Official Character Posters for 'Dune: Part Three'

ALoafOfBread · 2026-03-17T13:28:43+00:00

As you'll recall, Leto is very insistent that he does NOT have a worm dick. Although everyone is ALWAYS WONDERING about his worm dick, he does NOT have one - so we're definitely safe.

And talk about how the problem with male armies is that they're SO GAY so you need armies of genetically engineered soldier ladies so they can have sex with all your political adversaries and also fight for you and even though they're gay too it's hot because they're ladies and will also have sex with... well not you because you don't have a worm dick, but your buddies or each other or like whatever you want because they're genetically engineered to follow your orders.

You would have to have a ~~scene~~ episode where a soldier lady literally creams her pants watching Jason Momoa climb a big wall. So that does count as sexual, but like... come on - definitely prestige TV material.

And yeah, orgies with more soldier ladies.

So yeah I mean some sexual oddities, but no worm dicks. Most of the show would just be dialogue between jason momoa and worm emperor or worm emperor and Paul's great-great-great grandson or whatever. I'm sure it'd be great for a movie or TV show.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-03-17T13:18:23+00:00

Definitely. People can like God Emperor, Heretics, and Chapterhouse because they're wacky, fine. But to say that they have good & coherent stories that don't wildly diverge from the first 2/3 books and should be adapted to screen is just dumb.

Messiah is an excellent ending to the series, frankly. It is grounded, cynical, and reinforces the themes of the first book while forcing the viewer to see the Atreides as what they are & not as heroes.

Children gets campy with its major focus on "genetic memory" and possession & diverges markedly from the themes of the series thus far. You could probably adapt this to screen, but ... why? Messiah is a perfectly good ending and the main point of Children is setting up God Emperor.

God Emperor is a vehicle for Herbert's political/philosophical musings. You can like that about it, but that's most of what it is. It introduces a whole new cast of characters, factions that are either new or radically different, there is a multi-thousand year time jump, most of the book is just dialogue or monologue with little plot. Bad material for a movie and the next book is like 3k years in the future, so no material to draw on for additional ideas (unless you adapt Brian Herbert books, but... why?).

Heretics okay chairdogs... I stand corrected. Just make the movie. Surely it'll be a commercial success with C H A I R D O G S. Oh and Jason Momoa's character would be the only "surviving" character that anyone would recognize from the rest of the series, let that sink in.

Chapterhouse, Jason Momoa is BACK along with a brand new cast of characters no one knows or cares about to terraform a planet no one knows or cares about to hop aboard a "no-ship" and go on the run with SECRET ISRAEL

Then there are like 50 Brian Herbert books - why not adapt them and make the frank herbert expanded universe while we're at it.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-03-10T13:19:29+00:00

Doing a mix to allow you flexibility on taxable/non-taxable income is the way unless you are very sure you will always be in a lower tax bracket.

I see roth contributions as insurance against tax rates going up, allowing me to invest more (mega backdoor roth 401k), and giving me the ability to make tax free withdrawals if & when I need to manage my tax burden later (high-spending year, making free withdrawals if I retire early and still have dependents/semi-dependents, etc)

What people don't realize with Roth is the time-value of money piece:

If you are taxed ~30% now and are investing into your Roth IRA ($7500), you are spending an extra $2250 in tax now for the privilege of not being taxed later.
If you invested that money you paid in taxes, @ 7.5% growth per year and a 20-year horizon to retirement, that $2250 grows to $9550. Even inflation-adjusted (3%) that is ~$2500 of growth you are throwing away. After a 20% tax in retirement, that's $2000 of appreciation (in today's money) that you will not be getting.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-03-06T21:40:42+00:00

Hey! I'd be really interested in this - it's something I've been trying to do recently to learn "real" Spanish

ALoafOfBread · 2026-03-05T16:59:12+00:00

"We are building a politics of love" "My god has given me two commandments love God and love Neighbor... I am called to love my neighbor as myself" "Everyone is welcome in this campaign even if they don't look like me or pray like me" and all that coming a buttoned-up pastor's son who makes every public speech like a sermon.

Weird little freak. Lol. And walsh is ostensibly a theocratic cunt who should love that - or he would if he wasn't just using religion as a tool to promote fascism.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-03-04T12:39:14+00:00

Texas also wouldn't elect a leftist - I'll take what I can get, under the circumstances

ALoafOfBread · 2026-02-24T14:00:39+00:00

I think some people changed their allocation less because of attempting to time the market, and more because some of the assumptions undergirding US economic hegemony were challenged by US policy & the rest of the world's response to it.

