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Like how dare you leave the series completely unresolved not knowing you're going to get to produce a Season 2? From interviews with the creators it sounds like they had plans to make the first season 10 episodes instead of 9 and… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Pendragon
FanFare comment - 12 hours ago

Things I Loved The way Ricken is actually a real person I think one of my favorite experiences in fiction—and maybe one of the most valuable things fiction can do for us—is when a story gets you thinking of someone as merely comic… [more]
favorited 21 times, recently by Pendragon
FanFare comment - 12 hours ago

Twenty minutes later, she returned to the stunned class: "Yes, it is obvious". SaltySalticid, that is both a hilarious joke in its own right as well as a perfectly precise parody of what this guy is doing. Standing ovation. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by flabdablet
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

The poster for "I, Frankenstein" is MUCH more entertaining in Spanish. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by supermedusa, wkearney99, Halloween Jack
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I felt like the waffle party was the closest thing to "Let's put something bizarre in here just to be weird" the show has fallen into. I was about to say, "They don't have enough employees to staff the security room 24/7 but they've… [more]
favorited 17 times, recently by gac
FanFare comment - 7 days ago

Binding a real D&D tome is 100x cooler than forging a real D&D sword. Thanks for sharing this, Lemkin. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by TedW, Lemkin
MeFi comment - 11 days ago

This isn't hard. Being a supervisor is work. Supervisors get paid more than the people they supervise. Supervisors don't usually do a bigger share of the same work the people they supervise are doing unless those people are brand new to the job and… [more]
favorited 96 times, recently by edithkeeler
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

The sky is a weird place, and as soon as you draw attention to it people are going to find weird things up there. 9 out of 10 times, those things were there all along. Very relevant xkcd "Dammit, why are there so many different… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by yerfatma, kimota, limeonaire, supermedusa, Phobos the Space Potato
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

The reason people have trouble figuring out what "stochastic terrorism" means is that the term was invented by someone, and then picked up by more people, who don't understand that this is also *just* terrorism. This is exactly how, for… [more]
favorited 15 times, recently by rosiroo, thetarium, zoinks, Jody Tresidder, Gadarene, Jilder, caviar2d2, adrienneleigh, coffeecat, symbioid, CPAnarchist, NailsTheCat, ButteryMales, lord_wolf, McBearclaw
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

It's definitely not "stochastic" in any sense. It's clearly targeted. Stochasm doesn't just mean "general any old day violence from young men" it means "random". This wasn't random. This is a misunderstanding… [more]
favorited 31 times, recently by tzikeh, rosiroo, thetarium, Mister Fabulous, Absolutely No You-Know-What, chariot pulled by cassowaries, Why Is The World In Love Again?, introp, Ray Walston, Luck Dragon, kelborel, dr_dank, SPrintF, snsranch, cooker girl, coffeecat, Gadarene, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, lord_wolf, polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice, McCoy Pauley, Serene Empress Dork, waving, EndsOfInvention, GeckoDundee, busted_crayons, fontgoddess, photo guy, ButteryMales, Dysk, McBearclaw, adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

They famously edited out all English text to be replaced with Aurebesh. But the droids all have names made of Roman letters and Arabic numerals. I never understand why people think it makes sense for the dialogue to be translated into… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice, Snowishberlin, chavenet
MeFi comment - Last month

I can't believe I saw months of hype for this and made it all the way to the end credits before noticing: QU-ANT-U-MAN-IA I was legitimately impressed with how clever that is—what with the perfect symmetry and all—and gave the movie an extra… [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by Bugbread, lalochezia
FanFare comment - Last month

You can always press fit retconn justifitcations into bad plots. Oh please. It's not retconning to point out the silliness of objecting that we don't see the effects of cloning on human society in a movie that shows us nothing… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by eustatic
MeFi comment - Last month

Google’s page ranking, at it’s peak, was largely successful due to observing the linking and sharing patterns of humans to point to the best information. It's so depressing that the people running Google don't understand anymore what a… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by sotonohito, adrienneleigh, Songdog, away for regrooving, OnceUponATime, chavenet, faineg, rory, duende
MeFi comment - Last month

