[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 50 points 3 weeks ago

Crazy talk. Next you're gonna say we only need one 196 instead of five.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 52 points 1 month ago

I know all greentexts are fake, but:

  • get a job at local walmart / krogers / etc. Try doing full time but if you can only handle part-time, stick with that
  • after doing that for a while (at least 3-4 months, pref. at least a year) go to the local community college and ask about doing a GED (high school diploma)
  • take it slow at first. maybe one class at a time. try to work your way up to 3-4 classes, OR 1-2 classes while holding down a job. keep an eye out for a better job.
  • once you're getting toward the end of your GED, talk to your counselor about your career goals.
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The narrative centers around a professor who wakes up from a four-day long coma and sets out to prove his identity after no one recognizes him

...

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 55% of 207 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.8/10. The website's consensus reads: "Liam Neeson elevates the proceedings considerably, but Unknown is ultimately too derivative – and implausible – to take advantage of its intriguing premise."[14] ... Richard Roeper gave the film a B+ and wrote, "At times, Unknown stretches plausibility to the near breaking point, but it's so well paced and the performances are so strong and most of the questions are ultimately answered. This is a very solid thriller."[17] Justin Chang of Variety called it "an emotionally and psychologically threadbare exercise".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_(2011_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVuL7tlG1K4 - link from above; there's a minute or two that has weird music superimposed, and a scene missing that seems like it took place in a nightclub, probably these are modified/removed bc of copyrighted music.

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Invasion of the Star Creatures is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

  • Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Feb 2, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
  • and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
  • I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something...

How to watch the movie:

Two Abbott and Costello-type soldiers find plantlike creatures that are under the control of two beautiful alien scientists who are bent on conquering Earth.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128274/

Invasion of the Star Creatures has never been well reviewed by critics. When it first opened, the film trade magazine Box Office opined: “What a lot of baloney! Such a waste of time, film and effort. The title was good, but was it a spooky film? Nope! A comedy!! Closed the first night”.[7] Film historian Bill Warren, in his 1996 book Keep Watching the Skies!, Vol. 2, called the film "astonishingly bad ... so helplessly bad that it's almost unwatchable".[1]

In 1979, the film was cited by Harry and Michael Medved in their book The Golden Turkey Awards, a tribute to bad films. Invasion of the Star Creatures was nominated in the category for “The Worst Vegetable Movie of All Time”...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Star_Creatures

Content WARNING: the Tubi version has a warning that "The content that you are about to view features depictions that are objectionable..." Nobody on Mastodon knows what that refers to, probably crass sexism? (edit: from perusing the imdb reviews, it likely refers to a scene with a stereotypical depiction of Native Americans...)

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... a 1982 romantic drama film directed by Peter Weir and co-written by Weir and David Williamson. It was adapted from Christopher Koch's 1978 novel The Year of Living Dangerously. The story is about a love affair set in Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno....

The film stars Mel Gibson as Australian journalist Guy Hamilton, and Sigourney Weaver as British Embassy officer Jill Bryant. It also stars Linda Hunt as a Chinese-Australian man with dwarfism, Billy Kwan, Hamilton's local photographer contact, a role for which Hunt won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_Living_Dangerously_(film)

The link from above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jINKckq_ua0

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"Born in East L.A." is a single by Cheech & Chong, released in September 1985.[2] It is a parody of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A.", with references to the song "I Love L.A." by Randy Newman. The song reached No. 48 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2]

Written by Cheech Marin, the song's lyrics deal with a Mexican American from East Los Angeles who is mistaken for an undocumented immigrant and deported. The song served as the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Marin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in_East_L.A._(song)

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUFw1GH6ic

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"In order to ensure the quality of their vocal recordings, Bruce and Utsler drank tea before every take and didn't smoke cannabis while recording."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang!_Pow!_Boom!

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Piranha is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

  • Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Jan 26, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
  • and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
  • I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching it on TV or something...

How to watch:

  • someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time so check there
  • if you're in North America, Australia, or the UK try Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/452488/piranha last I checked adblock worked with it
  • YOUTUBE WARNING: there's a movie on youtube that says it's Piranha but it's actually some other movie, I think it's "Piranha, Piranha" from 1972 even though it says it's from 1978. Note that Piranha was also re-made in 1995 so make sure you get the 1978 version which is 95 minutes long.
  • if you want to pay or watch ads and are in the US, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/piranha

Executive produced by Roger Corman, Piranha is the first installment in a series of low-budget B movies inspired by the film Jaws (1975), which had been a major success for Universal Pictures and director Steven Spielberg. Initially, Universal had considered obtaining an injunction to prevent Piranha being released, particularly as they had released Jaws 2 the same summer, but the lawsuit was dropped after Spielberg himself gave the film a positive comment in advance.

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Charles Champlin, in his review of the film for the Los Angeles Times, called it "a swift, efficient program picture which squeezes the most out of its dollars to squeeze delicious chills from the audience."[14] Jill Forbes of The Monthly Film Bulletin called the film "a quickie from the Corman company that can't decide whether to plump for horror, science fiction or social comedy, and plays safe with something for everyone", and found it "a lot of fun".[15] Screen International's Marjorie Bilbow wrote that the film "works as spirited scream and giggle nonsense because there is always something happening and Joe Dante directs with a slyly tongue-in-cheek awareness of the existence of big brother Jaws".[16]

Piranha has since acquired a cult status. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 72% based on 29 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5 out of 10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Performed with a wink and directed with wry self-awareness, Piranha is an unabashed B-movie with satirical bite."[17]

Steven Spielberg called the film "the best of the Jaws ripoffs".[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_(1978_film)

This community briefly discussed this film a couple years ago.