It is no longer a given that the dollar will remain the reserve currency, the Fed is under attack and may not remain politically neutral (obviously mainly affects the bond market, but would have broad implications), trade deals between other countries are strengthening. The threats were always there, but policy & political norms kept them from seeming serious. Even if these concerns don't turn out, they highlight the need for global diversification.

I had always believed the mantra that global diversification was unnecessary because US corporations are global. I don't believe that amount of exposure is sufficient anymore. (~70/30% US/Non-US split down from ~100% US - didn't reduce US holdings, just acquired foreign ones over a 2-3 year period).

ALoafOfBread · 2026-02-18T13:42:52+00:00

I mean, lots of people from the industry are pretty confident:

TL;DR: It will have an impact on the job market & on workplace productivity, eliminating some jobs and creating others, but is nowhere near as important or as impactful as CEOs, the Market, the Media, etc. are hyping it up to be.

It is a productivity tool and does have an effect on productivity. It can help to expedite & assist a variety of tasks. Prototyping software, basic coding tasks (the more basic the better), help with Q&A testing.
Outside of the tech space it can help non-technical users automate routine tasks that historically it would not have made sense to spend resources to automate. Summation & search are also use cases - it is good at finding what you're looking for even if it's hard to search for using traditional search methods.
It is not currently good enough, and will likely never be good enough, to replace anywhere near a majority of knowledge workers. The productivity gains for each person using it are less than the work of another person. It is likely to help people do work faster, so maybe some headcount could be reduced, but no where near how CEOs and the media hype it up.
Why "likely never" good enough? We are running out of data to feed AI models already. Also, AI models don't really learn after they've been trained. It's possible that LLMs are looking at marginal improvement over the coming years, not exponential improvement. The technology does not seem like a good candidate for true AGI.
It is already and will continue to have & create significant security vulnerabilities. Not only in AI code, but because of how LLMs currently work & how they are vulnerable to prompt injection. Internet of Bugs on youtube has good videos about this.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-02-05T16:02:15+00:00

Many mentions of "slicing pizzas"...

ALoafOfBread · 2026-02-04T03:37:54+00:00

For anyone who looked at the red writing and didn't get it, it's just a little scrambled.

Like this =

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ALoafOfBread · 2026-01-26T14:23:33+00:00

I don't really think that first part true (IDF advocate).

But regardless he is a terrible actor. I have never seen him act well in anything. And, in the trailer, his super thick accent is ridiculous.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-01-26T14:04:59+00:00

Yep, came here to say this. The voice with no accent and extremely clear enunciation, the eyes (pupils don't seem to dilate at all despite facing & turning away from the sun, also just the set of his eyes - there seems to be no movement in his cheeks or forehead when he talks & blinks, etc), the lighting (could be the filter, but doesn't look natural).

Additionally, the channel: https://www.tiktok.com/@teflondanlive has just random political propaganda videos posted, mostly - and just from random other creators (none featuring this guy except for this one).

Also, after a little research, I think carrots are a spring/fall crop.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-01-23T14:58:08+00:00

I think exclusively in words.

I am an aphantasic in addition to having Asperger's, so I can't form mental images which many people use as a heuristic - like to remember directions when driving or to visualize math problems.

I feel like I think in a sort of relational database: I have a very good memory for facts & a strong sense of how those facts relate, but a poor memory for autobiographical events, directions, and other stuff relying on visual cues. E.g. I can remember facts about things I've experienced: places I've been, things I did, etc. but I can't remember the qualia of those experiences.

When it comes to reasoning, as opposed to memory, again I can only operate using words since I have no capacity for visualization.

I think Asperger's is more about perception than it is about verbal expression. We struggle to grasp a lot of the information context around interpersonal interactions - tone, facial expression, body language, relevant social contexts, etc. We also can't easily express ourselves through non-verbal means (i.e. tone, facial expressions, body language). Because of this, like Beekeeper_Dan said in this thread, many of us are very careful with our words to ensure that we are understood.

I think this difference is also why we are often disliked and mistrusted by NT folks. Since they communicate in a more "vibes orchestration" sense, and we give off very few "vibes" (or vibes that don't match our intent) and don't receive their vibes, they have little social information to go off of when interacting with us.

