The Sci Fi mini series was great! The best adaptation imo. Even as wooden as the acting was.

The Lynch film I really enjoyed , I view more like a “based on a true story” type movie.

The new ones I felt had the best visual representation, and was casted awesome. Thought they nailed the first one (for the most part), but the second one fell off the rails for me though.

The TV is produced well enough, but if it’s like any of the Dune adaptations or the books for that matter, it’s gonna fall off the rails and make no sense.

This made me think of this

I use a disposable vape now and I was adamant about not using one because of the wastefulness, until they banned flavored vape liquid in my state.

It started to get really hard to buy coils for my vape, because it became unprofitable for these companies to operate here, and then even harder to find the liquid I enjoy.

Non-disposable ones tend to be bulky too. Not to mention the maintenance is a huge pain in the ass. The non-disposable vapes tend to leak. Doesn’t matter which one you use. If you don’t prime the coil correctly they burn out in a few puffs, and you just wasted 5+ bucks on the coil you’ve been searching for. Coils only tend to last a few days to a week as well. So you’re always on this search to find coils. Also reusable ones only last for a few months to maybe a year anyway (if you’re lucky), then you have to spend 100+ on a new one.

Sure you could get the little pod ones but now you’re being wasteful because you can’t reuse those either, and break twice as fast.

Now I can buy 2 disposables that last a month, don’t leak, don’t take a lot of real estate in my pocket, are significantly cheaper, is easier to find, and the flavor is always consistent.

I would’ve been fine with my reusable one until they banned the products that allowed me to use it.

So yeah prohibition doesn’t work. You ban this people will just go back to smoking. Which is just as wasteful and way more toxic.

Unpopular opinion, but I always find this kind of thing funny. US is damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

We get involved, we’re imperialist swine that only care about our interests.

We don’t, and are scrutinized for letting bad things happen.

I have an old “smart” Vizio TV from like 2012 (?) that has outlasted 2 new 4k smart TVs. I’ll stick with this guy till it pops

Followed by how Linux is so amazing

I have enough in my emergency fund that if I lost my job I’d be ok for about a year.

I’m nearly to my goal, after that I’m going to change my focus to expanding my portfolio.

Still no way I can buy a house though. Need to make about 3x more money for that to happen.

I credit it to having a property owner that’s kept rent cheap and having low overhead, and being frugal borderline cheap.

That is more or less called a strawman

The alcohol thing is really just an east coast thing, and Utah.

Unless the driver wasn’t insured properly, Taxis cover your bodily injuries in an accident. They should have no medical bills associated with it, and the article is kinda vague on that. If anything they should be taking this up with the insurance company. Unless the driver wasn’t insured properly, and Uber didn’t do their diligence then yeah it’s on Uber.

This seems like these people are trying to sue for more than that though?

Do i believe that Uber is being shady trying to pull some garbage about a separate TOS, yeah that’s shady. They should take it to the next level of appellate courts, which I believe would be the Supreme Court now.

Though this isn’t apples to apples of the Disney thing.

So they were in an Uber, and ordered food on Uber eats, then the Uber driver crashed? Did I read that right?

Nah, the bullets would’ve just given up halfway through flight

That was hilarious

And music, TV, Movies, Books, thoughts

Betteridge’s law of headlines. Any headline that ends with a question the answer is always no.

Sure I can answer that for you.

A regular guy, and you don’t have to.

I did watch the video. It’s why I asked. Anyone can say they are a consultant, and he doesn’t really mention much to back that claim. He doesn’t say anything novel either.

I’m not trying to be hypercritical, but if someone says that they are a credible source I want to know why.

Who is this guy and why should I care what he says?

Edit: Since no one could answer it. He’s an indie developer and made a few games. Silver Falls, Clasherball, and Animelee. He also says he’s a consultant, based on the video, but I couldn’t find anything of him doing that.

So he’s slightly a step above a regular guy making some video complaining.

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Hashkully, the Byzantine Empire never existed. It was always the Eastern Roman Empire.

It was recoined as the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Constantinople from the Ottoman Empire in the 1400s by Renaissance scholars a few hundred years later.

They changed the history books when they wanted to make a distinction from the ancient Roman Empire from the very different but still same Roman Empire that fell not long before them, because the western Romans were considered pagans, and the East were Christians.

It was called the Byzantine Empire because the city that existed before Constantinople, was called Byzantium. Which was the new Roman capital when Emperor Constantine seized power, who was the first Christian Roman Emperor.