MajorHavoc
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- Comment on Panera founder says employees today aren't motivated by the idea of making money for shareholders: 'Nobody cares' 10 months ago:
As the old saying goes, “There’s only one winner in an IPO. His name is George. He makes bank on each one. Everyone else leaves the situation worse off, either immediately, or later, unless George tips them off when to sell.”
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino's 'Star Trek' Movie Would Have Been a "Balls-Out Hard R" Movie 11 months ago:
Indeed. It is, I daresay, fucking perfect.
- Comment on Jason Momoa Says the Future of ‘Aquaman’ Films Is “Not Looking Too Good” 11 months ago:
Oh, we’re getting a second one?! Sweet!
This is way more than I expected for “The Aquaman”.
I guess my brain is incapable of accepting this reality where Aquaman is this successful at the movies.
- Comment on Jason Momoa Says the Future of ‘Aquaman’ Films Is “Not Looking Too Good” 11 months ago:
So we’re learning that DC’s equivalent character to Aquaman can’t carry a movie free franchise?
What’s that?
DC’s version of Aquaman is actually the Aquaman? The one famous for being a the wet sidekick of the Justice League? They made a movie about that character?
And they were planning a second one?
And only the second one isn’t getting made?
Nice. Way to go, Jason Momoa!
- Comment on For thousands of years the smartest people considered gods, spirits, "the little people" and the afterlife to be a reality. What's wrong with us modern people? 11 months ago:
Narrator: They did not.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
I liked the big reveal, but I can see how it wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea.
Partial Spoiler
Normally when Trek is going to do a Trelane or Q story, it’s introduced early in the story. This was a weird left turn at the end, and leaves us wondering if any plotline later will also do so. I didn’t mind it in this season, because the season was so focused on about values and tradition, so I wasn’t expecting a hard scifi conclusion. Realizing they were ‘doing a Doctor Who’, wasn’t too shocking to me. But as much as I thought it fit here, it’s a weird way to resolve a Trek season, and I hope we don’t get that approach often.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
Yeah. Maybe too bold…I’m reconsidering my stance after some points were made about later seasons of DS9. Later DS9 seasons were fantastic.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
Here’s a controversial opinion for y’all: The season of Discovery with the broken remnants of the Federation examining how and if to bring back the Federation is the best season of Trek ever made, to date.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
I liked the crying alien. Trek is full of zany Q-like entities whose whims cause fallout for everyone else.
- Comment on Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024, dir Mike Mitchell) 11 months ago:
Had me at “Viola Davis”. I think she’s earned the right not to turn in a masterpiece with every performance, but I’m not sure anyone ever told her that.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Ooh. This would make a great tradition, here. Count me in.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 11 months ago:
Yeah. The interesting money seems to be on Thor. Could break either way. Place your bets everyone.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 11 months ago:
There’s a lot of generosity toward Thor in this thread. And I think that’s great, even though he’s going to rule Asgard someday, while his brother is clearly more qualified.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 11 months ago:
Yep. That’s actually what at least one version of Reed Richards does with the gauntlet.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 11 months ago:
Good point, technically. But… We all know Thor would be gone. There’s no way the rightful heir to the throne of Asgard is in their top 50% intelligence.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 11 months ago:
And given that they’d be at full strength they’d probably find a way to stop him and reverse things faster than they did in OTL
Good point. But I dunno. Thor is a big power loss, and unless Captain America gets a free pass for emotional intelligence counting, they’re short in leadership, too.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 11 months ago:
And that’s why Thanos should have made everybody half as large as they once were.
Holy cow. However intelligence is defined, you’re smarter than I am. That would have been a really short film.
…and I’m just realizing that universe would look pretty much exactly like those little kid Marvel Adventures shows…
- Comment on Why do phones come with SMS delivery reports turned off by default? 1 year ago:
It does sound rude. Yes.
- Comment on Why do phones come with SMS delivery reports turned off by default? 1 year ago:
No one seems to be discussing that when a spammer learns that your number is in active use, they add it to a list and sell it to other spammers, so you get a lot more spam (particularly robo-dialing).
This is a worse problem in countries with weak anti-spam enforcement for phones (cough - USA - cough).
I’m not aware whether spammers and scammers are using these message receipts to scan across random numbers ro build their robo-dial lists, but I would be surprised if they are not doing so.
If they are not already doing it, I guarantee they’re working on getting it to work for them in an affordable and convenient-to-them way.
For that reason, I keep message receipts off on my devices.
- Comment on The reason CEOs want workers to Return To Office is because they want you to quit 1 year ago:
I’m the best case, mentoring.
In the worst case, produce carbon dioxide, which the plants would need if they weren’t plastic and only in the central office thousands of miles away.
- Comment on The reason CEOs want workers to Return To Office is because they want you to quit 1 year ago:
I don’t think being fickle and being competent are necessarily linked.
Quiting when management makes a “fuck you” policy isn’t fickleness, it’s common sense, for those who can.
Job mobility and talent are strongly measurably connected.
“Fuck you” policies lose top talent.
It’s not an interesting discussion. Grab your popcorn and wait for the “find out” phase to come around.
And if you own stock, focus on mid-cap for awhile, beacuse the large-cap players are doubling down on “fuck around”.
- Comment on So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 1 year ago:
Yeah. A wise person checks their footing before kicking a chicken.
- Comment on Mike McMahan Calls On Fans To Help Keep ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ From Facing The Same Fate As ‘Prodigy’ 1 year ago:
I also rotate them quarterly, but since Paramount’s app has like 14 tracker libraries, it’s not part of my quarterly rotation.
- Comment on Patrick Stewart: Why I Stormed Off the Set of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ 1 year ago:
Neat.
Incidentally, Jonathan Frakes now directs fantastic episodes of television.
Many science fiction shows have had Jonathan Frakes direct just an episode or two, and they usually end up being favorites.
- Comment on Is a scientific lifestyle even possible? 1 year ago:
Those are celebrities. Don’t listen to them. You may want to Google a guide to recognizing nerds and geeks.
- Comment on Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It 1 year ago:
Great write-up.
Worth highlighting for team members:
“If I had to give only one bit of advice to anyone ever faced with an ultimatum from someone with power over them (be it an employer or abusive romantic partner), it would be:
Ultimately, never choose the one giving you an ultimatum.”
And for leaders:
“Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback. (An old dutch proverb)”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Should we lie down… Or put a bag over our heads?
- Comment on Will it ever get to a point where data is so over-harvested that it starts to lose value? 1 year ago:
The cool part is that we’re definitely going to see people paying top dollar for certified human generated data, that happens to be generated by an AI that can beat Captcha better than humans can.
It’s a tiny bright spot in this mess, but I’m really looking forward to laughing at someone for it.
- Comment on Will it ever get to a point where data is so over-harvested that it starts to lose value? 1 year ago:
Exactly.
Alternately, perhaps the algorithm knows me better than I know myself. Perhaps the humidifier I just bought is about to kick off a new hobby of collecting humidifiers. /s
- Comment on I have fire arms therefore you are wrong 1 year ago:
What a blessed timeline that must be.