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- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 6 days ago:
Yeah I was just reading a book that mentioned something Feynman said and it’s something I feel is true for me as well.
Don’t remember word for word but it was something like “Any subject is interesting if you look deep enough.”
I feel like Feynman and I could have a riveting conversation about knitting for 3 hours even though neither of us are passionate about it.
Those are the people I want to talk to.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
Oh I wasn’t aware. Each time I try to open a game before my Xbox connects to the internet, I get an error.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
Fuck that noise.
What happens if the car goes out of range from the internet? Does the car just lose power the same way I can’t play Gamepass games offline?
I already bought the car with the hardware in it. I will do what I want with it.
My next car will be a 1995 Honda. I’m so tired of being tracked all the time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t believe this story for one second.
Also that picture is designed to get a reaction. All that blood is from his nose. Not like they cut him up.
He was as probably talking shit and a child punched him.
- Comment on HELP HIM. 2 weeks ago:
For those who don’t know, this is how some labs use rats and mice when the are uncooperative. I don’t think the intent is to hurt the mouse, just to contain it briefly.
Not saying it’s okay or not okay. Just saying why it’s like this.
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 3 weeks ago:
To add to this:
Mid-Continent Library in the Kansas City Metro has the biggest selection that I’ve seen in this area. Idk about Wichita or St Louis.
You can sign up for the KC Library, Johnson County Library, and Mid-Continent Library card online if you live in an area it covers.
You can get a Johnson County Library card if you don’t live in that area, but you have to go in person to sign up.
There are also quite a few libraries around the US that will let you sign up regardless of where you live if you make a donation.
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 3 weeks ago:
I collect library cards like other people collect Pokémon cards. The more I get, the more audiobooks are available to me through apps like Libby.
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- Comment on Gen Z's 'overemployed' solution for a broken economy: 5 jobs and $3K per day. It's totally legal 1 month ago:
Elon musk is CEO of like 7 places. If they can do it, so can we.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 1 month ago:
Yeah I don’t get it here. I kinda get them not wanting to deal with porn when you can’t verify consent and age of the performers, but the games don’t make sense because there aren’t live performers to worry about.
Mostly that stuff annoys me on Steam because it’s always at the top when I’m sorting by trending/popular, but I don’t think it needs to be removed either.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The real answer is that it depends on your age. Probably also race and gender. People will react differently to each.
An older adult ready for retirement? Delightful!
A kid trying to be different and impress girls! Cringey.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 1 month ago:
Oh also, the zoning and type of property matters too. A strip mall has different requirements than an office or hotel. Obviously
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 1 month ago:
I’ll try to look some up today but I think it varies by lease and by loan. You can’t apply the same rules to a warehouse as an office as a grocery store. Also, big spaces are different than small restaurants. Might not be consequences for a Chipotle but there could be for a grocery store in the same strip mall. The leases negotiated between the landlord and the tenant also have to be approved by the lender.
The whole thing is called “going dark”, meaning they are still paying rent but not operating on the premises. It causes the borrower/landlord to go into something called “cash management”. They lose the ability to collect rents directly. It all gets sent to a special lockbox that the lender has access to. They use those funds to post the payment and other things like that. They send a portion back to the borrow for operating expenses then hold onto the rest. The borrower also has to pay cash management and bank account fees when this happens.
I remember there was a big fight at a shopping center near me because a grocery store wanted to move the grocery location and open a giant liquor store in its place but the landlord didn’t like that. I believe they ended up terminating the lease and a different grocery store moved in. My company didn’t handle that loan so I don’t know the details but I knew that the loan was likely the real reason for the fight.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 1 month ago:
Their mortgages have clauses that cost them when tenants are not operating onsite. It devalues restaurants and stores in the area. I’m not saying it’s right. It’s just how it works. Tenants have to do business on site during the lease if they pay fees and their landlords have to pay the banks.
Source: I work in commercial real estate.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
People who think they don’t like musicals love Disney movies.
- Comment on Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters 1 month ago:
I wish I could. Can’t afford to live anywhere else. I’m just doing what I can to make my community better. It makes me feel a little less hopeless.
- Comment on Anon has standards 1 month ago:
That’s because it’s an adjective. It’s like saying “I was talking to a black.” It’s icky and devalues people.
Ever notice how the same people the say “female” don’t also say “male”?
(Yes, I know female can be a noun, but in those cases, it’s typically in relation to live stock or in science.)
- Comment on Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters 1 month ago:
He also just took away funding for child abuse protection.
He cares more about professional sports than child sexual abuse.
