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niktemadur ,

Starring… a de-aged Brad Douriff, in the role of a lifetime!

niktemadur ,

The red chair of death… to the lumbar region.

niktemadur ,

Can any mere man wield such ferocious, blinding power?
A terrifyingly, beautiful thing to behold. But only just a glance.
I’m scared, feel like… like an Upper Neolithic man witnessing Nikolai Tesla inside his Faraday cage, as the bright blue electric current crackles and arches all around him.

niktemadur ,

Hold it right there, buddy, what’s the matter, didn’t you read the sign at the entrance of this instance? It clearly says CAT, not CATSssss…

niktemadur ,

also bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe I hAvE aN iNfOrMeD oPiNiOn!

niktemadur , (edited )

It could be broken down into a couple of further categories somewhere in the middle:

  1. Where probes have landed - Venus, Moon, Mars, Titan, a couple of asteroids/comets.
  2. Where probes have only flown past - Mercury, a few asteroids/comets, Jupiter and its’ main moons, Saturn and its’ moons (except Titan, see above), Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Ultima Thule (now officially named 486958 Arrokoth).

EDIT: on further thought, there’s another one in between those two.
Where probes have orbited - Mercury, Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.

niktemadur ,

Witness me, honey, here, hold my sandwich. Hey kids… KIDS! Settle down back there, jeez… pay attention, we’re about to ride all shiny and chrome.

“AWESOME!”

(proceeds to perform a Clark Griswold station wagon jump)

niktemadur ,

I don’t know… I think she zoomed past the potato and plowed straight into the ambrosia salad.

niktemadur ,

Back when Australia was still remote and exotic, before Crocodile Dundee even, a lot of people back in the day thought he sang:
“He just smiled and gave me a bit of my sandwich”,
which would have also made for a fantastic lyric in a very silly way.

niktemadur ,

Where’s the mullet, with Van Halen and Aerosmith and Skynyrd?

niktemadur ,

Did somebody input those “life in the year 2000” drawings from the good ole Queen Victoria days, plus “gators”, into the AI image generator?

niktemadur ,

Their is the ciense

niktemadur ,

Looks like one of the creatures in Francis Bacon’s tryptich “Three Studies For Figures At The Base Of A Crucifixion”.

niktemadur OP ,

…and then to register astronomical observations! The birth of science, no less.

And all because every year like clockwork, the Eufrates and Tigris blanketed an area of hundreds of square kilometers with a fresh coat of silt (from the Taurus mountains in modern-day Turkey) that was perfect as a rudimentary but cheap, easy and quick writing medium, pushing the point of a stick into a pancake of soft clay, then leaving it to dry and harden in the sun.

niktemadur OP , (edited )

Another way of putting the question:

What was the process of ancient Sumerian experimenting and realizing the potential of this new tool they had on their hands?

“Maybe I can use writing to do such-and-such thing…” and proceeded to do the first ever written snail-mail message, or the first medical or mathematical instructions/textbook, the first poem or essay, etc.

niktemadur OP ,

I can almost picture the academic analysis…
“The first character syllable can be read as kah or kuh, while the second character is read as unt, together they make the sound kawnt…”

niktemadur ,

The Fellowship Of The Whale, a Darren Aronofsky film.

niktemadur ,

Won’t work like that, you’ve gotta…

hashtag LICK THE BOWL CHALLENGE

niktemadur ,

Like the old pun goes:
Crossing (sea)gulls across the state lion for immortal porpoises.

niktemadur ,

Man my brain is toast.

Do… erm… gummies have anything to do with it?

niktemadur ,

Spin Up or Spin Down?

niktemadur ,

Better watch out for the long arm of 1/4 of the law.

niktemadur ,

Pluteroptcracy

niktemadur , (edited )

Imagine how barren and bland the inner lives of these people must be.
It works like a cautionary tale. One of them “there but for the grace of God go I” type of deals.

niktemadur ,

We’re gonna need a note from your volcanologist.

niktemadur ,

Taco Tuesday Tom

niktemadur ,

It became the norm when all those bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe lazy mediocre idiots enabled republicans into office by not voting in elections.

Nothing of value gets done, nothing of value can get done, when these non-voting idiots keep on allowing republican pigs to take the entire nation on a petulant, ignorant, reckless joyride.

Then when Democrats don’t have enough time in power to clean up the mess - all the while being undermined and sabotaged by republicans in a slight minority, consumed by rage at not being the dominant party - the idiots shoot everybody in the foot, including themselves, with their mediocre, myopic mantra… yOu SeE? bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe

Predictable and flat, like cartoon characters, utterly unintelligent. As much a product of the educational system as their batshit next door neighbor.

niktemadur ,

We use that spoon for gnocchi.

(The three layers of neutron star density are referred to as gnocchi, spaghetti and lasagna)

niktemadur ,

Ah yes, that ol’ Disneyland Main Street trick, forced perspective.

niktemadur ,

This also means more money into Ukraine’s economy. So it’s a win-win. When the only loser is mindless, needless misery, who gives a fuck about the loser, russia doesn’t exist anymore except as an overflowing waterless toilet.

niktemadur ,

This would not have happened if the non-voting bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe idiots had bothered to vote in 2016, allowing republicans to stage a executive and legislative right-wing coup of the supreme court.

