🎥 One Battle After Another, 2025 - ★★★★½
I didn’t know what to expect .. I knew of the movie, director and of course Sean, Leo and Benicio .. but hell fire … did not expect this. Absolutely marvellous. Remember when UK PM Starmer said that the Netflix show ‘Adolesence’ should be played in all schools so that every school kid gets to see it?
Yeah - every American should watch this.
Oh - and definitely
Leo wearing Arthur Dent’s dressing gown throughout was a lovely homage. That IS what it was - right?
I read this over on Gaping Void and thought wait - there’s a much older - more famous story - so I found it for you - so you didn’t have to.
🔗 Why GM Will Give You Gemini But Not CarPlay
If GM goes through with this abandonment of CarPlay, I don’t see how they’ll continue to sell any vehicles to rental agencies. I would never rent a car without CarPlay, and I would never consider signing up for a GM cloud service just to drive a rental car. Complete dealbreakers.
💯- well maybe 95 - either way it smells like a short term thinking decision.
💬 via The Information (my bold)
Meta Platforms internally projected that 10% of its revenue last year, or $16 billion, came from ads promoting fraudulent products or schemes, Reuters reported. These include ads for fake products, sextortion schemes or crypto scams.
The world of social media is currently reduced to a single meme that focuses on what is going on in NYC with changes the new mayor is already making …
as you can tell from the use of Arabic numerals …
The thousands of variations to this thought are typically followed by far too many comments to read - which is why people don’t. But if they did - they would realise that the post that they or their bot did write had already been written - many many many times. (Tip o’ the hat to Spike.)
Many of the comments go to great lengths (and in all seriousness) explaining how 1,2,3 etc …. are actually Arabic numerals and nothing to do with the new mayor.
.. and then in yet further commentary people explaining why they find the explanations funny…
So at the risk of ‘taking the turtles’ down yet another step .. my response to them all
It’s sad that some people have this urge to explain stuff that is already well documented - clearly that are the same people that have already finished ‘reading the internet’ - but at least it shows where the cull should start. But there’s more - success in such culling would allow sarcasm to finally shed its shackles and reclaim its rightful place on the humour spectrum.
That said - I do, however, feel for the translators, commentators, and the overall class of ‘sarcasm custodians’ - because they are clearly another class of professionals being tossed onto the rubbish heap of ‘roles no longer needed’ along with the last surviving critical thinkers.
At least as defined by our ‘supreme leaders’.
ð¬ð It seems so long ago. Doesnât it? I do like Ezraâs take.
💬😂 It seems so long ago. Doesn’t it? I do like Ezra’s take.
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I wonder if K.R. has another truck for when they deliver?
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I wonder if K.R. has another truck for when they deliver?
📸 The moon from the balcony early this morning …
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