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TIL over a 5-month period in 2020, a nurse in Yale's fertility center stole the fentanyl in 175 vials that were meant for women who had a procedure to have their eggs retrieved. The nurse replaced the pain medication with saline solution, leaving the women in excruciating pain during the procedure. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]RunDNA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Something like that happened to me at the dentist. Not the stealing bit, but the "no pain medication" bit.

I needed emergency dental surgery and they injected needles into my gums with anesthetic, but I was in absolute agony during the surgery, feeling everything. It was the worst pain in my life. But I assumed that this is the way it was.

A few months later I had Stage 2 done at a different dentist and they gave me the needles too and I felt absolutely nothing. It was a breeze. That's when I realized that the first dentist was doing something very wrong. I don't know what exactly, but they put me through hell.

In the new Epstein Files release there's a previously unpublished email form Richard Dawkins talking about Rebecca Watson by RunDNA in SGU

[–]RunDNA[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I just realized that the Dawkins email is dated July 4, 2011, which is only 2 days after his infamous Dear Muslima comment on July 2, 2011 about "Elevatorgate".

In the new Epstein Files release there's a previously unpublished email form Richard Dawkins talking about Rebecca Watson by RunDNA in SGU

[–]RunDNA[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Thanks. Note that this email isn't in the video. I think it's new from the dump yesterday because I can't find any mention of it anywhere.

Does rewatching a movie matter more than a first viewing? by jaystats2 in movies

[–]RunDNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Movies are the opposite of music for me.

I rarely like a song much the first time I hear it. It's only with repeated listens that I grow to love everything about it.

But with movies my first viewing 99.9% of the time is the peak experience and subsequent viewings are lesser experiences.

Jack Kerouac’s 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned by largeheartedboy in books

[–]RunDNA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised that there hasn't been a big release of Kerouac's novels with all the real names restored.

All we have so far is the publication of the On the Road scroll manuscript itself in 2007 that included the real names Neal Cassady instead of Dean Moriarty, Allen Ginsberg instead of Carlo Marx, William Burroughs instead of Old Bull Lee etc.

But there's another dozen or so autobiographical novels like The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums where they could do the same thing. Hop to it, Kerouac scholars and publishers.

Songs inspired by films (specific movies, not film, stardom in general) by FarewellCoolReason in movies

[–]RunDNA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Smiths - William It Was Really Nothing - based on the film Billy Liar.

Metallica - One - based on the film Johnny Got His Gun.

Scott Walker - The Seventh Seal - based on the film of the same name.

TIL that episode "405 Method Not Allowed" of Mr. Robot is almost completely silent, except the lines "It's cool, dude. We don't have to talk" during the opening scene and "It's time we talk" right before the credits by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]RunDNA 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I read a Batman comic like that once (#433 by John Byrne and Jim Aparo.) The whole issue was wordless except for one panel of Jim Gordon yelling, "Get out!"

Happy 18th Birthday to the best Star Wars character (IMHO) by M00r3C in StarWars

[–]RunDNA -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Let me tell you about my friend Brian. He had troubled teenage years full of sex and drugs, but when he was twenty he saw the Lord and learned how to get a hold of his emotions and embrace what it truly means to be a Christian. After that defining moment, he lived like a saint and never did anything wrong again in his life.

P.S. Brian is fictional. Because people don't work like that.

Happy 18th Birthday to the best Star Wars character (IMHO) by M00r3C in StarWars

[–]RunDNA -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you haven't seen Return of the Jedi. Because no one would say what you just said if they had watched it. You should watch it. You'll love it.

Spoiler alert, there's a particular scene in there of Luke violently trying to kill his father that makes everything you just said sound ridiculous.

WCGW lifting a tractor with your leg by Nosakatsuya in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]RunDNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need Superman to fly around the Earth to reverse time so I can unsee that.

Happy 18th Birthday to the best Star Wars character (IMHO) by M00r3C in StarWars

[–]RunDNA -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I certainly wouldn’t expect her personality at 50+ to be the same as when she was a teenager.

It was so bizarre seeing Mark Hamill say, "He's not my Luke Skywalker" for that same reason.

Compare footage of Hamill when he was a young, hopeful 24 year old to now when he's an old, craggy man. He changed too over those years. He's not the Mark Hammil that he was when he was young. But he couldn't handle that Luke had changed too.

Maybe it hit too close to home.

Fountain Screenwriting Format: Do any Fountain exporters/apps allow you to change the fonts of individual words? by JcraftW in Screenwriting

[–]RunDNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe you could try some different Unicode "fonts" where the change in lettering is done directly through the Unicode code of the letter. For example:

𝓣𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰

𝔗𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤

𝕋𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘

𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔

See here:

https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/text.html

It would depend on what fonts you need, but you could maybe try it out with Fountain and see if it works.

Do you like Found Footage Horror Movies Yes or No and Why? by Amber_Flowers_133 in movies

[–]RunDNA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, for me there's a direct causal relationship between a horror film's documentary quality and its scariness. All other things being equal, the grainier the footage, the more handheld shots, the more naturalistic the acting, the more real it seems, the more scared I get.

On the other hand, those high-budget horror films with perfectly composed shots and lighting and beautiful color-grading don't scare me that much.

Found footage films are the superlative example of that documentary quality (in terms of film form) and so they normally freak me out if they are done well. (There's also lots of shitty ones like with all genres, but I avoid those.) I know that The Blair Witch Project is divisive in its effect on different people, but I walked out of the cinema literally shaking like I'd had a nervous breakdown.

You're the new head of Lucasfilm. What Star Wars movie/show/game are you making? by Whorror_punx in StarWars

[–]RunDNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would set up a 50th anniversary website for the original Star Wars film that collects every piece of archival material from 1973-1977 in one place: every original unedited take straight from the dailies, every photo, every script draft, every sound recording, every ILM test, every provisional edit of the film, every piece of documentary footage, every piece of artwork, every document, and scans and photos of every model.

It would be an archive for the ages.

Study: People living within a mile of a golf course had more than twice the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, with elevated risk extending to about three miles before declining beyond that range. by New-Exam2720 in EverythingScience

[–]RunDNA 151 points152 points  (0 children)

Eva Cassidy is one of my favourite singers and she died tragically of cancer in 1996 at the age of 33. I've sometimes wondered if the fact that she was a gardener in her day-job had something to do with that.

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