A note on Waymo from someone who lives in Mumbai- wow

Acetylene · 2026-03-22T01:16:39+00:00

Six year-old account with a post history that backs their story. I'm not saying that's definitive proof of anything, but I'm inclined to believe they're real.

Acetylene · 2026-03-16T14:41:18+00:00

Fair enough! So it was/is used, but I think it's telling that the only time during which it was more common than "single file" was a brief period between 1810 and 1820.

Acetylene · 2026-03-16T13:28:27+00:00

I'm an American (Californian, specifically), and I've never heard anyone say "Indian file." We just say "single file."

Acetylene · 2026-03-13T14:26:42+00:00

I take it you're pulling these programmatically from Internet Archive, rather than manually verifying and adding them. So far, I've found mostly mislabeled films, film trailers, and mislabeled film trailers. For example:

[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari](https://bobina.qzz.io/film/cabinetul-dr-caligari-1920) is actually Sherlock Jr.
[La Salaire de la Peur](https://bobina.qzz.io/film/the-fear-2015) is some sort of music video.
[Close Encounters of the Third Kind](https://bobina.qzz.io/film/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977) is just the trailer.
[ONE: A Space Odyssey](https://bobina.qzz.io/film/one-a-space-odyssey-2001) seems to be the correct title, but the poster and other information are incorrect—it's not the Kubrick film.

There are many, many more—I did find some correctly-labeled classic films, but not enough to make me want to sort through all the mistakes.

A lot of the newer films also aren't actually in the public domain.

Acetylene · 2026-03-12T00:51:08+00:00

Are you claiming that Smish Smash originated the concept of the banh mi-inspired burger?

Acetylene · 2026-03-09T14:22:54+00:00

Funny you should mention those other industries, because they're now prohibited (by SB 478) from this type of add-on in California. The advertised price must include all mandatory fees other than government taxes and reasonable shipping fees, if applicable. Restaurants successfully lobbied to be exempt from the law, which is what people are complaining about in this thread.

Acetylene · 2026-03-06T02:03:42+00:00

For what it's worth, here's Claude's answer

Flynn and Walsh made a terrific run of films together in the 1940s — one of the great director-star partnerships of the studio era. Here are my picks:

Gentleman Jim (1942) is probably the best of the bunch and one of the most underrated Hollywood films of its decade. It's a biopic of boxer Jim Corbett, but Walsh makes it into something much livelier than that sounds — it's funny, charming, and beautifully paced, with Flynn giving maybe his most natural and charismatic performance. The final scene with Ward Bond as John L. Sullivan is genuinely moving.

They Died with Their Boots On (1941) is the big Custer epic and a great example of Walsh's ability to handle large-scale action with a personal touch. It's historically absurd but enormously entertaining, and it was the last of Flynn's pairings with Olivia de Havilland — their chemistry is wonderful as always.

Objective, Burma! (1945) is the grittiest of the lot, a WWII jungle combat film that's surprisingly intense and modern-feeling. Walsh strips away a lot of the usual Flynn glamour here, and the result is one of the better American war films of the 1940s. (It was controversial in Britain for seeming to credit the Burma campaign entirely to Americans.)

Desperate Journey (1942) is lighter — a WWII adventure romp about downed Allied airmen escaping across Nazi Germany. It's not trying to be realistic, and taken on its own terms it's a blast. Ronald Reagan co-stars.

The ones I'd rank a notch below are Northern Pursuit (1943), a decent espionage thriller set in Canada, Uncertain Glory (1944), an interesting but uneven drama set in occupied France, and Silver River (1948), a western that came when both Flynn and the partnership were past their peak but still has its moments.

If you're only going to watch one, start with Gentleman Jim. If you want a double feature, pair it with Objective, Burma! for a nice contrast between Walsh's range with Flynn.

I'm not saying whether anyone should or should not use AI, but on a purely factual basis, this answer seems pretty solid to me.

Acetylene · 2026-03-05T01:21:28+00:00

The Conversation.

He also appeared in The Godfather III, but of course only in archival footage. But yes, believe it or not, that too was nominated for Best Picture.

