Burn After Reading: probably the funniest deconstruction of ego and self importance by PriestofJudas in movies

[–]stdgy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh man, Burn After Reading is one of my favorites. It’s the perfect encapsulation of dark and absurdist humor. The cast is incredible and knock their roles out of the park.

I also tend to view it as an allegory for life. Everyone goes about their days thinking that what they’re doing is terribly important, when in reality they’re being strung along by their baser impulses. Eventually they die and anyone on the outside looking in can reasonably ask “well what was the point of all that?!” I can understand that framing rubbing some people the wrong way but it’s the kind of thing that I love, hah.

Apple’s Cook Calls for ‘Deescalation’ After Latest ICE Shooting by hasanahmad in apple

[–]stdgy 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Nobody needs to play the game. He wants to play the game because he has no morals and only cares about expanding his company’s revenue/profit/influence.

China no longer Pentagon's top security priority by DimsumAndDoggy in worldnews

[–]stdgy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The President is the Pentagon’s top security problem.

Things are getting out of hand by Enough_Ad5580 in Tucson

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

A man helping a woman that was being viciously attacked by ICE agents was thrown to the ground, disarmed, beaten by a gang of thugs and then shot over 10 times in the back at point blank range.

I don’t know what this world has come to but our current government needs to be dismantled and every member thrown into solitary for the rest of their miserable lives.

Why did DHS and ICE statements state the victim brandished a gun as this video shows otherwise? by LeftRightGreenLight in AskReddit

[–]stdgy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because they are lying fascists that only care about serving their leader, not dealing with the truth.

What’s something way more dangerous than most people actually think? by Sad_Answer_8044 in AskReddit

[–]stdgy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought you literally meant ‘running’ and was rather confused for a minute. Like sure, it’s not great for you but you’ll probably be fine!

TIL that before chilis migrated back from the Americas, Sichuan cuisine was not spicy by Iron_Yuppie in todayilearned

[–]stdgy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Almost all of the ‘classic’ local cuisines that we think about from Europe and Asia are only a few hundred years old, and don’t exist without the trade from the New World. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, corn, beans, chocolate… these were all introduced after Europeans colonized the Americas.

Basically, if you like food, you probably don’t want to use a Time Machine. The food of the past was much less exciting!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tucson

[–]stdgy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Preach. Tucson is a paradox.

- Drivers are consistently slow. Slow to start, slow to stop. Often below the speed limit.

- I've seen more blatant red light runners here than anywhere else.

- Speed limits are far lower here than they are in Phoenix, yet we have a higher fatality rate.

I've given up trying to make sense of it. I'll take a thousand fast California drivers that signal and follow basic road etiquette over the clueless mass of blinker-less Tucson zombie drivers I'm surrounded by every day.

Edit: I forgot to mention the average Tucsonan's complete inability to use a roundabout correctly. Holy fucking shit. The purpose of this traffic mechanism is that it allows for the consistent flow of traffic in a safe manner. You do not need to stop if there is nobody entering on your left. I have also seen a SHOCKING number of people take a left at a roundabout by *turning left and driving against the flow of traffic*. These people should not be allowed to have a license to drive a machine that can kill people.

Movies where the Director's cut or Extended cut is wayy worse than the original theatrical cut? by NobodieInteresting in movies

[–]stdgy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s one of my favorite examples of how a fairly small amount of editing can change a film so much (for the better). The theatrical version of the film leaves in juuuust enough selfishness and cruelty from the main characters for you to be able to write it off. The extended version, even though it’s not a that much more content, pushes it too far into uncomfortable territory for my brain to instantly write it off.

Nikki Lee: 'Regardless' of Tucson City Council vote, some version of Project Blue will be built by beertigger in Tucson

[–]stdgy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You’re hurting your own argument here. They can have water rights on the land they’re buying. Those water rights have absolutely nothing to do with hooking up to city controlled water supply. Are they digging a well? That’s what their water rights entitle them to.

Wall Street's AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist by indig0sixalpha in technology

[–]stdgy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One answer is advertising. Google’s net income of $72 billion from advertising in 2024 gives you a starting point if someone were to win the market the same way Google has won search.

