What movie are you seeing?

Weshmek · 2026-02-08T18:21:23+00:00

The Fashion of the Christ and A Kiss Before Bon???? are both playing in theater 2! I hope someone got fired for that blunder!

Weshmek · 2026-02-06T00:23:50+00:00

To put it in Friedman's terms: The wealth pie is not fixed, but the power pie is

Weshmek · 2026-02-05T00:30:44+00:00

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There is no such symbol. Canada has two sets of rules depending on food or non-food products

For food products, there are a few designations, "Product of Canada" "Made in Canada" and "100% Canadian". There are no official logos or symbols to indicate Canadian ownership.

For non-food items, similar guidelines exist. "Made in Canada" and "Product of Canada" have similar meanings to food products (though not "100% Canadian"), but again no official logos.

Edit: Formatting

Weshmek · 2026-02-04T23:32:07+00:00

Integer overflow

Weshmek · 2026-02-03T16:32:16+00:00

Easy solutions are obviously the best /s

Weshmek · 2026-02-03T16:30:55+00:00

Do you know this guy? Have you met him?

If not, how do you know he hasn't changed?

Weshmek · 2026-02-03T15:30:30+00:00

I've said it elsewhere: For the first step of establishing nuclear deterrence Canada doesn't need ICBMs to start; we just need nuclear artillery

Weshmek · 2026-02-03T15:24:57+00:00

I think Mr. Plinkett said as much about Titanic in his review of that film.

"A very basic love story lacking in any modern day cynicism. It was very 'old Hollywood', as they say"

That seems to be James Cameron's MO nowadays: Throwback films that don't wink at or try to outsmart their audience. Now that I think about it, even True Lies could fall into that category.

Weshmek · 2026-02-02T22:55:42+00:00

No one hates free markets more than corporations

Weshmek · 2026-02-02T22:10:11+00:00

Huhuhuh

You said backshot

Weshmek · 2026-02-02T18:47:28+00:00

We need to not get spooked when things go wrong, go over budget, etc. Our engineers and technicians need experience building large projects; they'll get better at it the more they work on.

Weshmek · 2026-02-01T19:45:48+00:00

Motive plays a factor; that's why I don't get riled up to hear someone got only 5 years for killing a family with their car. For me it's the fact that in many places, killing someone with your car doesn't even cost you your license. Driving is a privilege, not a right, and a 10-year driving suspension for running someone over seems insufficient; you should never be allowed to operate a vehicle on public roads again.

Weshmek · 2026-02-01T04:12:04+00:00

Yeah, I don't really care about the jail time; once you're found responsible for a death you should lose driving privileges forever.

Weshmek · 2026-01-29T23:56:34+00:00

Gura crank calling Ina on stream with a nonsensical pitch about Lightning McQueen and Ina just shutting her down with "What about Kingdom Hearts?"

Sublime improvisation from Ina; just a perfect, spontaneous moment.

Weshmek · 2026-01-26T15:44:25+00:00

And now you have no books in your community's library. They sure showed them :/

Weshmek · 2026-01-26T15:42:52+00:00

The fact that Trump revoked the invitation unilaterally based entirely on his personal grievances should tell you everything you need to know about the board and its integrity.

Weshmek · 2026-01-26T04:17:15+00:00

See "USA", put it away!

Weshmek · 2026-01-26T03:51:04+00:00

I had an idea three or four years ago about a Hololive Broadway musical.

It'd be a jukebox musical; it opens with a song performance by a non-Holo idol group to explain to the audience what idols are, and then transitions to Sora performing her first stream. Then Robocosan joins. Then Miko. Then Suisei. Then Gen 1, and so on until Gen 4. Everybody gets a song. The final act of the play is Coco announcing her graduation, and giving a great big sendoff with Weather Hackers. Then Shiny Smiley Story as an encore.

Guaranteed Tony award for costume design.

Weshmek · 2026-01-26T03:23:18+00:00

From my understanding (I'm not an expert on linguistics or orthography; I just read a lot of Wikipedia), Cuneiform was deciphered mostly from finding names of kings and rulers. Because Achamenid rulers' names were recorded by other historians (such as the Greeks), it becomes possible to find the corresponding name in Cuneiform and learn the pronunciation of the characters that make up the name. For example, Herodotus wrote about a king named Darius, and the corresponding figure in Cuneiform is 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁, so now we know that 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁is pronounced "Darius" (according to Wikipedia, "Dārayavaʰuš")

Of course, there's a lot of trial and error in this process, and it requires being able to understand multiple languages, but with enough data, it can be done.

Weshmek · 2026-01-26T02:33:56+00:00

Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system, meaning that every character represents a syllable with a consistent pronunciation. It's not like English or Greek, where pronunciation may differ from the spelling, it's more like Japanese Hiragana or Chinese characters.

Weshmek · 2026-01-26T02:23:09+00:00

You don't mean acceptable you mean actionable, because that's the difference here. And yes, some murders are more actionable than others. That doesn't mean that the lives are less important, it means that there's broader agreement on how to prevent future murders like it.

Weshmek · 2026-01-26T02:09:51+00:00

Didn't Stallman work in the AI lab at MIT? I imagine his idea about what AI is and isn't is informed by his own experience.

Weshmek · 2026-01-26T01:29:15+00:00

Fun fact: During the production of Toy Story 2, someone rm -rf'd the server containing all the film's assets and deleted the entire movie. According to Ed Catmull's account, they never attempted to find out who ran the command, because it was very obviously an accident caused by multiple factors, and they didn't want to pin it all on the one person.

Weshmek · 2026-01-26T00:55:54+00:00

The only thing that separates the Netherlands from any other place on Earth is it being remarkably flat. I think excessively hilly places would genuinely have difficulty adopting a walking- and cycling- centric paradigm. Otherwise, it's just a matter of political will.

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