andrewrgross
@andrewrgross@slrpnk.net
- Comment on meme 1 day ago:
I definitely hear it from time-to-time. I often probably hear it without knowing it’s her. I heard that song “It’s me… HI. I’m the problemitsme. It’s me: Hi. everybody agrees…”
As you can tell, it kinda got in my head from repetition a few times, and I didn’t know it was hers until long after I’d heard it.
But I don’t listen to much music overall. I sometimes pick up CDs from the library to burn to my computer, but I don’t listen to Spotify or the radio, so I miss a lot of stuff.
- Comment on meme 1 day ago:
Can you think of the coolest thing that you found out about later that you’d dismissed while it was popular?
I can’t think of something I actively talked down, but I remember watching Star Trek (TNG) for the first time in my mid thirties (about four years ago) and thinking, “Boy, if I’d known about this while it was on, I’d probably have been obsessed with it.”
- Comment on meme 2 days ago:
In what reality is Taylor known for making bad music?
I don’t really listen to her stuff, but I’ve heard it and none of it sounds off-putting. I’ve also never heard anyone who likes music complain that her music is unpleasant to listen to.
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 1 week ago:
Thanks for this clarification!
- Comment on I just heard about Brazilian Butt Lifts which is a procedure where they take fat deposits from somewhere on your body and place it in your butt? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I don’t recall the details. What I shared was my best recollection. I think what you said sounds reasonable, but I can’t reliably say.
- Comment on I just heard about Brazilian Butt Lifts which is a procedure where they take fat deposits from somewhere on your body and place it in your butt? 2 weeks ago:
Hi. I’m not a doctor, but I can opine as a biologist.
The transplanted cells have blood vessels, because all cells need a supply of oxygen to avoid expiring. If they didn’t have a supply of blood, they’d quickly turn necrotic.
When you deplete your short term energy stores, the body converts fat molecules within fat cells into sugar, then shuttles those through the body in the blood stream.
The body doesn’t draw on fat stores within the body in a totally even way, so I don’t know how quickly it would draw from the transplanted cells, but it works presumably still burn fat from these cells when needed.
And the reverse is true as well: when excess sugar is available, the body would generate new fat molecules to fill those cells, and if necessary make new fat cells as well.
- Comment on Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled 1 month ago:
The answer is disappointingly pedestrian, I think: it’s where the clicks are. What’s he supposed to do? Post it on Vimeo and ask people to support him on Patreon?
No conspiracy needed. Lemon doesn’t have anywhere else to go.
- Comment on Made this for my mum's birthday (we're both trekkies) 1 month ago:
This is awesome!
I know it’s natural that your eye can’t help but pick up defects, but overall it looks great, and each project looks a bit better.
- Comment on Mars After Midnight (Launch Trailer) by Lucas Pope 2 months ago:
The trailer looks fun, and the description even more so.
- Comment on We need another rebellion 4 months ago:
My kid is there. When something goes wrong he’ll say “oh NO!” Which can’t be typed in an Oxford accent but trust me you can hear it.
Other Peppa-isms include the use of the words “silly” and “naughty”.
This manifests in phases like, *“Oh NO, silly Andy!”
- Comment on We need another rebellion 4 months ago:
No complaints
- Comment on Aaron J. Waltke: "Prodigy has cracked Netflix Top 10 lists in six different countries and counting." 4 months ago:
That makes no sense. Is it still in production? It’s it the only one in Netflix?
- Comment on Aaron J. Waltke: "Prodigy has cracked Netflix Top 10 lists in six different countries and counting." 4 months ago:
It’s on Netflix? I thought Paramount only put Star Trek shows on Paramount Plus?
- Comment on Matthew Vaughn Quit ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’ Over Fake Script Written for Halle Berry: ‘I’m Out of Here’ 6 months ago:
What’s to wonder? We have a credible source. Is there anyone credibly denying it?
- Comment on Bike Riders of lemmy, you okay with me riding my eScooter in the bike lane? 7 months ago:
It’s not ideological or personal. Cars are just a terribly inefficient mode of transit with a lot of negatives. They cause a lot of preventable deaths, they take up an excess of land, and they limit our ability to move around and enjoy cities.
- Comment on What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world 7 months ago:
Someone can have a big impact on history and not be worth celebrating.
The thing I think about all the time is that I think our holidays should have a point. Labor day celebrates the accomplishments of workers and encourages us to adopt their best traits: industriousness, teamwork, determination.
Independence Day is supposed to inspire us to be grateful for the courage showed by the founders who seceded from Great Britain, and model their (supposed) virtues, such as liberty.
Thanksgiving is supposed to celebrate harvests, gratitude, the kindness of strangers, etc. There are certainly problems with the history it exhalts, but it makes sense.
Juneteenth is a celebration of diversity, the achievements of black Americans and of abolitionists, Memorial day is about military valor and sacrifice, etc.
