Thanks Twilio!

They fly now??

Eh I just hired someone to do mine. Got me off oil. The rebates offered helped

I wonder how much you could save with a heat pump water heater

What is your hot water source?

Soma is so fucking bleak and I love it

Destroy it! Cast it into the fire you piece of shit!

Yeah can’t stop the weeds. Nature is gonna grow and you can’t stop it. Better to plant native plants and let them bunch up, less to maintain once established

X-Men is woke now??

Welcome!

Video icon has giant red text saying “NOBODY SURVIVES”. Open with Tom Scott standing at a gate to the Chernobyl exclusion zone

“Today I’m here to talk to you about something dark, something that has produced so much pain, something that decays life itself. Me standing in Chernobyl actually has nothing to do with it, because pulls up a laptop showing a game I’m referring to League of Legends”

…but then, disaster struck for xXDICKxxLICKERXx14, when his record was beaten by a staggering 57 milliseconds

All hail the king of the Internet, Big Money

I strongly disagree with you but still respect you as a fellow Lemmy user

This, like other movies, I think comes down to novelty. Some of the shit done in that movie was truly incredible… At the time. Some bits are still really interesting.

The jogging scene, for example, was done at a time when CG wasn’t really an option. So then you ask the question… How did they do some of these shots? How is this guy seemingly running in a zero g circle but it’s actually a real camera?

Cinematic transitions are another. The bone spinning into the space station was really cool. It’s a shot that has permeated like every form of media. Now it kinda looks cheap and jarring.

HAL as an AI, an evil robot, was an extremely interesting. Now it’s something that has been done so, so many times since.

As a sci Fi I still like it, the slow pace isn’t something that bothers me. I enjoy movies that are capable of taking their time. So many movies move at breakneck speeds. The plot is really cool to me as well.

Otherwise, yes, it’s not surprising that a modern audience finds this incredibly boring for all the points above.

Even Skyfall??

Thunderdome is fun. But ranking it above fury road is a choice

Rip rif

Unrelated, did you ever watch the sequel? It’s sort of great

Iirc the only main downside to all these apps is that you get a single answer, when it’s usually more complex than that.

Seek/iNaturalist are great. I prefer the report style of iNaturalist and how it gives me a list of options, which I can use to try and narrow it down.

E.g. if I take a pic of a flower that looks like a dandelion, it could be a common dandelion, or hawkweed, or burnweed… and of those there are a dozen sub species. Knowing which one is native is really important.

Tldr yes