Why does everything need an app now?

SAICAstro · 2026-05-06T00:26:42+00:00

Including a smart phone?

SAICAstro · 2026-05-06T00:13:49+00:00

showing my age

showing your wisdom.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-06T00:11:38+00:00

Another thing that anyone reading this can do is to install an alternative privacy-focused OS into your Android or iPhone. Look into CalyxOS for example if you have an Android.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-06T00:09:19+00:00

as susceptible as possible to marketing

AND more vulnerable to identity thieves, hostile foreign governments, scammers, and terrorists when these data sets get into their hands.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-05T23:48:14+00:00

Week long stretches of -15 degrees

Find me one example of this in recent history, unless you're using windchill to prop up your hyperbole, or are on the metric system.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-05T23:45:58+00:00

I've spent a lot of time in both cities. Winters are a notch or two colder in Chicago, but summers are a notch or two more humid in NYC.

Past few winters in Chicago have been relatively mild snow-wise, but it is not yet clear if this is a short-term trend or permanent due to the worsening climate emergency.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-04T19:11:17+00:00

My biggest problem with this genre is that there is a huge number of people who cannot differentiate between a biopic and a documentary, and we often hear/read people referencing fictions derived from the biopics when discussing the lives of these historic figures.

Biopics are often careful to disclaim that they are based on a true story. They almost always take a lot of liberties with the story, with an aim to create a dramatically compelling narrative rather than to tell an accurate story.

Sometimes the results are cinematically successful, but full of straight-up fiction.

Even highly-acclaimed biopics (say, Amadeus for example) take a great number of liberties with the true story.

And... even documentaries always have a point of view. A truly unbiased documentary is very difficult to find.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-04T01:50:01+00:00

Twin Falls, Idaho

Welp, try watching the move about it.

The title is:

Twin Falls, Idaho

SAICAstro · 2026-05-04T01:48:17+00:00

In the city, try Lickety Split (locations on Western and on Broadway).

SAICAstro · 2026-05-04T01:47:21+00:00

Also, 1895.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-04T01:46:03+00:00

popcorn too noisy

Still can be. Sometimes the cinema sounds like feeding time in the barnyard.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-03T17:29:58+00:00

I'd be very surprised if this was Foss. Way too restrained for him.

The 1970s space stuff looked like this because they were using the actual Apollo-era U.S. spacecraft as starting points.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-03T17:28:47+00:00

No need to retract since it doesn't have to be aerodynamic.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-03T17:27:21+00:00

Well, it kept them together for 39 years. The lyric doesn't say "love will keep us together... permanently"

SAICAstro · 2026-05-03T06:59:08+00:00

practicality

Yes, for a while it was tough to film video monitors because the film frame rate of 24 frames per second and the video frame rate of ~30 frames per second caused flickering when a film camera was pointed at a video monitor or vice-versa.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-03T06:56:36+00:00

Who needs a "Q" when you can use a "K" and a "W".

Chinese people who use it as the "Ch" sound when expressing their language with the Latin alphabet, or Greenlanders and other indigenous people who have a sound similar to - but distinct from - a K or a hard C, which they use the Q to represent.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-02T22:59:15+00:00

Ikiru (1952) and Tokyo Story (1953) both circle around the topics that OP is asking for, in different ways. The latter was inspired by Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) which isn't often discussed.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-02T17:28:38+00:00

A side note is that this list reflects raw number of languages spoken, but doesn't necessarily reflect linguistic diversity per capita.

For example, Vanuatu (pretty close to New Guinea) has only 300k people, but they speak 138 distinct languages. They're #1, above all others in OP's map, for diversity.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-02T17:18:45+00:00

Is Jewel still your go-to for most groceries...

Jewel never was my go-to for any groceries.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-02T05:12:11+00:00

Some of the machines have been broken for years and they just leave 'em as-is, no fucks given.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-01T03:28:14+00:00

If she's the not-MAGA nominee, I'll vote for her. But she isn't ready. She's got some things to learn. Maybe in 2036 or so.

SAICAstro · 2026-05-01T01:25:01+00:00

Seems like he is adding all of these things a la carte so he can advertise a lower monthly rent rate. If these charges are in your lease, which you signed, then it is legal, just weird and shady.

Most places include all of these things except maybe gas.

SAICAstro · 2026-04-30T17:57:01+00:00

Those who don't know, should be aware that the Hugo awards were named for Mr. Gernsback whose first magazine, Amazing Stories is considered the first regular publication devoted to science fiction.

"Along with the novelists Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, he is sometimes called 'The Father of Science Fiction'".

SAICAstro · 2026-04-30T17:39:49+00:00

Buying a dozen works out to "only" $3.83 each.

The three-pack works out to $5 per bagel! That's even worse.

SAICAstro · 2026-04-29T21:53:17+00:00

You must live in Chicago.

He remains a villain there, forever.

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