Dude, no way!

Thank you for this. I love this story but could never find it again after I read it the first time!

So grateful for the link to this, thanks again stranger!

From what I understand, if this technology would have been built out during his time then humanity most likely wouldn’t have developed our semi-processor/radio/computer/telephone technology because the wireless transmission of electricity would have prevented the earliest versions of that tech to work and we wouldn’t have been able to follow that line of technology progression.

During CoVid some friends and I had a virtual movie club called CoVideo Club where we would meet up in VR each week to watch a movie in a virtual movie theater together.

Over the 200 movies we watched we screened all of the Predator movies. I picked the movies and sometimes I wouldn’t tell others beforehand what we were going to be watching during our next session. None of my friends follow upcoming movies so they had no idea about Prey, what it was or when it was coming out. It had been months since we had watched the last Predator movie so when I screened Prey they had no idea it was a Predator movie. It came out the day before we screened it so there wasn’t much talk about it in the media yet.

The slow realization they had that we weren’t watching a western but a sci-fi horror movie set in the Predator universe was fun to sit back and watch play out.

I haven’t seen Prey since but if I remember correctly the first time it dawned on them that this might be a Predator movie was the first time you see the fluorescent yellow glowing blood. They went wild.

Yeah bud, I totally would do that.

I think it is common to have deep feelings for non-romantic partners, friends or family that would be strong enough to compel someone to avenge them if they were hurt or killed.

I’m not saying anything is wrong with you, we all experience our emotions and perceive the world around us and the people in it different, but as another poster said, you may want to talk to a therapist. Your post indicates you may have some stuff you can get help with that may expand your empathy towards others. Not an accusation but some friendly advice.

Personally, I had a lot of anger when I was younger that severely limited my empathy towards others. If I could have sorted it out in therapy a couple decades earlier than I did I know my life would have been better earlier. The connections I now have with me family and friends is deeper than I once thought possible.

It was hard to face my past and who I thought I was but once I did let go of all of that baggage I had much more space within myself for others.

If the land isn’t otherwise arable, such as extreme desert, then there most likely isn’t any population centers nearby. Minimizing environmental impact would have to factor in the transportation of resources to the facility and grown food out of the facility to consumers too.

I think verticals farms are going to be an important component for future food production, especially with climate change. You are right though, the entire process needs to be redesigned holistically before it is a viable option compared to traditional farming.

That isn’t to say we shouldn’t be building these facilities now though; I think the more we build now the faster we will solve these problems by putting practical research into the needed technology.

Funny thing is, he does have a helicopter and his helicopter pilots license. Which he got in case of emergencies. After the LA fires this year I saw an interview with him where he was talking about it.

He was making fun of himself because he got his license and the helicopter to flee things like the LA fire but helicopters are expensive and he couldn’t afford more than a 2-seater so he can’t take his whole family if he ever had to really use it.

So my comment was based off a real thing he may say as to why he needed the money.

Tbh though, I could see him going with that third one.

I feel this comment acutely.

Thank You!!

Agreed about 90s Chappelle… I think he would have had more empathy and understanding in selecting gigs than current Chappelle.

You’re right, I guess spin is the wrong word here since it is a PR term and Bill Burr isn’t a PR type of guy.

I intended to mean, I wonder what he will say about this when he is publicly asked about it.

I am assuming he will be blunt and honest with answers ranging from,

“it’s none of your damn business”

to

“I needed a new helicopter that has more than 2 seats so I can evacuate my family from LA safely once shit hits the fan and I don’t want to put myself in a Sofie’s Choice kinda situation”

or

“Sorry, I wasn’t thinking when I accepted the job but donated the paycheck to the 9/11 families fund.”

Agreed on the Bill Burr part.

He is the only one who I was surprised and disappointed to see attending. All those others are people who’d I expect to chase money over morals and I didn’t respect as individuals already.

I wonder how he is going to spin this.

It’s not lazy to ask someone who seems to know something about the topic within a discussion thread about said topic. You know more than I do on this.

I understand how you may not want to take the time to answer someone’s question but also you could have replied with the link you eventually did instead of saying “Seriously?” Within the context of calling others lazy you could also qualify under the same term since you took the time to respond but not with the answer.

With search being what it is nowadays I wouldn’t know if I am getting a good result to find out the answer since it is of a technical and specific nature I may or may not even know if I am familiar with to begin with. It could take me much longer to figure it out, or I will give up and not be interested in finding out more about a field you seem to have an interest and knowledge about and I am demonstrating I want to know more about.

I think it is fair to ask for more information from someone who shows more expertise in the topic before searching.

Thanks!

Agreed!

I don’t know what this is but it is a topic I am somewhat familiar with and it is somehow significant enough to be a headline.

Curious minds would like to know more.

Hey everybody, we got someone sucking off little mangos over here!

Paper towel or napkin works too for getting enough grip to manipulate a mango seed without it slipping.

Love the passion you have for this and you clearly have experience. Mango is my favorite fruit, by far.

I have questions.

*Why should I be shamed for cutting them into skinless squares?

*If I didn’t eat them it with a fork should I still be shamed for cutting mango into skinless squares?

*What is cutting into cups? Sounds like a style of cutting/preparing but also could be just the receptacle you use to hold the mango, so I am confused by the ambiguity.

*It seems that your mango experience is South Asian centric, as you point out, but have you had much experience with Central/South American mangos? If so, how are they different from your preferred mango varietals?

Thank you for the list of mangos I should try. I may have had several of them before as I have travelled through South Asia several times, but alas, it was in the less mango informed days of my youth.

Keep on keeping on, mango buddy!

I rank The Living Daylights and License To Kill the same way.

A Dalton led GoldenEye would be one of the first movies I track down if I ever find myself in a slightly different universe to our own where all those “almost happened” movies ended up being made. Like Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in Back to the Future, Jerry Smith in Cloud Atlas or a Stanley Kubrick directed A.I.

I sometimes think how fun it would be to have access to a Multiverse Video Store. It would exist outside of all the different universes but have all the movies that were never made, or were made differently.

I don’t want to jump between universes and get involved in all that hijinks, but a video store that stocks its shelves from all universes would be fun to explore.

I remember watching an interview with the guy who played Q, Desmond Llewelyn (1963 until his death in 1999), and he said Timothy Dalton was his favorite Bond; that he was the most book accurate version.

Dalton’s Bond was a lady’s man but only because it was a tool of the trade, not an ego driven or self-serving trait like previous Bond’s had wielded it.