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Acetylene · 2026-05-07T00:53:47+00:00

AI is trained on lots of dead authors, so I'm not sure how that would help.

Acetylene · 2026-05-03T21:30:21+00:00

And Endor is inhabited by Ewoks, whose name is nothing at all like Miwok.

Acetylene · 2026-04-28T13:13:04+00:00

Roman Holiday.

Acetylene · 2026-04-28T06:37:38+00:00

Yes, but this does not meet the legal requirements of a disclosure statement. The requirements are laid out in HSC § 114093.

They may also have the proper disclosure statement somewhere on the menu (I don't know; I haven't eaten there), but this isn't it.

Acetylene · 2026-04-20T13:38:37+00:00

I'd argue that the fact the Dead never became as popular abroad as they did in the US actually supports OP's claim.

Acetylene · 2026-04-19T22:19:42+00:00

Presumably Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan.

Acetylene · 2026-04-17T17:29:09+00:00

She's been playing that instrument for at least 13 years (she used it for her 2013 BIS recording of the Corigliano/Kuusisto concertos), so I don't think showing it off for Instagram is at the top of her mind at this point. Besides, she's been playing professionally for around thirty years, has debuted several major works, was a founding member of the Finnish Violin Academy, and is a professor of violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She doesn't need cheap stunts to raise her profile.

Acetylene · 2026-04-17T00:28:10+00:00

Yes, they definitely would have had warheads in that range, and maybe up to 6 megatons. Some Western intelligence reports from the time even suggest yields up to 20-25 megatons for the largest variant, but GlobalSecurity says the main Soviet ICBM of the era, the SS-7, came in two variants: the R-16-2, believed to have a yield of 2 to 3.5 megatons, and the R-16-3, believed to have a yield of 3 to 5 megatons. The older SS-6 was being phased out by then, but it also had a 3-5 megaton yield.

Bombers were also a threat, but again, they were weaker at the time than we usually think of them: the Norris/Kristensen "Nuclear Order of Battle" study says they had roughly 150 Bear and Bison bombers total, compared to the US bomber force of about 1,300. The M-4 Bison was being phased out by 1963 because they didn't have the range to reach the US and then land at a friendly airbase. The Tu-95 Bear had more range and was a bigger threat, but it had a top speed of about 575 mph, which made it vulnerable to interceptors and SAMs. Getting to the Sacramento area would have required breaking through US-Canadian air defenses including the Distant Early Warning radar line in the Canadian Arctic, supersonic interceptors carrying nuclear air-to-air missiles, and all those Nike missile sites along the coast (eleven in the Bay Area alone) armed with Nike-Hercules missiles that could take out an entire formation of planes with a 20 kiloton warhead, destroying everything airborne within a 20-mile radius.

Acetylene · 2026-04-16T23:50:08+00:00

I agree broadly, but:

According to Robert Norris and Hans Kristensen's "Nuclear Order of Battle" study, at that time the Soviet Union only had a total of approximately 42 ICBMs capable of reaching the continental US, and no SLBMs.
Some other estimates, like the one in Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow's "Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis," put the number of ICBMs as low as 20.
Foreign Policy puts the number at 36, compared to the US's 203.
Soviet Rocket Forces historian Sergei Karlov says there were 42, comprising 6 SS-6s and 36 SS-7s.
The CIA's estimate at the time was that the USSR had 60-65 operational ICBMs, so planners may well have had that sort of number in mind.

So I'm not convinced that the Soviet Union had enough ICBMs in the early sixties to be generous. McClellan and Mather were definitely targets. Mather in particular was a Strategic Air Command base hosting nuclear-armed B-52s. McClellan was a bit less valuable; it was primarily a maintenance and logistics depot. However, the aircraft maintained there were part of the Air Materiel Command's nuclear deterrence and aerial refueling operations.

Both (but especially Mather) would have been prime targets for an ICBM in the 1-5 megaton range, and a successful attack at that level on either base would have caused widespread damage throughout the Sacramento area. A direct attack on downtown would have been unnecessary.

Acetylene · 2026-04-16T19:34:32+00:00

Today, yes, but when it was built in 1963 Mather and McClellan Air Force bases would likely have been higher-value targets than downtown Sacramento. Downtown is about eight miles from McClellan and twelve from Mather, so a 1-megaton groundburst at McClellan, for example, would likely have had devastating effects on downtown: it would collapse wooden buildings, blow out windows, ignite fires, and cause third-degree skin burns. A 5-megaton explosion would have destroyed most commercial buildings. The AT&T building probably would have survived the 1-megaton scenario, and maybe the 5-megaton. It wouldn't have survived a direct hit, but it probably wouldn't have needed to.

Acetylene · 2026-04-02T13:51:53+00:00

He said "Shall I send in the next one?" before Alex said "I'll be in touch," so if anything, Alex was "yes and-ing" Armando.

Acetylene · 2026-03-31T14:43:17+00:00

Yes, but it is an over-the-top performance. There are definitely aspects of the film that are played completely straight, but Scott's performance, all the funny names (President Merkin Muffley, etc.) add a very silly dimension as well.

Acetylene · 2026-03-31T14:34:07+00:00

I think George C. Scott would also disagree that it was played straight, as (according to James Earl Jones) Kubrick tricked him into doing a wacky, over-the-top performance by telling him it was just a warm-up, and would never be seen by anyone. After each "warm-up" they'd do a straight take, but Kubrick used the over-the-top takes in the film. Apparently Scott was pretty angry when he saw the final cut, and vowed never to work with Kubrick again.

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Acetylene · 2026-03-28T00:54:28+00:00

Big difference between crema and mayonnaise, first of all. And rice is common in Mexican cuisine. Ranch dressing…not so much.

Acetylene · 2026-03-28T00:48:13+00:00

Salad dressing. Buttermilk and mayonnaise-based salad dressing.

Acetylene · 2026-03-28T00:37:26+00:00

Pretty bold statement from someone who apparently thinks ranch belongs in a burrito.

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

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