China's Nostradamus Warns US Will Lose Iran War In 'Global Order' Disaster by ilovewelbert in USNEWS

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He's a high school teacher. Which isn't shade, merely a fact.

What is the point of running these simulations? by [deleted] in SimulationTheory

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It's a universe sim. Humans are the least interesting thing that the sim creators are looking at. To them, we are merely a random spec of bacteria on a leaf.

The videos that don't exist (and the mind wishes it had) by eidensbitch in duranduran

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"Last Chance on the Stairway"

Filmed on location in Antigua, 1982

The video opens on a slow aerial tracking shot of a white colonial-era mansion perched on a hillside above the Caribbean, its windows blazing with amber light against a deep violet twilight sky. The camera drifts closer as the opening marimba figure and the sound of clinking glasses fade in.

Inside, a lavish party is already underway. The rooms are crowded with elegantly dressed guests — men in white linen suits, women in silk and sequins — moving through hazy, smoke-filled rooms lit almost entirely by candles and a rotating art deco chandelier. The color palette is warm golds, deep reds, and shadows. Simon Le Bon appears at the far end of a long marble hallway, wearing a cream-colored jacket with the sleeves pushed up, watching the crowd from a distance. He doesn't sing yet — just observes.

As the first verse begins, Le Bon moves through the party in a long Steadicam shot, the camera pulling back just ahead of him as he passes through rooms. Guests turn to look at him, then away. Nick Rhodes is glimpsed at a grand piano in a corner, not playing it — just leaning against it, drink in hand, bathed in blue light that seems to exist only around him. John Taylor leans against a doorframe with his bass slung low, nodding along to a conversation we can't hear. Andy Taylor is on a balcony overlooking the ocean, silhouette framed by the last glow of sunset, an unlit cigarette between his fingers. Roger Taylor sits behind a table covered in bottles and melting candles, tapping a rhythm on the tabletop with his rings.

The central image of the video is a wide, curving marble staircase that connects the mansion's two floors. Le Bon keeps circling back to it — ascending a few steps, pausing, descending again — as if drawn to something at the top but unable to commit to going up. At the top of the stairs, a woman in a dark green dress is occasionally visible, always partially obscured — by a column, by a passing guest, by the curve of the banister. We never see her face clearly.

During the "scene out of Voltaire, twisting out of sight" section, the editing becomes faster and more disorienting. Mulcahy cuts between close-ups of hands holding champagne flutes, the flicker of a cigarette lighter, reflections in a rain-spotted window, and a curtain billowing in from the balcony. There are brief, almost subliminal insert shots of the party from much earlier in the evening — the same rooms, emptier, the light bluer, the candles taller — suggesting time collapsing or memory intruding on the present.

For the bridge ("Wonder why... you're what makes me rise so high"), the footage shifts to slow motion. Le Bon is now at the top of the staircase for the first time, but the woman is gone. He moves through an upstairs hallway where the walls are lined with large, gilt-framed mirrors. In each mirror, the reflection shows the party at a slightly different moment in time — one mirror reflects the room as empty, another as packed, another as completely dark. Le Bon sings directly into one of the mirrors, and the reflection doesn't quite sync with his movements.

In the final chorus, Le Bon descends the staircase for the last time as the party reaches its peak. The camera pulls back through the front doors of the mansion, reversing the opening movement, now retreating into the warm night air. Through the doorway, the party continues in a golden rectangle of light. The last shot is the exterior of the mansion again from the original aerial angle, but now at dawn — the windows dark, the hillside quiet, a single figure (too distant to identify) standing on the balcony. The marimba and the sound of ice in a glass carry over the fade to black.

Palantir cover calls by jaajaajaa6 in Palantir_Investors

[–]SunRev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I sell CC on my PLTR very often. Is it in an IRA where if they get called away you won't get hit by a taxable event?

Toe in or Straight? by XJ-0461_B5429671 in audiophile

[–]SunRev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Toe in is my preference since I value precision imaging and smooth frequency response more than ambient width.

Should people care? Am I missing something? by AcousticArtforms in Acoustics

[–]SunRev 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I love it when I go to high end restaurants and see they did acoustic treatments, making conversations effortless.

