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2 days agoIn reference to books words->minutes of film
Peter Jackson’s movie version of The Hobbit (in three parts and clocking in at a full eight hours) is an outlier, spending five minutes per 1000 in visualizing that story
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15·6 days agoI’m going to assume it’s Gary Indiana after reading this article. They had a huge storm with 99 mph winds
https://chicago.suntimes.com/weather/2026/08/19/gary-power-outage-deadly-storms
It’s wild was the New York Post and various other publications would just repeat this guy’s talking points and call him a postdoctoral researcher or some s*** like that. Dudes made a great living being racist. Bonus thumbnail
7·11 days agoFor the low price of 59.99 you can have the 11 year old Black Ops 3, or maybe you want to save some money and buy the 15 year old MW3 For 39.99
Digital game store breaks traditional supply/demand curves. Their supply is functionally infinite.
It definitely has happened, the Ford model T went down in price by more than half from $780 in 1910 to $290 in 1924.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T
Nothing like that is happening here. This is a move to reduce competition, which has never lowered prices.
DO NOT speak for me!
I did not say anything about Mr. Arday, and I don’t intend to. Just pointing out how the racist adjacent publication breathlessly publishes the words racists say without context.
NYPost is a garbage source. They quote Nathan Cofnas and refer to him as a ‘post doctoral researcher’, yet say nothing else of him.
In a blog post from 2024, he claimed that black people were, on average, less intelligent than white people. Such statements have alarmed some academics within the department.
Cofnas identifies himself as a “philosopher of biology” and advocates for what he calls “race realism,” asserting that meaningful biological differences exist between population groups. Critics argue these theories lack credible scientific support and have historically been used to justify racism and eugenics.
That’s a cartel
A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collaborate with each other and avoid competing with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market.
I don’t disagree that paypal is shit, but saying “No one uses it anymore” is flat wrong.
PayPal processed 6.0 billion transactions at a 7% decline in Q1 2025. However, total payment value (TPV) was $417.2 billion with an increase of 3% compared to the previous year.
With a 45.52% market share and a massive 432 million active users, it remains the top choice for online payments, outpacing Stripe (17.15%) and Shopify Pay Installments (15.68%).
432 million is around 1 of 20 people on the planet.
Everything about computers was slow then. There was a time when you could read text faster than modems could run text through them.
Not only legal, this was an old way of distributing software.
In the early 1980s, engineers over at the Dutch broadcasting organization Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) had this fantastic idea of distributing computer programs over the radio
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/people-once-downloaded-games-from-radio.html?m=1
1·23 days agoThis was the era of robber barons, not long after this the US actually did something about these people, including some of the best progressive tax rates the US probably ever saw.
For example in 1951 if you had an income of $400,000, every dollar you made beyond that was taxed at 91%. That doesn’t necessarily mean they paid that much, but they paid a lot more than they do nowadays.
Maybe 30 years after our first trillionaire will get our s*** together again, or maybe not.
Thought you might want to know. Information is power.
Rockefeller became the country’s first billionaire on 28 September 1916
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller
Remember the warm glow of the yellow/orange street lights? There gone now too, just like the hummingbirds and the fireflies.
91·27 days agoMost certianly. Look at his responce when asked about Zelensky’s allegation that Russia is helping Iran with targeting.
“We’ll find out if that’s true,” Trump said. “I’ll ask Putin about it. We’ll find out.”
Now by itself that’s not a big suprise, but this news is from 7-27-2026. Here is a different quote from trump just 4 months prior 3-13-2026
President Donald Trump on Friday said he believed that Russian leader Vladimir Putin is helping Iran in its war against the United States and Israel.
Trump’s comment came in a radio interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, and a week after the president lashed out at Fox News reporter Peter Doocy for asking him at the White House about reports that Russia was aiding Iran.
Kilmeade asked Trump on Friday, “You think Putin is helping them?”
Trump replied, “I think he might be helping them a bit, yeah.”
“I guess, and he probably thinks we’re helping Ukraine, right?” Trump continued.
Sources: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-says-hell-ask-putin-191124647.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/trump-iran-war-putin-russia.html
Preparing for war does not mean preparing to win a war.
The Electric State movie.
Product placement along side fundamental changes to the tone and world.