Steve
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- Comment on Jesse Eisenberg Says Lex Luthor Role 'Hurt My Career in a Real Way' 16 hours ago:
The newest Lex Luther in Superman & Lois, did a great job. That worked. The writing for his character had some questionable choices. They made him very fragile and pety. Wasn’t so much a fan of that. But the actor nailed it.
- Comment on questions about sex toys: would it be a bad idea to fully insert a vibrating egg in my bum? 17 hours ago:
As an XRay tech, I have taken an image of a butt-plug (with flared base) that got lost up there.
I don’t know what was involved in getting out. But the docs did get it out before asking for another image 7 hours later. - Comment on ‘Section 31’ Director Says The Streaming Movie Is A New Flavor Of Star Trek… With A Surprise Twist 1 day ago:
I never mentioned good or bad.
I don’t really care if something is “good or bad”. I only care if I like it or not. - Comment on ‘Section 31’ Director Says The Streaming Movie Is A New Flavor Of Star Trek… With A Surprise Twist 2 days ago:
the stakes are as profound as any that we’ve seen
That’s not a selling point. I’m truly tired of world ending all the time. What’s wrong with smaller more personal stakes.
- Comment on Superman | Official Teaser Trailer 3 days ago:
I’m pretty sure Superman Returns did.
I think its the only one since then. - Comment on Is it ethical for a parent to distribute inheritance based on the child(ren)'s mental capacity (aka refusing to give an inheritance to child(ren) with reduced mental capacity)? 5 days ago:
If we’re not talking actual cognitive disability, like needing to live with some form of caretaker. Then that’s kinda fucked up.
- Comment on How do I search for this part? 1 week ago:
I think you may have misunderstood what I meant by inverting the mount. You need to invert the camera with it.
Then you can easily point it down, away from the sky.
The camera should automatically rotate the video for you. Even if it doesn’t, that’s super easy to do in any editing software. - Comment on How do I search for this part? 1 week ago:
I’m assuming you can’t invert the mount on the helmet. Reverseing the can so it’s higher but pointing down may work without any new parts.
If you can invert the mount, that may be the best.
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 1 week ago:
That’s what I was thinking.
I’m pretty sure FUTO isn’t the only one either.
This doesn’t seem like new tech. - Comment on I washed my black underwear and now one of my black socks looks brownish on one side. How do I return the sock to its original black? 1 week ago:
None of that will help. We’re way past that.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 weeks ago:
American social media platforms creating an environment where propaganda and misinformation flourish and refusing to take action against it has the same net effect as TikTok altering internal algorithm.
Targeted intent vs general apathy is a massive difference.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 weeks ago:
That could be. It sounds plausible. Do you have any studies?
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 weeks ago:
What intelligence agency?
NCRI is a social media research group. - Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 weeks ago:
Lots of people think the US social media platforms do that. But none of the scientific studies have been able to show it.
The US companies are all purely driven by engagement, to maximize profit. The most effective source of that engagement, changes from person to person. But it’s most commonly what you might call “Rage Bait”.Twiter’s recent bend toward the right, is primarily self selection of it’s users. As the left… left… the platform, the pool of available content shifted right; Causing even more to leave. Unless you have some paper I haven’t seen.
And Facebook selling data, is entirely different and unrelated. Nobody (no lawmakers) care about that.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 weeks ago:
Yah whatever happens TikTok will not be leaving the US market.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 weeks ago:
Not quite. TikTok has been shown to tweak their algorithm against criticism of China.
- Comment on Discussion - what is the last movie you couldn't finish? 2 weeks ago:
my opinion of [that half of] the movie is completely valid.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 weeks ago:
Again. Not a TikTok ban. A ByteDance ban.
If BytDance sells, TikTok stays. - Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 weeks ago:
Truly free markets suck. The inevitably become dominated by a small number of monopolies, who fuck over everyone else as hard as possible every day.
- Comment on Discussion - what is the last movie you couldn't finish? 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t know how it ends, your opinion is necessarily incomplete. You can only speak to the portion you’ve seen. There’s no real way around it.
- Comment on Discussion - what is the last movie you couldn't finish? 2 weeks ago:
Never happened.
If I start a movie, I’ve already organized things so I have nothing else to do. So why not finish it?
- Comment on Disney's Snow White | Official Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Feel strongly about what? I haven’t heard how widely inb4 applies this idea?
At this point I’m just curious. - Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 weeks ago:
But they aren’t all made by slave labor. You only have to spend 3-5x as much. Not a problem if you buy %80 less clothes.
- Comment on Disney's Snow White | Official Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Yes it is a fact. It happens all the time, every culture does it. It’s never really a problem at all.
I would bet though, that @inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world doesn’t like it when American adaptations of Japanese stories, have a white star cast in the lead. That’s why I asked if they applied that logic universally.
- Comment on Disney's Snow White | Official Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Would that logic apply to traditional stories from all cultures around the world?
- Comment on Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension? 3 weeks ago:
Perma-ban started being used because people began using Ban when meaning something temporary.
- Comment on Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension? 3 weeks ago:
That makes sense. Thank you for giving an actual answer.
- Comment on Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension? 3 weeks ago:
Dark humor is a lot like food.
Not everyone gets it.Just stateing your claim again isn’t a valid argument.
- Comment on Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension? 3 weeks ago:
There isn’t a predetermined end point with hunger. No timer. That’s the difference.
- Comment on Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension? 3 weeks ago:
Here is a little bit of muddiness. If there is no clearly defined end of something, is it permanent, or temporary. I would argue, since nearly everything changes and virtually nothing is permanent in an absolute sense; Permanent can only reasonably mean, no predetermined end time. Hunger has no defined amount of time. It may in fact last until death, making it quite permanent from the point of view of the individual experiencing it. So hunger in fact would, for the purpose of a definition, be permanent.