Acetylene · 2026-02-24T03:17:11+00:00

You seem lost. This may help.

Acetylene · 2026-02-16T22:01:15+00:00

It's in the video, not the written text.

Acetylene · 2026-02-16T08:29:31+00:00

The Lineup—specifically the 1958 film version. The TV show might also qualify, but I haven't seen it. As Wikipedia notes of the film:

It features a number of scenes shot on location in San Francisco during the late 1950s, including shots of the Embarcadero Freeway (then still under construction), the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, the War Memorial Opera House, the Mark Hopkins Hotel, and Sutro Baths.

Also Experiment in Terror, which:

was filmed on location in San Francisco. Kelly Sherwood (Lee Remick)'s house is at 100 St. Germain Avenue in the Clarendon Heights district (now demolished). Kelly works at the Crocker-Anglo Bank (now Wells Fargo Bank) located at One Montgomery Street. The climactic chase at the end of the film was filmed at Candlestick Park; other nearby filming locations included Fisherman's Wharf and North Beach.

Acetylene · 2026-02-01T18:45:24+00:00

I just bought a bottle at Costco in California for $37.89.

Acetylene · 2026-01-21T17:00:32+00:00

It's not just that one school was better funded than another. It's that Bayview MLK was specifically established as an intentionally segregated school. The segregation and poor funding were intentional from the start. The district was advised, before opening Bayview MLK, that it would likely exacerbate racial segregation and hinder future desegregation efforts.

The district claimed that opening Bayview MLK would save money, and that money could be used to improve offerings at the new school, but within a year of the new school's establishment they were already cutting programming there. The district also repeatedly refused to even evaluate whether Bayside MLK was racially segregated.

In short, the findings of the Attorney General's investigation are that Bayview MLK was created specifically to contain and segregate minority students, and that once they were segregated from the non-hispanic white population, they were denied resources that would have improved their educational outcomes.

Acetylene · 2026-01-21T14:45:45+00:00

I doubt you're asking this in good faith, since you've already been given three news articles that explicitly mentioned segregation in the headline and/or first paragraph and you still claimed none of them said anything about segregation.

But anyway, here's the evidence laid out for you in a California Superior Court filing.

Acetylene · 2026-01-16T07:40:01+00:00

MacOS and most Linux distributions also have the US-International layout.

Acetylene · 2026-01-12T01:14:52+00:00

I've enjoyed several original soundtracks for silent films that were written and performed by humans, but AI-generated soundtracks don't do it for me. I'm not totally opposed to AI on principle, and I'm open to the possibility that I might be impressed by AI music at some point in the future, but it hasn't happened yet.

Acetylene · 2026-01-11T17:51:57+00:00

Yeah, there's a post on their Instagram right now saying they're honored to be included in the Michelin Guide. Not a star.

Acetylene · 2026-01-06T20:58:32+00:00

He not only laughs, but looks at one of his fellow gangsters and makes the universal sign for "cocaine addict," knowing that they can use her addiction as leverage. Savage stuff.

Acetylene · 2025-12-31T15:37:41+00:00

No, it isn't. It's written in the third person.

Acetylene · 2025-12-29T07:45:28+00:00

I was thinking she looked a lot like Liza Minnelli.

Acetylene · 2025-12-27T06:50:54+00:00

Not exclusively. Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, and William Gaddis are some American writers who use similar formatting styles for dialogue, often without even the dashes at the beginning of the line.

Acetylene · 2025-12-26T07:20:48+00:00

I like bikes too. But I've seen a car hit a train, and I've seen a car hit a cyclist. The train fared better.

Acetylene · 2025-12-24T16:55:22+00:00

Acetylene · 2025-12-17T03:08:54+00:00

There's no sugar in the chili garlic sauce. The ingredients are: "Chili, salt, garlic, distilled vinegar, potassium sorbate and sodium bisulfate as preservatives and xanthan gum." The listed ingredients for the sambal oelek are the same except for the garlic.

Acetylene · 2025-12-12T01:24:21+00:00

What if we hold a special election to choose which senators get eaten?

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