SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Facebook posts are peak 6 days ago:
After those clones are finished hammering on that generator, I guess they’ll get to work on building an oil refinery, and get that done within a week so they won’t run out of fuel for the generator?
If you were really about having that independence from society you’d have a bunch of solar panels and an EV.
- Comment on Canada should make the USA pay for this 6 days ago:
Ok and the US is #2, only behind China.
I think you’ll find every country has contributed to this problem.
The difference is was the the President of the US that blamed Canada for the smoke, refusing to recognize that Global Warming is the problem. The post you’re replying to is not from any Canadian official, it’s just a joke on a shitty web forum.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
I thought the context of this being in a thread about reddit being “absolute bullshit” about removing people’s ability to access the site would’ve indicated that I’m not actually not actually asking for help on accessing reddit.
I’m just providing another data point about how reddit sucks.
- Comment on Where has the "www." gone? 1 week ago:
Sure but even with load balancers, it makes a lot of sense to use subdomains to route data.
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 1 week ago:
And Cameron has made a bunch of movies about people on other planets. There’s the Avatar movies and some other movie he made in the 80s about aliens that I can’t remember the name of.
- Comment on Where has the "www." gone? 1 week ago:
Well it’s a subdomain. You could have www.example.com and ftp.example.com go to the same computer, or you could have a load balancer direct www to multiple computers. But it’s helpful for keeping stuff organized in your configuration to give them different names based on what kind of content and/or protocol they’re serving out.
Google does a pretty good job at this where it’s mail.google.com for gmail, www.google.com for their search, and if you’re logging into any google account, it’s something like accounts.google.com. That way you know which company you’re exchanging information with from the domain name, and the subdomain tells you which service you’re using. Helpful if you want to make sure it’s not a phishing site.
- Comment on The real Odyssey 1 week ago:
I prefer the version with George Clooney.
She R-U-N-N-O-F-T.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
Why should I change when it’s Reddit that sucks?
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
Can’t even access reddit at all with my VPN turned on now.
- Comment on The price of petrol is going up again here 1 week ago:
I’m just here for the gasoline…
Sorry, we only have petrol.
- Comment on The price of petrol is going up again here 1 week ago:
That guy with the assless chaps the other dudes kept on a chain? That’s just manly men doing manly things, totally not gay!
- Comment on The price of petrol is going up again here 1 week ago:
You may have an S&M fetish.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
- Comment on The price of petrol is going up again here 1 week ago:
Never skip leg day, bro.
- Comment on Which movie have you seen where an actor started as an extra prior to becoming famous? 1 week ago:
Here’s Harrison Ford’s first movie appearance:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAEF5G-YXg
According to Ford, the director told him he wouldn’t make it in the movie business because when a great actor is on the screen, you know it’s a great actor. Ford replied, “I think when I’m on the screen you’re not supposed to see a great actor, you’re supposed to just see a bellhop.”
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 1 week ago:
If people are paying money for movie tickets, they are purchasing a product. Yes, their opinion on a product they paid hard earned money for matters.
If admission to a movie were free, then I might agree with you. But if people are paying for something, then it’s a product. If anything it’s Hollywood assholes that have a screwed up sense of entitlement in this scenario. It’s just another instance of wealthy people not appreciating the people who buy their products.
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it depends on what you want from a movie. My favourite Siskel and Ebert review was for the third Inidana Jones movie. Siskel didn’t like it because there wasn’t enough depth to the father and son relationship. Ebert recommended it because, well you got to an Indiana Jones movie for the action, and the action scenes were good.
So I’m Ebert’s side on that one, because yeah I’m going there to see Indy on horseback go up against a tank. Sure maybe the father and son relationship didn’t have a lot of depth, but that was because their conversations kept getting interrupted by action scenes. Which is what I’m there to see.
So it’s not that Siskel was wrong, I just don’t care about what he was criticizing on that one. If it were more of an arthouse drama kind of thing, then I would care about his criticism. But the discussion indicates the father-son parts of the movie weren’t bad, just there wasn’t a lot. Too me there was enough of that for an action movie, so it’s a good movie.
Hearing the different perspectives meant you could decide which one you care about most and gave a better indication of whether you will like the move.
90% on rotten tomatoes? I don’t know what that means.
- Comment on They had to destroy him, for he had grown too powerful, and had forgotten his mission 2 weeks ago:
But Smokey can’t prevent forest fires by killing those people. Only YOU can prevent forest fires… by killing those people.
