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@bretajohnson I've had to deaden myself. It took a long time. I resisted. I couldn't get my head around management saying they want us to be engaged when they really want us to give up.
But it's done and I'm at peace, even happy.
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You know, growing up watching Law & Order, I thought everyone had a lawyer in the same way they do a doctor or a dentist. The suspects are always like, "call my lawyer."
But as an adult, I don't have exactly a lawyer in my back pocket ready to go. Should I? Did I drop the ball?
But as an adult, I don't have exactly a lawyer in my back pocket ready to go. Should I? Did I drop the ball?
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@KnowingBetterYT No, but you should remember where you were on August 14th between 7-10PM without a calendar and know all your friends' addresses.
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@Loi_cee Most movies aren't worth it so I read the spoiler. It saves me so much time.
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Who started the truly weird thing of filming clips of yourself just sitting there in the car, talking. Why the car?
I mean, can’t you go inside and sit in a chair at least?
I mean, can’t you go inside and sit in a chair at least?
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@lisachristinect Filming in the car creates a fake sense of urgency which in turn implies authenticity. "I'm so genuinely upset that I couldn't wait until I got home. I have to tell you about it right here in the parking lot."
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Homeschool if it works for your family, but teaching is a real skill.
Let's stop acting like what our teachers do is easy. 🍎
Most parents don't have the skill that is TAUGHT TO TEACHERS to teach their children.
It's not about 'Well, you were taught this in school so you should be able to teach it to your children.'
Never in my life have I seen people make such an enemy out of teachers.
Let's stop acting like what our teachers do is easy. 🍎
Most parents don't have the skill that is TAUGHT TO TEACHERS to teach their children.
It's not about 'Well, you were taught this in school so you should be able to teach it to your children.'
Never in my life have I seen people make such an enemy out of teachers.
If parents who went to public school are not capable or qualified to teach their children the things they learned, why would they send their children back into the same failed educational system?
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I'm torn on this. I believe there's skill, but it's countered by other factors. It's not about the teachers. It's about the environment and the value of the education. It's worth a few hours per day. It's not worth sitting in classrooms all day and bringing home work.
We pretend that learning certain things is important. Then we forget it. We all do. And no one cares. I'm a rational person. If something is important to know, it's important to learn. If most people don't know it and no one cares, learning it never mattered. So you go through the motions, get your diploma, and it doesn't have to take over your whole childhood. There's so much more.
We pretend that learning certain things is important. Then we forget it. We all do. And no one cares. I'm a rational person. If something is important to know, it's important to learn. If most people don't know it and no one cares, learning it never mattered. So you go through the motions, get your diploma, and it doesn't have to take over your whole childhood. There's so much more.
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HBO is officially developing ‘THE BIRDS’, a new series inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's film.
Starring Sarah Snook, the series is a modern-day reimagining of the film set in Alaska with a murder mystery at the center.
(Source: Deadline)
Starring Sarah Snook, the series is a modern-day reimagining of the film set in Alaska with a murder mystery at the center.
(Source: Deadline)
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@DiscussingFilm The birds are misunderstood. They have reasons. Some variation of "nature is fighting back."
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I think this maybe this is different. I was around when the Internet went big. I don't remember us talking like this. Now half of us are going to live underground and become morlocks and I'm not sure which is better.
AI will split humanity into two unequal halves, similar to the white-collar revolution, but much more drastic.
"Exercise" as we know it didn't exist. The work itself was "exercise." Now, people have to create artificial environments and routines so their bodies don't fall apart. But how many people exercise? What percentage of the population? Not much. It takes very little effort to be healthier than 80% of the population.
The AI revolution will be more drastic. People are already getting dumber and lazier. To fend off the decay, we must set up artificial routines that keep our minds sharp.
Just like physical exercise.
But like physical exercise, only a minority of the population will do what's necessary to keep their minds sharp and active. The alternative is just too easy.
The difference, however, will be much starker than physical health, though at first it won't be as obvious. And the differences will grow.
One of the groups can't help but be slaves. They will have surrendered all of their agency and will to the machines they blithely dismissed as mere "tools."
The other group will build the future.
You want to be in the latter.
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Actually, we kind of hated them.
They're objectively not good. While I dislike the narrative choices of the Disney sequels, they are better movies.
Each of the prequels contains, like, half an hour of GREAT material. The rest is Jar Jar, boring clone BS, and other nonsense.
They're objectively not good. While I dislike the narrative choices of the Disney sequels, they are better movies.
Each of the prequels contains, like, half an hour of GREAT material. The rest is Jar Jar, boring clone BS, and other nonsense.
