Cool shed-cinema idea here - it’s a bit of a bunny…
One would only hope that that is either air conditioned/heated or located in a temperate enough climate. I don’t see a wall unit.
Ye ski ranery sist hefir stper soni though tofwit hitbe in gspel led tha tway.
They didn’t want people to mistake her for some other Kira? 😉
Yes, Kira Nerys is the first person I thought of with it being spelled that way.
Maybe she originated from the Stargate SG-1 universe.
That would be Ke’ra
http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Ke’ra
Mala’s post made me wonder what the French are saying.
Nothing surprising, but a line in the newspaper LeMonde amused me, attributing the meeting in part to:
La rhétorique belliqueuse de Donald Trump…
Which sounds like it could mean (but sadly doesn’t) “the belly language of Donald Trump,” which is what I think may bring about peace.
“The bellicose rhetoric of Donald Trump…”
Enormous Verizon cell service outage in Oklahoma.
http://ktul.com/news/local/large-verizon-outage-impacting-service-across-oklahoma
I’m in an affected area, so I’m not sure whether to put this here or in the Bitching Thread.
Just saw it. I thought it was fun enough, though sometimes boring and pointless, but mostly harmless. And then Kira betrayed Han for fucking [first name] Darth [last name] Maul. I almost lol’d in the theater.
JEDIT: To clarify, Kira didn’t betray Han because he fucked Darth Maul… awk
Qi’ra*.
My grandfathers both died in their late 60s (this was over 20 years ago because I’m old).
Somehow both my grandmothers are still kicking around at 94 years old each.
Same, except one of my grandmothers passed away last year.
clarity is a very fair charge again
Plex, Inc. made sweeping, untested changes to their Plex for Android app (which accesses my media server). Not only is the new layout more clunky and less intuitive, but it’s so buggy as to be unusable in places.
The UI changes were annoying, but the bugginess was so bad I had to roll back to the previous version. I’m at least fortunate that Android lets me do that…
I like Plex Media Server when it works, but the company is often so bent on adding new features that they don’t focus enough on fixing bugs or whether said features are actually desired by the current user base. It’s annoying.
JEDIT: But I can’t just switch to something else because the alternatives suck worse than Plex for different reasons.
‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ actress Kelly Marie Tran deleted all her Instagram posts after months of harassment
Actress Kelly Marie Tran, who played Rose Tico in last year’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” has deleted all her Instagram posts after months of sexist and racist harassment online. She has not publicly commented on her reason for wiping her page.
As of Tuesday, Tran’s Instagram page was still visible, with the bio line “Afraid, but doing it anyway,” but there were no posts. Popular but unofficial “Star Wars” Twitter page “Star Wars Facts” tweeted Monday night “Kelly Marie Tran has deleted all the posts off her Instagram due to months of harassment she has received for her character Rose.” A request for comment from Tran’s representative was not immediately returned.
Tran faced racism and sexism online surrounding her casting in “The Last Jedi.” For instance, In December, someone edited the Rose Tico Wookieepedia page so that her name was “Ching Chong Wing Tong” and her home was “Ching Chong China.”
Tran wouldn’t be the first “Star Wars” actress to distance herself from Instagram because of harassment. Daisy Ridley, who plays Rey in the new trilogy, deleted her account in 2016 after facing criticism for her appearance and her stance on gun control.
In an interview with Glamour in December, Ridley said: “I posted a thing about gun regulations, because I was at an event in tribute to the Orlando shooting at Pulse. People weren’t nice about how I looked. And I was like, ‘I’m out.’ Simple as that. That is not what I signed up for.”
The “Star Wars” fandom has had a toxic and sexist underbelly that’s reared its head many times since Disney took over.
On Tuesday, the official “Star Wars” Twitter tweeted a “Happy Birthday” wish to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, and some fans were quick to attack her in replies.
I don’t think I would force someone (or even want someone), who told me they didn’t approve of my wedding, to bake my wedding cake. It would be easier to tell them to jump in a lake and then go find someone else to bake it. Give them a bad yelp rating or complain to the BBB or something. Taking them to court over it is too much hassle.
It’s clearly not about the cake.
Clearly, but for myself I wouldn’t give someone the opportunity to pee in my soup.
I don’t think I would force someone (or even want someone), who told me they didn’t approve of my wedding, to bake my wedding cake. It would be easier to tell them to jump in a lake and then go find someone else to bake it. Give them a bad yelp rating or complain to the BBB or something. Taking them to court over it is too much hassle.
meds I don’t want.
Why?
Medication helped me a lot after we lost our daughter. As did group therapy.
I don’t want to spend money on medication and I don’t want to be medicated. As for group therapy, I don’t know why I would want to be in a group with anybody, but especially not group therapy. I credit them for the business model though. You can see a lot more customers rather than one at a time.
Therapists are a waste. I don’t want to sit on a couch and pay some bastard hundreds of dollars to listen to me tell him about my childhood and then prescribe me some meds I don’t want. As for your “Happiness is possible,” line, that’s a gross generalization. It’s one of the really sickening attitudes that the public tends to have. I hinted at it in a recent conversation in the Politics thread, but such statements (or lies as I prefer to call them) insult me. They’re just vague bullshit lines that people can throw at others and pretend that they’re being helpful. Handman can, and should, do whatever the hell he wants; I was just making a suggestion.
Given that there are people who find more happiness than you believe is possible, I’d say it’s obvious that happiness is possible. I don’t know who finds total carefree bliss, but that’s clearly not what I’m talking about. This is about recognizing and living up to potential.
You must feel you have a really good reason for thinking it isn’t possible for you to become happier.
