week ago:
Translation: he posted incoherent nonsense and once anyone with half a brain looked at it they had to explain that it was completely impossible.
There’s no such thing as a “tariff” on intellectual property. Tariffs are a tax on bringing physical goods into the country.
There’s no physical good being brought through a port of entry for foreign made movies, so claiming to put a tariff on that just shows that you have no idea what tariffs are.
- Comment on If you're a broke vampire, just say that 1 week ago:
There’s also “Dracula Daily” which starts at the same time and is a great way to micro-dose the novel.
- Comment on 'Madame Web' Outstreamed 'Deadpool & Wolverine' in First Weeks (Despite Flopping in Theaters) 3 weeks ago:
Madame Web wasn’t actually bad.
It wasn’t good either, but also wasn’t bad.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Get one of your professional contacts to honestly evaluate him.
You can’t objectively evaluate him since he’s your kid, and any advice he hears from you will be subject to scrutiny since you’re his parent.
If you’re right then your message will be more believable from a third party, and if you’re wrong then they will hopefully catch that.
Either way, you are right to try to set him up for success; that’s your job as his parent.
- Comment on This letter from "Friends of Zion" my grandmother received today 2 months ago:
I assume the highlighted region is meant to call out the fact that they’re claiming a metaphorical expression isn’t being used metaphorically.
Yes, that’s incredibly stupid, and yes the entire letter is pro-hate propaganda.
However, I think it’s important to also call out something else about the phrase “wiped of the map”…
It’s an English language idiomatic expression.
Idiomatic expressions are language specific.
When you see a quote attributed to someone speaking Farsi, and it includes English idiomatic expressions, you can be fairly certain the translation is complete bullshit, and whoever created the translation is trying to manipulate you.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 5 months ago:
It’s the format used in large parts of Asia.
- Comment on Margot Robbie Baffled Over ‘Babylon’ Flop and ‘Still Can’t Figure Out Why People Hated It’: ‘I Wonder If in 20 Years People’ Will Be Shocked It Bombed 5 months ago:
This is literally the first I’ve ever heard of it.
I doubt I’m the only one and I’m sure that at least contributed to the problem.
- Comment on Covfefe 5 months ago:
Use one hand to scoop and use the fingers on your other hand to count to ten. Then you don’t have to remember.
- Comment on Inaccuracies 8 months ago:
Try bending at the first finger joints instead of at the knuckles.
- Comment on Inaccuracies 8 months ago:
I don’t bother to fold my fingers all the way when I do it. All you need is a binary on/off, so just bending any discernible amount is sufficient.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
No, they wouldn’t.
They would exist outside of our universe (since they created the universe), so the rules of physics in our universe don’t apply to them.
Even if the reality they existed in had something equivalent to atoms, it would be inaccurate to call those “atoms” since they are in different realities.
- Comment on This person's rejection reason 1 year ago:
Age is only a protected class if you are 40 or older.
- Comment on Invincible Season 2 coming Nov 3 1 year ago:
The production cycle for animation is ridiculously long and writing is at the very beginning of it. It’s possible that all the writing was done long before the strike started.