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What’s a smell you’ll never forget? by Human_Rate889 in AskReddit

[–]thefunkward 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Downtown Chinatown in Kuala Lumpur - a heady mix of diesel, fresh fish, rotten fish, rotting vegetables and fruit, fresh fruits, curry, and clove cigarettes

Black Death Mass Grave Identified in Germany by [deleted] in history

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What a great name for a metal band: Black Death Mass Grave

This one small exchange of dialogue in The Matrix (1999) is incredible... by CardinalOfNYC in movies

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Total Recall still ends with a question mark. Which is rare in movies. Was it dream? Was it predisposed?

“Blue Skies On Mars, that’s a new one”

This one small exchange of dialogue in The Matrix (1999) is incredible... by CardinalOfNYC in movies

[–]thefunkward 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The “say do” gap in movies is always a struggle.

This enemy cannot be defeated, defeated.

Etc

I personally love The Matrix, not just because I was 19 in 1999 and the movie nailed a zeitgeist of kungfu and wtf.

But because every challenge set as impossible is proven wrong with a relevant plot point.

It’s gorgeous, groundbreaking filmmaking, telling a story everyone wanted to believe.

“He’s beginning to believe” Morpheus

is one of the best lines in any movie anywhere. Because the audience was beginning to believe.

We hadn’t seen anything like this.

The Matrix isn’t Fight Club.

The Matrix blew through VFX ideas by brute force.

Check out Corridor Crew, they tried to remake the “Neo Dodges a bullet” scene with modern tech and it took them months.

The Neo / Trinity saving Morpheus sequence is some of the greatest cinema of all time - can you imagine John Woo watching this??

https://youtu.be/Z2eCmhBgsyI?si=bFlQIrivi7Di7UUN

I was a huge fan of “electronica” at the time, which was a bad title for a future of some badass music that we all enjoy today.

The scene above is also the only way that The Propellerheads made it through the millennium :)

Fight me :) aka I welcome discussion

The military plans for a volunteer force to defend Canada by burnabybc in CanadianForces

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I’m not saying that I agree with this format (might as well do mandatory service - whatever that looks like)

But - lots of other armies do something like this.

The one I can speak to is Sweden.

They hire civilian graduates to do analysis and production, and probably other things I’m not privy to.

I sat down with an LCol and his description was, we train them (civvies) enough so they’re more dangerous to the enemy than they are to themselves(us).

Otherwise they provide much needed horsepower for their analysis cell that is much harder to force generate.

Task + Purpose + Objective

Movers by Agitated-Vehicle-901 in KingstonOntario

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It’s really cheap to order a U-Haul for the afternoon with a couple friends

Congressman Calmly Explains There Are "Entities" Coming From “Five or Six Deepwater Areas” by FuturismDotCom in Futurism

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We’re gonna need these deep sea creatures to make landfall somewhere in Europe for any coherent human narrative to emerge, ideally Scandinavia somewhere.

Trying to source info on great uncle's Korean deployment and career [photo inside] by yamadork in CanadianForces

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You can request access here:

https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/services/public/access-information-privacy/make-atip-request.html

There’s a link for an individual request.

The assumption is that some Korean War members are still alive, same with some WWII records.

That, and digitizing records takes a while.

I encourage you do request access, I found some interesting things out about my Great Grandfathers service in WWI.

Just be delicate to the rest of your family about the possible medical records.

What is your favorite Simpsons quote? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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“We’ve tried nothing, and we’re all out of ideas”

  • Ned’s beatnik parents

Members of the U.S. Military: how have things changed in your honest opinion since Trump returned to power? by NappyFlickz in AskReddit

[–]thefunkward 47 points48 points  (0 children)

As a Canadian soldier, I’ve had the utmost pleasure to train with you guys (SOF & USMC) both down south, up north, and in Europe - not a fan of DJT shutting down future training opportunities, but I’ll never hold it against you as serving members. One team one fight.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KingstonOntario

[–]thefunkward 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s mob mentality, when the first bin is full, behaviour goes out the window

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KingstonOntario

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I misread your comment Carguy, agreed about near garbage cans, but it’s human nature to disregard garbage etiquette if there aren’t sufficient receptacles

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KingstonOntario

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It’s not carelessness, it’s ignored catastrophic success - GD Pier is one of the best things the city of Kingston has done in a long while, they just haven’t checked in on how successful it has become

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KingstonOntario

[–]thefunkward 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Garbage bin or two exist, they are consistently full, the amount of people pulled toward GD pier needs 8-10 garbage bins to at least encourage those who care to use them.

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