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by justin66 23d ago
> His sister (at his behest??) decided to lean into a smaller number of projects for his money. And didn't do any of the obvious things one might have done if they wanted to preserve the museum's existence, like finding a buyer
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by justin66 1mo ago
This is definitely not the first printed edition to omit those chapters. There’s a story there and I don’t know what it is.
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by justin66 1mo ago
The book entered the public domain since I looked into it. Fun!
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by justin66 1mo ago
The last I checked, it was weirdly difficult to buy a copy of Last and First Men and be certain you were getting the complete book as it was intended to be read by the author. Oddly, this article is "adapted from Matthew De Abaitua’s
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by justin66 1mo ago
I saw a photo of him sitting down in a very concerned about data centers interview and the thing that struck me was that his wheelchair was visible. This represents a change in his style. (if he thinks it's going to make him more sym
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by justin66 1mo ago
Spending money is necessary but not sufficient to fix this sort (or literally any sort?) of big problem. I hope you don't think San Francisco having spent a lot of money on the problem (the $100k per person figure in isolation is decep
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by justin66 1mo ago
My first thought is, I'm not certain their homeless are different in their behavior, but based on what little I know, I'm rather certain their non-homeless are. I'd expect disruption or damage to a public space of the kind th
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by justin66 1mo ago
> I guess if you don’t have a massive population of antisocial people who destroy the public facility, you can provide them. It’s a shame we in the west surrendered that. What a weird way of stating the problem. There is too large a popu
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by justin66 1mo ago
He almost always played a thug or heavy, and so I'm not sure what other film of his could have ranked higher than this. His scene sitting across the table from Holden is classic. I don't remember him playing a heavy in The King i
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by justin66 1mo ago
Yes. Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford didn't publicly agree on whether Deckard was a replicant for decades, but of course there's nothing wrong with part of a film being left open to interpretation. The "Deckard is not a replic
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by justin66 1mo ago
It’s the fact or otherwise of someone having carried raw meat in their luggage that I’m questioning, not the fact of customs officials caring about food moving across international borders. I’ve had fruit confiscated at a border, but meat i
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by justin66 1mo ago
> people smuggle it in their luggage Really?
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by justin66 1mo ago
It’s just about the only comic relief in the film. Possibly it’s acted that way deliberately.
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by justin66 1mo ago
> I think Scott shoe-horned his change in after the fact The effect used in at least one indoor scene, in which Harrison Food is filmed with his eyes glowing like the other replicants, is an in-camera effect and the decision to use it wa
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by justin66 1mo ago
> sensible friends, family and neighbours The trouble is that we need a majority.
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by justin66 1mo ago
> Because unless it’s convincing enough that republicans also agree, then it’s death spiral. So what you're saying is that the Republicans would become an angry party consisting of those who embrace impunity for their politicians re
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by justin66 1mo ago
> As someone who's very well informed on that corner of financial markets, you probably realize that China controls much more than $660 billion of US Treasury securities. How much do they control? Please cite your sources. I can fin
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by justin66 1mo ago
I’m sure smart and well intentioned American leaders will act for the global collective good, since that’s totally the way things work now.
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by justin66 1mo ago
Just Googling here: 10% of China's holdings would be $66B. Daily trading volume for US Treasuries is $1.2T. The most the Fed has ever held on its balance sheet is $5.8T. Maybe I missed a zero somewhere but China's sale of 10% of t
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by justin66 1mo ago
It's a schooner!
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by justin66 1mo ago
You're totally right, at this moment he must be seriously reconsidering his career as a politician.
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by justin66 1mo ago
I played with the first, somewhat buggy version and what I remember very vividly was that they introduced a second version (and charged for it) without fixing the first one.
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by justin66 1mo ago
> They're in stock on Amazon.ca for goodness sake. I'd expect extremely high prices buying them this way.
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by justin66 2mo ago
Characterizing technology whose presence or absence will affect the survival of a lot of people as a “bandaid” is not going to advance the dialog in the way you seem to want.
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by justin66 2mo ago
I think we can all agree that if we just stop talking about climate change, maybe it will go away.
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Taxpayers Funded a $533M Artillery Plant That Made Nothing(propublica.org)
11 points by justin66 2mo ago|3 comments
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by justin66 2mo ago
> they're going to have to start selling future chips that cannot possibly be physically produced. …but that would be unethical. cue the laugh track
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by justin66 2mo ago
> Quake Live has held it down since 2012-ish, and was always a free-to-play game. They had subscriptions for a while.
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by justin66 2mo ago
> a C64 with "the commodore name" printed on it It's really not mysterious why something like that would find an audience, even if it's not everyone's cup of tea. Their beige C64 Ultimate is a well-executed clone
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by justin66 2mo ago
> For the most-dominant military power in the world to "whoopsy" run out of weapons because of a low-stakes engagement isn't readily believable. Wow, yeah, you'd need to have morons at the top of the chain of command

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