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- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 month ago:
Is that simply a reference to it going over budget? I never got that joke.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 month ago:
That’s not how IMDb rating works. It’s just an aggregate based on the number of users voting on it. It’s basically useless at distinguishing a stinker from a watchable weeknight movie from a masterpiece. Rotten Tomatoes attempts to address this imbalance with a weighted scheme, which usually works better for well-known movies.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 month ago:
Same, not for Taxi Driver, but for The Deer Hunter, Chinatown, Life is Beautiful, Amour…
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 month ago:
Art is subjective (and most people are philistines)
- Comment on Fruit Flies 2 months ago:
Inflammable means flammable?! What a country!
- Comment on Fruit Flies 2 months ago:
They’re generally called vinegar flies, and they don’t infest fresh fruit like fruit flies do when they lay their eggs in fruit.
- Comment on Gen Z is actually taking sick days, unlike their older coworkers. It’s redefining the workplace 3 months ago:
Brutal. There is a world beyond the American dystopia, you know.
- Comment on EUROBEE 6 months ago:
Apis mellifera is a much better pollinator for most cultivars produced by agriculture around the world, so it’s been introduced into East, South and Southeast Asia too.
Also, you’re not accounting for species uniqueness, which is highest in Australia/NZ/PNG, southern Africa and parts of South America. These places also have native bees that are outcompeted and outright attacked by Eurobees.
The truth is complicated, but also simple - this invasive species we tolerate and even introduce because it massively benefits food production for humans.
- Comment on EUROBEE 6 months ago:
Varroa mite has entered the chat
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 7 months ago:
They worked out four-crop rotation during the agrarian revolution in the 18th century, they haven’t let fields lie fallow since they worked out they coyld be rejuvenating the soil with crops like turnips that could become horse feed…
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 7 months ago:
Borlaug’s green revolution of the mid-20th century did lead to a rapid reduction in famines across Asia and Africa…
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 7 months ago:
They might just be in a better climate than you! I had far more delicious sun-ripened tomatoes over the summer than I could eat. More than six plants to be fair, but most self-seeded anyway.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 7 months ago:
It depends how you measure it, and what counts as ‘polluting’. Does broad-scale habitat destruction count? Because there’s a lot more of that in industrial agriculture. Also yields are prioritised over quality, so you’re literally not comparing apples with apples if you’re getting local heirloom varieties from nearby orchards, compared with apples grown in the PNW for the broader market and kept chilled until ready for sale. These are generalisations of course and there are staple crops that are much more efficient when produced with broadacre cropping.
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 11 months ago:
Nice one
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 11 months ago:
The phrase is “free as in SPEECH/beer”, because it doesn’t make sense to say “freedom” - especially since that has all sorts of other connotations, especially in the USA. Everyone should be able to understand that free speech doesn’t mean a speech that you listen to at no cost to yourself. It means the ability to express yourself without censure. And beer… everyone understands that, and who doesn’t love free beer?
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 11 months ago:
I think what happened is that someone typed “google” into Google, and broke the internet.
- Comment on Chrome thinks Firefox is unsafe! 11 months ago:
*knows
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 1 year ago:
Returning to a feudal economy is a sensible idea, lighting with renewable materials, making hay while the sun shines and executing traitors is much more productive than playing games
- Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from? 1 year ago:
Cum and sine in Latin, same meaning as con y sin
- Comment on 'Wildly more expensive': Workers with in-office jobs spend about $31/day that they wouldn't working from home — here's what employers need to do 1 year ago:
It really means the bosses can’t preside over a culture of fear quite so well if people aren’t cowering outside their offices seeking their attention. They like to be the centre of attention and work being done remotely makes them feel just as meaningless as the rank and file workers.
- Comment on Michael Caine Announces Retirement From Acting 1 year ago:
By dame, is by cocaine.
- Comment on Am I strange for not loving Everything Everywhere All At Once? 1 year ago:
Asian leads in a big budget Hollywood movie are a big deal for people who never see people who look like them on screen. That’s where most of the hype came from - excitement (some of it manufactured and emphasised by media outlets to show they understand the value of progressive representation) from fans about a movie that has a lot of Asian, and especially Chinese, cultural references.
The movie was a bit wacky but I feel it squandered a lot of good, silly ideas by lingering on them too much, and trying to tie it all together at the end in some coherent theme. It felt like the producers overrode the creatives’ control over the project because the producers have been doing it longer and ‘know what sells’. So many movies are ruined by creatively bankrupt executives desperately trying to make themselves relevant and killing a project as a result.
It was hardly the best film of the year, and it didn’t reach the potential it might have if corporate interests hadn’t stomped on the imaginative ideas at the heart of the story. However, it was financially successful and won Best Picture, so maybe the next time they have a big-budget Asian movie it will be more like a Stephen Chow film and less like a formulaic money-maker aimed at the lucrative Chinese market, a la Shang-Chi. It’s a good thing the movie was made, even if it wasn’t that great in the end.
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 1 year ago:
My cousin calls and asks if I want to go bowling.
Would be weird since my cousin is dead
- Comment on Why cant the Middle East just chill out? 1 year ago:
Cain disAbeled his brother…