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Been a student. Been a clerk. Been a salesperson. Been a manager. Been a teacher. Been an expatriate. Am a husband, father, and chronicle.

  • What's your favorite film and why?

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  • Please watch all of Brad Bird's writer-credit movies. All are fun. Only Tomorrowland is... odd.

  • What is a small thing you did that changed your life in a big way?

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  • I got hacked on Facebook (2018), stopped using Instagram (2019), quit Reddit (2023) & Xitter (2025).

    Now I have only books (lots of audiobooks), Google Keep (own thoughts and pics), Lemmy (random thoughts), and Bluesky (microblog).

    My input and output are much healthier, the people I interact with (when actually people) are nicer, and I generally don't feel doomed.

    Well, yes, I realize the world is fucked, fucked up, and fucking crazy. I've reduced by orders of magnitude how toxic it is to my headspace because I'm cutting out the worst of the dreck and engaging with more objectively real information. I'm not in screaming echo chambers populated in the millions. I'm happy if I get 10 responses to a post. Updoots are incidental.

    Its like leaving L.A. to settle down in Schitt's Creek.

  • Doug Ford says he will not ban companies from charging two people different prices for the same item, saying that doing so would be “socialism.”

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  • Correction: charging two people...

    — in the same store, in the same plaza, on the same day, at the slightly different times (or not!), discriminating between them algorithmically —

    different prices for the same item...

    • So much for early 2000s "price matching."

    • So much for benefits to loyal customers.

    • So much for knowing your grocery budget.

    • So much for the "neighbourhood store."

    • So much for people being anything other than another resource to mine.

    Everyone, everywhere is just a "rational consumer" guided by the "invisible hand" and "voting with their dollars" so that "the best products" emerge.

    All of these axioms have, in the fullness of time, proven false.

  • Is there any movies like Falling Down with Michael Douglas?

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  • Falling Down is the American Dream turned nightmare.

    I'd submit that — in 1993 — the one that struck me as being the most similar was Demolition Man. Not the Sly Stallone character in comparison, tho. The Dennis Leary character was more a 1 to 1 analogue of the non-conformist pushing back on a system that deems him "not economically viable."

    Later, 1998, I'd say that The Way of the Gun (wri/dir Christopher McQuarrie) does this well. I know, I know, low scores on RT and iMDB, but this movie still works for me. Even the opening scene, which sets up a world of reprehensible characters perfectly. It's a rock-solid neo-noir western helmed by a the writer of the Usual Suspects (and a long string of Tom Cruise projects including M:I 5,6,7&8.)

    I'd also toss in Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai. A man, who has a code, undertakes to address that which he sees as unjust while moving through a world that wants to exploit him. And, American Beauty (1999) (tw: Spacey)

    By the late aughts and early '10s, in the wake of the total meltdown of the global economy, Margin Call (2010, only economic violence) and Killing Them Softly (2012). "Now fucking pay me."

    From TV: The Wire and Breaking Bad fit the bill.

  • Live, Laugh, Rule

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  • What part of a movie do people put their huge effort into but never noticed or the sceene I just for a minute or so? Who in your opinion is the best that doesn't get recognized?

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  • Continuity, governed by the script supervisor, is designed to be invisible.

    "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." ~ God Entity, Futurama S03E20

  • It's 2026, which tech did you realistically think we would have by now?

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    • Genetic-level diagnoses and treatments.

    • Inexpensive, rapid genome sequencing.

    • Commonplace genetic counselling for more than just pregnancy.

    • Laws in place to govern the collection, use, ownership, and patenting of human genes and genetic information.

    • Cloned tissues (i.e. blood, skin), organs (i.e. heart, lungs, kidneys) for transplant or repair.

    I graduated university the same year the Human Genome Project first published completion. Certainly, that project uncovered more questions than answers.

    Also, we've done an absolutely garbage job of becoming appropriate stewards of this technology. Primarily, today, it would be used to identify, segregate, subjugate, and eventually kill a portion of the population.

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    How does the anticonsumption philosophy reaches the mainstream media?

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  • Books/Magazines/Podcasts:

    • No Logo by Naomi Klein

    • Adbusters by Kalle Lasn

    • Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev

    • A New Train of Thought (though somewhat ham-fistedly) by Various Writers

    • Ashes, Ashes by David Torcivia and Daniel Folkner

    • Reset by Roland J. Diebert

    Fitting the description of movie/show:

    • Mr. Robot

    • Utopia (UK version)

    • Killing Them Softly

    • The Big Short, Margin Call

    • Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

    • 3-Iron (Korean film)

    • Parasite (Korean film)

    There are several documentaries and short films

    • The Corporation by Joel Bakan, Harold Crooks, Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott

    • Who Killed the Electric Car?

    • The End of Suburbia

    • Man by Steve Cutts (3m47s)

    • Nuggets by Andreas Hykade (5m06s)

    • The Power of Nightmares and HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis

    Also, you might search for films about "corporate malfeasance".

