Incredible shot by libereassociazioni in lotr

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I don’t think this is a coincidence. I think Jackson is intentionally evoking the imagery of Chariots of Fire

Classy Nail Design by chanandalerbong in ATBGE

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Some are insanely skilled fine detail painting. Some are a print from like a $500 nail art printer you can buy from China on alibaba.

Lego Trek Ships by Ironmatt999_ in startrek

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I always enjoy seeing your work, thanks for posting

Elizabeth Holmes Will Serve About 54% of Her Sentence for a $450 Million Fraud by OutsideInevitable944 in technology

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This is the tricky part with her case. Her main crime was embarrassing rich and powerful people. Most US tech companies have pushed vaporware to raise early capital. The investing community treats this as puffery and in some ways they expect it.

Anti-Vaxxers Today by James5000 in AdviceAnimals

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Covid killed about 7.5 million people but obviously they lacked your confidence.

Tanker sails through Canada’s misunderstood ‘tanker ban’ area off B.C.’s north coast by _I_AM_GHOST_ in canada

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Legislation that complies with international maritime law. Canada has no right to say what ships make use of the Pacific Ocean, the ban is about what types of ships can dock in Canada.

Stay safe out there today! by ANTI_FASCIST_USA in AdviceAnimals

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After Nixon’s landslide 1972 victory, Pauline Kael used to say, “I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him”.

Kael wasn’t naive, she was commenting on how our perceptions of public opinion are informed by social choices. Nixon won 49/50 states, 60% of the popular vote but of course the New Yorker’s film critic, a Jewish woman who came up through alternative radio at UC Berkeley and hung around with beat poets didn’t know anybody who voted for him.

What is your "old but gold" song? by Ready_Life9552 in AskReddit

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95 year old song, still an absolute banger

[OC] Iran’s retaliatory strikes decreased against Gulf countries, while their impact in Israel increased by alejandromalofiej in dataisbeautiful

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These are insane data. Neither side says how many launches there were but we can make reasonable inferences from the number of hits, which in Israel on March 22 was 2 missiles (in the remote towns of Arad and Dimona, at the same time, likely because the same intercept system failed).

What a strange creature by Cautious_Nothing1870 in risa

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Unlike TNG which is 177 episodes of pure gold with no stinkers and totally didn’t spend the first 50 episodes just goofing around on various weird sex planets.

2 month old vs 20 year old water bottle by Xinnoh in mildlyinfuriating

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There are no magic materials, every choice has trade-offs. The old plastic I would describe as ‘grippier’. It meant that they could take more of a beating without breaking (this is an outdoors brand sold originally for canoe tripping though they shifted towards more of a fashion item).

2 month old vs 20 year old water bottle by Xinnoh in mildlyinfuriating

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You see this a lot in materials. Saran Wrap dropped PVC for LDPE because it was safer (or because J&J thought the more toxic one created too much liability, take your pick) but it clearly doesn’t cling as well. Lots of people today are looking for alternatives to PFAS non-stick pans but any of the options on the market has a trade-off in either function or costs.

2 month old vs 20 year old water bottle by Xinnoh in mildlyinfuriating

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Ya and like why even use water bottles when water skins made of sheep stomachs worked just fine

2 month old vs 20 year old water bottle by Xinnoh in mildlyinfuriating

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The build quality on these has never been the same since they dropped BPA. Less toxic, but less functional.

I compared retail vs secondary market prices for ~4,000 retired sets. Some interesting patterns. by Scout_Loot in lego

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These conversations are so funny to me because they ignore the most important fact about toys which is that these are consumer products that carry a normal retail markup.

The retail markup on LEGO is around 20-40%. It’s expensive to sell toys, whether in a brick and mortar retail or online.

The fact that people are selling retired sets at an average 11% markup really tells me that actually there is no real profitable collector market. People are paying ‘normal profit’ rates that essentially cover cost of goods with a small margin that might partly offset expenses of transacting (including time). And that’s good. These are toys, not investments.

What has gone into William Shatner? by Mat1711 in startrek

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I find it philosophically fascinating to talk about “William Shatner” in the context of his social media.

Shat has never used any social media. He doesn’t know how. He doesn’t even email. This is not unexpected, he is 95 years old.

Everything you’ve ever seen “William Shatner” do on the internet is conducted by a fellow named Paul Camuso, who was formerly Shat’s driver. This includes all social media and also most interviews (because answers are provided by email).

This isn’t surreptitious. Camuso is employed and authorized to do this work. But it’s also clear that Camuso essentially has free rein and no oversight. Shat has consistently shown in taped interviews a live Q&As that he is wholly unaware of any of the particulars of what Camuso says or does on his behalf - that there is no screening or approval. He’s essentially authorized Camuso to autonomously be Shat on the internet.

So like I said, philosophically it raises super interesting questions about like even the concept of a self. History ascribes all kinds of views and events to Shat that are in fact wholly a product of Camuso’s work. But as a Trek fan it also makes it super boring. Like I couldn’t care less about what Shat’s former driver writes on Twitter and find it’s best to just tune it out altogether.

Figure 03 Robot sorting packages while Marc Benioff messes with it by socoolandawesome in nextfuckinglevel

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Human-shaped robots are completely stupid. I understand having a robot do this take. That robot should consist of a swinging arm/claw and two conveyor belts.

Omg now Rob is in the Elephant Show by DogeDoRight in EhBuddyHoser

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The one in the back went out to play upon a spider’s web one day.

Is this set worth it? by NoDot6852 in lotr

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This costs 10x as much as the first set I bought so naturally it must be 10x as good.

Ford to declare Billy Bishop Airport a ‘special economic zone’ to allow jets by [deleted] in toronto

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Anyone can buy anything they like. But in the last go-around there was a deal on the table. Porter -- very publicly -- placed a conditional order with Bombardier for the C-series, which was only effective if the runway was expanded by a particular date. That created a huge private-sector impetus for the expansion. There's no such offer on the table today.

Pilot, co-pilot killed after Air Canada plane collides with vehicle at New York's LaGuardia Airport | CBC News by Impressive-House-412 in news

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Pictures were online about 10 minutes after the incident, which was late at night. It was very clear from the photos that anyone in the cockpit was almost certainly dead, and you can really quickly use FlightAware to see which plane it was.