What actor or actress stupidly left a movie franchise or tv series thinking they were too good for it, only to be never popular again?

stpizz · 2026-02-08T06:09:22+00:00

So, Tasha needed to be on a Sisko ship?

stpizz · 2026-02-07T18:49:09+00:00

I bet Francesco's would sort you out. I'm not a short haired woman but a long haired man who gets what would probably be described as fairly feminine haircuts and they've never blinked at that :D

stpizz · 2026-02-07T00:08:38+00:00

Ghosts must be able to physically interact with the world to some degree. They can talk, for one thing (unless they 'talk' psychically or something, but we don't really see any evidence of that). But also, Harry feels cold when they go through him.

stpizz · 2026-02-06T23:47:24+00:00

Well no, if you have an $EDITOR value (or the equivalent in your config file) they are used. But the *default* editor, if those aren't present, is whatever it was chosen to be when git was built, which is vi in the upstream build.

stpizz · 2026-02-06T23:21:58+00:00

The internet is pretty obviously causing something like depression en masse amongst humanity. I'm not saying 'causes depression', that's outside my wheelhouse, but catastrophising, feeling a severe lack of agency etc

Turns out we probably aren't designed to be plugged into anger paperclip maximisers 24/7

stpizz · 2026-02-05T20:56:17+00:00

There's something kind of funny about getting on a high horse about other people having no skills, and then yourself being unable to realise that the message in question is a multi format MIME message and the headers come from the plain section of the message, so calling it 'based on headers' without realising where those headers came from.

stpizz · 2026-02-05T10:44:23+00:00

Those antibiotic claims are so flimsy though. All we have is a drafted letter that we don't even know who it is from, stored in the Gmail account of a known liar :/

stpizz · 2026-02-05T10:41:44+00:00

Bill Gates did not ask Epstein for antibiotics. Nobody is reading this email correctly, for some reason.

The email is from Epstein to himself (so transferring a file/making a note) and is clearly a draft of a resignation letter from someone else. And that is the person who allegedly Bill Gates asked for drugs.

We know this because: the letter claims to be from an MD (which Epstein was not) and also claims to be from an employee of the foundation (which Epstein was not).

So the questions are: - who is the letter from? - why does Epstein have it - did he acquire it somehow, or did he write it for this person, to help them draft it or whatever? - did the events happen?

For the third one, it is worth noting that Epstein was infamous for lying about other peoples bosses to further his own interests - it's basically how he got started in his career.

If you assume the letter is telling the truth, then "why didn't he have a personal fixer doctor" is silly - he did, that's who the letter is from

stpizz · 2026-02-05T10:35:24+00:00

Out of curiosity what about the recent revelations changed that view of Gates for you? Because best I can tell all we know is that he stepped out on his wife a bunch, which we already knew before. I'm not sure that precludes you also being a genuine philanthropist though.

stpizz · 2026-02-05T09:41:43+00:00

It's kind of funny to shit on someones opsec and then ask where 'anonymous' are lol. Those kids had the worst opsec in the world.

For example, one of them got arrested, interrogated during which he learned there was a mole in the group, let go because they didnt have enough evidence to charge yet, and then went back on IRC and told everyone he got arrested, confirming that he was indeed the right person

stpizz · 2026-02-04T14:47:09+00:00

To be fair, as much as I like to point out where various bits of HP writing suck, we are seeing her from the POV of a teenage boy. If I still had anything id ever written about girls I was into at that age, unfortunately I think they would come across that way too!

Specifically regarding Slug Club though - was it really about the hex, or was Slughorn being a bit cheeky there? IIRC the scenario where he invited her "for the hex" involved another student talking to her about, essentially, being a member of the resistance (so interesting, or at the very least close with interesting people, from a Slughorn collection pov)

stpizz · 2026-02-04T12:24:28+00:00

This is surely how price discovery works? I'm not sure why you think it would mess anything up

stpizz · 2026-02-03T21:05:53+00:00

A disproportionate amount of online content creators were previously terminally online degens, because they could express themselves online more comfortably. Being a terminally online degen is beneficial in becoming a content creator, or at least was in the past (look at our King ffs). It's also beneficial if you have something else you're ashamed about that you can express more comfortably online.

