Look at all that collaborative productive work culture!

CPAP

You likely have sleep apena, and when your blood oxygen drops low you get sleep paralysis.

The popularity of Predator is both the premise, and not assuming the audience are complete idiots, and providing them just enough information for the audience to figure it all out, without the movie explicitly spelling it out.

Going into the movie, audience isn’t sure if what was killing the commandos was some kind of ‘monster’, magical entity, etc.

The suspense and trying to piece together “Just wtf is it that’s hunting them an why” is the entire point of the movie.

As the information slowly trickles in, we find out that it is an alien species on a safari hunt. Because why not? It makes perfect sense that we drop into a different world ‘jungle’ and hunt big dangerous game. Why couldn’t an alien species want to do the same?

Why wouldn’t an alien species want ‘sport’ in that manner and only hunt the armed males.

And the movie explained all of this, without some random character just saying all of that information out loud to explain it to the audience. We piece that together ourselves.

This is why Predator movies as of late fall flat on their face.

We already know what it is, and why its there. So everything after that is pointless.

Predator 2 was ‘slightly’ interesting, as it filled in some gaps on the species itself.

• is there more than 1
• do they hunt other things?
• what kind of other technology do they have?

But beyond that, any Predator movie afterwards is a complete waste of time, unless it’s an audience member going into something like “Prey” completely blind to what a Predator even is, and/or has never seen any previous movie.

Once you see the first movie and know the premise (or know the premise before ever going into it), the magic of it is already gone.

Question is… How much cheaper…

LFP is almost at the price point we could all have a freezer sized battery pack in our house, drastically changing the grid, and allowing a place for all that wind/solar to store energy.

If Sodium is a fair chunk cheaper, then it will totally be worth buying a house battery pack. Buying energy on the cheap at certain times of day, and using the battery when energy prices are high.

Was it Mario this time?

Instead of just bringing a laptop, now your forced to bring a laptop and a USB-C Hub.

Train a model on nothing but drama,

(Just about all written text is drama, otherwise it wouldn’t be written down, whether it’s internet comments or stories)

Your output will always be drama.

Ridiculous on their part.

With crypto going more and more mainstream, it won’t be long before another payment system shows up and starts competing against Visa/MC and Paypal.

They are opening up a lane for a competitor to fill a fairly large gap.

Yeah, the original was way more entertaining, agreed.

But the original didn’t really touch on the Ghost in the Machine-esque nature of blurring that line between man/machine.

Also the premise that they did it just to have a ‘mobile tank’ on the streets of Chicago was meh…

The premise of the newer movie, where they had to have a hybrid person in to push the narrative to achieve public opinion/support to allow robotic drones to roam the streets so they can make that sweet military industrial complex money and keep the plebs in place?

Yeah… way more believable, if not a direct prediction of exactly what is to come.

Robocop 2014

I think its extremely underrated.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, because out of all the sci-fi movies I’ve seen in the last two decades, this one has a very high likely chance of playing out exactly as indicated in the film.

We will blur the line between man and machine, and eventually have a identity crisis.

We will very likely see autonomous drone platoons being coordinated by a few or single human operator.

Those drones will likely be deployed in a military fashion first with push-back on deploying on home soil as a police force.

Until they will inevitably be deployed and used against civilians.

Also kudo’s to the scene where he is stripped down to the bare parts, and the entire theater went quiet. There’s a level of existential dread, when your ‘being’ is laid bare that the reality is… you… everything about you… is just a small clump of grey matter.

It doesn’t need to be a ‘protected class’.

If you were hired as an accountant, and job description explains what the job entails.

The boss can’t tell you to go out front and mow the grass, and fire you if you refuse.

It’s not in your job description.

Same with remote work. If the job description said 100% remote work.

It would be the same as hiring someone in one city, and then demanding they move to another city, and firing you if you refuse.

Sure, they can let you go, but they’d be on the hook for compensation. (in most civilized places anyway)

You don’t get a letter of employment offer?

I think you’re still kind of screwed if they want you in the office and you’re officially remote.

Depends on what you mean by ‘screwed’. If they hired you with certain expectations, like in writing job is ‘remote’, then you can refuse.

If they fire you as a result, yes, you are ‘screwed’ in the case of you’ve lost your job,

But you then sue for wrongful dismissal, in which case you have some recourse.

But if you live in a country/state that doesn’t allow you to do that, and offers no employee protections,

You were screwed from the beginning by accepting work in such a place to begin with.

If you accepted a remote job, you should have it in writing that the job is ‘remote’ work.

If your job wasn’t remote initially, but assumed it would be remote going forward, you should have demanded that the job has changed to ‘remote’ in writing.

If your job wasn’t initially remote, was temporarily made remote, and they are now changing back. Be prepared to walk.

Found it

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/entertainment/chris-martin-concert-kiss-cam

Context? Who r these people?

Domokun

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Interesting, I hadn’t heard this one. Proof?

You haven’t lived the Great Australian Dream?

Where would you rather be mate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEt0dXsxORE