[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 month ago

A key question in the field is whether you guys are getting citations. [1]

[1] Zkuld@lemmy.world, science_memes@mander.xyz, Jan 27th 2025

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 month ago
  • Talk to a trusted friend or relative.
  • Ask them to help you set small goals like: 1) identify a couple mental health providers or life coaches or similar, 2) give some of them an initial call, 3) pick 1-2 to follow up with.
  • Ask your trusted friend or relative to help you stay on track to accomplish those goals.
[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 months ago

iirc the dream wasn't to secure Gettysburg, it was to destroy the Army of the Potomac.

It wasn't as easy a call as it sounds now that we know the disposition of both armies. Longstreet's assessment was more accurate about how much the rate of fire had increased the lethality of the kill zone over the past decades, and Lee should have listened to him. I suspect Lee was mostly guided by his sense of how it would impact the morale of each army - because that was crucial to which army would break first. He might also have overestimated the effectiveness of his artillery. Turns out he was wrong.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 months ago

ikr "beyond the scope of the current effort" also works.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 months ago

The quote doesn't say anything about forever tho. The kid is just figuring out that death happens to people and wolves, but not to words and books. The parent is the one pretending that the kid's making some profound statement about the permanence of ideas.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 months ago

The real question is: are they going to charge you for a Cobb salad, or for a Great Wall of China?

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 months ago

That image never gets old. But to contextualize it, check out the illustrated article "Pants Scientists and Bona Fide Cyber Ninjas: Tracing the Poetics of Cyberpunk Menswear":

…much of cyberpunk-influenced menswear justifies itself with function and utility as if such features were necessary for men to participate in fashion movements. I detect a change from the lone-wolf outlaws of original cyberpunk to militarized super-hero enforcers of the current mainstream, but also present a counterpoint to both in the guise of the cool, gray cyberpunk man: a “pants science” enthusiast who combines the fantasies of individualism and a low-key presentation to the hidden, almost science-fictional, functionalities of his clothing.

https://sfrareview.org/2020/12/13/50-4-15/

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 months ago

This is on !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world so I'm not sure how to interpret it... but guaranteed I'm gonna be on Lemmy this Christmas Day, you're welcome to join me, I'm sure there'll be others.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 19 points 3 months ago

From watching hours of "Law & Order", I know the real answer involves DNA, cell phone records, an illegal search, and questioning without an attorney present.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 20 points 4 months ago

When you're trying to merge but they won't let you in: "Hey buddy! Give peas a chance!"

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Was uploaded yesterday, aspect ratio is a little weird, might be removed in a day or two. UPDATE: yep, it' gone.

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1969 British drama film directed by Ronald Neame from a screenplay written by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from her own stage play, which was in turn based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Muriel Spark. The film stars Maggie Smith in the title role as an unrestrained teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh.

I think this might have region-blocking, but I'm not sure of the regions.

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Old documentary about kung fu, displaying the various types of wushu forms. Doesn't have a plot, is only 480p, and I think it was meant to be some kind of national propaganda film. But it is fascinating to see the different styles by expert practitioners in natural settings. A young Jet Li shows up at 19:10.

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Tommy Johnson (Danny Dyer) is a member of a violent Chelsea hooligan firm. His friends and fellow hooligans include Tommy's best friend Rod King (Neil Maskell), the hot-tempered Billy Bright (Frank Harper), and impulsive younger members Zeberdee (Roland Manookian) and Raf (Calum MacNab). Tommy spends his days drinking, using drugs, womanising and fighting, much to the disappointment of his grandfather Bill Farrell (Dudley Sutton), a pensioner and veteran who plans to move to Australia with his best friend Albert (John Junkin).

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

There's nothing different about me. I'm just another bored male, approaching 30, in a dead-end job, who lives for the weekend. Casual sex, watered-down lager, heavily cut drugs. And occasionally kicking fuck out of someone.

What else are you gonna do on a Saturday? Are you gonna sit in some poxy office with a cunt for a boss telling you what to do as you count your pennies trying to make ends meet in a country that's sinking into strikes and wars and at the end of the day you go home to your cosy little flat in 'nowheresville' and pull your IKEA curtains shut to hide from the big bad world and pretend it's not happening? Sit in your fuckin' armchair wankin' off to Pop Idols? Then try and avoid your wife's gaze as you struggle to come to terms with your sexless marriage? Then go and spunk your wages on kebabs, fruit machines and brasses? Or are you gonna stand up and be counted, make a difference and feel the rush?

