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dustyData, (edited ) to comicstrips in I think he's the one [Loading Artist]

The first instance of this joke I remember was in the post-apocalyptic action drama from 2002, Reign of Fire. Starring Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale.

“This is water!”

“It’s important to stay hydrated.”

Was probably the most funny for reasons the director didn’t intended moment of that movie.

dustyData, to askmen in How do you meet new people?

Get a hobby and find places nearby where people who have that hobby meet and get together. Prime factor is genuine passion and interest on the hobby. You’ll meet tons of people who at least have that same interest than you, which sorts the first step towards friendship. Then as you get to know these people things will sort out by themselves. The second ingredient is to meet regularly and spend time with people.

dustyData, to movies in Amanda Knox slams Hollywood’s handling of true-crime films, asking: Where are the ethics?

Ethics in Hollywood, the guys who ran a pedophile ring second only to the Catholic church?

dustyData, to memes in My 1070 is still going strong

I suspect it’s the graphics card. It’s been 6 years with me and it was refurbished when I got it.

dustyData, to memes in My 1070 is still going strong

Thanks for the well intentions, but so far I know it’s not the disks, I changed them last year. I run Linux Mint, so I use other tools to monitor the disks and memory. I actually suspect it’s the graphics card getting funky because running things in software render mode solves the random hang ups.

dustyData, (edited ) to asklemmy in What gifts that you received for Christmas this year are already in the trash?

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  • dustyData, (edited ) to asklemmy in What's it called when a title has "or" in it followed by a different title?

    They used to be transmitted over a hidden portion of the screen, during the NTSC and PAL era. That was topologically on the signal stream area corresponding to right under the video frame. Thus they were titles (text) that were under (sub) the image. They were also unavailable (closed) to the user until they activated them, when the decoder started drawing them over the frame by folding the signal so the text could appear. They originally were invented for and proposed to aid hearing impaired people by capturing the sound events, including speech, with short descriptive texts (captioning) .

    That’s why in the US Closed Captioning is for hard hearing, and subtitling usually means only dialogue and other languages. While the rest of the world only uses variations of the word subtitling because English rapes and coopts everything it colonizes.

    dustyData, to asklemmy in What gifts that you received for Christmas this year are already in the trash?

    Real friends don’t let friends drink shitty coffee.

    dustyData, (edited ) to asklemmy in What gifts that you received for Christmas this year are already in the trash?

    Oh yes, we all remember that well established in the bible parable about Jesus dragging a pine tree into his house in a dessertic weather town for his birthday party every year and how mad Mary and Josef were when it started to rot in February because Jesus just refused to take it out.

    dustyData, to asklemmy in Anyone who recently had a "Yup, it was that kinda day" day. What happened?
    dustyData, to asklemmy in Anyone who recently had a "Yup, it was that kinda day" day. What happened?

    At least the high quality parts have RGB controls that let you turn them off.

    dustyData, to memes in Duh !

    In the worse quality TV, putting the composite video into an audio line would make the speakers do a short distorted buzz, then cutoff. The higher quality TVs won’t even flinch. Their internal processing was fast enough to detect the wrong thing was connected, that the signal modulation never even made it to the amplifier. But to our ears it was probably just a bunch of electronic farts.

    dustyData, to linuxmemes in Linux too mainstream for some 🤷

    The most popular software to do that is proprietary and you have to buy it. For Apple you are only a demi-sentient wallet and they are constantly trying to dry you up. I hate that with a passion.

    dustyData, to linuxmemes in Linux too mainstream for some 🤷

    ARM compatibility is still shit. All actually useful desktop apps are still primarily x86-64, the compatibility layer Rosetta is hit or miss, everything is proprietary and expensive, and Apple decided the Pro model should only have 8GB for a shit ton of money. Apple is overpriced trash in the '20s.

    dustyData, to asklemmy in Do Israeli Politicians' adult children get conscripted just like the average adult Israeli citizen as part of mandatory service?

    The assumption that direct familial involvement would make people more peaceful or make them take more ethical decisions is flat out incorrect. If anything it will make them more ruthless and dehumanizing against the “other” and seek even faster ways of total annihilation rather than difficult nuanced and diplomatic peaceful solutions. The military mindset is a very rigid one, with only rights and wrongs, blind obedience, the only nuance allowed is tactical nuance, the only complexity allowed is logistic complexity. Morally and ethically it’s always down to I’d rather the other die than me. The IDF once traded 1000 prisoners for 1 IDF soldier, what makes you think they will not kill 10000 children if it means it saves 1 soldier?

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