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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix's CEO says movie theaters are old news. Director Rian Johnson says his next movie belongs there anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Man who’s income relies on people seeing movies on his platform wants other platforms to watch movies gone, more at 11

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The courts have no mechanism to enforce their decisions except the executive, so there’s no check on the executive misbehaving if Congress decided to not remove him from office for ignoring the courts, and since Congress is complicit nothing will be done unless some radicalized shooter aims slightly more to the left next time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neutronium would like a word.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you stuffed that box with neutronium then:

  1. Funny event: it’s so dense the Earth itself is basically a thin gas in comparison and it immediately falls through the floor, the ground, and the mantle to oscillate around in the core.

  2. Funny other event: It’s so massive it dominates gravity nearby and everything within a couple of meters gets turned into Cool Physics from aggregating onto an incompressible box really fast and hard. Maybe the nearby atmosphere ignites from being compressed into plasma against the box.

  3. Real physics step in and the neutronium immediately decompresses and the mass equivalent of an inland ocean in neutrons and angry high-energy high-mass decay products sterilizes everything through to the horizon with a gamma ray burst, also triggering massive seismic events from the blast as well as killing everything on Earth since the atmosphere is now radioactive and a lot thinner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Mulling Ban on Hollywood Film Releases in Response to Trump Tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank goodness they’re taking the politics out of movies!

  Takes a billion dollars to portray the US military as really cool and badass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Go to an indie theater screening of The Room or Rocky Horror. People interacting with the movie has been a thing for decades. People were shit-talking to the characters on stage during Shakespeare’s plays during his lifetime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He actually does say “First we mine, then we craft. Let’s Minecraft!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dr Angela Collier has done a video essay on why aliens won’t be silicon-based. She’s not a biologist but an astrophysicist but the focus of her video is mostly about how carbon chemistry and cosmic abundance is better suited to producing life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frog's Gift⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Moon landing line is a pretty important thing to study, actually, since we know what the rehearsed line was: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Without that “a” it’s a very silly line.

  Armstrong for years claimed he said the line right and that it must’ve been garbled in the radio transmission, and in recent years has been vindicated as better signal:noise algorithms processed the recording and found the missing word. Researchers aren’t blowing money to find out if Armstrong was a liar, they’re using it to develop more sensitive receivers, better transmission protocols, and more advanced algorithms to parse signal out of noise, all of which have massive impacts in other domains. An algorithm that’s better at parsing data out of noise in particular is going to be useful in loads of places like MRI machines where improving resolution will take billions in research but improving parsing is just updating the software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, there’s a significant amount of oil infrastructure locally. They’ve even got a colonialist extension with Canada: crude oil crosses over to be refined and sold back to Canada

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s two kinds of conspiracies:

  1. Ultimately antisemitic nonsense

  2. Admitted to by the government thirty years after the fact

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History”⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The government is entirely on her side

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushroom ID⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eastern North American Destroying Angel. Half a mushroom is enough to completely destroy your liver and symptoms show up too late to do anything about them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Netflix's One Piece good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just how anime is shot I think