friend_of_satan
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- Comment on Favorite B-Movies? 3 days ago:
Bloodsport is one of the few movies with footage filmed inside Kowloon Walled City.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 days ago:
This is interesting. I haven’t heard somebody use “Apache” as a reference to httpd in a long time due to the rise of nginx and because Apache.org does so much more than just httpd.
But I agree. Apache httpd 0.x was one of the softwares that first showed me how much better Linux is than Windows. IIS at the time was an insecure confusing monstrosity. I wonder if it still is.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 1 week ago:
All my coworkers. Full volume.
- Comment on Val Kilmer, Actor Renowned for Receding Into His Roles, Dies at 65 3 weeks ago:
Madmartigan!
- Comment on Movie theaters are trying everything to bring audiences back — from pickleball to cocktail bars 3 weeks ago:
It’s like a dream come true. When I was 7, I went to see Empire Strikes Back at a local theater in Sandusky Ohio, and as soon as I walked in and saw all the posters and smelled the popcorn and saw the theater lighting, I thought to myself “this would be absolutely perfect if only I could play pickleball.” Ever since then, whenever I feel like playing pickleball, I go to my local movie theater. It’s just astounding that there has not once been a pickleball court. But now the day has come. Finally we are getting something so obvious that it’s a wonder it’s taken so long for it to come into being. Pickleball in movie theaters. Because when I think of movie theaters, there’s nothing I want more than to play pickleball.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 3 weeks ago:
Can you explain why it’s not possible to stabilize the voltage on the receiving side before the power is sent to the battery?
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 1 month ago:
[Tadamasa Goto’s] claim to infamy was alledgedly ordering a hit on the esteemed Japanese film director Juzo Itami in May 1992. Itami had directed a film called Minbo no onna, which, unlike all previous yakuza films in Japan, portrayed the yakuza as money-grubbing, ill-mannered louts, not noble outlaws. Goto was not pleased with the film and especially disturbed by the implications that yakuza did not live up to their threats. On May 22, five members of his organization attacked Itami in the parking lot in front of his house, slashing his left cheek and his neck, inflicting serious injuries upon him. Itami became a vocal supporter of the new anti–organized crime laws the Japanese government put in place that year and a general pain in the ass to organized crime. He was a living symbol of what the yakuza really did, not what they pretended to do. He allegedly killed himself a few years later by jumping from a tall building.
Tokyo Vice, chapter 21
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 1 month ago:
I think about this most times I eat ramen, and I eat ramen a lot.
- Comment on Hexagons Are The Bestagons. 1 month ago:
I thought so too until I read this www.boristhebrave.com/2021/05/23/triangle-grids/ which touched on my biggest gripe with hexagons:
When working with hexes, you quickly realize their edges are a huge pain. They don’t line in a straight line! That makes it impossible to subdivide the grid with a line. You cannot build a big hex out of lots of little ones.
Triangles solve that. Squares also do not have that problem. Triangles work better on the surface of a globe than squares though.
- Comment on place yer bets 1 month ago:
Thankfully I live in the USA where we’re totally safe because we reject science! But don’t you try coming here for safety, we hate everybody else. You’ll probably just be sent to gitmo.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 months ago:
The ad bubble needs to pop.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 months ago:
I live in a northern border city. What benefit should I be on the lookout for?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This person obviously hasn’t seen Cars 2.
- Comment on US Department of Labor to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under rescinded Executive Order 11246 2 months ago:
No. The truth is much worse. He knows what he’s doing.
- Comment on I'm a fan 2 months ago:
When I worked in a city with a warm climate I liked it. Now that I work from home in the suburbs and a cold climate I hate it.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 2 months ago:
I love how this so closely mimics nationalism and its assumption that somebody came from somewhere else.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 2 months ago:
Just join in. That’s what speakerphone is for.
- Comment on Please create a non-secure password. 3 months ago:
Which is ridiculous because it’s going to hash down to the same character set. There’s no way they’re storing your password with special characters unhashed, right?
- Comment on Not enough people buying Premium, eh? 3 months ago:
“Enhanced” bitrate? I’ve heard of high bitrates, and I’ve heard of low bit rates, but I ain’t never heard of no enhanced bitrates. Does Google know something we don’t, or do they think we’re suckers. (Rhetorical question, don’t answer.)
- Comment on Can the public expect to get to see Luigi Mangione's 3 page manifesto in its entirety in a reasonable timeframe? 4 months ago:
I missed a lot of he’s already on #3
- Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing 4 months ago:
I think you’re right. I was imagining what a meeting of executives would be like in the wake of this, and I can just see them continuing to follow the almighty dollar, because that is the one true incentive that all others lead to. Anybody who proposed taking a hit to revenue to be more moral would be fired by the board.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 months ago:
The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. CS Lewis - Screwtape Letters (preface)
- Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing 4 months ago:
If you’re going to quote that you should quote the rest of it:
but almost always from health complications or accidents. A targeted attack could have much larger implications.
They’re not begging for sympathy, they go on to talk about the effect this act will have on the health insurance companies, which is what we all want to see.
- Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing 4 months ago:
Ex US attorney Preet Bharara says that an important boundary is when a fantasy “graduates”, going from protected free speech to credible threat.
- Comment on Gnorts 4 months ago:
We can be heroes. i.imgur.com/hdT6mQm.mp4
- Comment on I just watched the wrong version of Drive (2011), and didn't realize until the last 10 minutes. Any similar stories? 4 months ago:
This happened to me with The Godfather in the Italy scenes.
- Comment on Please Disable Your Ad Blocker 4 months ago:
“Disable your ad-blocker” is the internet’s “hey kid, want some candy?”
- Comment on Is there any point for current US-based "skilled immigrants" to stay in the US? 4 months ago:
Immigrants often have families in their new country. You can’t think about those people as individuals because they would likely stay for their family, which would be hard to move.
- Comment on rollin' deep 4 months ago:
Skaters of the world unite!
- Comment on Great except every delivery estimate at every point said Friday, November 22 4 months ago:
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.