Which is ironic because much of the MAGA platform is stopping pedophiles.
- Comment on Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters 1 month ago:
Missouri does this all the time. The laws here are so bad.
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 1 month ago:
I don’t think they have a good idea for ES6 and they know it’ll be a disappointment so they aren’t in a rush to put it out there
- Comment on we are creators 1 month ago:
It’s easy to see why people thought we would be a lot more futuristic by now.
- Comment on You can only bring back one. Which do you choose? 1 month ago:
I know some who still works for RadioShack in KS. It’s official RadioShack but also it’s its own thing. Idk maybe a franchise or something.
- Comment on European game publisher group responds to Stop Killing Games, claims 'These proposals would curtail developer choice" 1 month ago:
This entire argument is nonsense. With enough advance notification, all future games can be built with these rules in mind. If you are developing it in that way to begin with it’s not going to require any extra work.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If you have an iPhone and an Apple Watch, you can activate the camera remotely. I used it to take this picture of a quail. I set up my phone and put tomatoes out. Worked perfectly.
You can also see what’s on screen but you’d just look like you’re checking the time.
- Comment on Xbox is cancelling Rare's 'Everwild' and ZeniMax's new MMORPG IP as part of broader cuts — with 'Perfect Dark' impacted as well 1 month ago:
But wait….that would be I’m almost 40. Omg you’re right. Time moves too quickly!
- Comment on Xbox is cancelling Rare's 'Everwild' and ZeniMax's new MMORPG IP as part of broader cuts — with 'Perfect Dark' impacted as well 1 month ago:
It feels like they just announced it? Why did they even bother?
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 month ago:
Already up to 767K. It’s within reach.
I don’t live in the EU, but I’m keeping an eye on it. Fingers crossed!
- Comment on Hey.. 1 month ago:
This is how I rolled my car off the interstate.
(I’m fine!)
I was less than a mile from my exit and I thought I could make it. I was trying to hard to stay awake I ended up driving past several exists. Suddenly, I realized my eyes were closed and I wasn’t sure how long they had been like that. I panicked, afraid I would hit the median, slammed on my brakes and swerved.
Once that happened, I was alert and I knew I couldn’t stop the car from rolling so I let go and let it happen. Apparently, that’s partly why I wasn’t seriously injured. I didn’t tense up and try to brace myself. That and seatbelts/good safety design.
I was scared to drive for awhile but it’s fine now. Though, I never speed. I always pull over if it doesn’t feel right. By that I mean, if I’m tired, if there is bad weather, if my car isn’t driving properly….anything. I don’t risk it.
Other drivers seem annoyed that I’m going the speed limit but I don’t give a fuck.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
One of my strategies for voting on judges is looking up who in my state appoints them. Do I trust that person to appoint reasonable judges or not? I vote to retain and dismiss judges accordingly.
- Comment on Movies not starting when they are scheduled. 2 months ago:
I have been timing movie previews since August 2022. I was posting the data weekly on Twitter but I stopped using Twitter when the sale to Elon was finalized.
My Qualifications
I have a monthly pass that allows me to go up to 4 times a week. I also worked at a theater for 4 years, with part of that time being as a manager and projectionist. I have selected and put ad rolls on the film myself.
I go every Sunday morning. I started timing ads and previews before the movie started and logging them in a chart, but I am not a data analyst. I am just an annoyed theater patron.
Movie Previews and Ad Roll Lengths
Note: Most of my data is from seeing movies at AMC. I can’t guarantee every theater will be this way but theaters that use digital film distribution instead of physical film.
Ads ranged from 17 min to 31 min. Timing start at the scheduled showtime and start the moment the last ad stops and the film credits start.
If you go to AMC, the Nicole Kidman ad is always the last one. I stop counting as soon as she says “AMC Theaters, we make movies better.”
- You can safely go to the theater 15 minutes late every single time.
- Once, the movie started exactly on time with no ads at all, but that was two years after I started timing previews. This is an outlier.
- Newer movies have longer ads. Movies in the larger rooms have longer ads. IMAX, Dolby, Laser, Prime, and 3D/movies 4D have longer ads. For these movies, ads tend to run approximately 24-27 min.
- The longer the movie has been out the shorter the ad roll length.
- The studio/distributor behind the movie also matters. Indies and smaller budgets have less ads, but big studios like Disney and Sony have more. Studios like Searchlight and Focus can be deceptive as they are owned by bigger companies but they still aren’t as bad as said larger conglomerates.
TLDR: I tracked movie ad times for years and recommend showing up 15 minutes late.