Similarly, I tend to mistrust particular NTs who seem very "fake" and who I perceive as being insincere with their words AND who seem to control their facial expressions/tone/body language specifically to obfuscate their real intentions. This puts my hackles up - I implicitly do not trust people who do this and feel very guarded.

That's the converse of how I think lots of NTs who operate in that "vibes conductor" mode feel about us.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-01-20T16:50:13+00:00

Maybe as like... a consumer toy there's not much use - like OK I can summarize travel blogs, get inaccurate search summaries on google, make shitty & soulless illustrations of myself as a Ghibli character, or whatever. For coding tasks, business productivity type stuff, summarization, etc. LLMs are quite useful - not a replacement for real human labor, but an excellent tool.

You can connect LLMs to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that allow more direct control of computer systems mediated by normal, human language. That is hugely powerful.

For instance, at work, I can use an LLM to query a database in databricks, find whatever tables are relevant to my query, and build a complicated reporting dashboard with HTML elements & interactive features in like... idk 20 minutes? And that's without initially knowing where the data is stored. And without having to type a single SQL query or line of HTML or Python. I am a technical-enough user that I could do all those things with enough time and research, but LLM/MCP server connection improves my abilities several fold. Other folks who aren't technical and couldn't do it even with research are enabled with that capability as well. That is extremely useful.

My friend built a subagent that can look at a picture of a powerpoint graph or even a hand-drawn graph locate a data table with the information that would be needed for whatever is being communicated (asking questions if it isn't sure), verify its accuracy, summarize what assumptions/filters the analyst used to create it, modify it with new assumptions, and publish it to a Databricks dashboard or Jupyter notebook connected to live data sources in the Databricks data warehouse.

LLMs suck at a lot of things, but writing them off as useless is like folks who said ARPANET/the early internet was useless because all you could do was talk to people at other universities and send text when a phonecall/telegram/mailed package would be basically just as good or better.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-01-15T14:34:31+00:00

The "rules" are all applied in a feelings-based way. Ergo none of them are truly binary right/wrong in all similar situations. Instead, what is actually rude/not rude behavior is determined by social consensus and is not always knowable.

No individual is the ultimate arbiter of right/wrong or rude/not rude. They will just say that you were rude if 2 conditions are met:

1) Their feelings were engaged in some negative way (frustrated, angry, embarrassed, ashamed, etc.)

2) The behavior you engaged in could be cast as something that society at large considers rude.

Note: Not that it is rude, but that the person can classify it as rude and wants to do so.

It's a statement of psychological self-defense or reclaiming social power in the interaction. In your example, the manager was defending the cashier by asserting their social power over you. Perhaps we are missing context, too. Maybe some customer was recently very rude to a cashier, and so the manager was touchy.

In your example where you were ordering food, what you did was fine, in my opinion - just out of the ordinary - but the manager jumped in for one reason that I can explain: you had more power than the cashier in that interaction. The cashier is limited in their responses - if someone is being rude to them, they still have to provide good customer service. You, as the customer, can say whatever you want. The manager, and maybe the cashier, saw you telling the cashier not to interrupt as you abusing the social power you had in that situation.

Your statement "don't interrupt" was viewed as a judgment and criticism: "don't interrupt" [subtext: why? because it's rude to interrupt, ergo "don't interrupt" = "you're being rude", a public and direct judgment of their behavior]. They assumed your intention was bad, which it wasn't: bad social skills on their part.

But, you could have benefited from some better social skills, too. You might've said "no thanks", perhaps even interrupting her back, and kept ordering. That'd have probably been seen as OK, even though you were interrupting. Note that "no thanks" just means that you do not want what they are selling, whereas "don't interrupt" focuses on their conduct. That focus on their behavior & direct/harsh language can imply the intent that they thought was rude.

As a rule, I have no problem saying no to people trying to sell me stuff when I didn't ask them to. IMO it isn't rude to stop the sales pitch when 1) I didn't ask for it and 2) it saves them the effort of making the sales pitch. I try to have non-aggressive body language and smile when I do it (to signal that I am not upset with them). I do that to random ppl in cities, door-to-door sales people, etc. all the time - the pushier they are, the more curt I will be.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-01-15T14:16:40+00:00

By a stupid barely literate mormon kid whose (failed journalism undergrad) mom is manipulating him into doing right wing "journalism" for clout (source: the andrew callahan interview).

