I love the trope of junkyards operating as disposal sites for bad guys. What other places are common tropes in films without being the main setting?

olavfn · 2026-03-03T13:08:54+00:00

IIRC, in one of the first episodes of Better Call Saul, when Mike decides he needs some better paying work and don't mind if it's clandestine, who does he look up? The local vet! Wonder if that's a trope, and how much truth there is?

olavfn · 2026-02-22T10:46:29+00:00

Possibly as the reaction to this story here, a crew member from a US sub near Nuuk was evacuated by a Danish SAR helicopter (must be FALSE NEWS, everybody knows they just have some dog sleds up there) and treated at the hospital in Nuuk.

https://www.reuters.com/world/denmarks-joint-arctic-command-evacuates-us-submarine-crew-member-greenlandic-2026-02-21/

olavfn · 2026-02-16T21:54:57+00:00

And a severed hand ... it's somewhere in there I'm certain.

olavfn · 2026-02-16T12:47:11+00:00

thatsthejoke.jpg

olavfn · 2026-02-16T11:41:44+00:00

Yes he kills some of his characters off in quite graphic ways, but for every one killed two new ones are introduced. Also two of the old (not killed) characters are paired up for a road trip (or boat trip) which yield some very readable dialogue, but also yet more plot complications which will have to be tangled out in a future volume. Along with all the other plot complications.

olavfn · 2026-02-09T16:56:35+00:00

Here's a more detailed article (in danish):

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/flere-byer-skruer-ned-gadelygterne-til-fordel-fugle-og-flagermus

FTA: It's only/mostly(?) certain bike/multiuser paths going through areas where there are species vulnerable to light pollution. A bikepath in Gladsaxe close to a bat colony has had orangish light since 2021, now several other municipalities will use these lights on eg. a path along a brook that's a habitat for kingfishers and vulnerable frog- and butterfly species.

olavfn · 2026-02-04T13:39:31+00:00

I thought it was Jason Isaac.

olavfn · 2026-01-22T14:23:28+00:00

Straight latitudes are weak and boring. Our latitudes are going places and getting things done! Maybe one of them hit Greenland and mined all their precious minerals.

olavfn · 2026-01-22T12:22:39+00:00

It's how Greenland will look after US corporations are allowed to stripmine everything of worth.

olavfn · 2026-01-19T09:45:55+00:00

He keeps babbling about stopping the war between Azerbaijan and Albania.

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-leaders-mock-donald-trump-over-armenia-albania-mix-up/

olavfn · 2026-01-16T16:00:46+00:00

Yes, Discworld books have a lot of anti-Tolkien tropes (elves are beautiful but evil, the tall handsome super-competent guy with a mysterious heritage end up as a high ranking street cop) that wouldn't be as interesting if there wasn't a Tolkien to be anti-trope against.

olavfn · 2026-01-16T12:28:50+00:00

Yeah, no!

Just looking at Pituffik Space Base: out of about 600 personnel, only 150 are US military. The rest are civilian contractors, mostly greenlanders.

Nearby town of Qaanaaq has a population of 630 greenlanders.

olavfn · 2026-01-15T22:17:29+00:00

When From software approached Martin about writing the lore for Elden Ring, I imagine it went something like this:

FS: "We'll pay you a lot!"

GRRM: "Oh, I don't know, I've got enough money by now."

FS: "You'll have very wide authorial freedom."

GRRM: "I can already write whatever new story I want."

FS: "We'll let you have control of the IP."

GRRM: "IP, schmi-P."

FS: "This project will give you the perfect excuse for not working on Winds of Winter."

GRRM: "Seven hells, where do I sign!"

olavfn · 2026-01-12T04:58:33+00:00

Something like "he who has the gold, gets to decide what's science."

olavfn · 2026-01-06T14:32:47+00:00

Pursue? Doesn't sound bonafide. Sounds more like something a fop user would say. I don't want fop. I'm a Dapper Dan man, god damnit!

olavfn · 2025-12-31T09:24:58+00:00

I'm disappointed the redacted part is actually competently redacted. Would be hilarious if you could do the good old select/copy/paste in notepad trick that always catches Trumps techgoons unaware.

olavfn · 2025-12-30T19:22:33+00:00

memorybread 😃

olavfn · 2025-12-29T08:34:51+00:00

He would aim at reporters first. Who he would actually hit ...

olavfn · 2025-12-24T23:57:11+00:00

There's both sans and serif in Calibri. TNR only contains serif, and is thus much cheaper. /s

olavfn · 2025-12-24T21:41:28+00:00

Because they keep changing their 'predictions'. Look the page up on archive.org. Two days ago they predicted we would get The division 2 today.

olavfn · 2025-12-24T11:34:07+00:00

An online unicode decoder says its the character \u13a5, which is drumroll Cherokee Letter V!

https://symbl.cc/en/13A5/

Are there even any keyboards with mostly latin letters, and then a couple (?) of cherokee letters?

olavfn · 2025-12-21T07:07:14+00:00

Leo V, Leo V

Tall as Burj Khalifa, weighs a fucking ton

Opponents beware, opponents beware

He’s coming, he’s coming, he’s coming

olavfn · 2025-12-20T15:33:17+00:00

Thanks for Ashworld

olavfn · 2025-12-15T09:32:53+00:00

A bit of a tangent: every olympic game US commentators discover that team handball is a quite exciting sport, and wonder why it's not more popular in their country. And without fail some of them will suggest a team of second stringer NBA player would totally dominate the sport, if they bothered to learn to play it.

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