There’s an entire bit in The Office where Michael Scott goes to improv and pulls out a gun in every single scene because he thinks it’s hilarious every time. I think Michael Scott makes these comics.
I watched it recently for the first time, and I really don’t get why it’s so loved. IMDB rates it as the second-best movie of all time, but it seems far worse than that to me. I like most old movies and see their hype, but The Godfather didn’t do it for me. What am I missing?
Interesting to see Japan up there. Typically you only hear about their terrible work/life balance. I can only assume their many days off are for cultural festivals and national holidays?
I didn’t used to understand foreign involvement in wars, like the whole America-Vietnam shenanigans. But I can see why after watching this Israeli Palestine Conflict since birth....
Many countries in the Middle East are essentially Banana Republics. They are countries that have a large amount of wealth that comes almost entirely from exporting a natural resource. The government in these countries is less of a government and more of a group of people who control the export market. They don’t rely on their citizens for support, they rely on other countries buying their exports. As long as their exports keep being purchased, the government has the money and power to do whatever it pleases.
Foreign involvement in these countries is usually to ensure the exports keep coming. The USA specifically spends a lot of money on being world police with their military because its easier to make trade deals with countries when they’re not at war.
It’s not that adults need to stop children from fighting. It’s adults going to the gas station and getting upset the employees are spending too much time fighting and not enough time pumping gas.
This one is great because those are literally the characters for “7” and “ring” but if you put them next to each other they mean “portable charcoal grill”. Luckily it was an easy fix. An additional character was added and it now reads “7 rings” as intended.
The modern Isreal-Palestine conflict began just after WWII when Britan, who took the land during the war, decided it wasn’t worth colonizing and somehow accidentally sold the same parcel of land to both Isreal and Palestine. Oops! They then asked the newly created UN to fix the problem and they drew a jigsaw puzzle map that both Isreal and Palestine hated. Isreal then immediately occupied most of the disputed land by force and the UN did nothing about it.
I don’t think people are surprised about attacks killing large amounts of civilians in this area. I think people are more surprised world leaders have mostly decided to act like nothing is wrong with the situation and there’s no need to fix or change anything. In any other area where things like this occur, the countries involved are usually heavily sanctioned or chastised by other world leaders.
There are huge problems with declining birth rates. Mostly due to the demographic mismatch of a large number of old people being supported by a small number of young people.
You might say that’s a temporary problem. Eventually all the old people will die and a new normal will be established. However, a country’s infrastructure works at scale and doesn’t become more efficient or cheaper with less people. Quite the opposite. Fewer people means a complete redesign of infrastructure.
Fewer people also means less chances of someone doing something groundbreaking. Problems like climate change need innovative solutions. A decline in birthrates isn’t going to fix it, but fewer people overall means fewer people working on these types of problems, meaning it’ll take longer to solve. We’re already on a time crunch for these things.
Most people would have more children if they could. Birthrates are declining due to outside factors like increases in cost of living and difficulties associated with child care. We can’t force people to have kids to fix declining birth rates, but we can fix issues preventing people from having the children they want.
This might be a reference to the Japanese concept called Nomikai, an incredibly common practice where workers go out drinking with their boss. For some workplaces, this can be a worker’s only shot to impress their boss or get their attention.
Donald Trump has dropped a last-resort lawsuit against the judge overseeing his New York fraud trial. The former president's attorneys withdrew their lawsuit against Justice Arthur Engoron, which had been seen as a long-shot attempt to stop his real estate empire from being dismantled after he f...
Protip: Don’t sue the judge presiding over your case right before they decide on how much of a penalty you need to pay.
Some other great things that came from this case:
Trump’s lawyer forgot to request a jury so the judge will decide guilt.
Trump’s lawyer cited the case where Trump was forced to pay $25 million to victims he defrauded through Trump University. This was somehow meant to convince the judge Trump isn’t a serial fraudster.
Trump himself defended the ridiculously overpriced estimates of his real estate holdings by claiming he could “get a buyer from Saudi Arabia to pay any price”.