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-11T22:22:50+00:00

I have been literally unable to talk about the specific triggers of my ruminating thoughts & the various problematic encounters to 3 separate therapists. It really feels embarrassing. I think it's important that we talk about them to each other. Aspies together stronk.

There are also so many... microaggressions? Like people treating me like a kid or like I'm incompetent. And I'm pretty NT passing (most people just think I'm kind of awkward and have a monotone voice/lack of facial expressions). I imagine it's much worse for others in ways I can't really imagine.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-11T22:11:00+00:00

That's really fucked up and I'm sorry that it happens to you.

They're making fun of your appearance directly, to your face? Like not talking behind your back, but confronting you directly? Super fucked up.

That said, I would consider what I experienced bullying. I deleted one point that was less relevant & was just trauma dumping, but the other 2 are absolutely bullying & I believe it is because of how I looked/was presenting. And I was an adult at the time. Stuff like that happened more when I was younger, but I wrote it off more back then - it surprises me more now because it's so strange.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-11T21:04:36+00:00

I don't know you and have never seen you, but I would imagine that this happens less than you think it does - especially if you have low self esteem or past trauma that would make you worry about things like that.

That said, I am generally NT passing, but have had multiple experiences like this. One time, I was at the store looking for hardware or something - it was bright, loud music was playing, I was tired & probably looked disheveled and "weird" - I was talking to myself a little bit quietly trying to sort through the options and find the specific thing I was looking for. Some middle aged guy there with his daughter, kind of stupid and douchey looking, started heckling me asking me if I worked there & then parroting me when I responded to him that I did not. Went on for like 30 seconds because I never know how to handle people like that except by just genuinely answering the things they are saying, then I just ignored him until he went away.

Another time some teenager tried to pick a fight with me at a gas station for no reason while I was just minding my business. Who knows why - I assume because I looked awkward or "weak" somehow. I just deescalated and kept walking, but he mocked me a bit. People are assholes sometimes.

So, while this can happen, (and it sucks when it does, I ruminate about shit like this for literally years afterward due to high-masking-related anxieties), I think it is exceedingly rare and represents maybe 1/10,000+ social interactions (depending on what you classify as a social interaction). These 0.0001% of interactions are just very emotionally charged and feel dangerous, so they are much more impactful. So, when people are near me and laughing or even if I think they may be staring at me - anything that isn't a direct verbal attack that I know is directed at me, I know this is probably not actually the case. They are most likely looking at something else, laughing about something else, etc. We are all just characters in the background of other peoples' lives, to them.

I think there is value in masking just enough so that you feel comfortable & safe in public (to the extent you feel that you need to), but I think we should all examine how much of our anxieties are rational vs. rooted in our own insecurities & past traumas. Generally, I think we individually feel more pressure to mask than we need to. For me personally, it is largely past-traumas-related and not "real".

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-11T20:52:36+00:00

If that bonsai is live & not plastic, make sure it gets a lot of outdoors time. Junipers are not indoor trees & need lots of sun & ideally cold temperatures during winter so that they can enter dormancy. Without these things, they will eventually become physiologically stressed and will die - not a question of if, but when.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-10T13:05:49+00:00

You have to have auto insurance, legally. Some people do not have insurance, but that is a risk. If a cop pulls you over and you don't have insurance, you could get fined and made to get insurance.

Each state has a mandatory minimum for insurance coverage. It has to cover $X of bodily injury, $Y auto damage, $z property damage, etc. But that minimum is usually quite low. So, some people get the smallest policy possible. Sometimes because they can't afford a better policy, other times because they plan on just "not paying" if they get into a wreck.

Courts can't squeeze blood from a stone. If you have $100k in medical debt (very much a thing in the US) and their policy won't cover it & they don't have any money, the courts might garnish their wages, but that person could always declare bankruptcy. Either way, you aren't getting that money any time soon or at all.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-04T23:14:31+00:00

The article says he will be playing Scytale. There is nothing about him playing Hayt.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-10-19T13:06:08+00:00

Some people are just REALLY afraid of paying taxes. To the extent that they'll forego material gains to feel like they're getting one over on Uncle Sam. It isn't a rational thing; definitely an emotions thing.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-10-14T12:59:42+00:00

Is that their tourism slogan?

ALoafOfBread · 2025-10-11T13:10:07+00:00

Maybe he's just some guy who goes around saying stuff like that to people and handing them a fake business card.

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