As an older millennial that was a teenager for these movies, I do not remember anybody saying the prequels sucked at the time.
That was social media revisionism by nerdy edgelords on social media 10 years later.
Episode I is a masterpiece (and Empire is still my favorite)
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@Phil_Elmore I can't remember the good parts of 2 or 3. I can remember a few good moments from 1, but that makes me remember the rest of it so I stop.
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The Last Jedi ends on a kid in Canto Bight's stables pulling a broom to his hand with the Force and looking up at the stars.
Lucasfilm named him Temiri Blagg. Almost nine years on, we've never seen him again on screen.
Should Star Wars ever go back to the broom boy?
Lucasfilm named him Temiri Blagg. Almost nine years on, we've never seen him again on screen.
Should Star Wars ever go back to the broom boy?
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@justsw501 Star Wars should never go back to anyone or anyone related to anyone. Maybe a longer time ago in a galaxy farther away.
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I think I've put my finger on why Star Wars has failed since the OT:
We remember the characters, but it was really about their arcs. The spaceships and robots were cool, but the real magic was seeing people change, grow, and do the unexpected. It felt good when people did the right thing.
None of the films since then captured that. I don't think they got the point.
The prequels were only about one character's arc. Anakin was not Michael Corleone. He was a dull character whose dull story was glazed over with special effects, nostalgia, pointless action that developed no one, and John William's music. It wasn't the least bit inspiring. We all knew he would go bad, and he did. Nothing about that backstory added an inch of depth to the OT's Darth Vader.
The sequels didn't get it at all. They tried to cash in by going through the motions and appealing to nostalgia. Maybe part was that we'd already seen the trick. Watching people change was no longer a surprise. But all of it was dull anyway. The original characters were miserable. The new ones didn't so much change as switch sides.
That's why it never felt the same again. Maybe they could have with different writers and different stories. It doesn't matter. They didn't care and they didn't try.
We remember the characters, but it was really about their arcs. The spaceships and robots were cool, but the real magic was seeing people change, grow, and do the unexpected. It felt good when people did the right thing.
None of the films since then captured that. I don't think they got the point.
The prequels were only about one character's arc. Anakin was not Michael Corleone. He was a dull character whose dull story was glazed over with special effects, nostalgia, pointless action that developed no one, and John William's music. It wasn't the least bit inspiring. We all knew he would go bad, and he did. Nothing about that backstory added an inch of depth to the OT's Darth Vader.
The sequels didn't get it at all. They tried to cash in by going through the motions and appealing to nostalgia. Maybe part was that we'd already seen the trick. Watching people change was no longer a surprise. But all of it was dull anyway. The original characters were miserable. The new ones didn't so much change as switch sides.
That's why it never felt the same again. Maybe they could have with different writers and different stories. It doesn't matter. They didn't care and they didn't try.
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This is revisionist history.
The prequels are, have always been, and will always be, awful.
From the concept of Midichlorians, to the nonsensical sudden appearance of a clone army using Jango Fett, the clonefather of Boba Fett.
Watching the prequels in conjunction with the original trilogy in chronological order lessens the impact of the infamous "I am your father" scene from Empire.
Prequels, in general, are almost always awful. If that story was worth telling, you would have started there. No one starts a good story in the middle and works their way backwards.
The prequels only look good relative to the absolute crap we've been fed over the last decade, and I refuse to accept them as objectively good.
The prequels are, have always been, and will always be, awful.
From the concept of Midichlorians, to the nonsensical sudden appearance of a clone army using Jango Fett, the clonefather of Boba Fett.
Watching the prequels in conjunction with the original trilogy in chronological order lessens the impact of the infamous "I am your father" scene from Empire.
Prequels, in general, are almost always awful. If that story was worth telling, you would have started there. No one starts a good story in the middle and works their way backwards.
The prequels only look good relative to the absolute crap we've been fed over the last decade, and I refuse to accept them as objectively good.
Very pleased to see so many young right-wing zoomers finally recognizing just how incredible the Star Wars prequel trilogy really was.
George Lucas, a visionary, created perhaps the most profound piece of right-wing media in sci-fi form.
Anakin Skywalker is the archetypal disenfranchised chud: a young man who genuinely wanted to do good, believed in justice, and trusted a system that presented itself as noble, democratic, and righteous, all to have his innocence, idealism, sense of justice, and vulnerabilities systematically exploited by the very institutions he believed in.
He wanted to make a difference, only to discover that the entire political order he had devoted his life to defending was deeply corrupt, hypocritical, and wicked.
And in his disillusionment, he became vulnerable to the very evil he once sought to destroy.