For anyone wondering, salmon’s pronounciation comes from the French word . The French word comes from the Latin word salmo. When smarty pants scholars decided on how words would be spelled in the middle ages, they thought salmon should have an L in it since the Latin word does (screw with all those dumb people who don’t know Latin!)
It’s not Bethesda’s greatest game but it’s not a terrible game in general. I definitely think companies need to stop over hyping their games as some groundbreaking game of the decade only to release a generic RPG.
I’d say this comes down to people being less involved in their local communities. In an advanced economy, people work specialized jobs and use the money they earn to buy whatever they need. While this is efficient, it’s not a great way to get to know your neighbours. Communities don’t come together to raise a barn, a farmer just hires a construction company to do that.
There isn’t really an incentive to make friends with the people around you, since it’s not like being everyone’s favourite will pay for your rent or groceries! It seems to me like the more pressure there is to make money, the less incentive there is to make friends.
Same with with Storage Wars. Producers bought storage lockers and filled them with expensive antiques and then had fake bidding competitions on their own lockers.
Probably the most important part of that page is that Wikipedia asks people for donations when they already have enough money to exist perpetually. All the money people donate simply goes to executives’ salaries.
WMF’s salary costs have risen from $7 million in 2010/11 to $88 million in 2021/22. Yet, only 2% of the raised money goes towards hosting costs, and the remuneration for the hard-working contributors to Wikipedia remains the same: zero.
The meta-analysis revealed a stronger sex drive in men compared to women, with a medium-to-large effect size, g = 0.69, 95% CI [0.58, 0.81]. Men more often think and fantasize about sex, more often experience sexual affect like desire, and more often engage in masturbation than women.
Across many different studies and measures, men have been shown to have more frequent and more intense sexual desires than women, as reflected in spontaneous thoughts about sex, frequency and variety of sexual fantasies, desired frequency of intercourse, desired number of partners, masturbation, liking for various sexual practices, willingness to forego sex, initiating versus refusing sex, making sacrifices for sex, and other measures. No contrary findings (indicating stronger sexual motivation among women) were found. Hence we conclude that the male sex drive is stronger than the female sex drive.
I’m a Canadian, but if I had to pick another country to live in it’d be one of the Scandinavian countries. They always top the global charts on happiest and healthiest people and that’s almost exclusively due to governments providing very generous social programs. I wouldn’t even have to adjust to the cold weather! The hardest part would be learning how to pronounce things like tjugosju
Poilievre is a lifelong politician who loves playing political games. This is just another one of those games. He is attacking Trudeau for not doing enough to prevent China from interfering with Canadian politics. Poilievre demanded an investigation into the matter, which was granted. Poilievre then immediately started calling the investigation fraudulent because the person in charge of it is biased. He has a history of doing this. The last time was when he demanded an inquiry into Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act only to immediately claim the inquiry was biased and fraudulent when it found nothing wrong with Trudeau’s actions.
In order to see the results of this investigation however, Poilievre needs security clearance, which he refuses to get. I doubt he has a secret he’s trying to keep (although if he was denied security clearance that would be incredibly embarrassing). I think it’s just another game. He can continue calling the investigation (that he demanded) as fake news and claim to be a victim of the evil Trudeau government.
Conservative articles defending Poilievre say that getting the clearance wouldn’t change anything because it’s not like Poilievre can share his findings after reading the report. These articles claim that if Poilievre gets cleared to read the report, then he now has to shut up about it, which hurts his campaign. I don’t really think “Poilievre should only do things that help him get elected” is the greatest defence but it’s the one I keep seeing.
Victoria’s Secret was started by a businessman who felt like there should be a store for men to buy lingerie for women. It didn’t go so well. The stores were on the verge of bankruptcy and the company was bought out. The new owner marketed the store towards women and it became the largest lingerie retailer in the US.
I appreciated your wall of text! Lemmy, and social media in general, are pretty terrible places for nuanced discussion. The system is biased towards short and vauge posts. As you said though, they can be a good stepping stone.