Columbus Day just makes no sense. Even if we ignore that Columbus was a monstrous person hated even by his peers,… what exactly is the point of the holiday? Columbus isn’t known for any particular virtue at all, and the discovery of inhabited Caribbean islands by a Spanish-financed Italian explorer has no clear meaning for us as Americans. It barely has anything to do with us.
- Comment on Bike Riders of lemmy, you okay with me riding my eScooter in the bike lane? 7 months ago:
Not only do I agree on the basis of everyone’s safety, but I WANT to see crowded bike lanes. Because eventually, I’d like bike lanes to replace cars, and outgrowing infrastructure is a basic part of expanding and changing it.
- Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ 7 months ago:
Distribution is simply too easy to be entirely dominated by established studios like it was before.
When you say this I feel like you’re explaining how competition in healthcare is providing incredible choice for patients at incredibly low prices. Because what you’re saying sounds very reasonable in theory, but just doesn’t seem to match up with the reality we’re living in.
- Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ 7 months ago:
I apologize, but the case was made to be in a long and very compelling article that I don’t have a link for.
I think it was about consolidation, and how the lack of diversity in small independent theaters and small independent distributors robbed movies that weren’t copies of successful films the chance to become surprise hits.
Now, most theaters are chains, and they’re largely owned by the same entities that own distributors. So everywhere shows the same films, and there’s no one to take a chance on something different or risky.
- Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ 7 months ago:
That movie sounds dope.
As for the other part, I love comic book movies, but still agree. I think he might get more agreement if he reframed it as a complaint about homginization. For instance, I think The Batman was surprisingly fresh. Whereas the Flash was like… high end tv, maybe? Like, not BAD, but you’ve gotta ask: how many people will watch it five years from now? What ideas or artistic images is it introducing?
I think some comic movies --Black Panther, for instance – move culture and inspire new stories. But a lot don’t. I’ve heard it said that the modern studio system could never make Back to the Future or Ghostbusters, and I think that’s true. A lot needs to change about how these are financed and distributed to make that not the case.
- Comment on Tale as old as time 8 months ago:
I came here to post this. I remember someone insisting it was like casting Gary Coleman as Two-Face.
Although the response wasn’t as strong, there were fans who were also convinced that Robert Downey Jr. was a poor fit for Tony Stark.
- Comment on Blue Beetle Certified Fresh after 97 Reviews 8 months ago:
I think the headline is deliberately misleading. The use of “97” makes a casual reader think it was rated 97 percent fresh. An honest headline is “With 97 reviews in, 2/3rds are positive.”
- Comment on Blue Beetle Certified Fresh after 97 Reviews 8 months ago:
I think the better question is “is it useful”?
A good review is just meant to let you know where or not you’ll be glad you watched it if you do. Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic are meant to let you assess whether you identify more with those who liked it or those who don’t.
I think Metacritic is a bit better, and it’s clear that this movie isn’t for everyone, but I will probably like it. I think Blue Beetle is a cool character, and this seems like a good vehicle for that character.
- Comment on HBO Orders Marvel-DC Parody Series ‘The Franchise’ From ‘Succession,’ ‘Veep’ Writers 9 months ago:
Good luck ordering anything during a strike.
- Comment on Paul Reubens, Creator of Pee-wee Herman, Is Dead at 70 9 months ago:
That’s a shame. I had no idea he was 70.
It’s weird: 10 years ago I would’ve said, “Well, 70 is a good long life, right?” But now I have parents that age and it doesn’t feel that old.
- Comment on Well, well... What do we have here? 9 months ago:
It’s an ass hole.
- Comment on A comic from Lunarbaboon 9 months ago:
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WTF.
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What the actual fuck. Christ.
- Comment on A comic from Lunarbaboon 9 months ago:
THANK YOU.
The joke about red shirts makes no effing sense any more. It hasn’t made sense in over thirty years. I’ve never watched TOS, I started with TNG a couple of years ago, and I remember thinking during the first season (as a new arrival to the fandom giving it an overdue watch) that the jokes I’d always heard about red shirts were confusing, because random deaths were not that common on the show. People died occasionally, but the trope of unnamed crew members being killed unceremoniously to convey stakes did not appear in TNG, and I couldn’t help but notice that captain Picard himself was wearing this supposedly cursed color.
It makes me so frustrated to see this lazy, lazy, lazy zombie joke that just won’t go away.
- Comment on Barbenheimer is cinema’s most seismic moment in a decade 9 months ago:
I think the ideal arrangement is one of choice, where you have the option to enjoy movies in isolation and I have the ability to show up to a crowded theater and pay $25 dollars for the experience of having people ask to take a picture with me because I’m wearing a homemade costume made out of shipping boxes to see the fifth reboot of a film adaption of a cartoon adapted from a line of '90s toys.
- Comment on Barbenheimer is cinema’s most seismic moment in a decade 9 months ago:
Matt Stoller has a good article on how vertical integration led to this situation, but I gotta go to bed. The article talks about how Back to the Future and Ghostbusters couldn’t be made today, if anyone wants to go looking for it. It’s very good.