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ooooh temu figured out it's now shorthand for "cheap off-brand garbage" and is not happy about it
They should put a monkey on the Β£50 note and a pony on the Β£10 note to confuse the hell out cockneys.
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation, from the episode "The Game", showing a first-person view of a terminally addictive video game that has infected and crippled nearly everybody aboard the Enterprise.
Just give Gemini a try, Wesley. You'll love it.
Bonesaw is ready #comics #spiderman #marvel
instead of "better or worse" you get asked how many lights there are
"Roger Moore has five minutes to film something, let's write a scene where he's an evil spy"
Better than that... in the specific context of this novel, Bond goes to Disneyland because an assassin is planning to take out Princess Diana, who has brought William and Harry there for a day out
Imagine Blofeld flooding the park with goons so he has to queue for four hours
Letterboxd itself has been more welcoming of adult content since a policy change a few years ago that one must opt into. I think the themes and nanogenres are provided by a third party service, so they're not directly responsible in this case, but it's a good point
letterboxd.com/journal/sex-...
βHIELANMAN'S UMBRELLAβ should be a new law of journalism, which states that if AI generated photos are used in a news article, all reporting from that publication should be instantly distrusted.
James Bond: "I thought the whole thing would be tasteless, tawdry and a bit phony. In the end we stayed for a week. The great thing about Disneyland is that it works. The moment they walk through those gates and find themselves in the Town Square and Main Street, the visitors know that they're going to have one hell of a good time. The rides are a knockout, and it does become wonderful."
Nothing special but occasionally you get a gonzo moment like Bond really loving Disneyland
(Never Send Flowers, 1993)
Screenshot from the Letterboxd app showing three lists of films that use London Calling to indicate a scene in London, including Get Him To The Greek, The Conjuring 2, Die Another Day and more
There's at least three Letterboxd lists for this and I'd forgotten that even *Bond* did it. Horrifying.
Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.
Similarly, I think the mooted (abandoned?) Fawlty Towers revival couldΚΌve had a chance if Basil was used as the new Manuel, a clueless foreigner tricked into servitude by investing in the operation of a boutique hotel in the Caribbean
(would require Cleese to play not the smartest guy in the room)
A blue-screen error message of the Windows 10 style. It is headed "Automatic Repair" and says this function "couldn't repair your PC"
Well itΚΌs a good job the Linux partition works well enough, because the Windows side is (as a consequence of the installation?) fucked
This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.
If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.
A photo of a computer screen, with vintage blocky icons and thick blue headers in the Windows 95 style showing file transfers between music folders including artists such as Haim, How to Destroy Angels, Weird Al Yankovic and Aimee Mann
So while Linux Mint wasnΚΌt a silver bullet, it has made the laptop *so* much more usable, able to transfer music away from iTunes AND I can make it look like dear old Windows 95
Couple of times now I've made the observation that the public aren't going to give the government any credit for rail nationalisation when the passenger experience remains unchanged. And to be fair to them, this is a change.
every time one of these markets dissembles and parses and weasels their way out of paying people on a technicality my heart grows three sizes like the grinch. i love to watch these people get scammed on crypto and nfts and gambling. they deserve it and it's funny and it's not my problem at all
A stuffed toy giraffe, somewhat bipedal, with very long legs, less long arms, and no neck at all. However, it is identifiable as a giraffe by its distinctive pattern and ossicones
Baffled by this dog toy which has recognised a giraffe needs long body parts in every department but the neck
Recently made the switch to prop up an ailing laptop and would have no hesitation recommending Mint. Though, in your case specifically, do make sure it has everything you need for complex audio editing!
bsky.app/profile/godo...
RIP Dan Simmons, author of The Terror, Hyperion, Summer of Night, Carrion Comfort, and a ton of other books. Brilliant writer, capable of high concept sci-fi and fantastic scares; got some wonky politics in there, but at his best, he was singular. Hyperion, SoN, and The Terror are all classics.
RIP Rob, as embarrassing as it might be to say so, those first two Red Dwarf novels are genuinely great books.
we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago
New witness testimony describes alleged trafficking operation on billionaire-owned Tracy Island: "They took me from Asia as a girl and used me as their servant."
A photo of a laptop screen showing an installation window to one side while the Linux Mint system monitor shows a live graph of CPU usage with one line at 100% for a minute, and a frenzied patch of CPU activity that brought it to a standstill
It's an impressive OS and next time I buy a laptop (def not another Lenovo!) I'd happily replace Windows with Mint on day one.
But what can you do with a machine that maxes out CPU usage while doing something as lightweight as installing Calibre?
I bought a laptop 7 years ago that has never worked well, from the get-go it was slow, froze up at the smallest tasks. This week I installed Linux Mint on it and⦠no, it still sucks.
Mint does make it more usable, but I think this machine was destined to suck.