    • Michael Clayton (top pick)

    • The Insider (top pick)

    • Erin Brockovich

    • Dark Waters

  • Benjamin Netanyahu is struggling to prove he’s not an AI clone

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  • Send him to the Hague. Then, I'll know he's real.

  • What TV show traumatized you as a kid?

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  • I think there was a POW scene in Magnum P.I. that was a lot for little me. Not sure episode/season.

    Honestly, though, coming to the realization at abput 13 that the "General Lee" and the prominent placement for Confederate flags the Dukes of Hazzard represent an American South that promotes white supremacy, Jim Crow laws, and segregation — all antithetical to my BIPOC existence.

    The cognitive dissonance involved in the song, pre-programming me to lend them the excuse that they're "just a good ol' boys..." — yeah, my parents should've known better.

    The thoughts I had for Daisy Duke would've had me lynched, like Emmitt Till, under that flag. Still might.

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  • As an introvert, it's actually easier for me to talk to strangers. Fewer attachments, lower risk thresholds, can bail when I need to. Mostly it's jokes or insights, comisseration and comedy are easy roads in.

  • What are the top habits that lower life expectancy?

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  • Expecting, or pursuing the establishment of, human rights as a subjugate group or "subordinate" class.

  • What are the top habits that lower life expectancy?

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  • Kash Patel Confirms UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents This Week, Calling It A “Historic Opportunity”

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  • Um... has this series jumped the shark yet?

  • foods/meals that feel like a hug?

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  • 호박죽 (ho bak juk, pumpkin porridge). Many a cold morning in the ROK, this was my breakfast.

    Actually, a lot of my comfort foods are porridge based: cream of wheat, corn meal porridge, steel-cut oats, rolled oat oatmeal, oatmeal and raisin cookies.

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    What is the end game for all the incarcerated immigrants?

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  • If it's America... Again, the following:

    • target practice

    • cheap / unpaid labor

    • scapegoating

    • entertainment

    • political wedge issue

    • cannon fodder

    • general purpose exploitation

    • status symbols

    • enemy images

  • Phoenix-based company's LUCAS drone changes war in Iran

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  • Phoenix-based company's LUCAS drone changes war in Iran

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  • Riiight.

    Attritable, armed aircraft. Add AI autonomy, an authoritarian asshole, and an aggressive alignment — all, appropriately, approaches an ashen Apocalypse.

  • Gas prices in Seoul top 1,900 won per liter as gov't mulls crackdown on gouging

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  • See, in Seoul, to my eyes, drivers aren't day-labourers, office workers, company people, or students. They are business developers, cab and bus drivers, delivery agents and the most affluent.

    In a city of 45 million, car ownership is very, very low. Parking is very difficult to find — or own as city units must separately rent, lease, buy, or borrow a parking spot for a car.

    If any large East Asian city could successfully ration gasoline, its Seoul. Public transportation is efficient and inexpensive. People remember the war and hardship. People respect tradition, unity in struggle, and are willing to fight together.

    That's the Seoul I remember anyway.

    They imprisoned their Insurrectionist former President.

    For life.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Which of Gossip Goblin's "The 13 Cycles of Humanity" do you think we are trending toward? TW: body horror, AI generated video (think, Terry Gilliam).

    youtube.com /playlist
  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK: 1930s Germany used Jim Crow America as a model, which was a resurgence of Antebellum American racist policies — segregation, imprisonment, enslavement, and homicide.

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK: Unfortunately, at this point, ICE has "Erik Princed" a US city; over a traffic violation. And the Administration is lying, gaslighting, and giving it cover.

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    Unfortunately, at this point, ICE has legally "Erik Princed" a US city; over a traffic violation. And they're lying, gaslighting, and giving it cover.

  • Books @lemmy.world
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    Why doesn't my year-in-review look like others' do? It's certainly little fun.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What X-mas themed things do people who hate X‐mas like?

  • Help me find @lemmy.ml
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    Request: An image or animated zoetrope that shows the corpo-media-police industrial complex.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Request: An image or animated zoetrope that shows the corpo-media-police industrial complex.

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    Adobe sells these as 4 different designs.

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    1st Family Hurricane.

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    So, this, now, needed saying.

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Request: Mini truck or van racing toward a concrete pole, but never arrives.

  • LiminalSpace @lemmy.world
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    Enclosure aesthetic.

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    "Unless you invade them."

    vm.tiktok.com /ZMMLYH7vS/
  • Calvin and Hobbes @lemmy.world
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    20 February 1994.

    www.gocomics.com /calvinandhobbes/1994/02/20
  • Quotes @lemmygrad.ml
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    "The problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology." ~ Edward O. Wilson, 9 September 2009.

  • Quotes @lemmygrad.ml
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    "We are medicating our existence... by consumption. We consume because we are killing the planet and we are killing the planet because we consume." Terrence McKenna, 1994.

  • Documentaries (Moved to Lemmy.cafe) @lemmy.world
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    The Corporation (2004)