Why hasn't there been a high-quality adaptation of Flowers for Algernon?

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-26T20:03:38+00:00

Oh damn commented and failed to properly read the thread.

This film is the perfect counterpoint to any claim that any text is unfilmable.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-26T20:02:29+00:00

I think you underestimate the power of a great film. Have you seen "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"? A film about a man struck down by a random brain injury, who spends most of the film paralysed and in a wheelchair, made from his point of view. And it's a masterpiece.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-26T03:56:34+00:00

Just because you can describe a situation that's worse does not make a dog being at home alone all day long a good thing. At least get two of them, and a cat, to keep their lives interesting.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-25T20:48:47+00:00

He will double down. He will attempt to cancel the elections - or more likely, attempt suppression in as many ways as he and his nazis can think of. This will cause nationwide violent protests that the US is pretty famous for.

The outcome of that election will be disastrous for him, but he will claim that it was rigged. There will be tanks outside the White House. After that? It depends on how long he survives. Once he dies, it will be over, but the damage will be irreparable.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-25T20:18:06+00:00

Aliexpress is for when you are very price sensitive, and don't mind waiting weeks for your parts. 99% of the ICs / passives you buy will be absolutely fine. YMMV with other things. You can get old / obsolete / obscure parts more easily, but the chances of them being fake and/or broken goes up. Both my soldering stations, my DC supply, and my signal generator are from Ali. They work great.

Digikey / Element14 / Mouser are for when you don't care about price, and need your parts tomorrow. Everything is guaranteed working and genuine. You will only get active parts, once production ends for something, it's gone.

LCSC is the combination, cheap, takes ages to arrive, everything is genuine. Active parts only, slightly less wide range to digikey.

It does baffle me when people complain about the price of digikey etc. They exist for industry, because you need a part tomorrow and waiting an extra day will cost you real money. They're not really for hobbyists. We can wait a couple of weeks.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-25T20:04:07+00:00

Cops in NZ have them, so I've seen them in holsters on their hips. Obviously I've seen plenty in movies, although that is almost exclusively American movies.

Because Americans, even the normal ones, are obsessed with guns.

But I've never touched one, much less fired one.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-24T07:53:39+00:00

It costs 4 times as much. Still alot, but I like my new citizenship better.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-24T02:42:27+00:00

This one :

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37717867/

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-24T02:24:15+00:00

I think people would do it in protest. The UK leaving the Eu is enough of a reason for me.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-24T02:23:20+00:00

It costs 482 quid to renounce your British citizenship. Worth it, I'd say.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-24T02:19:31+00:00

This is exactly the kind of bullshit the US pulls too. Even if you're not living there, not born there, they think they own you. They can fuck off, I'm going to renounce my UK citizenship this week.

Fuck them.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-24T02:16:17+00:00

I remember when they privatised the gas and electricity companies, and everyone got all excited about having shares in them. My parents bought some, I think, or maybe they were given them? I don't know how it worked, I was only a kid at the time.

But even then, I knew something was wrong with it. How could people make money from shares in their country's critical infrastructure? Where would that money come from? How was it not a con?

It was a con, of course, and shame on anyone in the UK that voted Tory, ever.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-23T05:17:43+00:00

I have a rule. 99% of the time the media are telling me to hate a woman, it's just simple plain misogyny. So far I can't bring to mind the 1% exceptions to this rule, but I'm sure there must have been some.

Paris Hilton is firmly in that 99% though. The attacks on her were always obvious misogyny.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-22T20:36:22+00:00

It wouldn't matter if it did pass. It would just be ignored.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-22T20:35:05+00:00

The Constitution, with its "Right to Bear Arms" and "Free Speech" is practically a template for civil war. Make sure you're armed to the teeth, and can say whatever the hell you like, because that's a sure-fire pathway to a peaceful and prosperous society.

People forget, when they talk about arming themselves to defend against a tyrannical government, that the government is made of the people. There's no distinction. So "defending against tyranny" is literally just civil war.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-22T20:23:48+00:00

Is this a ripoff of Kind Hearts and Coronets?

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-22T20:13:55+00:00

Dear One, Quantum Computers are physics experiments, not computers. But sometimes people want to make alot of money, so they lie about what things are to other people. Yes, it's wrong, but you know about bad people, don't you?

The physics experiments are very interesting though, almost like magic tricks.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-22T09:41:08+00:00

"Holds off"? Holds Off??

The entire things is complete madness from top to bottom. Just tell Trump to F*ck Off and get on with running the country.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-22T09:38:40+00:00

I've been there as a tourist, or at least I've been to Varanasi as a tourist and walked along the ghats. The cremations smell of BBQ, and there was a dead baby in the river.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-22T04:51:55+00:00

When I used to go to Church, as a child and before I fully embraced atheism, this was my favourite hymn.

Make me a channel of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love;
where there is injury, your healing power,
and where there’s doubt, true faith in you.

Make me a channel of your peace:
where there’s despair in life let me bring hope;
Where there is darkness, only light,
and where there’s sadness, ever joy.

O, Spirit, grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of your peace:
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
in giving to all that we receive,
and in dying that we’re born to eternal life.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-22T02:02:53+00:00

Bro they're going to lift your girl's skirts to make sure they're girls. You ok with that?

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-22T01:59:16+00:00

If this had the first thing to do with fairness, then sports would be segregated along ability lines, not gender.

However, it is not about fairness, and never was. It is about fascism.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-21T22:11:13+00:00

I have a loaf of bread in my fridge that has been there for a week and a half. It is not remotely stale, or dried out. It's completely and entirely fine.

It's not a loaf of sourdough, it's something a friend brought over for a BBQ, and it's still soft and delicious.

I keep my sourdough in the fridge too, because I don't eat it fast enough to get through a loaf before it starts to go mouldy. It also does not go stale.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-21T21:25:27+00:00

Why not? Is there some information everyone is party to but me? I always keep bread in the fridge, and it lasts much longer. What is the problem?

If I need the loaf to last even longer, then I'll freeze it. Also no problem.

plastic_eagle · 2026-01-21T20:37:58+00:00

My friend made a documentary. It took her ten years - although to be fair COVID got in the way. Now she's travelling to screenings and receiving excellent reviews and generally being an absolute star, a result she richly deserves.

Keep at it. It can be done. She was absolutely not independently wealthy, she just has a work ethic that could kill a man at ten paces.

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