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sentient_loom, in What is your favorite time travel movie or show?
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Assassin 33 A.D: Black Easter.

It’s a Christian time travel movie where terrorists go back in time to murder Jesus before he can be crucified (therefore preventing Christianity from ever existing) and an atheist skeptic scientist has to go back in time to rescue Jesus, and also rescue his own faith.

The movie is crazy and I love it.

uriel238,
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Having never heard of Black Easter, I wrote a brief synopsis, supposing the three magi were Herod’s assassins.

It’s no more far-fetched then current extrapolations regarding the Magi.

BreadOven,

Know what I’m watching on the next movie night.

donslaught, in What's your automatic vacuum's name?

It was Dusty. Dusty finally gave up the ghost a few months ago and we haven’t been able to replace him yet.

Slatlun, in What are some dark sides to cute super-powers ?

The emotional consequence of super speed www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMe1qlyuMXQ

Boozilla, in What is something you watch/do but not for its intended purpose?
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I watch stealth campers on YouTube, even though I have zero interest in camping myself. I’m impressed and entertained by their ingenuity and explorer approach to things. It’s also a tiny push back against a corpo-fashy culture that wants people to “spend money here or move along”. These stealth camper people are harming no one (and the good ones pick up a lot of litter). But of course the “people of Nextdoor” suburban types flip the fuck out over stranger danger, so the campers have to avoid getting caught. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want some rando squatting in my backyard, either. I’m talking about people camping in parks, parking lots, medians, interstitial woodlands, etc.

kakes,

Steve is a national treasure, as far as I’m concerned.

Boozilla,
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I agree! I’m not Canadian, but if I get a proxy vote, he’s a national treasure!

kakes,

I’ll allow it, but only this once.

cheese_greater, (edited )

continental treasure

waz,

I never knew this was a thing until I read this comment. I love this idea sooo much.

Boozilla,
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Check out Steve Wallis on YouTube. There are others, but he’s super likeable.

popekingjoe,
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And now it’s time for a Step Two.

Pixel, in What's the best gaming console and why?

Really like my switch. Love Mario, Zelda, retro games, many others, and the portability.

NeoNachtwaechter, in What are some dark sides to cute super-powers ?

Power corrupts people.

There’s no reason to assume that this could be different with super powers.

mvirts, in What's your automatic vacuum's name?

DMO

It’s a deebot

sparky678348, (edited ) in Did any coal-in-your-stocking type of things happen to you on Christmas Day?

Seven years ago on New Year’s Day my little sister unexpectedly passed away, and just a few days ago my stepmom (a mother of little girls 7 and 9) passed.

I would have taken 100 Christmas’s of coal over this. It will be hard to not go into the holidays bracing myself for the next disaster.

Mac, (edited ) in What is something you watch/do but not for its intended purpose?

I actively take part in automotive events where we manipulate controls and leverage knowledge of vehicle dynamics to deliberately induce and sustain vehicle instability while navigating compact, paved circuits.

fastandcurious, (edited )

Wut? How does this work? I assume that it helps on the corners or something like that

vinylshrapnel,

It’s drifting

bogdugg, in What is the point of small instances?
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I think you’ve correctly identified a problem, but misidentified the solution.

It’s true that there are many redundant communities of which everyone would be better served if there were an easy way to group them together. The solution, however, is not to reduce the number of instances, but rather to provide more tools for instances to group communities together. You want communities to be spread across many instances because this maximizes user control - it’s kind of the entire point? But of course, the lack of grouping makes it very difficult to try to centralize discussion, which is important for the community to grow. This service is still a work in progress, so these kinds of things - I hope - will come in time, as both the technology and culture develops.

tl;dr: centralized control bad, centralized discussion good, the current system does a bad job of reconciling these two positions

wjrii,
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Seems like what a lot of people want is a hybrid of Usenet and Reddit, but what we have is more like a bunch of reddits that are willing to talk to each other. Certainly better for governance and redundancy and as a kind of organic load balancing in a cash-poor ecosystem, but the "killer app" would be (optional?) persistence of communities outside of instances.

testing,
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@bogdugg

The solution, however, is not to reduce the number of instances, but rather to provide more tools for instances to group communities together.

kbin collections are grouping together communities, but unfortunately, collections themselves do not federate
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spacemanspiffy, in What word do you always forget?

Effect/affect

Jagger2097, in US residents: What big domestic policy improvements have the american people won from congress in the last 30 years?

The cares act listed 18 million people out of poverty. When it ended 4 million of them did not fall back into poverty.

pl_woah, (edited ) in People who have made and successfully kept their New Year's resolution, what was it and how did you stay motivated?

Most things I’ve done were from changing the environment around me. Most things became trivially easier when I made more… So no fault there

I’d consider HARD goals, not just SMART ones

  • Heartfelt - core/passion
  • Animated - inspires/energizes you
  • Required - needed for a larger objective
  • Difficult - effort but also confidence creating

Is it something you can sustainably do, with your support system and environment and schedule, that breaths life into you even though it’s a challenge?

Are you working in that 80% max effort space (or whatever it is for gym nerds, you get the point)

LinkOpensChest_wav, in Did any coal-in-your-stocking type of things happen to you on Christmas Day?

We usually spend the whole day with my parents, but for the second year in a row it was cut very short by winter weather.

The year before that it was illness, and before that the heart of the COVID pandemic.

I was really bummed because I don’t think my parents have many Christmases left.

NegativeLookBehind, in US residents: What big domestic policy improvements have the american people won from congress in the last 30 years?
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…Have there been any?

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