Given the context of your post, I would suggest starting with the basics. Taking the time to learn how to write properly may give you some ability to speak properly.
I have a really pacific issue
I don’t know if this is typo or if you think your issue is as big as the ocean.
copaganda
Nice :)
I genuinely enjoy messy fever dream movies.
Could a better movie be made to drive home the same point? Sure.
Do audiences want to see that movie? I highly doubt it (see: Don’t Look Up).
This is the terrifying part. Coppala presents dire warnings with historical precedent. They’ll go over the heads of a lot of people while many will make a choice to ignore them. People don’t want to be told their comfort system is broken and they need to break free of it to progress. The masses want status quo and to be sheep – as long as they have cheap gas and eggs. So even if the movie were less messy, the warnings still wouldn’t land any harder.
I think it’s fair to comment separately on the narrative of a movie and the production of a movie. I’m a regular (American) person, not a film maker. With Megalopolis, I’m far more interested in the narrative than if the movie was edited proficiently. To be fair, Coppola probably didn’t do us any favors by distracting us with the “fever dream” of it. But I also don’t think it’s fair to the artist to have to meet the audience where they are. There’s good debate to be had there.
Fiction writers have been sending us warnings for hundreds of years. It’ll never be enough to bring change. Coppola believes humans are capable of infinite progress and utopia. I think it’s evident that the whole of us aren’t intelligent or shit-giving enough to pick up on or act upon the warnings.
Who needs another big chain?
For the same reason we want locally owned hardware stores as well as Home Depot - the selection. The big chains can afford larger real estate and book sections as large as some book stores. Especially for technical and reference books. Sure, you could buy that stuff online but I’d rather shop in person. Sometimes I need something now and sometimes I don’t know what I need until I’m walking past it. I love the curation and personality of small stores but there’s still a reasonable argument for big chains. I would love to see some sort of beneficial collaboration between chains and indie shops across all industries.
I recently saw this mind bending time travel movie called Primer.
Kidding.
A few indie movies I really like are Ink (2009), Sidewalls (2011), and Cashback (2006). I’ve linked to some trailers but I hope people just jump feet first without knowing or presuming anything.
Ink is super low budget but it’s really one of my all time faves. It starts off sort of like film school assignment early 2000’s dystopian scifi fantasy and ends as tear jerker. The full movie is on YT here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIdqnPxfzj0
2022’s Vesper was fantastic but I assume a lot of people know this one.
Also, for those looking for some 90s nostalgia, I recently rewatched Singles (1992) for the first time since the nineties and it still holds up.
How could you possibly have gone as far as to roast your own beans and then chop them up with a blade?
Frankly, I’d encourage you to direct your funds towards a proper grinder over an expresso machine. The difference in quality, once you dial it in for your brewing method, should smack you in the face.
To answer your question https://youtu.be/avM-XsaTBIc?t=535
That’s number is staggeringly lower than I would have guessed.
No. It’s because it’s you. Blocked.
OP is really shilling for Bluesky.
Yeah. I was actually fifteen pounds lighter this time last year. It’s been a rough year. I cut out all bread, pasta, cheese, and beer, and walked an average of 15 miles a week.
Dude.
Dude.
DUDE.
The penises carved into desk and walls because the sewer backed up? What the fuck??
So, not judges and not based on any law?
I’ve got about 10lbs on this guy. I’m obese. I know it. I’m ashamed of it. My body knows it and tries telling me every day I need to lose 30lbs.
It’s called freedom, libtards. We want the freedom to order a gallon of soda with our king size fries without the government telling us how to eat or food producers how to make their food. And we certainly don’t want the government to work on our behalf to lower the cost of insulin. We want a free market to shop around for the best price.
If you’re on Bluesky, maybe bombarding him with followers there would shift him in that direction https://bsky.app/profile/stephenking.bsky.social
Edit: For the record…
https://www.threads.net/@stephenking 268K followers
https://bsky.app/profile/stephenking.bsky.social 223.9K followers
https://x.com/StephenKing 7M Followers
Wouldn’t be too bad if they did the model of showing you a persistent banner ad with the option to pay $35 a year to get rid of it. I’d be down with that.
Pft. Ain’t that the truth. Gotcha journalism has been around for over a hundred years and we still suck it up.
Strike a window = illegal.
Murder someone = legal.
I’m generalizing. But the larger issue is who the heck is reviewing these “policies” to determine if they’re legal (or smart)? Would it take bringing this to the Supreme Court to determine the legality?
The report said the shooting was within police policy because the officers reasonably feared that Amaya’s life was in danger when he stood in front of Ghaisar’s stopped vehicle and it began to roll forward.
I am not familiar with the case but this statement alone appears ridiculous. What’s reasonable here is that if a vehicle is approaching you, standing in front of it is stupid and killing the person operating it is even stupider. This isn’t self defense, this is attempted suicide (or attempted lawsuit). Police Policy should be: don’t be a dumbass.
Yeah - it feels more organic to me. Bluesky feels like a more well thought out Twitter. Mastodon feels like something built from Google Wave scraps.
I’m not sure how much of Dorsey’s DNA is left but it’s hard to imagine someone who has had so much success wouldn’t know what they’re doing. The board could certainly screw it up, just as Twitter’s did by selling, but it seems like they’re growing slowly and doing things in a productive way. Slow and intentionally growth seems to be the growing trend in tech.
With that said, I’m aware of the funding concerns and I’m trying to pay attention. Where will their money come from is still a question. Will they use ads or subscriptions? I’d prefer the option for either and not both. Is it actually an issue that someone tied to blockchain is involved? I’m not sure but I’m open to a plausible argument.
I was actually being dead serious.