IphtashuFitz
@IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tom Cruise's "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8" production has been delayed, again, due to submarine malfunction— budget said to be nearing $400M. 4 weeks ago:
As an old school M:I devotee I couldn’t agree more. I still watch the original series fro time to time and thoroughly enjoy it.
I also cringe at the mental gymnastics over the plot of this new 2-part movie…. You’ve got an evil AI on board a Russian sub that tricks the crew into torpedoing itself. The crew all dies but the AI survives onboard the sunken sub. And despite being stuck on a blown-up sub at the bottom of the ocean the AI is still a serious global threat. On top of that a two-part physical key that is the only thing that can disable the AI somehow made it off the sub and everybody is scrambling to find them. Once the keys are recovered somebody (clearly Tom Cruises character) will have to get onto the sunken sub and destroy the AI.
Why doesn’t the US or UK just go shoot a few more torpedoes at the sunken sub and obliterate the AI once and for all? The need to suspend so much reality for this plot drives me nuts.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 1 month ago:
Saw Queen perform with Adam Lambert a few months ago. They played one or two pieces written by Brian May that really tied those two professions of his together. It blows my mind that he’s worked with NASA and the like quite a bit over the years.
- Comment on Worried about being "red flagged" by the pharmacy; should I take the rest of my script back? 2 months ago:
You only get flagged as a drug seeker for drug-seeking behavior.
Exactly. My wife and I take a mix of Sudafed & another medicine when we have bad colds. The active ingredient for them is pseudoephedrine which can be used to make meth, so our state requires ID and limits how much you can purchase a month. On more than one occasion we’ve purchased the maximum we could in order to stock up before cold & flu season. Never had any issues doing so.
- Comment on This fucking scourge, when you own a business. Even if it's the top result in a search in your area 5 months ago:
The company I work for is mainly an internet presence with a valuation in excess of $100 million. The number of emails we get offering somewhere around $5000 for our domain name is absurd…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Guess what I’m doing for 45-60 minutes each day while NOT driving to/from an office…
- Comment on A robot just swapped my electric car's battery 6 months ago:
Does the car warranty extend to cover the replacement battery just as if it was the original battery? Given an EV battery is a pretty significant part of the cost of the entire vehicle I wouldn’t trust a swapped battery unless the manufacturer made it very clear that they would treat it as if it was the original battery if any issues arose with it. The last thing I would want is to have to fight with Tesla or whoever if the replacement battery fails and they claim it’s not covered by their warranty.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 7 months ago:
The Tesla supercharger network is very reliable. My wife & I drove from Boston to South Carolina last year with no issues. I think we found one plug that was damaged & unusable but there were 8 or more others at that location that were working fine.
Were also approaching 2 years on our Tesla home charger and no issues at all with that.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 7 months ago:
Do Bolts support DC fast charging? Because that’s how Tesla Superchargers operate.
If they do then you would need an adapter from NACS to CSS and you’d also need to set up a Tesla account. Superchargers are “automatic” in that they read the VIN of the car when plugged in and use that for billing. I believe Tesla is now supporting non-Tesla accounts but haven’t looked into it at all…
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Came here to say exactly this. Gaff tape is made out of a cotton cloth material. This is clearly plastic, so duct tape, which is very different.
- Comment on Neighbour deliberately blocking OP 7 months ago:
Yeah but then you’re even more stuck because now the truck is stuck as well…
- Comment on I believe science but I don't understand science. Does that make me religious? 8 months ago:
Here’s the thing about science: If you had the ability to purge all knowledge of all science, written, in people’s memories, etc. then over time we woul relearn it all pretty much exactly the same. It may take centuries, and what we know today as Pythagoras’ Theorem or Einstein’s theory of relativity would likely have different names for them. But the underlying science behind them will be 100% identical once they are “re”-discovered. Everything we know today about math, physics, electronics, etc. will eventually be relearned.
The same can’t be said for any religion. Wipe out ALL knowledge of all religions and new ones will spring up with completely new stories to try to explain beliefs to groups of people.
- Comment on I believe science but I don't understand science. Does that make me religious? 8 months ago:
I certainly don’t have an understanding of how many aspects of science works but I trust it. I trust all the science that goes into making my car operate safely. I trust the science that makes my smartphone and the internet work. I trust the medical science that cures my dad of cancer and healed my brother after a bad accident. I trust all the science involved in providing safe food and water for many millions of people.
I’m also an atheist.
- 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? 8 months ago:
I think it largely depends on his definition of “dumb”…. Given he’s already committed to wiping out half of all life, I’d consider his mental facilities to be of questionable already. His idea of who is dumb may be similarly questionable…
- Comment on What show took you the longest to get into? 10 months ago:
Breaking Bad. Watched the first 10 minutes or so of the first episode then gave up on it for over a year. Eventually gave it a second chance and couldn’t binge the whole thing quickly enough…
- Comment on ‘Barbie’ vs ‘Oppenheimer’: Which Movie Got Better Reviews 11 months ago:
The AMC theaters around me have been running a similar “movie theaters are great” promo featuring Nicole Kidman pretty much since they reopened after the pandemic.
It’s such an annoying promo that frankly it turns me off from going to theaters. I’m happy to wait for most movies to get to streaming (and/or piracy) for the convenience of watching when I want and to skip all their self-aggrandized promoting of themselves.