Couldn't tell a man from a plucked chicken.

As professor Farnsworth said when asked how many atmospheres the Planet Express ship could withstand: “Well, it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one”.

Also, lazyness and procrastination.

And, by extension, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Melinda May, aka The Cavalry.

Or, if Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. isn't Disney enough for you, Fennec Shand might do.

No, no, Kubrick hated shooting on location. All those Vietnam scenes in Full Metal Jacket..? Filmed right next to London.

Now, he did fake the moon landing, of course, that's why NASA gave him the lens he used to make every single frame in Barry Lyndon look like a period painting... but much like with the start of 2001 (also filmed in London), he wanted lots of location pictures for reference (he didn't want to go there, wherever it was, but he had no qualms whatsoever about sending other people), so he demanded NASA send astronauts to the moon anyway to take those pictures, and the official moon landing was faked using those pictures taken in the real one as reference.

Having to work for a living is already an extremely sad and dark lifestyle. It's inherently monstrous and inhumane, and antithetical to being a healthy individual psychologically, emotionally, and physically.

Compared to that, any hypothetical negative effects from sex work are as irrelevant as spitting into the sea.

And, frankly, sex work seems healthier, easier, and less emotionally taxing than most other alternatives, buck for buck, so if you're gonna get fucked anyway it might as well be non-metaphorically.

Or economically, given the absurd costs of medical attention in the USA.

It's a casino heist movie, you uncultured swine.

Photons move at the speed of light relative to the observer, regardless of the observer's speed.

If we're going physics-accurate, you wouldn't be blind, though you'd probably be a black hole (for a very brief time, before you evaporated due to Hawking radiation).

Photocopy of a photocopy.

Or, in more modern terms, JPEG of a JPEG.

Yeah, publication order seems like the best option to avoid possible spoilers in the prequels.

And do you know how he managed to make every frame in that film look like a period painting..? A very particular and expensive lens NASA gave him.

(Of course, though, while the man despised filming on location, he required massive amounts of reference pictures to build his sets, so even though the official moon landing was fake, NASA still had to get some astronauts there first to take those pictures for him.)

I editted all my comments, replacing whatever the text was for a message telling that greedy little pigboy to go fuck himself, and to train his AI on that. Every single one that I could find, because Reddit history sucks as much as its search.

No, no, they've got a point: if every citizen has enough guns to be entirely covered in them, the bullets won't be able to get through!

We've got an extremely short amount of time. A mere few decades, if we're lucky. And only a fraction of those with our full faculties. For most of our lives we're children, old and decrepit, sleeping, doing basic maintenance chores required for living (eating, shitting, cleaning ourselves and our environment, etc.) or sick (if we're lucky the later is a small fraction... but a lot of people aren't that lucky).

That leaves us precious little time to actually live our life. To enjoy ourselves. To share with our loved ones. And then we have to go and spend a vast majority of that already insufficient fraction earning the right to keep surviving (or more than a majority; an increasing percentage of people have to spend not only all their available healthy free time working, but also an ever larger amount of the time we're sick, or old). That includes not only the time wasted working as such, but also the time spent going to work and back (for which most of us don't get paid), or acquiring the tools needed to be able to work and get to work (car, gas, work appropriate attire, and so on; which also come off of our surviving another day budget).

That is evidently horrible. Monstrous. Inhumane.

You can argue that we should find jobs we enjoy, but that's only possible for a statistically irrelevant lucky minority... and even then most of said minority isn't able to choose what portion of their time to spend working, so they're still not free to enjoy themselves as they should.

You can argue that it's the human condition, that it's just how we're made. But it's not. We evolved to be hunter-gatherers, not office or factory workers. And hunting and gathering are hard work, sure, but they're healthier, they can be done on your own schedule, and they leave a surprising amount of free time, much more than we can afford now. Our bodies and minds didn't evolve to be able to support our current lifestyle (or workstyle, rather, since it can hardly be called life) without breaking down. We're not only wasting what little time we have, but we're hurting and killing ourselves in the process.

You could argue that tough luck, there's nothing we can do about it, and going back to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle is obviously not possible given the amount of people on the planet. But while it's true that we can't go back, it's also a fact that we're producing much more resources than we'd need to be able to comfortably sustain every person on the planet (and throwing a vast portion of them away). We have the means to automate practically every job. We could become a post-scarcity society if we wanted to. But our society isn't built around people (much less around people's wellbeing), it's not even built around corporations; it's built around the blind pursuit of short term stockholder profits (have you never considered how utterly monstrous and dehumanising the term "human resources" is? we're not people, we're not even workers... we're mere resources to be ground and processed into profit, and discarded once all profit has been extracted from our carcasses.

It's monstrous. It's Inhumane. And if left unchecked it will continue until the time we can physically dedicate to earning our right to exist isn't enough to pay for the cost of our survival (which might take a while; the bastards are looking for ways to exploit lucid dreaming to make us work in our sleep), and either society collapses or we are forced to rise and fight for our right to exist and be human.

Maybe they were referring to Kelsey..?

We used to do that too. Dog happily inhaled it, as dogs are wont to do. Eventually, dog had a stomach torsion. Had to have surgery. Miraculously survived. We kept feeding it rice stew (we're idiots, you see), dog kept inhaling it, despite warnings by the vet not to let it eat fast (how!?) and us trying our best (except not feeding him that kind of food, of course; as I said, idiots). Got second stomach torsion, second surgery. Didn't survive. Everyone was sad.

If your dog is medium to large (or smaller but with a wide chest) be careful it doesn't eat too fast.

I mean... as someone who's had to port some .NET framework software to .NET 6... yes... but.

20 years old .NET framework code will keep working, sure, as long as you can find and install the correct .NET framework runtime, but maintaining it might be a different matter... you can code .NET with notepad, if you feel like it, but for .NET framework code you will need Visual Studio, with the proper SDKs... which might not be available in the latest version of Visual Studio (on occasion I've had to install VS 2019 so I could compile old .NET framework code in VS 2022).

And when you get it to compile you still might have to deal with third party tools (Crystal Reports, for instance) that don't work in modern .NET or later versions of Visual Studio...

And of course then you want to add something new to the code, which is why you went through all that trouble to begin with... but the tools for what you want to do are only available in modern .NET, or as nuget packages that won't work with framework... and you'll have to migrate the whole thing to the latest long term support version of .NET... which sure, is several orders of magnitude less work than rewriting the whole thing in some other language, and heavily automated... but is still a whole process.

But then of course there's the bits of .NET framework that got deprecated during the transition (or in later updates), or the third party libraries that never got updated... and you'll have to find or implement replacements for those...

But yeah, once you've done all that your refurbished 20 year old code will still work today, and significantly better than it did before... and if it isn't too ridden with windows dependencies (WPF and the like) it might even be portable to Linux or Mac, or whatever. And it'll probably still work (and do it even better) 20 years from now.

they were chosen first and foremost because it's a cool visual

They used ornithopters in the books (though I don't think the specifics of the design were ever described); I don't remember if Herbert ever specified why he used ornithopters and not helicopters, or planes, or airships, or levitating ships, though; maybe they'd be less likely to attract worms, maybe he just felt they added to the alien / far future feeling of the setting.