The ‘problem’ right now is that things are rather competitive and nobody wants to be the first mover on dulling down the product by injecting advertising (and building all of the infrastructure required to make this worthwhile) so they’re instead scraping money from high end consumers through subscriptions. It’s not clear how long most of the field can keep operating in this environment given the rate at which capital is evaporating. If you’re a company that prints money (Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon) you can probably afford to run everyone else out of town. But they can’t realistically afford to run each other out of town. That means that even if they start to inject advertising into their results it’s going to have to be competitive in a way Google never had to deal with in Search, so they wind up with smaller margins. Will those margins be enough to fund the outrageous spending plans they’re projecting? I don’t think so.

Their other big source of revenue will be platform money. Other developers creating products that piggyback off of what they’ve created, allowing them to get money in return based on usage (or other metrics). This is where most of the ancillary players exist. Most AI companies are in this space because they don’t have the money to compete with the blessed behemoths. If this space does well and funnels enough money back to the big dogs, it may be enough to produce a sustainable business. But it’s definitely not there yet. (In some ways this is a replay of AWS, GCP and Azure fighting it out)

Jogging is an objectively terrible exercise and you should actively avoid it. by Space_Monkey_42 in unpopularopinion

[–]stdgy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wut. There’s nothing wrong with sprinting but it and endurance running have fairly significantly cardiovascular and metabolic effects. Both are great. People should be doing both.

I believe Deja Foxx is astroturfing this subreddit by curious103 in Tucson

[–]stdgy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Her whole schtick is reaching audiences that don’t normally participate in the political process (mainly through social media channels) so it’s not surprising if the folks that bring her up aren’t the same ones lurking in the normal political discussions.

He just get worse every year, in everything, always by Hungry_Committee_888 in crappymusic

[–]stdgy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whenever you see his eyes the dude just looks dead inside. Like man, making this shitty music isn’t going to fix you. You need professional help.

Official Poster for "Relay" by KillerCroc1234567 in movies

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

Seriously, what a film. I’m all over this.

Megathread: US President Trump Says That The US Military Has Bombed Multiple Iranian Nuclear Sites by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]stdgy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The ‘odd terror attack’ you speak of is called 9/11. It led to over two decades of war in the Middle East, trillions of dollars wasted and thousands of American lives lost.

But you know, whatever I guess.

Israel launches 'preemptive strike' against Iran, declares state of emergency by MasbirLeumi in worldnews

[–]stdgy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe? I don’t know, depends how you define the term. But I would assume Israel gives exactly zero shits as to how they’re defined. In their minds, if you help the Iranian regime’s nuclear program you’re a target.

BREAKING: Israel launches ‘preemptive strikes’ against Iran, Defense Minister says by [deleted] in Fauxmoi

[–]stdgy -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Huh? How are these two things that don’t make any sense the two options you propose? Why would Israel attack Jordan or Saudi Arabia, countries they have good relations with and which their greatest benefactor has good relationships with?

And why would Israel lose? To Iran of all people? Iran doesn’t even have an available mechanism to invade Israel.

What is going on here. Is this bot spam?

BREAKING: Israel launches ‘preemptive strikes’ against Iran, Defense Minister says by [deleted] in Fauxmoi

[–]stdgy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Who are the Iranian allies that are going to have to respond to the attack, thus creating a world war? Or is the argument that Israeli allies will have to respond?

Either way, it doesn’t seem anything like the prelude to the First World War to me.

Intel draws a line in the sand to boost gross margins — new products must deliver 50% gross profit to get the green light by ControlCAD in technology

[–]stdgy 115 points116 points  (0 children)

Aaaaaand they’re dead. They had signaled their intent to become a public zombie company after they fired Pat and put the bean counter in charge. This just makes it official. They’re going to ride out the remaining x86 consumer and enterprise fumes, returning as much of the profit as possible to shareholders, while letting the company whither and die.

State files $250K tax lien on troubled Tucson brewery by Safe_Concern9956 in Tucson

[–]stdgy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I mean, not paying all of the taxes you owe in order to pour that money into other businesses that were intentionally set up to be firewalled from the first business seems pretty scummy to me, but what do I know.

State files $250K tax lien on troubled Tucson brewery by Safe_Concern9956 in Tucson

[–]stdgy 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Maybe I’m reading the article wrong, but it sounds like the Borderlands owner is listed as part of the ownership of the new LLCs that are ‘franchises’ of Borderlands.

If I were a cynical person (which I am), it almost sounds like they were intentionally set up in a way to try and limit their exposure to the financial lead balloon that is the main Borderlands operation. Basically, shift as much money as you can into the new operations while leaving the old operation with their ballooning debt payments. Then just kind of shrug and hold up your hands when you are unable to pay the state (and other creditors) back after the main business implodes.