That is an impossible question because it depends on so many factors of what’s going on on the particular day that I’m asked.
So instead I’ll give you the three that most often rotate into top spot:
Children of Men
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
LA Confidential
They deserve an invasion
I’d rather they just get nuked back to old testament levels.
Lots of people doing things by rote without actually understanding the underlying fundamentals of what they’re doing
That’s the fault of the YouTube Effect. In color grading or video editing, for example, we have people learning from youtube tutorials on what buttons to push, but nothing about the actual science and theory behind why to push those particular buttons. You’ll watch a ten minute video on “How to get the bleach-bypass look for your video” with absolutely no explanation of what the Bleach-bypass look is or when it would appropriate to use it (for example).
Most new creatives in any field have learned primarily from YouTube content creators that have themselves learned from other YouTube content creators. They’re just re-recording the same tutorial that they learned it from, down and down the line. Maybe at some point down the line, there was originally somebody who went to an accredited film-school/photography school or what have you that actually understood the why of it, but for the most part it’s amateurs teaching amateurs what buttons to push.
PC is nothing until I can get the parts in to get it running.
Everything at the moment is being done on a 4gb Chromebook that I’ve wiped and installed Linux onto. It’s surprisingly capable in a lot of ways, but not capable enough to do more than some very basic blender modelling.
Oh yeah…it’s all backed up. That’s not a worry. Just don’t have a computer powerful enough for 3D modelling, or editing at the moment. So all I can do is write code and hope that when I put it together with the 3D it actually works (it won’t, because honestly I’m pretty terrible at coding but I refuse to vibe it.)
“Working on” is a pretty hazy definition at the moment.
My three biggest projects (finishing an aircraft for X-Plane, programming a minimalist word processor, and working on what will hopefully be a pixel game similar to Panzer General) were all functionally tanked when my desktop died. I could still do little things here and there on my underpowered laptop, but for all intents and purposes, I’ve been hamstrung for about four months now.
Finally picked up a new/used computer and just have to work through a few more glitches to get it up and running.
Don’t ask why all the pamphlets are blank between 1939 and 1945…
Trump.
But only because I’ve lost sympathy with those people who keep saying “We need to get him out in November, blah blah blah”
Holy…fucking…denial, Batman! He’s not going away. He’s not joking about staying in 2028 and 2032. By all means vote in the midterms but be prepared for that vote to mean precisely jack shit.
Stop bitching and do something about it. Does it risk your livelihood and possibly your life when (not if) it comes to that? Yes. But you know who elses livelihood’s and lives were threatened? The founding fathers; they had the courage to do it anyway.
If American’s aren’t willing to stand up for fear of losing their precious conveniences, than fuck 'em. I’m at the point where they deserve what they get.
Dems have a lot of shit to answer for. But the most egretious is simply not demanding a recount or an audit in swing states when it’s so obviously clear that shit wasn’t straight.
I go to ebay and select “Canada Only” when trying to find a particular item. (Am Canadian)
Meaning is whatever you want it to be. You have the free will to create your own meaning in your life.
That being said, reading your post, I mean no disrespect, but please seek professional help. This goes beyond “finding your own meaning” and dives into “something is wrong”.
end all be all of the first stepping stone
Personally, I don’t think our future lies in any planetary gravity well at all. The larger the gravity well, the more difficult and expensive it is to escape from, and there’s no particular resource available there that we can’t get from the asteroid belt or the other moons in the system.
Our own moon gives us the low gravity and easy escape vectoring to get us to the asteroid belt. The asteroid blt gives us the resources to continue outwards to the Jovian and Saturnian moons and the zero gee necessary to easily construct ships/habitats of any size we want without worrying about escaping a gravity well.
Gravity is the hard part. Why would be spend billions to escape one gravity well just to sink ourselves down into another when an orbital habitat can be much better regulated to our needs.
“Stakeholder” is simply anyone who will be effected by “x”. whether “x” is a policy change, or something as simple as choosing a new brand of peanut butter for your family.
“Who are the people who will be effected by this?”
In Project Management you’re taught that one of the first things you do when implementing a change or starting a new project, etc… Is to Identify the stakeholders.
I’m sure there’s a more concise definition, but I just woke up.
Goddammit. Why can’t we have nice things?
I’ll accept no criticism of Rod Torfulsen’s Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuck.
Slippery slope is “If we let libraries carry un-educational books like fantasy novels, we’ll end up having to let libraries carry porn and mein kampf.”
And that’s the last I’m going to bother responding to idiot trolls.
Which implies there was possibly a time when those books were in school libraries
It implies no such thing. Before that, it would have simply been the school administrators decision as to whether or not to have those in the school library. There’s no evidence that any school actually did.
The school board bans come from a blanket list they get from probably some far-right evangelical consulting firm somewhere. It’s pre-emptive. And it never used to be needed because we trusted our teachers and long-suffering librarians to do their job. THEY made sure that what was in THEIR library was appropriate.
The school board is just making smoke in order to pretend that there’s a fire.
Stop catastrophizing. You know as well as I do that isn’t what I’m referring to. I’m talking about putting fantasy books and other “non-educational” books in school libraries.
No one is saying that libraries should have porn and mein kampf. What you’re doing is the classic slippery slope fallacy and no one is dumb enough to fall for it, so shut it.
It’s not sane at all.
The biggest struggle is getting kids actually reading. You don’t do that by forcing them to only read books that don’t interest them at all.
If the entire purpose is to encourage kids to read (it’s not…not in 'murica, anyway), but you take away anything they want to read, you’re defeating the purpose.
I can’t believe this is actually something people want to debate! It’s ludicrous. Reading improves a kids cognition and ability to process complex thoughts. That’s the entire purpose of a school library.
How in the fuck did we go from a world where your teacher would tell you to go pick three books from the library to take home and read, to a world where your teacher tells you to not read books you like for some obscure reason?
Getting kids reading IS the entire point. It’s the foudational skill to everything else that comes along with it.
I love the fact that it’s an entire movie where the side-kick is treated as the main character, while the actual main character is treated as the side-kick. It’s brilliant.
It’s also responsible for by-far my most used line. "It’s like I told my ex-wife. “Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. And besides that, it’s all in the reflexes.”