A cautionary tale for an entire generation of young men who grew up believing the system was fundamentally good, only to discover that the system was never quite what it claimed to be.
George Lucas understood the chud psyche long before the chud was actualized in the zeitgeist. x.com/Isaac556x45/st…
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@rahdron I'm assuming it is. I gave up and stopped watching that stuff.
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Before AI notes, it's amazing how many important decisions weren't documented anywhere. They just lived in our collective memory where we remembered wrong or changed the plan and not everyone knew.
Meeting notes still aren't the right place, but they're an improvement.
Meeting notes still aren't the right place, but they're an improvement.
your job as a product engineer in October 2026 is to have freewheeling unstructured zoom calls with stakeholders where you explore all corners of the problem domain and after you hang up type into claude code "read the meeting transcript and do what we decided"
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Extinguished Engineer retweeted
I'm starting to sense a divide in the tech industry:
- People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient
- People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what to do and how. Frustrated with the lack of guidance from management on what to do with AI; also frustrated by seeing some of their peers thriving; increasingly bitter about AI and the state of the industry, as a whole
Neither group seems to be aware that there's another group, or have empathy for the other group
- People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient
- People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what to do and how. Frustrated with the lack of guidance from management on what to do with AI; also frustrated by seeing some of their peers thriving; increasingly bitter about AI and the state of the industry, as a whole
Neither group seems to be aware that there's another group, or have empathy for the other group
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I'm starting to sense a divide in the tech industry:
- People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient
- People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what to do and how. Frustrated with the lack of guidance from management on what to do with AI; also frustrated by seeing some of their peers thriving; increasingly bitter about AI and the state of the industry, as a whole
Neither group seems to be aware that there's another group, or have empathy for the other group
- People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient
- People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what to do and how. Frustrated with the lack of guidance from management on what to do with AI; also frustrated by seeing some of their peers thriving; increasingly bitter about AI and the state of the industry, as a whole
Neither group seems to be aware that there's another group, or have empathy for the other group
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@GergelyOrosz The second group is like that because it's how we conditioned them. They were trained to think that solving problems was someone else's job, and that understanding the business meant wasting time in lots of meetings. I feel like they were set up for this to happen.
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@ExtinguishedEng I like him a lot don't get me wrong but he wasn't a villain second to Vader
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@rahdron I just find it boring. Here's a minor 2-second action figure. What if the whole "clone wars" thing was about him? "Clone wars" was better when it was just a few words left to the imagination.
Then, why not have a whole boring TV show about what happened to him next?
Then, why not have a whole boring TV show about what happened to him next?
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Putting aside that people (including Lucas) have been articulating specifically why the Prequels are bad for decades now: It boils down to the fact that they are wholly unnecessary to engaging with the OT, and never produced anything to justify their existence on their own merits
I keep on hearing people say “the Prequels are bad,” yet no one can actually explain why or how they are bad.
It almost always boils down to personal preference. Rarely does anyone point to an objective flaw with the film that diminishes them in some capacity.
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@WeWuzPostin Well, they have created the Star Wars setting as we know it. There would e.g. have been no KOTOR or Old Republic if there were no lore about the Jedi council old Jedi order, senate and whole structure of the republic.
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@Schwalbenjager @WeWuzPostin "Lore" ruins everything.
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I nominate whoever invented "Close tabs to the right" for the Nobel Prize.
When you have 47 tabs open and need to do a little cleanup, that feature saves your life. One click, and an entire section of browser chaos disappears.
You don't realize how absurd the alternative is until you picture yourself closing tab after tab after tab. Such a tiny feature, and such an enormous improvement to everyday life.
When you have 47 tabs open and need to do a little cleanup, that feature saves your life. One click, and an entire section of browser chaos disappears.
You don't realize how absurd the alternative is until you picture yourself closing tab after tab after tab. Such a tiny feature, and such an enormous improvement to everyday life.
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@Cristina_AC_X Also the TabOrganizer extension which lets me sort by domain so I can close all the empty default tabs and four Weather Channels.
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Most software engineers still underestimate the complexity of the systems we are about to develop in the coming months.
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@mikeveerman I know just enough to build what's in front of me. I'll need to learn a lot more fast just to stay ahead of it.
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I keep on hearing people say “the Prequels are bad,” yet no one can actually explain why or how they are bad.
It almost always boils down to personal preference. Rarely does anyone point to an objective flaw with the film that diminishes them in some capacity.
It almost always boils down to personal preference. Rarely does anyone point to an objective flaw with the film that diminishes them in some capacity.
Watched The Phantom Menace last night. That is genuinely such an impossibly bad movie I can't imagine watching it in 1999
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