3) When the Griffith Observatory is closed, can you still walk around the outside of the building? ANSWER: “Yes, when the grounds are open, you can walk around the exterior of the building and enjoy the outdoor spaces. The terraces and… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by sotonohito, adrienneleigh, aspersioncast, OnceUponATime, chavenet, tofu_crouton, mmoncur
MeFi comment - Last month

So the question becomes, in figuring inflow or outflow, what's a realistic number? My response to this was in violation of Metafilter's guidelines so I saved the mods some trouble and deleted it. [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by non canadian guy, eruonna, adrienneleigh, Gadarene, jb, dr_dank, Zumbador, unearthed
MeFi comment - Last month

It often seems what people are reacting to so viscerally with llm's is that we lack the cues we can normally rely upon to determine who qualifies as an authority, worthy of trust, especially can provide accountability in a way that they will… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by zenon
MeFi comment - Last month

Okay so I read more of the paper and they're actually much better than that. They say they measured how often and how effectively the chatbot could convince people who believe X conspiracy theory that X is false. Notably the… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by zenon
MeFi comment - Last month

you haven't proven that people change their minds when confronted by evidence, you've just proven that people change their minds when convinced by chatbots. I think the experiment assumes that sometimes people can be convinced of things… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by zenon
MeFi comment - Last month

I can believe chatbots watching kids online activity and giving them a ceaseless debunking lecture when they encounter an idea their parents don't like is in our future, but I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna like it. [more]
favorited 14 times, recently by zenon
MeFi comment - Last month

Not quite, kdilla. It's the "To Serve Man" gimmick, where the title is the plot. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Devoidoid, suelac, AzraelBrown
MeFi comment - Last month

the wealthy have the luxury of living in clean, minimal spaces, while the poor have to make do with small, cramped ones, without any way to hide their belongings.’ I think that's only half of it. The other half is that if you are rich… [more]
favorited 17 times, recently by kristi, technodelic, Emmy Rae, viramamunivar, jedicus, tavella, Ghidorah, Serene Empress Dork, d-no, Bella Donna, chavenet, ivan ivanych samovar, praemunire, sneebler, Hypatia, corey flood, rum-soaked space hobo
MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Okay, it's not just me. They only settled that bugs sleep in 2000, well after I was out of school, and I was not informed. "Sweet dreams, spiders." (addressed to the several dozen that are likely in earshot of my desk) The… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Erroneous
MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Spiders sleep? [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Jersey-knit sheets for life. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by rhiannonstone, kitten kaboodle, Melismata
MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Figure 1: The most harmful figure in mathematics? These two bosses seem delightful as well as brilliant. Thank you for sharing, ShooBoo! posted by rrrrrrrrrt Everything about this story rocks (be sure to read the editor's note at the… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by rrrrrrrrrt, anadem, hydropsyche, busted_crayons
MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Jeff Bezos doesn't need money. Nobody with the attitude that it's possible to have enough money and need no more gets to be a billionaire. [more]
favorited 17 times, recently by snsranch, Warren Terra, rosiroo, suelac, Absolutely No You-Know-What, agentofselection, biogeo, toodleydoodley, eviemath, soundguy99, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, A Terrible Llama, Balna Watya, lord_wolf, hydropsyche, mumimor, mark k
MeFi comment - 2 months ago

"Hard truths" are the beliefs that your friends and family reject because they are stupid and/or evil, so you gotta tell yourself they just aren't macho enough to handle these "hard truths." [more]
favorited 17 times, recently by Lexica, gakiko, limeonaire, naoko, gudrun, Epixonti, nakedmolerats, Thorzdad, Hactar, nofundy, Barbara Spitzer, eviemath, tavella, hydropsyche, Kato, joannemerriam, adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Other things I loved: Peter beating magic with math. How the movie gets us to look down our noses with Strange and laugh at Ned and his grandma's silly delusions about magic in the family. We're talking about real magic here, kid. And… [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by MiraK
FanFare comment - 2 months ago

