RoidingOldMan
@RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's your favorite Steve Wood role? 1 week ago:
The Reservoir of the Dogs
- Comment on The Chicken of Hormuz 2 weeks ago:
“It will be an easy Military Operation for them”
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 weeks ago:
Another example of the ‘gone native’ plot line in the wake of Dances With Wolves. Pocahontas had the advantage of Dances With Wolves coming out first. So it smoothed some of those edges. s/ Maybe it’s more based on Pocahontas than the Best Picture winner /s.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 weeks ago:
But in Vietnam.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 weeks ago:
There was a YouTube trend of making Avatar trailers with the audio but then using the graphics for movies like Fern Gully and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001).
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 weeks ago:
Ad Astra (2019) is Apocalypse Now (1979) but in space.
Avatar (2009) is Dances with Wolves (1990) but in space.
- Comment on Could my daughter, who is a lawyer, defend my son’s girlfriend, who killed my cousin’s family in a DUI accident? 2 weeks ago:
Is there any chance the daughter would be on the witness list or be deposed? Because I think that’s the line where it would stop making any sense. A judge isn’t gonna want one of the lawyers on the witness list, because then do they cross examine themselves? It would require a 2nd lawyer for at least those parts.
- Comment on How do Superheroes or villians get their suits on is there like a magical zipper or something? Or how do they do it? 2 weeks ago:
The Flash keeps his suit inside his ring. Clark Kent wears the Superman outfit underneath. Batman is night time only. Wonder Woman has an invisible airplane to change in if she needs to, but mostly she just dresses like that.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 2 weeks ago:
There is a conflict still. First, you want unfiltered confession meaning no moderation. But then you don’t want it to become a safe space for criminals, which would require moderating. If you don’t moderate the content, it’ll quickly take on a life of its own and that won’t be the helpful thing you’re imagining.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 2 weeks ago:
There are so many ways for this to become incredibly toxic and unhelpful, my first thought is it could become a support group for all types criminals/abusers to share tips and tricks anonymously.
At least the Catholics and therapists have someone there trying to steer things in a helpful direction. Like maybe you could tweak this idea to anonymous therapy rather than anonymous confession, and then people could view people going through therapy online and maybe find helpful tips for their own lives.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 2 weeks ago:
If a room becomes toxic, people simply stop entering it.
How would this have stopped 4chan? People still go to those toxic message boards.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 2 weeks ago:
What would stop it from becoming 4chan?
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 2 weeks ago:
The Catholics have had that for thousands of years. So maybe there is something to it.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not disagreeing with any of that. But I feel like the hard line for me is if he’s officially running for a 3rd term. That would be the only line left to cross.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 3 weeks ago:
The last several wars didn’t have a draft.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There’s always a chance someone screenshots the page before you delete or edit, but seems like doing both steps improves the chances of it being fully inaccessible later.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if it really deletes it more completely, but first edit your post and replace it with a period and THEN delete.
- Comment on Subtitling a video, what is this sound called? 4 weeks ago:
It’s something played backwards.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Right now, and for the last 10 years or so, seems like Russia is in control of much of the political narrative. Since the internet unified the world, I definitely feel more of the Russian influence than before.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 4 weeks ago:
Here are images of the moon’s surface where you can make out details like rover tracks.
- Comment on What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it? 4 weeks ago:
Some families are much more connected to their home country than others. Americans 3rd gen and beyond often have very little connection. The issue is where Irish culture is distinctly different from Irish-American culture, Italian different than Italian-American. You can’t go “back” to the home country and fit in. It’s not the same.
- Comment on An old excuse 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 4 weeks ago:
Without cars there would be A LOT more people on the sidewalk. In the past, before cars, there were so many more people on the street it’s not even funny.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 4 weeks ago:
So why was NOW the time? What’s the USA really gaining here with these strikes?
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 4 weeks ago:
It seems naive to think that you could accomplish regime change with only air strikes? America tried occupation, tried training Afghanistan, none of that worked.
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- Comment on Good point 5 weeks ago:
Enough people that he got AIDS?
- Comment on Good point 5 weeks ago:
Dude live a pornstar life and then he cured AIDS.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
Does your friend consider themselves on the left or the right side of the graph?
Any graph like that where it puts their own beliefs as ‘smart’ and others beliefs as ‘dumb’ is inherently a pretty useless graph.