TheMongoose

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[–] TheMongoose@kbin.social 52 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Andrew Fucking Wakefield can never suffer enough for everything he’s responsible for

[–] TheMongoose@kbin.social 26 points 7 months ago

Maybe I should at least reserve my real name on it…

*gets asked for mobile number

Nope, don’t care that much.

[–] TheMongoose@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's the ciiiiiiiiiircle of lif *gets eye scratched out

[–] TheMongoose@kbin.social 34 points 7 months ago (3 children)

More likely the D&D/fantasy version. Harry Potter called them “horcruxes”. Keep your soul in a box and whatever happens to your body, you can’t truly die.

But I didn’t know they were based on Jewish mythology, so thanks for that TIL!

[–] TheMongoose@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago

I’d assume they were still called “Woody” and “Buzz”…

[–] TheMongoose@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Nah, cows can't move that fast.

They can't fly either...

[–] TheMongoose@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

And none of this 'working from home' rubbish. If you're not infecting all your coworkers, are you even trying?

[–] TheMongoose@kbin.social 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

See, Disco had it right. Doctors wore white, compared to the navy blue uniforms of all the other divisions, including Sciences. Presumably during the war someone decided that your medic being conspicuously covered in blood gave a bad impression, that was downgraded to nurses (SNW Chapel) and the doctors wore blue (although the slightly lighter shade than science divison). Then later, nurses got blue as well (TOS Chapel). Or was Chapel a full MD by then? Not sure about that.

[–] TheMongoose@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm in two minds about that. One the one hand, yes, of course - as all the original COBOL folks die off, the skills will be even rarer and thus worth more.

On the other hand, if we keep propping up old shit, the businesses will keep relying on it and it'll be even more painful when they do eventually get forced to migrate off it.

On the other other hand, we know it works, and we don't want to migrate everything into a series of Electron apps just because that's popular at the moment.

[–] TheMongoose@kbin.social 41 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Hah. To swap eSIM on O2 in the UK, you have to order a physical pack that gets posted to you with the QR code in. There is no way to get the code to appear on a screen you can scan with your camera, or in an app on the phone you can transfer to the phone's eSIM manager. It's so dumb.

[–] TheMongoose@kbin.social 24 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Yes. The answer to this isn't to restrict what the NSA can do, the answer is to stop people's privacy being a legally tradable commodity.

[–] TheMongoose@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit, Troy Baker is doing an incredible Harrison Ford impression...

I'm dubious on the first person stuff, especially since they seem to have put a lot of work into recreating Ford's likeness. But I was dubious about Cyberpunk too, and that turned out OK, so what do I know?

Cautiously optimistic.

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So I thought The Creator was brilliant. I watched it in the cinema, thoroughly enjoyed it and was gobsmacked when I learned it's budget was only $79 million. It looks better than some films I've seen that cost three times that.

But apparently, while it may make that back, it's unlikely to even earn $100 million globally.

So the answer to the question of why Hollywood churns out the same shite over and over is that, currently, tragically, that is what the masses want to spend their money on.

And that makes me sad.

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