I'm so happy that I found a late showing in an almost-empty theater and got to see it before I heard about any of the surprises. I went in thinking that maybe Garfield might have a small cameo, and even after he showed up I was still… [more]
favorited 21 times, recently by MiraK
FanFare comment - 2 months ago

A good way to pay him respect would be to pass a "Pete Rose Youth Safety and Sports Integrity Act" creating a national ban on sports gambling. [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by okayokayigive, newdaddy, non canadian guy, The Bellman, Sphinx, humbug, lalochezia, Typhoon Jim, revmitcz
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Novels are books that are meant to resemble or reveal the world, so subtracting all the sex scenes makes them less naturalistic, and less honest, assuming anybody is still having sex in the world. You could say the same for defecation,… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Proofs and Refutations, It is regrettable that, adrienneleigh, languagehat, Thorzdad, GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

His charisma even had Kermit the Frog turning green with jealousy during this duet with Miss Piggy (I love how Kris could not keep a straight face during her antics). [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by clawsoon
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I often wonder when we break into send-ups of Apple, Microsoft, and other such large companies who likely have employees who read this site what those people think of those companies. I don't think there's anything inherently evil about… [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by straight
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I find it hard to truly believe that the author isn't authoritative when I see so goddamn much lore out there and know so many people who can be so boring about it. If the author isn't the authority, why do we have endless lore-related… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Llama-Lime, to be fair I should read Wilson's book to see what he actually says, but when a biologist says his theories about evolution, theories that probably don't even represent a consensus within the discipline of biology, are going to fix our… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I thought the implication was that if healing a minor wound on the snake took a bit of Rey's life, healing Kylo of a mortal light saber wound must of taken a big chunk of her life. So when Ben finds her dead or almost dead he returns to her the life… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by hototogisu
FanFare comment - 3 months ago

At least Abrams finally sorted out how the Dark/Light Side works with Rey refusing to kill the Emperor by killing some of his minions instead. Clearly, the rule is that you turn to the Dark Side if you kill a named character. [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

This is fantastic. That Figure 2 diagram is beautiful. Thanks for posting it, They sucked his brains out! [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by AsYouKnow Bob
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Claiming that people don't think Israel has a right to defend themselves when they are discussing "Does Israel have the right to do this to defend themselves?" is a bad-faith derail and should not be allowed. Israel has the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

There's a certain genre of anime where the power creep goes insane and you end up with robots bigger than galaxies fighting each other and one robot shoots an energy beam from its chest that blasts past several galaxies before hitting one and blowing… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by HearHere
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I was gonna say: Er, it was in real life, 7.5 billion years ago. But, fun fact that I recently learned that helped me understand better some of these astronomy articles is that there are stars whose life cycle is longer than the age of… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by HearHere
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

ChatGPT for those who don't speak stoned otter lady otter lady, I thought your explaination was much better than the GPT version [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by gudrun
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

You better believe antisemites are gonna make hay out of the paranoia about electronic devices this will kick off. This is a disaster for the whole world. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by symbioid
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

finally, they made Zelda a girl Breath of the Wild was (I think) the first Zelda game where you couldn't make Zelda a girl. The previous games you could name the protagonist Zelda or Arwen or anything else you wanted. They… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by JHarris, GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

It makes perfect sense that Mark's sister would be able to engage with him without any trouble. She's long been used to the idea that his innie exists and wondered what his life is like. She's probably wished she could talk to him and has likely… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

I assume there is a reasonable chance that Elon bumps into TS and/or Travis Kelce at some point Elon will regret making rape threats about an NFL player's girlfriend when he finds out how rich, smart, fierce, litigious, and popular she is… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

That behavior manifests in other encounters, the staffer continued, such as when someone pays her compliments. "She'll turn to them and say 'why?,' and that throws them off," the staffer said. For some reason this struck me… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

This article reminds me of the spirit of the Dykes to Watch Out For comic that inspired the Bechdel Test which was "I wanna watch a movie that's got this…" So thanks to everbody suggesting actors who seem to enjoy… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

In general, the team found that the ambipolar field increases what’s known as the “scale height” of the ionosphere by 271%, meaning the ionosphere remains denser to greater heights than it would be without it. From an article about this on the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

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