There’s been more than one time that I’ve seen people arguing in a thread and decided I’d look up the topic to see who is right. In the end it doesn’t really matter what people in the thread were saying. It got me interested in the topic and I searched out more reputable sources of information and hopefully I learned a bit!
That being said, there are also threads where people post insane takes. You really need to have a litmus test for whether or not a post should even been considered.
“You know what’s interesting about this group is that I’ve been doing this for thirty years. I know what I’m doing. You come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway. I don’t respond to that.” - Dianne Feinstein
Speaking in Sydney, China’s ambassador Xiao Qian warned Australian parliamentarians should think carefully before travelling to the democratic island....
First year of high school we had a creative writing assignment for English class. The idea was we all wrote a short story about anything at all. I decided I’d write something comedic.
It was about a guy who studied hard for a big test and then on his way to the test one thing after another delays him and the things get more ridiculous as the story goes on. Once he finally makes it to the place just on time he’s told the test is actually the next day.
The teacher then asked me to stay after class so she could tell me my story was stupid, I’m not funny, and I should never try comedy again. Talk about inspiring creativity!
my biggest issue was the bullet sponging and totally unbalanced combat, youd either be a god that couldnt die or someone who has to land 50 headshots with a sniper rifle to kill someone
Lol you’ve been downvoted for sharing your opinion after specifically being asked to do so. Also not a single person at the time I write this has provided a reason for why the game is good in their opinion. Great thread!
The kid is Mikhail “Misha” Osipov and was considered a chess prodigy for playing at a really high level at 4 years old. He lost to Karpov. Today he is a low ranked player with no titles. Turns out being immediately good at something doesn’t make you better than people who studied!
It’s called “The Ghost of Ol’ Dale Earnhardt” and it was started in 2017 as pushback against alt-right people trying to make everything from the American South seem ultra right wing.
I don’t really get the point but it seems like left leaning people in the American South find it funny?
“As for the open liquor, I live in my car. My car is my home so that shouldn’t have been open liquor anyway. You guys probably have liquor around your house, probably all kinds of liquor. Cops pull you over in your house, how is that open liquor?”
I’m a bit concerned about how much my husband has been watching his videos, but he’s a hard man to argue with. I want to understand what it is Joe Rogan is saying, but I don’t want to give the man my viewership. How/where do I get the info I can use to debate my husband?
I get the sense that your concerns aren’t who your husband watches but what your husband’s opinions are.
Instead of debating over what Rogan says, maybe just have a conversation with your husband about your concerns. Express your thoughts on issues important to you and see how that goes. Maybe your husband just likes the drama and doesn’t put much weight into Rogan’s hot takes.
Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Opera singers and artists in North Korea are giving daily concerts at farms in the western part of the country to "encourage" farmers to finish this year's harvest.
You can already guess the third sentence: the servers have been a disaster at launch, with players forced to queue for long periods just to play alone, if they can manage to play at all. It currently sits "Mostly Negative" reviews on Steam - that's 31% positive after almost 19,000 reviews....
Nothing has changed since Payday 2 then? The game where the devs said at launch they’d never have microtransactions in their game and even mocked players for suggesting they would do such a thing, only for them to add some of the most aggressive microtransactions typically only found in phone games that lead to a huge backlash with fans posting things like “the real heist is the devs stealing money from their fans”?
This. It’s like asking someone what they’d do in the trolley problem and their response is “oh I’m not political! So I wouldn’t pull the lever therefore completely removing myself from the equation!” Yeah, about that…
Warning Signs rule (lemmy.world)
What's with the hype for The Godfather?
I watched it recently for the first time, and I really don’t get why it’s so loved. IMDB rates it as the second-best movie of all time, but it seems far worse than that to me. I like most old movies and see their hype, but The Godfather didn’t do it for me. What am I missing?
There is a chance that birds accidentally sing a known musical motif
New Twist Rule (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
Where Vacation Days Are Over & Underused (i.ibb.co)
Why cant the Middle East just chill out?