But here we are. And their ostrich head-in-the-sand response to this ruling and their passively complicit role in it will most likely and idiotically be, once again, yOu SeE? bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe

“I voted once ten years ago, and I didn’t get my pony overnight. bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe”
Now thanks to these lazy, mediocre “muh purity” reprobates cutting off their noses to spite ALL our faces, things are now sliding faster toward a “yee-haw!” banana republic from within.

niktemadur ,

Looks like Liev Schreiber’s weird nerdy uncle, to my untrained eyes.

niktemadur , (edited )

a multi-character parallel storytelling style that is only ever celebrated amongst industry snobs

I’m going to agree with caveats here, because some directors who are actual artists do it for the sake of the film and the challenge of it, as opposed to what I’ll refer to as “industry types”, who do it for the prizes. And some crazy bastards manage to pull it off. Three names come to mind - Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Soderbergh.

I’ve never seen “Crash” and never wanted to, from what I’ve read, the bland yet heavy-handed results onscreen, plus the lazy reflexive accolades, made me view the whole thing with a cynical eye, like you.

In fact, Robert Altman had a thing or two to say about those “industry types”, in his triumphant early-90s comeback film “The Player”.
Also, do yourself a favor and watch Altman’s “Short Cuts”, to see parallel storytelling at its’ best.

niktemadur ,

Altman came in throwing punches with the noisy background and chaotic dialogue wafting every which way, right from the outset, on MASH and McCabe & Mrs Miller, which is why it’s a good idea to watch his films with English subtitles turned on.

I don’t remember the cacophony being as intense in some of his other early works, like Brewster McCloud, California Split and The Long Goodbye.
But in Nashville, it’s most certainly there, front and center and in your face.

niktemadur , (edited )

My recommendations to you are as follows:

My favorite Altman film overall probably might have to be The Long Goodbye. Check out how the camera is always moving, if even slightly; there are no static shots. Midway through the movie, the great Sterling Hayden steals the show. And keep an eye out for a very, very young Ahnold Schwarzenegger in a bit role as literal and figurative muscle for the batshit insane bad guy.

Brewster McCloud is a bonkers twisted fantasy that caught me by surprise by how much I enjoyed it, it’s about a kid who:

  1. Lives in the Astrodome in secret, in a forgotten construction nook, a big one, between walls and floors.
  2. Wants to be able to fly.
  3. Is being encouraged by an older woman, who might actually already know how to fly.

Also, there are people being killed all over town, and it might have something to do with all this.

niktemadur ,

The moment I was looking and thinking about Ralph, the wifi lost connection to the internet.
Coincidence? Or was it Ralph? 3spooky5me, Ralphie ol’ boy!

niktemadur ,

Someday far, far into the deep future, Ralph may surface again as a Boltzmann Brain.

niktemadur ,

A lot of thought and effort - and cackles of mad laughter - went into making this… thing.

This is the sort of thing that oozes out of the mind during fevered dreams, like with George Miller and “Mad Max: Fury Road”.

niktemadur ,

The Arden Weenus Crusade For Cadmium Hour, Wednesdays at 3:00am on KGFJ 1230-AM Radio Los Angeles

Now that’s the original infomercials medium and time slot right there.

As a kid back in the seventies, I remember adults listening to AM radio shows that mentioned the Mayo Clinic a whole lot. But I seem to remember that was a bunch of hours and every night, like maybe they owned the radio station and sprinkled in music and variety entertainment amid constant name-dropping of the Mayo Clinic.

niktemadur ,

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE…

niktemadur ,

I also have a 16-year old, he’s quite frail right now. Just a little while ago I walked up to him lying in his favorite cushion at the moment, put my arms around him and told him just how important he is around here. He is our elder statesman.

niktemadur ,

Did you know that if you say “Michael Caine” in Michael Caine’s voice and accent it sounds just like a British “my cocaine”?

niktemadur ,

With this one trick.
Hunter gatherers hate it.
Number 3 will SHOCK you!

niktemadur ,

Well… since you put it that way, it is quite staggeringly improbable, isn’t it?

“Through these terse, inter-connected runes, an invisible magic flows. You cannot change the rune, as then the spell will be broken.”
“Where does the magic come from, mommy?”
“From the highest point in the invisible topology of this magic, Billy: the Hoover Dam/Niagara Falls”.

niktemadur ,

Obama: bans microplastic beads

orange parasite: lifts ban on asbestos

Idiots: bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...

niktemadur ,

The entire instance seems to be engaged in an opinion shaping campaign

That’s too subtle a statement. It is a willful, bad-faith, full-on attack on objective reality via the rewriting of historical facts, redaction of massive volumes of information and constant aggressive, knee-jerk silencing of voices.

As such, it can also be described as a malicious assault on the mental health of individuals and society as a whole. Their actions a clear example of the type of repressive, miserable society they would have us live in, if given the chance by hook or by crook.

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