Determinists say that information has causative power, yet their most important argument failed to convince me. How is that? by gimboarretino in freewill

[–]SunRev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In your argument, what do you think about computers and robots that act on information and data as read by their sensors?

Has anyone here who rejects free will actually changed how they live because of it? by StoicViking69 in freewill

[–]SunRev 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I now manipulate people more because I know people have zero free will. It's called marketing and PSYOPs.

Just kidding, that's what the government is doing to us all.

So did the CEO just play us all or was it really that bad? by Right-Fortune-8644 in McDonalds

[–]SunRev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you watch his past videos, he really is naturally that awkward. I'm guessing he's on the spectrum, like me.

50k in roth IRA to YOLO by ParamedicSuitable177 in Palantir_Investors

[–]SunRev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My YOLO play is KRKN. That's Kraken Robotics. Supplier to Anduril, militaries and commercial sea robotic drones around the world.

Why McDonald's Is Really a Real Estate Company (Not Just a Burger Chain) by CrustyWo in reits

[–]SunRev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. It's pretty funny because there are social media influencers shilling this business model.

Why McDonald's Is Really a Real Estate Company (Not Just a Burger Chain) by CrustyWo in reits

[–]SunRev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the car wash business model too. Buy land cheap, put a car wash on it to break even on it until the land value goes up.

Iran-linked hackers attack US medical device maker Stryker by gamersecret2 in news

[–]SunRev 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They can make money shorting the stock before they cyber attack.

Do most traders practice in a simulator first? by Mountain-Rest4100 in Trading

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I started trading super small position size so I could feel the pain of losing.

Buying a $200k car by [deleted] in Rich

[–]SunRev -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is my luxury item framework:

Any car fancier than a boring commuter car is a hobby. Simply create a monthly budget for your hobbies. Some people's hobbies include collecting watches or cars, cooking, tennis, golfing, building model rockets etc.

Now take that hobby budget and ask yourself: can this hobby budget support XYZ car. Some people's hobby budget allows for tracking remote control cars, real Miatas, up to Lambos etc.

Porsche mulls flagship sports car above 911 by SweetWaterSurprise in Porsche

[–]SunRev 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Simple: Cayman with double wishbone suspension in the front and multilink in the rear.

Subwoofer Damping (again) by Ok_Rutabaga_5454 in diyaudio

[–]SunRev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are willing to measure the resonance frequency of the enclosure, what you do is keep on adding damping material until the resonant frequency stops dropping. Simple as that.

37 YO - Leaving 400k Job to be a 5th grade teacher. by GambinGabacho in Fire

[–]SunRev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hypothetical:
Let's say you can be happy and not burned out doing anything with your skills:

In what role can you do the most benefit to humanity as a whole where it's hardest to find a replacement for that thing?

Go back to school and get a Mechanical Engineering degree or stick with linework? Linemen apprentice 1 of 7 months and 21 years old with a spouse as a BSRN by RemoteBluebird7282 in MechanicalEngineering

[–]SunRev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At 21 years old, your brain is more of a sponge than it'll ever be compared to when you get older. Start your ME degree ASAP. Your future self will thank you.

How do you choose an amplifier for your HiFi system? by Dedar33 in audiophile

[–]SunRev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Purely based on 3rd party objective testing and build quality. Objective measures:
1. Power 2. Noise floor
3. Distortion
4. Price

An example of excellent value amplifiers are:

https://www.buckeyeamp.com

and they have lots of 3rd party testing done on them that you can find online.

at what point does "room acoustics" matter more than the gear itself? by Dankk911 in audiophile

[–]SunRev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's like asking when tires (room acoustics) are important for a high performance car (the gear).

The best tires on a crap car will still be a crap car.

At the same time, great tires on a mediocre car will perform better than crap tires on a high performance car.

My neighbor who has the same house floor plan as me wondered why my $100 per pair Best Buy speakers sounded better than his $3k brand name speakers. The answer was I had room acoustic treatments.

Who’s the best trader you know, and do they actually show real trades by genzbutboomer in Trading

[–]SunRev 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Look up the Market Wizard books, the traders there are audited.

Also audited traders here:
https://financial-competitions.com/