- Comment on They had to destroy him, for he had grown too powerful, and had forgotten his mission 2 weeks ago:
Wikipedia doesn’t mention it. Apparently the “the” was added because it fit the rhythm of a song, so the name “Smokey the Bear” became popular. Both get used frequently.
I’m sure there’s internet pedants that will come out of nowhere to correct anyone that calls him “Smokey the Bear” tho since apparently “Smokey Bear” is the official name.
- Comment on Can't wait! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah so these crazy people got into power and did some crazy things and everything went to shit. Now it’s all collapsed. Our options are:
- Try to restore things back to the way they were before the crazy people got into power.
- Let’s put a different group of crazy people in charge!
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 2 weeks ago:
Kinda why Siskel and Ebert was popular back in the day. Siskel approached criticism as being about trying to encourage film makers to make better movies. Ebert was about indicating whether he thought the audience would like the movie. So they would debate. One of them or both would often be wrong. But from the discussion you could get an idea about whether it’s a movie you might enjoy.
There just isn’t anything like that now. You’re going either hear someone tell you it’s the best thing ever, or it’s the worst thing ever. Someone will review it as if it’s supposed to be art while someone else will tell you if it’s got good action scenes in it. These will all be ones or zeros that are added up to produce a rotten tomato number. We don’t even really know what perspective someone is reviewing something from.
You’re right, it’s all subjective so there’s no way to know whether you’ll like a movie until you’ve watched it yourself.
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 2 weeks ago:
Toy Story is 100%
What does that mean? Does it mean it’s the best movie ever made? Nope, it just means everyone at least kinda likes it. It’s Toy Story, it’s a good movie. Though I wouldn’t say it’s the greatest movie of all time. Just a decent movie.
The way the scoring works means that if everyone thinks a movie is better than average, the movie gets a perfect score.
If 75% of the critics think something was the greatest movie ever, while 25% didn’t like it, it’s a 75% score. It might be a movie you’ll think is the greatest movie ever too, but you might give it a miss to watch movie that 90% of the critics thought was just ok instead.
So if a studio is making a movie to try to get a good score, they will make it so it doesn’t offend anyone, and have it universally be considered ok. The way these sites measure movies encourages mediocrity and playing it safe.
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 2 weeks ago:
So people shouldn’t be allowed to talk about movies they don’t like?
- Comment on Apu sitting in the corner out of picture 2 weeks ago:
Yeah details are sketchy on this. But from what Matt and Trey have said it was only after the episode aired there was a problem, and it was probably CoS that told him he couldn’t be on the show anymore.
The episode where Chef is turned into Darth Vader kinda indicates it’s something like this if you read between the lines. Weirdly sad episode because you can tell Matt and Trey missed him and really wanted him to come back.
- Comment on Apu sitting in the corner out of picture 2 weeks ago:
I recall Matt and Trey said he wasn’t all that upset, he just wouldn’t take part in that specific episode. But then after the episode aired there was a falling out. But maybe he had a stroke?
- Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 2 weeks ago:
Used to mean awareness of inequality.
Now it’s just a lazy way to express dislike for pretty much anything.
- Comment on For those of you kicking it old school 2 weeks ago:
From what I understand, that’s not a super reliable way to avoid it. You pretty much have to cook your lettuce to kill it.
- Comment on Heh heh 2 weeks ago:
You don’t really own something if someone has the right to take it away from you.
- Comment on Heh heh 2 weeks ago:
If the housing market goes into the shitter…
… the renter pays less rent.
… the home “owner” still has to pay the same mortgage, and will continue to pay so they can eventually own the house (actually own it) worth a fraction of what they paid for it.
Unless you have cash on-hand to buy a house, you have to get a mortgage. So it’s actually the bank that owns the house, they just let you live there while you pay back a large debt.
The reason why houses are so expensive is because they are considered investments, not just places to live. That creates a politcal incentive to keep housing prices high because a lot of people will lose that “equity” if the price of housing decreased. Most of the benefits listed under home “ownership” centers around a house being an investment.
The boomers aren’t getting any younger, as more of them die, more houses go onto the market while the incentive for maintaining that equity for people that already own a house decreases. That “stability” thing listed as a benefit of “owning” a house may not hold true forever.
- Comment on Heh heh 2 weeks ago:
Unless you have enough cash to buy a house, the bank is making a profit margin on the mortgage.
- Comment on Gotta go sad! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m unhappy about all these slow mother fuckers that are always in my way.