Notices by Modern Industrial (modernindustrial@mastodon.club), page 34

@LeninandEngels1989 IIRC this is not how things worked out

[To the tune of MC Hammer's "Can't Touch This"]
Doooo doo doo doo
Doo doo
Doo doo
doin' taxes

@noflag The winners get a golden pineapple, I assume?

@Modern_Industrial Mine is without a doubt, the point in Insterstellar after they go through the wormhole.

They're deciding which planet to investigate, then note that they "need to treat time like a resource" (due to gravitational time dilation).

Then, the planet the choose to visit? THE MOST TIME-EXPENSIVE OPTION AVAILABLE.

Otherwise, a phenomenal movie, but holy fuck folks.

@ink_slinger lol No, but that one's an easy target.

Actually, I was picking my wife up from the airport yesterday and serenading her with the content of my Little Mermaid rant. She then countered with a critique of Big Hero 6 (which I had raised when we first saw the movie) - why doesn't Hiro just build another neuralcranial transmitter?

@games Agreed, especially with Dark Knight Rises. I re-watched it this weekend, and it has some real challenges.

TBH, though, the part that made me cringe was when Batman punched Bane in the final fight, and Bane fumbled with reconnecting the delicate little tubes on his mask. Like, "Hey Bane - ever think about a tube cover?"

@mpjgregoire @ink_slinger Exactly. Pumping the carbon from the Alberta fields into the atmosphere is basically game over for climate change.

And the risk of a pipe leakage is that the potential for volume spilled is much higher than oil tankers, where the spilled amount is fundamentally limited.

Honestly, even though trade wars are stupid (especially between provinces), this argument between BC and Alberta got me like

@mpjgregoire @ink_slinger Got it. Thank you for the background.

@ink_slinger @mpjgregoire I don't understand why other methods would be more dangerous. Wouldn't that basically be tanker truck, or am I missing something?

@miwilc Seconded - especially stormtroopers.

@starbreaker Oh man, that one got me too. I had to watch that through my fingers, screaming "What are you doing?!"

@dokidoki I think I missed that part lol

What's the most frustrating plot hole you've ever seen in a movie?

@natejms That's fair. I think bitcoin may be doing a disservice to many when it comes to learning about computer systems. It seems some are learning about the idea of a blockchain (which is honestly fairly complicated) before learning about more basic concepts like databases or encryption.

@Canageek This is a good idea. Like something from an RSS/Google Reader space, but reorganized for more of a social experience. Self hosting could be done much more easily, making it far more accessible. The challenge would be the feedback part - likes, retoots, comments, etc.

@natejms Sorry for the rants lately. I'm mostly just tired of the buzzword idiocy about it. It seems like it's eaten a lot of brains, making folks blind to better solutions.