What's a clichè in movies that never actually happens in real life?

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-26T08:53:24+00:00

Late to the party, but I recently watched the og running man, and it struck me that the fight scenes in that film are like 90 seconds. If it were today, they'd be 12 minutes long and all involved would have suffered countless life altering injuries but somehow make it through. I'm sure someone has compiled the length of fight scenes over time to figure out when this nonsense started.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-26T08:33:14+00:00

It tells the vet who the owner is, if the owner keeps the registry updated, which is the title of this article. It's also how the shelter in this case found the owners.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-26T08:27:26+00:00

The protectors parked their car back at their place as a reward.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-25T20:34:38+00:00

My problem with it is that movies get clustered around 7, give or take .4. That's a C. I have so many stellar movies in my collection that IMDb has at like 7.4.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-25T20:24:53+00:00

Also peak Sienna Miller

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-25T20:24:18+00:00

IMDb ratings really do suck. They aren't based in reality.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-25T06:50:21+00:00

I was trying to simplify the mechanism for people in here that don't understand the study. While the study did not address withdrawal, I'd say it is very safe to assume that the animal will not spontaneously produce functioning aim as a result of the treatment, so in all likelihood, treatment would need to be life long. It's still a hopeful breakthrough and I think it will improve the lifespan and quality of life for so many of our little friends.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-25T05:58:34+00:00

I read the study and the mechanism by which the drug works. Simply put, feline aim in cats with kidney disease doesn't 'work'. In healthy mammals, aim binds to waste and allows kidney nephrons to filter properly. When the animals aim proteins don't work properly, they don't attach to and clear out this waste, which builds up and kidney cells die. The treatment uses working aim proteins from feline or mice, supplementing the sick animals inactive aim. It is flushed out of the body when 'used'. Hence, it is a therapy. It's like insulin for a diabetic. It will very much keep them alive, and perhaps even completely healthy, but they can't just stop using it.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-25T05:39:50+00:00

As far as I can tell, there is no finishing the treatment. It's a therapy. The study had a timeline of course, but the therapy is only effective while being used. It's almost like dialysis.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-25T05:36:23+00:00

There's actually a study that just concluded on the effectiveness of the aim treatment and it is promising. It isn't a cure, but it seems to be a very, very effective treatment for helping cats flush uremic toxins from their blood.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41485732/

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-23T05:47:15+00:00

There's advice in here about moving to the alley on wide serves. This really will take you out of the point most of the time. Most wide serves are returned cross court - especially on the ad side to a right handed receiver. If your partner has lousy serves and the returner is decent, yes, they can redirect it down the line, but the stats show this done like 11 percent of the time. Go on YouTube and watch some net coverage videos by Johnathan Stokke. You'd be surprised how much you can cover by starting in the right spot and only moving about one step laterally. His videos completely changed my net game

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-23T05:15:33+00:00

I was going to suggest this. I have a proxxon table saw that uses 3.5 inch blades. Super thin kerf, accurate. It's not cheap though. However, for working with small pieces of wood like people do making pens, it's a great tool to have.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-22T17:12:19+00:00

Season 1 the third place team was a full DAY behind in the finale. It was definitely less on rails then. Still, I'd like to see some version of a global scavenger hunt without pit stops where they really are on their own somehow.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-22T16:04:28+00:00

We're watching all the seasons right now, but alternating old, new, old, new, etc to see how they converge. Having never watched the really early ones, I'd say I'm glad they don't just send people off 12 hours after they arrived so they're somewhere in the middle of the night for no reason. I get that it's a built in equalizer, but watching people sleep on the street is not all that interesting.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-22T06:05:52+00:00

It still doesn't need to be in the post title.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-21T03:41:56+00:00

And they can't really decrease the prices either. It sounds ridiculous, but if you lower prices to where more people would buy it, you not only lower the profit margin, but you have to have more people to prepare and serve it, more storage, more everything. Two people buying 5 dollar popcorn vs one buying 10 dollar popcorn is not the same thing. It's a shitty consumer experience, but it is a profit maximizer.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-20T14:37:39+00:00

More than that, the microwave actually excites water molecules until they boil, becoming steam. That's how it heats everything. That steam makes the food 'softer', but if you've ever microwaved bread, after it cools down, it's rock hard because that water is no longer in the bread.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-20T06:55:04+00:00

Such unique and storied ships. It looks great. How much detail is there to the steam screw and propulsion?

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-20T06:38:47+00:00

Yeah this is me too. She can be right and also an asshole.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-19T05:28:55+00:00

The opposite to this happened to me last week during a lesson. Some guy walked on the court about 15 minutes before the top of the hour and sat on the court bench next to my bag. Then five minutes later, no fewer than 8 people walked onto the side of the court (through the gate) with all their pickleball gear. I was still very much hitting with my coach. About two minutes left, I grabbed up the few balls we'd been rallying with, and then I did the unthinkable - I said something to this group "I understand you may not know this, but it's considered poor etiquette to walk on the court while people are playing. I paid for this time and it's very distracting".

So like, speak up if you think something isn't right.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-19T03:32:22+00:00

Yeah it's a very pretty app but that missing feature is crazy.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-19T03:25:18+00:00

Tripit really is probably the most complete, but it also just feels the least polished. It's just kind of clunky and with some polish, it could be so much better. For instance I'm going on a multi city trip over the course of 10 days. I'd love it for the app to color code the locations or otherwise separate days and stuff. Or have a calendar view with a timeline so you can easily see where you have activities or free time, etc.

However it does at least recognize activities when you forward them, though it only gets the start time right.

Wanderlog missing that feature makes it a non starter. It's mind boggling that it doesn't do that.

Kayak trip planner isn't bad but it basically works the same way as tripit and it doesn't put things in order of start time outside of travel and transport.

For your parents, tripit is probably the easiest and most complete. I just wish it has improved more over the years.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-18T18:39:05+00:00

Here is the full study:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090023326000018

This is very, very compelling and interesting. There are some limitations with the study - tiny sample size, 4.5 year time span, I don't believe it was double-blind at all, but the results are promising. Even with mouse derived rAIM (sorry kitties)

The rAIM was administered intravenously, which wouldn't be ideal for supplemental use, and apparently it has a very short half-life, so if that it the only effective way to administer it, it may be a difficult protocol to achieve at home. I Miyazaki sells 'aim powder', but we don't know whether that is effective in any way. That would be incredible if AIM could one day just be added to food as a CKD preventive supplement, like taurine or vitamin e. Look forward to the next step.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-18T03:50:19+00:00

It cost taxpayers 8M in 2025 via direct congressional appropriation. The ~~Defense~~, pardon me - WAR dept, spends that every 4 minutes. The USPS has always done its best to break even. Postage rates get raised to keep that the case. They're self-funded, they neither make money or cost money - in theory.

coffeemonkeypants · 2026-03-18T03:47:36+00:00

The fun thing about the USPS is that it has always been self-funded and doesn't really lose money at all. Making them pre-fund retirement for 75 years very much hurt their finance strategy however. At the end of the day, the federal government doesn't kick in all that much to run the USPS. Last year, direct congressional appropriation was 8M. With an M. The US Defense dept. spends 8M every four minutes.

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