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...a 1984 West German - Austrian TV film portraying the events of the Wannsee Conference, held in Berlin in January 1942. The script is derived from the minutes of the meeting.[1] Since no verbatim transcription of the meeting exists, the dialogue is necessarily fictionalised. The main theme of the film is the bureaucratic nature of the genocide. ... Die Wannseekonferenz opens with the arrival of a group of high-ranking Nazi officials at a luxurious villa on the shores of Lake Wannsee.[3] ... the conference is convened ostensibly to discuss administrative matters related to the Jewish population under Nazi control. However, it soon becomes apparent that the true purpose of the meeting is to coordinate the systematic extermination of European Jews. ... The attendees engage in chillingly pragmatic discussions about the most efficient methods of mass murder, referring to Jews in dehumanizing terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wannsee_Conference_(film)

BONUS FILM: The 2022 version of this film, titled Die Wannseekonferenz aka The Conference

There was also a 2001 film in English based on this, but it's not free on youtube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(2001_film)

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 54 points 1 month ago

But the rest of your life after that is a nightmare.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 39 points 1 month ago

There's a huge difference between living somewhere and visiting it as a tourist. Most places encourage tourism and are happy to demonstrate their hospitality. Stick to the tourist areas, start interactions by saying "We're tourists from Germany..." and you'll have no problem.

I'm not sure what other people here mean when they deny that there is racism in the US. There are plenty of racists in this country. It's true that they're much less likely to hang you from a tree for being in the wrong neighborhood -- I guess if your standards are that low then we have indeed made great progress. But again, they're generally not going to mess with tourists in tourist areas.

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15 September 1940 in Marseille. A man cries as French troops are forced to retreat to North Africa.

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"A Frenchman sheds tears of patriotic grief as flags of his country's lost regiments are exiled to Africa", according to the caption in the 3 March 1941 issue of Life magazine. Incorrectly captioned by NARA as "A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into the French capital, Paris, on June 14, 1940, after the Allied armies had been driven back across France."

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weeping_Parisian_from_NARA_Ww2-81.jpg

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 48 points 1 month ago

https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Be interesting to see what it looks like a month from now -- the size of plateau and drop-off.

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Invasion of the Bee Girls is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

  • Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Jan 19, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
  • and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
  • I usually open two web browser windows on a laptop side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching it on TV or something...

How to watch:

The premise of the movie is that a mad scientist (Ford) is using radiation-mutated bee serum to create an army of female beauties who seduce men to death. One by one, the male victims are killed before the local police catch on to the plans of the infected females.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Bee_Girls

Also see this community's previous discussion of this movie! (e: that has a much higher-quality version of the movie poster...)

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"Every 1's a Winner" is the third single from the 1978 Hot Chocolate album of the same name. The single was released on 4 March 1978 on RAK Records in the UK and Infinity Records in the US. It peaked at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart and number 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100; it was the band's second-highest-charting single in the US, behind "You Sexy Thing".[3][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_1%27s_a_Winner_(song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLb9AiTk-YY

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Battle Beyond the Stars is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" viewing over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

  • Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Jan 12, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
  • and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
  • I usually open two web browser windows on a laptop side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching it on TV or something...

How to watch:

it was intended as a futuristic "Magnificent Seven (itself a western version of Seven Samurai) in outer space",[13] ... The film was theatrically released by Corman's New World Pictures and was a moderate box office success, despite receiving mixed reviews from critics.

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Battle Beyond the Stars received mixed reviews from critics due to its similar space opera styling, capitalizing upon the success of Star Wars. Cameron's special effects were praised as being impressive, considering the film's low budget, and helped to open the door for his future success.

In Creature Feature, John Stanley gave the movie three and a half stars, recommending the film for its fun script, special effects and its spirit of fun.[35] Filmink called it one of George Peppard's "best ever films" in which his performance was "warm, funny, touching… this sort of performance was why Peppard remained employed, for all his issues."[36]

Christopher John reviewed Battle Beyond the Stars in Ares Magazine #5:

There is a lot to be pointed up in this picture. There is the fact that every different technology shows different lines of development. Every ship and the way it is operated is distinctly unique.[37]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Beyond_the_Stars

Also see previous discussion of this film in this community!

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 50 points 2 months ago

> be me > look at source of comment above > be excited bc I finally see how to make greentext-style comments that begin with ">" > but the comment linewraps so it doesn't work FML

> spend half an hour copy-pasting and looking at things character-by-character
> finally figure out that you have to end lines with two spaces
> why? who cares, it works.
> mfw: hackerman.jpg

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 46 points 2 months ago

Also a lot of information about what they want for Christmas, which can be used for market research and customer profiling. Not to mention you can scan and OCR all those letters to Santa and use them train AIs. Finally, Santa's dropping off presents... and not leaving behind any advertising?

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 37 points 2 months ago

As long as he farted in the general direction of France, he'd be OK.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 38 points 3 months ago

Nah, they'll just imprison him and make him work for free.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 37 points 3 months ago

See, this is why I keep speech recognition turned off...

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 37 points 3 months ago

Well they were planning on Effing it, so maybe they were wearing "protection".

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 53 points 4 months ago

Unpopular opinion: Kamala was a solid candidate.

Biden was headed to a humiliating defeat. Another couple debates, and maybe he loses NY and CA and we have a Dukakis- or Mondale-level annhilation. Kamala stepped in and ran a solid campaign on very short notice. Trump didn't even have time to come up with a good nickname for her! She kicked his ass in their only debate, and he was literally too scared to do it again.

In the end, she lost by a couple hundred thousand votes in 3 states. She was wrong about Gaza and the economy, but PA, MI, and WI are credibly winnable in future elections. Kamala was not a garbage candidate.

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