Happiness seems like a delusion to me, so I don’t find it appealing anymore.
Without some kind of assistance I don’t know how you can bounce back from that belief.
But even if you want to accept happiness is a delusion, why wouldn’t you choose that delusion?
I’m not delusional.
It must be an awfully easy thing to be under this delusion. How were you able to escape it? And what’s the value in [seeing life as it really is]?
I don’t like the assertion that focusing on awful things is more objective than focusing on positive things. There is too much information to process, and we play a part in our own stories. So I think that the idea that objectivity can exist regarding looking at life is rather arrogant, moreso the idea that being negative about it is the superior position.
Embrace dogshit.
You recently watched Freddy Got Fingered, too?
No. I’ve apparently blocked out most of it from my memory. The only part I remember is “Daddy would you like some sausage?”
All relationships are terrible and destined to be a disaster because they involve people, and people are the worst.
I’ll have you know that I love my daughter beyond reason, and I am her favorite person in the whole world.
There is a lot to be said for the positive emotional benefits of deep, meaningful relationships.
So you really do need to seek help.
Yeah but I don’t think he wouldn’t have noticed that right away. Therefore, he’s probably not talking about that, dollface.
I have no idea what you’re talking about, kitten.
Embrace dogshit.
I’m glad we’re getting the wood grain back. But Atari games are still dirt cheap. I can get an original Atari and a couple dozen games for half the price of this new one. So, if that’s all it’s offering, I’m not too interested.
Apparently there are new games as well as classic ones; online leaderboards; online multiplayer; social media capabilites; Bluetooth controllers…
But yeah, if the price dropped by half, I’d consider it. JEDIT: I say “consider it”, but the truth is I don’t have a NES Classic or SNES Classic. I’d much rather have Virtual Console for Switch.
I think maybe they were making an example of her. Like, people in the future might think twice before making racially-charged (or other such) statements at the risk of getting dozens of people fired from the project they’re involved in. Because apparently the fact that her show was doing well didn’t matter, and if they all lost their jobs, it’s on Roseanne not the producers.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atari-vcs-game-stream-connect-like-never-before-computers-pc#/
I would buy it, if it didn’t cost over $300 (for just the wood console and two classic controllers).
Hey nathanjame.
Once access to a private platform becomes a requirement for visibility and success, does the platform have an obligation that goes beyond its own financial interests?
I believe so. I actually think the government needs to enforce the 1st Amendment on all of these monopolistic speech platforms. A lot of people are, rightfully so, fearful of the government censoring them, but then turn a blind eye to corporations being their overlord. I want neither. It’s why the presidents of the progressive era, Teddy Roosevelt mainly and Taft to a degree, broke up all those trusts and monopolies that were making life intolerable for most Americans. Wilson even nationalized the railroads. Conservatives struggle a lot with this argument because they simultaneously want to proclaim that they’re somehow victims of censorship when their worldview allows for the corporate overlords to censor them.
Also, to be clear I was talking about the people that want to censor the game or have it removed but they don’t care about gun control.
The government cannot and should not enforce the 1st Amendment on private parties. That itself would be a violation of the 1st Amendment. It would be no different than forcing book publishers to print books they’re opposed to. The publishers themselves have a freedom of expression that encompasses the works they publish and choose not to publish.
I agree with your book publisher example, but imagine if there was only one book publisher with any kind of audience. That’s essentially what Youtube is, or Facebook. And book publishing is totally different. That actually requires printing copies and advertising. Youtube and Facebook and Twitter are just platforms.
Imagine if there were only one book publisher. The best thing is to go start your own publishing company. Not force that company to print what you want them to. And what do you mean by “just platforms”?
Obviously no one can start a competing Youtube at this point. Any such attempt would be delusional. I mean they’re just platforms because they’re in no way obligated to do anything other than be a platform for the videos or the speech. They’re not responsible for advertising a video or producing or printing anything like a publisher would be.
It’s certainly possible to start a competitor to YouTube. The idea that it’s YouTube only and forever is delusional.
Because blip.tv (which is now defunct) was so popular compared to Youtube. Or like Google+ is so popular compared to Facebook.
Ridiculous. You’re completely ignoring the effect market share can have on the success of a competing product or service. It’s like saying someone should build their own app store if they don’t like Google Play or Apple’s App Store. As though new customers would just come out of the woodwork when they’ve already invested so much in the other service.
To acknowledge that Steam or Youtube have basically cornered the market on their respective services is not delusional. There are competitors to Steam. But Steam is still by far the biggest dog in the yard, and for good reason. No one is saying “only and forever”, but to assume they don’t have near-monopolistic influences on their markets is rather foolish.
demonization is more than justified.
Roseanne is straight up racist.
I don’t know. She said something racist. I don’t know if that makes her racist.
Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
I just think, that with the exponentially increasing ability for stupid people to say stupid things in a louder voice atop a higher soapbox, it is unwise to assume that they are all just words and have no impact on others. I don’t want these people to have an audience. All they do is add further decay to the culture. You guys might say (and have said) that just because I don’t like something, that doesn’t mean it should be censored for all. Okay, granted that. But I don’t think just because we have freedom of speech, that inherently gives such speech any value.
I’m just tired of people of influence having a whole field of f*cks to give that is perpetually barren regarding how they negatively impact those who respect and listen to them.
Sure Cosby’s actions are unquestionably vile. But to say that people who say the things that (for example) Alex Jones says are lesser crimes because they are not physically destructive nor overtly psychologically destructive—to say that, overlooks how powerful words can be when they come from the mouths of the right people.
So no, I do not give talented people a pass for being shit just because they contribute something to the arts.