I didn’t used to understand foreign involvement in wars, like the whole America-Vietnam shenanigans. But I can see why after watching this Israeli Palestine Conflict since birth....
LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand (lemmy.world)
Why are people reacting surprised about the events in Israel? (kbin.social)
Hasn't that area been at war for hundreds of years?
China's Declining Birth Rates: Maternity Wards Are Closing (stoppopulationdecline.org)
it's time for my trump card (feddit.de)
Work culture (lemmy.zip)
Trump drops lawsuit against New York fraud judge (www.rawstory.com)
Donald Trump has dropped a last-resort lawsuit against the judge overseeing his New York fraud trial. The former president's attorneys withdrew their lawsuit against Justice Arthur Engoron, which had been seen as a long-shot attempt to stop his real estate empire from being dismantled after he f...
Rules for thee but not for saymen (monyet.cc)
Anon is disillusioned about Starfield (sh.itjust.works)
Do you think people are so careless in public now / etc because it just feels like the end of the world is coming?
the pandemic making people realize - oh shit they can just grind all this to a halt with the push of a button...
Where do they find these people (lemmy.world)
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What do you think is the most entertaining wikipedia article?
Can't we just call you Mike or something? (startrek.website)
Stereotypes are wrong and bad (lemmy.world)
Where my watersluts at? (lemmy.ml)
Americans who believe in Socialism, if you were given the opportunity to immigrate to a country with socialist policies, would you?
Whisky War (Dispute between Canada and Denmark) - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
In case you were being productive today and wanted a wikipedia rabbithole. Canada has a land border with Denmark! Win trivia night!
burned myself.... (feddit.de)
Security Clearance for pierre poilievre.
So is he refusing to get a security clearance, or is he incapable of obtaining one? If the latter he should be disqualified from running for office.
What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”
Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?
Your big brain conservtive/capitalist takes will be laughed at (lemmy.world)
Diane Feinstein Reacts to Child Climate Activists (www.youtube.com)
“You know what’s interesting about this group is that I’ve been doing this for thirty years. I know what I’m doing. You come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway. I don’t respond to that.” - Dianne Feinstein
Witness to the 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur indicted on murder charge in rapper’s death (apnews.com)
China warns Australia to think twice before sending MPs to Taiwan (www.abc.net.au)
Speaking in Sydney, China’s ambassador Xiao Qian warned Australian parliamentarians should think carefully before travelling to the democratic island....
It's the grease that makes it perfect (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
What was one thing your teacher did that you still can't forgive them for?
18+ Real reason he looks like this (lemmy.world)
Everyone makes mistakes (sh.itjust.works)
is cyberpunk 2077 good now?
my biggest issue was the bullet sponging and totally unbalanced combat, youd either be a god that couldnt die or someone who has to land 50 headshots with a sniper rifle to kill someone
get it done (lemmy.world)
Starfield enemy ships used to be too smart, so Bethesda had to make them "really stupid" (www.vg247.com)
You'd think that the smarter the video game AI the better, but according to Bethesda's Todd Howard, enemy ships in Star…
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Superboy, no! (lemmy.world)
Its Nothin New... (lemmy.ml)
DIY-mobile (lemmy.world)
How do I get informed on Joe Rogan without watching his videos.
I’m a bit concerned about how much my husband has been watching his videos, but he’s a hard man to argue with. I want to understand what it is Joe Rogan is saying, but I don’t want to give the man my viewership. How/where do I get the info I can use to debate my husband?
Lemmy enjoying a french baguette (cdn.discordapp.com)
North Korean opera stars are giving concerts to encourage farmers to finish this year’s harvest - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Opera singers and artists in North Korea are giving daily concerts at farms in the western part of the country to "encourage" farmers to finish this year's harvest.
Payday 3's launch is another great advert for not making your game 'always online' (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
You can already guess the third sentence: the servers have been a disaster at launch, with players forced to queue for long periods just to play alone, if they can manage to play at all. It currently sits "Mostly Negative" reviews on Steam - that's 31% positive after almost 19,000 reviews....
I'm sorry :') (programming.dev)
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