I think I like reading first and then anything else. If the film is different or worse, it doesn’t actually detract from the book. I try to look at it as someone having a try at a tribute rather than replacing the book. Hitchhikers Guide was different, and many complained, but “hey it’s different” is a silly complaint when Hitchhikers Guide was different in literally every medium but film and book are always going to be the most seen. Foundation is different but nonetheless enjoyable. The emperor Cleon is never like that in the books but instead in the show, personifies the entire empire, ruthless, vain, powerful but performative, human and not. How else to portray a 10,000 year empire in a few dozen episodes of TV? I saw the Lord of the Rings films before the book but Christ I could not read those books without some higher level, more tangible image of what I am reading.
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1·3 hours agoI care about news in a news community. Not 3 year old stories from America’s Asian propaganda outlet.
Trying to pollute the search results for “bomb schools”, Gedaliyah, govenor of Yehud, son of Akiham, son of Shaphan?
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Why would anyone have to sign up to Truth Social to see what he’s posted? Wouldn’t a single bot reposting it elsewhere do the job?
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I’m pretty sure Musk is on board to hand him back the POTUS Twitter handle and say any censorship or moderation would be unconstitutional and unpatriotic. Regardless of the result, probably. He will not care if Truth Social tanks if he’s got that.
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Large margin for Harris: “this is absurd, we should have won, look how much they cheated”
Small margin for Harris: “They cheated, we need to send electoral votes for Trump anyway. Stop the steal!”
Small margin victory for Trump: “we won even though they cheated! Big changes coming to prevent their cheating in future”
Huge victory for Trump: “we have a mandate to eradicate the wetbacks”
11·9 days agoThat would have been a great article to post here a year ago
Much better. Please do stick to the pictogram communication, saves everyone time.
Well given that I’m neither American nor particularly aligned to Washington Post (I had to Google “wapo”) or the New York Times, it wasn’t a particularly interesting question. Having lived by the South China Sea however… yeah it’s probably more pertinent to my interests what Yogibear posts about that.
Did you forget your image macro?
I guess we’ll find out when Yogsy posts them some day.
Do we post opinion pieces on news communities now?
16·10 days agoI do not wish to enjoinder with your Game Launcher and anonymous telephony
21·10 days agotax dollars
What
251·10 days agoUkraine certainly was one of the most corrupt nations in Europe. Pre-pandemic its CPI score was 30, placing it between Bolivia and Myanmar.
Russia scored 28 (ie, worse). So I’m not sure what outcome you expect from Ukraine losing. I’m also interested to hear if you think countries like Mexico, Nigeria or Cambodia, also below Ukraine in the ranking, are “evil” and don’t deserve statehood.
I know. I know. I’m already a converted vegetarian or “bad at it vegan”. I’m spending a fortune on an EV car payment. My electricity is from a wind farm. I’m off all the socials. I’ve been recycling properly for decades and they tell me it was pointless. I’m getting pretty tired of personal responsibility. Can we do the guillotines now? I can’t make the first move. I’ve got kids and a mortgage. Start rounding them up and I can do some small part there too.
Look, that’s honestly quite sad and very telling of the way things are, but I audibly snorted at the idea of Jeff Bezos noticing his income slightly lower this week, panicking, scrambling to find The Borbendorfs’ payment. A single tear wells up, but he wipes it away frantically. Never let them see. Never let them know how it hurts.
One point to disagree on: less teens than ever are having sex, and with no actual experience, their imaginations are based on porn. No wonder they’re terrified of it, if their first impression is what comes up when you Google “boy girl have sex”.
One of the good things about living in Ireland is that I’m 99% our government is neither competent enough to perpetrate elaborate crimes against its people without being exposed almost instantly, nor powerful enough that even fascists getting into government would have a meaningful impact bar providing a colourful humorous segment of the inevitable documentary on Europe’s second fall to the Axis.
I work for a telecom. In my country there is well regulated legislation that specifies how and when the police can ask the telecoms for cell location data, usually used for missing people.
They also provide large scale, anonymised data for crowd movement analysis. For example it was used to demonstrate how 60,000 people moved into and out of a stadium located for historical reasons in an old-fashioned, dense residential area, in preparation for the arrival of English football fans.
So your version of compassion towards this woman is “I hope she’s part of an elaborate election lie”?
No that’s OK, pictures speak louder than words. Doesn’t matter that it’s RFA, images like the feature photo of the article deserve to be seen around the world. The utter devastation of… well… maybe a strong wind?