Top Gun (1987)

I’m pretty sure she likes me already. Enough to stick around for the last 25+ years, anyway.

I don’t think I could even pick the CEO of my own employer out of a lineup.

There are something like 24 million millionaires in the US, and over 50 million worldwide.

“Famous” is relative, but its safe to say most people have never heard more than a tiny fraction of those names.

Just so I’m getting this straight,
Being in control of your feed = “echo chambering yourself”.
Looking at everything = “very angry people flooding the platform with their negativity and extremist views”.

You do you.

You’ve been Baader-Meinhof’d.

It’s easy to set up any number of seemingly impossible situations if you start with the premise of a super entity that can accurately predict the future.

What you’re given is [Ridiculous Assumption] + [Normal Situation] = [Paradox]

But the trick is to quickly gloss over the [Ridiculous Assumption] and frame it as [Normal Situation] = [Paradox]

Other comments give a good tl;dw already, but in case anyone wants a video with pictures and examples, Geography By Geoff has done this topic a few times. Here’s one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqyM54CNSsY

I grew up on Transformers, Thundercats, GI Joe, Voltron, He-Man, Duck Tales, Inspector Gadget, The Smurfs, Dungeons & Dragons, and dozens more. They don’t all hold up the same 40 years later, but this was basically the last generation of free, over-the-air Saturday morning cartoons.

“I’ve been better. But I’ve been worse.”

Sewer line is sagging, so there’s a 30ft section that is trapping anything that gets flushed or drained. I called them out to fix a backup, and they found why it backed up alright.

He had to leave to get a better locator to see exactly where in the yard/street would need to be dug up, but it seems to be pretty close to the city connection, so probably in or near the street, which could make the cost that high if it involves excavating the road.

About 10 minutes ago my plumber said my problem may cost in the neighborhood of $30k to fix. Yay.

I only get to the theater maybe 5-6 times per year, and that’s almost always with my spouse, so the movie is secondary to the experience.

I do watch a lot on streaming, and between the summary, genre, actors, director, and reviews, both professional and word-of-mouth…I can usually pick out what I will enjoy. If it turns out bad, it’s one button to turn it off.

I will watch good movies, and skip terrible movies. Whether they are in a franchise or not has no bearing on it, for me.

So go ahead and make more. I may see it. I may not. But I’m not going to begrudge anyone who wants to see more of that character no matter what.

Your link doesn’t mention Clinton at all, but starts with this:

Federal law does not allow national referendums in the United States where the general population gets to vote on an issue.

It happens at the State level regularly (in states where it’s used), but it’s not something a President can initiate.

Can you be more specific? The US doesn’t have any mechanism for a national referendum on a specific issue. Usually when people use that term, they’re talking about mid-term elections (and reelection bids) being a “referendum” on a President’s total popularity.

This satan guy sounds like a hoot. I want to see more of that.

There are 14 competing standards. We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases.

Neither is Russia, but the ICC still issued warrants for the arrest of several leaders after they invaded Ukraine.

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

I’d love to see the next Democratic administration just let them take him and all his cronies.

And another link:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/blueskys-quest-to-build-nontoxic-social-media

For an appearance at South by Southwest in March, she wore a custom T-shirt that parodied one of Zuckerberg’s own design. Where his is emblazoned with the phrase “aut Zuck aut nihil,” a riff on the Latin “either a Caesar or nothing,” hers read “mundus sine caesaribus”—“a world without Caesars.” (The company started selling the shirts for forty dollars apiece and made more money in a day than it had in two years of selling domains.) In Bluesky’s founding documents, taking a lesson from Twitter’s history, Graber introduced a slogan: “The company is a future adversary.” In other words, they must design their platform today in such a way that, even if new leadership eventually jettisons their guiding principles, the thing they’ve created will remain impossible to abuse.

I’m sure they can’t sell t-shirts forever, but the idea behind the ATProto is that your data is portable, so even if some asshole billionaire buys it up, you can just move to another compatible service with minimal disruptions.

Compatible services are limited, but there are options. https://help.eurosky.tech/article/9-migrating-to-eurosky

It’s nearly a year and a half old, but this bsky blog post answers some of the future revenue questions:

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

In addition, we will begin developing a subscription model for features like higher quality video uploads or profile customizations like colors and avatar frames. Bluesky will always be free to use — we believe that information and conversation should be easily accessible, not locked down. We won’t uprank accounts simply because they’re subscribing to a paid tier.