Just for once say "fuck it". I'm coiled up like a spring and I'm ready to burst and wanking ain't doing it anymore. I need violence to make me feel I'm still alive. Fuck all that for a laugh! I know what I'd rather do. Tottenham away, love it!

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 22 points 4 months ago

republicans have nobody to blame

They will always find someone to blame.

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Variously translated as "The Angel of Hearth and Home" or "The Fireside Angel", subtitled: "The Triumph of Surrealism."

Ernst painted The Triumph of Surrealism shortly after the defeat of the Spanish Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. In this conflict, Spanish fascist leaders were supported by Germany and Italy in their victory. Ernst's goal was to depict the chaos that he saw spreading over Europe and the ruin that fascism brings to countries.

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retitled by Ernst in 1938 as The Triumph of Surrealism, "a despairing reference to the fact that the surrealists with their Communist ideas had been unable to do anything to resist fascism."

https://www.max-ernst.com/the-triumph-of-surrealism.jsp

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This is a pretty horrible movie in terms of acting, plot, realism, special effects, etc. The one redeeming value is the following. Apparently it was made with the support of the local chapter of the Japan Karate Association, a "traditional" shotokan karate organization known for the rigor and quality-control of its training. So every once in a while you'll see people doing karate moves that clearly demonstrate they've spent years of practice on them.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14991177

A famous martial artist, Steve Hunt, travels to the desert for what he thinks is an Olympic-style competition. The competition turns out to be a trap set by Baron von Rudloff, an ex-Nazi general who is still bitter over the humiliating defeat of his martial arts team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_or_Be_Killed_(1976_film)

It has a sequel, you know....

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A famous martial artist, Steve Hunt, travels to the desert for what he thinks is an Olympic-style competition. The competition turns out to be a trap set by Baron von Rudloff, an ex-Nazi general who is still bitter over the humiliating defeat of his martial arts team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_or_Be_Killed_(1976_film)

It has a sequel, you know....

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See higher-res versions on Wikipedia.

No. 4.– The picture represents the Vicious State, or State of Destruction. Ages may have passed since the scene of glory – though the decline of nations is generally more rapid than their rise. Luxury has weakened and debased. A savage enemy has entered the city. A fierce tempest is raging. Walls and colonnades have been thrown down. Temples and palaces are burning. An arch of the bridge, over which the triumphal procession was passing in the former scene, has been battered down, and the broken pillars, and ruins of war engines, and the temporary bridge that has been thrown over, indicate that this has been the scene of fierce contention. Now there is a mingled multitude battling on the narrow bridge, whose insecurity makes the conflict doubly fearful. Horses and men are precipitated into the foaming waters beneath; war galleys are contending: one vessel is in flames, and another is sinking beneath the prow of a superior foe. In the more distant part of the harbor, the contending vessels are dashed by the furious waves, and some are burning. Along the battlements, among the ruined Caryatides, the contention is fierce; and the combatants fight amid the smoke and flame of prostrate edifices. In the fore-ground are several dead and dying; some bodies have fallen in the basin of a fountain, tinging the waters with their blood. A female is seen sitting in mute despair over the dead body of her son, and a young woman is escaping from the ruffian grasp of a soldier, by leaping over the battlement; another soldier drags a woman by the hair down the steps that form part of the pedestal of a mutilated colossal statue, whose shattered head lies on the pavement below. A barbarous and destroying enemy conquers and sacks the city. Description of this picture is perhaps needless; carnage and destruction are its elements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire_(paintings)

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The Whole Wide World is a 1996 American independent biographical film produced and directed by Dan Ireland in his directorial debut. It depicts the relationship between pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard (Vincent D'Onofrio) and schoolteacher Novalyne Price Ellis (Renée Zellweger).

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtIQr7pLDEM

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This is a totally 80s movie. It's got cocaine, beaches, cops dressed in suits with their hair slicked back, and sex in the hot tub with a sax solo playing. I thought it was all too cheesy, but the youtube comments are full of people talking like it's the best movie ever. Anyway, it's got three of the biggest stars of the period, as well as a very entertaining Raul Julia in a supporting role, so if you're in the mood for something 80s, go for it.

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Memory is a 2022 American action thriller film starring Liam Neeson as a hitman with early dementia who must go on the run after declining a contract on a young girl. ... Memory was theatrically released in the United States on April 29, 2022 by Open Road Films, and received mostly negative reviews from critics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_(2022_film)

Yeah it's not that great of a movie, but if you're a Liam Neeson fan you might want to watch it.

It was only uploaded yesterday, so it might be taken down pretty soon! EDIT: Looks like it was removed already...

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