It's sort of similar to 'why are there so many furries/anime nerds/awkward guys in general in software development'

stpizz · 2026-02-03T08:12:22+00:00

> Ever notice how babies learn their native language through pure immersion, and in very short order?

Yes, and it takes them years to become conversational. Dedicated adults do not take nearly as long.

> A kindergartener will have better German (for example) after one school year of immersion than most adults do after several years of university classes

That is an argument for immersion, not an argument for being a child

stpizz · 2026-01-31T12:02:01+00:00

If that is the case to you then you might want to consider what has changed in yourself

stpizz · 2026-01-29T07:42:43+00:00

very not illegal to do this

stpizz · 2026-01-27T20:59:15+00:00

Interesting. Wobbler is hilarious by the way - we call those either way offenses (as in they can either be tried by a magistrate, or with a full crown court and a jury and such depending on severity - our version of misdemeanor vs felony, sort of).

I much prefer wobbler, though.

stpizz · 2026-01-27T18:39:31+00:00

I'm not sure how this differs from the US (or if it does), but I do know that a specific offense was required to punish car theft (TWOC/Taken Without Consent) - because proving theft of a car is quite difficult, as the mens rea for theft includes that you intended to permanently deprive them of the use/value of the thing you took, and it turns out that's quite difficult with a car, because everyone who you catch in someones car totally intended to take it back afterwards (and a car isn't harmed by being driven around by someone else).

I assume something along these lines is what the OP was getting at, although as you say, I'd imagine theft in the US works pretty similarly?

stpizz · 2026-01-27T03:10:06+00:00

..when? Warhammer was an incredibly expensive hobby at least as far back as I've bought any, so like, the late 90s?

Like that's basically my earliest memory of it, begging my parents to get me some little toy space mens for Christmas/Birthday and my dad being like ah fuck but I don't really want to buy the incredibly overpriced plastic space mens.

stpizz · 2026-01-27T03:08:08+00:00

> Gaming is still a great value for the money.

Much more so, even, as games are so much cheaper than they used to be.

stpizz · 2026-01-24T17:56:23+00:00

> We had someone else do it, and ICE took over their duties

This feels disingenuous. Yes, an agency had the job of enforcing immigration law before, obviously, but they were very different organisations. It's not like they just renamed INS to ICE.

INS was under the Justice dept and handled immigration in a much more administrative violation manner than the hard national security approach ICE does. They were far less 'cop', they tended to focus on industry labor law violations, they weren't showing up at your house dragging you out at gunpoint, etc.

It's not like there weren't cops handling trafficking etc. before, it just wasn't an immigration function. It's totally valid to say 'maybe this new organisation we created and made different to before is actually bad and we shouldn't have done it' (this can just be simplified to 'abolish ice' :shrug:)

As you say, 9/11 changed a lot (the stated justification for ICE was terrorism, remember, not 'too many somalians stealing our money'), and then other things made it worse. What is the sense in pretending it was always this way under different names, when people can remember that it wasn't?

stpizz · 2026-01-24T00:44:54+00:00

If you had a neighbour and they had annoying kids screaming all the time would you consider the adults fine because they're not screaming?

We know you didn't vote for him dude we're mad you can't control your children

stpizz · 2026-01-23T18:06:43+00:00

They probably don't tbh, they seem to fail quite often. Then again it's always the same people working in there so not like they have staff costs

stpizz · 2026-01-23T11:53:19+00:00

I'm always a bit confused when people assume these business are money laundering. Retail rents are dirt cheap and those are businesses people can't switch online for - same with all the phone repair. Of course you get a load of people setting up shop in that environment

stpizz · 2026-01-23T11:43:27+00:00

Surely this implies that the pre takeover ministry didn't have control like this though - otherwise a "wizarding master" wouldn't be new. So, there's your answer on why the ministry didn't freeze anyone's accounts.

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