As a Brit, it’s always weird as fuck to see people in American movies boiling an old tin kettle on the stove like they’re stuck in the 1950s.
Even if you’re living in London’s smallest flat, and all you’ve got is a microwave, a mini fridge, a bed and a cupboard with a toilet in it, you’ve still got an electric kettle.
Apparently he wasn’t actually drunk during those out-takes.
He’d been filming something else the day before, it overran and they filmed until almost dawn. So he had some sleeping pills so he’d be refreshed before filming the adverts.
Unfortunately, and probably not unrelated to the sheer size of the man, they kicked in just as he was scheduled to start filming.
So that’s what you see. A man fucked up on barbiturates.
Yeah, the music people were dying to piracy for a good while there.
Spotify is streaming done right. It’s all there, no need to search for which service has it, or pay 99p a track for it.
The TV and movie people should take note, because their streaming services are fucking dire in comparison. For all the stuff Disney owns, there’s a surprising amount of fuck all new on Disney+. It mostly seems to be milking old shite into TV shows nobody asked for.
There does seem to be a high proportion of city dwellers wondering why somebody who lives four miles from the nearest shop that sells something more substantial than Budweiser and crisps would need a car…
I think any popular video platform will do the same shit. It’s just expensive to host on a large scale.
Realistically, we need a good P2P solution for this so everyone “pays” for the videos they watch with a bit of their own outgoing bandwidth.
Having the viewing platform paying the content creators is a bad idea. It’s mostly led to the video equivalent of spam, and looking around YouTube, it doesn’t stop them filling their own videos with ads for godawful exploitative mobile games anyway.
You could even have a Tubarr torrent thing that automatically downloads stuff to your Jellyfin server from your subscribed content creators.
The main issue in the push for electric cars, is that we’re pretending that we can fix things with no lifestyle changes.
And for the richer people, that’s probably true. But there’s a big chunk of people for whom the electric car revolution means no more personal transport.
I accept that, but we need to invest in public transport exponentially more than we are doing. It needs subsidising up the wazoo so people outside the inner-city bubble can still get around. By just pretending that electric cars will reach affordable levels for the poorest, we’re inviting trouble further down the line when they can’t use their petrol cars any more.
Quite a bit more expensive than a regular thermostatic mixer shower, but since I was having the whole bathroom done I figured why not spend a bit extra on some nicer stuff. The labour is still the most expensive part by far.