Talaraine

Yeah I loved the effects and the cinematography, I mean that’s what makes new movies fantastic… it’s a showcase of how real we can get things to look.

But the books were filled from cover to cover with worldbuilding that’s a whole lot more than vistas. There’s reasons and motivations that lead you to where the story begins and a failure to grasp at least some of those (Butlerian Jihad, Bene Gesserit, Guild Navigators and ofc the SPICE) leaves you with what @reddig33 said.

But the new movies seem very sterile, slow, and dull.

They are rote action movies that fail to evoke any real emotion, and that’s a shame.

Yeah if you watch the site for sales the Aeron can get decently cheap. Plus, consider that these chairs have a 10 year warranty, unlike the ones you pick up at an office supply store.

The Aeron really changed everything for me.

Don’t discount the fact that Israel supported us in every way when 9/11 happened. I firmly believe every favor is being called in at this point.

From what I’ve seen on Lemmy at least, nobody really cared that she was attending but we had full popcorn bowls to watch the rest of the world lose their shit about it.

Heheh…I hate to break it to you, but it’s not just old people who have nothing better to do than shit out racism misogyny and bile.

And I think this is how every new tech goes. I mean, the community here still seems much more civil because we’re smaller in number.

My grandmother told me that if she could offer me one piece of advice it would be to stop worrying about the world, stop worrying about the future. If your thoughts are always there, they’re never here and you just wake up one morning realizing how much time has disappeared.

She told me to just enjoy my life, every moment.

This is the way. If you can’t find a way into a company you know you want to work for, start in Support. Shine, and move up and out.

I think if you’re kissing the asshole that qualifies as ‘eating’ ass, not kissing it

This. Plus I genuinely think he doesn’t want the spot, which makes him singularly qualified to have it.

So he could time travel the way he wants to rather than being bound by an arbitrary 3 hour time limit?

What ‘ruined’ Christmas this year was having to go home and spend it with my parents, one of whom is bedridden and non responsive from Alzheimers. It’s more akin to a wake where everyone is focused on someone who is dead and there’s little joy to be had. I’ve been doing it now for 5 years and there’s no sign that it will end soon.

It is incredibly stressful and morose. Christmas isn’t really joyful anymore because Mom could die at any time. The worst part of it is that all of us recognize that she’s suffering and so are we, but the government won’t allow any other outcome.

Still, the family shows up and puts in the work for caring for her for many reasons, the least of which is that she raised us for almost 20 years. She was a wonderful person and she’s owed that, bottom line. It is uplifting in a way because we come together and work together for a purpose and while it’s hard and sad, we’ve bonded over it nonetheless.

But… what kind of Christmas will we have once she’s gone?

I think they remember doing it when they were puppies xD.

Of course I can fit. duh

Ironically means that everything I watch on my Linux machine will definitely be pirated.

While his later years were definitely marked with controversy and dumb to the point of evil decisions, he made decisions in earlier presidencies that without a doubt were helpful. You gotta understand this time period was what bought him the credence he used to get people to trust his later decisions.

Decisions we now universally regret.

This. So much this.

There’s dozens of us. Widescreen means I’ve got more real estate on the sides

Correct.

It’s complex and I encourage you to do research as this is all from the hip and might not be accurate.

It goes back to World War 2 and the suffering the Jewish people endured. The countries involved decided to give Israel their historical lands as a place where they could self-determinate and be safe. The problem is that other people owned that land at the time and had little say… these same people are understandably upset with that decision and have been fighting for their own land inside Israel since then. So there’s automatically two sides living in the same country wanting the other out.

Terrorism was really coming into its own during the first couple decades, and terrorism works best for those that don’t have an organized military… so the Palestinians sided with them. Black September, the PLA, Hamas… one after another these groups caused a lot of damage, which meant Israel locked all of them into one tiny part of Israel for their own security. Gaza.

But Israel isn’t a saint in all this. They keep expanding their settlements into claimed territory and rarely through any civil means. They treat the Palestinians as the enemy, even when not all of them are. Same sort of struggle the whole west is having at the moment. There’s lots of politics at play in the Middle East, and those countries also don’t want Palestinians to come into their countries because of the damage those terrorist groups have done to them too. I believe it was Jordan that was completely destabilized after taking in a bunch of Palestinian refugees.

Then Hamas attacked Israel and killed a ton of people, have innocent hostages, and have vowed to never ever stop. Israel is at a crossroads. They obviously have to wipe them out… same way America felt about Al’Qaeda. But Hamas is hiding in Gaza, right in the middle of population centers. What to do?

Israel announced to everyone in Gaza that they needed to move south, dropped fliers saying they were going to attack, all the things. Then they attacked. Now innocent Palestinians are getting killed because they either couldn’t or wouldn’t leave, and Israel isn’t allowing humanitarian aid in.

It’s a giant cluster, is what it is.

Cold turkey.

Video for those that’d like to see it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDV_bTCGUw