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What movie terrified you as a child? Or what character?
Watership Down and Gremlins.
Also, the Bunyip song from Dot and the Kangaroo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXikpns1bog
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What movie terrified you as a child? Or what character?
Watership Down and Gremlins.
Also, the Bunyip song from Dot and the Kangaroo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXikpns1bog
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What movie would you suggest on either side of the below question?
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I think I'd still say it's a white movie. It's about masculinity, consumerism, and class which are universal challenges, but it looks at them through the lens of how they impact white men.
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What is your usual request when you're getting a haircut?
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I moved and had to switch about 4 years ago. I really considered driving 2+ hours back to my old barber.
I'm happy with my new barber, but switching was really uncomfortable.
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What is your usual request when you're getting a haircut?
I have two strategies for barbers, one is to bring in photos. I've been told I look like Seth Rogen, so I looked through a bunch of his photos to find a haircut I liked. That way I had a decent idea what I'd look like with that haircut.
The second is to never switch barbers. It's nice to have someone who recognizes my preferences on the whole experience.
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The "Jewish Space laser" lady making sense
MTG is absolutely an antisemite and not someone we need to give more airtime too. Don't care if she's railing against people I don't like.
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A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began
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That's a good sentiment to have for things that need to be built for society as a whole. You don't need to extend the same courtesy to for profit endeavors that don't provide a general benefit.
This is not standing up to support building a homeless shelter in your neighborhood, because it has to go somewhere. It's more like supporting a McDonald's. There's plenty of them already, and they have plenty of other options for building more.
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Lemmy.world Admin Response to Defederation from Exploding Heads
Good, and thank you. No need to tolerate hate and I would be happy if we had a low bar for instances that encourage hateful conduct.
How hard is it to defederate and re-federate an instance? I'd like if the admins had the ability to remove instances if they weren't properly moderated, and then add them back if things improved.
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Yet they know what dishware I'm looking for...
This is why it's common in the black community to get a receipt whenever you buy anything. You can't prove where you are at all times, but you can prove that you were at a particular time and place. Might save you from being railroaded for a crime you didn't commit.
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The White House releases updated map for 2027
Hate to nitpick a joke, but they've swapped Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
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Found this colour matching guide online, do you agree or is it questionable?
It's not wrong, but I don't know how helpful it is. I think it could be helpful for identifying complimentary colors, but it's missing some context about which articles of clothing are which colors.
For example, it lists pink as a matching color for light blue. IMO, light blue pants with a pink shirt works fine, but a light blue shirt wouldn't work so well with pink pants. In general you'd want your pants a darker color or cooler tone than your shirt.
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The cylinder must remain unharmed
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At first glance I would have said two, the handle and the donut hole. After reading and considering your answer, I'm pretty confident you're right. The space between the tunnel formed by the donut hole and the mug itself forms an odd hole, but there it is.
Kudos, that's a fun little puzzle.
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*Throws grenade and runs*
The simplest answer, real world LLMs and AI are real, and holodecks are fictional. Plenty of things are cool in fiction and not something we should actually build.
See the classic tweet about the Torment Nexus.
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Too much red? 🩸
The red looks good, and I think the shirt works well too. I don't like the tie, but I'm not sure what would work. The knit texture looks good, so maybe try a solid color knit tie?
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The Democrats caused the Vietnam War, lost it and then blamed people for them losing it
Interesting that even in the chain of events depicted in the comments it's started and ended by Republicans and the poster assigns all the blame to Democrats.
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Can these be formal?
No, they won't look right with anything formal. They're fine for "office casual" or something, but if the host has asked for formal attire this isn't it.
If you like these, try for a more conventional tassel loafer. The problem is really the sole, and stitching.
These being Docs, that puts the price around $150 to $200. That's good news, you'll have a lot of options in the same price range. Start shopping early, especially if you have to do mail order. A wedding can be a long day, especially if you're dancing at the reception afterwards. It may take you a little while to find something that works for you.
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What drink tastes awful but somehow people still act like it's amazing?
NA (non alcoholic) beer.
I enjoy beer, even the macro-brewery styles. Every NA beer I've tried is the dishwater tasting worst example of beer. I don't get it. There are so many better NA options.
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Gamers of Lemmy, how do you mouse on the couch?
Mostly a Steam controller. It works in almost every application or game.
I've also got a trackball for the few cases where the controller doesn't work. I don't use it very often because I don't think there's a comfortable way to use it on the couch without using a lapdesk or something.
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Volunteering enshittification
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Furthermore, a lot of nonprofits are financing at least part of their operations through grants. Those grants often require them to prove that they work was completed and done so in compliance with the grant terms. Photographs could be part of the evidence they collect to document how they used the funds.
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You have to pay for those Mr.Flock
How... How are you using the urinal that it's getting a view of your bare ass?
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Is this too joker? 🃏
Short answer is yes, it's too Jokerish.
Longer answer is still yes, but how to fix it depends on how Joker adjacent you want to be. Feel free to dress however you want. You can pull off a lot of looks by being confident and comfortable in your outfit. But since you're asking I'll share a couple of thoughts about what I would do. Feel free to mix and match based on what you prefer.
Change the black shirt for something else. Something lighter, maybe a lavender if you want to have a purple theme. Your shirt should be the lightest part of your outfit and it shouldn't match your pants this close. If you really want to keep a dark shirt look, check out pictures of Regis Philbin when he was hosting Who Wants to be a Millionaire. It's not a look I personally like, but he pulled it off pretty well.
Add a blazer or sport coat, and lose the vest. Vests are hard to do in anything other than a very formal setting. If you want to keep the vest, at least move the pocket square to the blazer.
Change the pants to something like a charcoal grey. Dark grey is much easier to wear than straight black and I promise it'll look way better with your shoes.
Change the tie or pocket square, they shouldn't match this much. One of the hard parts of dressing in monochrome is that it makes the color you do use really stand out. For the square, look for something that has purple (or whatever colors you're focusing on) in it. For the tie, maybe try a black tie. If you want to have solid color (that's not black) tie, think about trying out a knit tie. I've got a black grenadine tie that is really easy to wear with a lot of different outfits.
Lose at least one piece of jewelry accessories. There's too much going on in too little space. You can still wear some other pieces elsewhere, like a bracelet(s) or ring(s) but don't go nuts with it.