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Movie lines people laughed at in theaters despite not actually being intended to be funny?
  • I was a Radioman in the Navy, and some coworkers and I had gone to see Cider House Rules in the theater.

    There's a scene where they come to inform someone that a plane with a loved one on board had been shot down.

    To quote the movie:

    When the plane was hit, the crew chief and the radioman jumped close together. The copilot jumped third.

    We immediately started laughing when we heard that, because we were told that the Radiomen are some of the last to leave a sinking ship due to needing to destroy the cryptographic material. Hearing that a Radioman was one of the first to bail was too good to us..

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    Warning: Sad Story | Fading Kitten Syndrome
  • I hope for the best! Sounds so sad, but you being strong may give him a chance.

    I have a little guy I adopted. He checked out of the shelter fine, but as soon as we got him home, he wouldn't eat. We tried different things and tried what the vet advised us to do. Three days and he ate nothing. Became fairly lethargic and barely responsive.

    We started force feeding wet/pate cat food and baby food through a syringe. He fought slightly, but ate it and kept it down. Then one day I just happen to be working with some shredded chicken in the kitchen and he came over and meowed at me. I gave him a little and he actively ate it himself. I gave more and more and he ate all that too. I went to the store and grabbed a couple cans of wet shredded chicken cat food, brought it home and served it to him. He ate it up.

    It was such a relief to see. That was a year and 5 months ago and he's doing amazing. He still meows at me when I'm in the kitchen at lunchtime because he wants a little bowl of his chicken shreds, as that time of day is when I usually made it up for him when he was a kitten.

  • Why I refuse to upgrade - 8 minutes video explaining why it's not that interesting to upgrade phones nowadays
  • I run GrapheneOS.

    I told myself that my Pixel 8 pro will be enough for a bunch of years. That is, until I went on a trip with it. Now I feel like my Pixel 7 was better than the P8P is, with just as good of a camera with better battery life.

    I'm glad I kept the p7 as a burner, because I may just make it my prime phone. I only upgraded on the prospect of a long lasting phone and received the p7 for free..

  • What discontinued foods do you miss?
  • A few years ago, Morningstar used to have a vegetarian rib patty. Once I realized its potential as a vegetarian McRib, I bought a pack. It was delicious. I bought another pack.

    And then it was gone from shelves in every store that had it.

  • [SPOILER] :: A Scanner Darkly (2006)
  • I thought this movie was a great adaptation of the book. I'm a fan of PKDs writings; Minority Report, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, V.A.L.I.S., and others that were mentioned.

    I couldn't get into The Man in the High Castle tv show, but loved the book. The tv series feels too different too quickly.

  • Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows
  • I believe what they're getting at is an issue if they're not already authenticated prior to the outage. Then they'd have no access to their media unless they look into the workaround for that beforehand. It has been an issue in the past, especially when Plex's auth servers go down. I remember plenty of Reddit threads complaining about it.

  • Washington state sues to block proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons grocery chains
  • It's probably an issue all over, and I hope it gets blocked, for the sake of consumers. Kroger acquired a company called Roundy's which has a chain called "Pick N Save" in Wisconsin back in 2015. I remember shopping there after and seeing additional tags with products' prices announcing the "Your New Low", but prices were higher than pre acquisition. I stopped shopping there after that and noticing a decrease in product/brand diversity.

  • DCS 2024 And Beyond

    I'm pretty excited to see a full fidelity Fulcrum coming in 2024.

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    How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
  • I was in a very similar position as you. Thirteen year user, moderator for a few smaller subreddits, including one that provided support for a US-based mobile phone carrier, and deleted everything when the API change happened.

    It took time and effort to coordinate and help uplift those who generated the great content for those subreddits, but Reddit, Inc., was unwilling to help us moderators who had developed and used the tools necessary to do it. I wasn't willing to put in the additional time since Reddit was themselves unwilling to, post API change.

  • How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
  • In response to such critiques, Reddit spokesperson Rathschmidt said he did not “know of an industry benchmark for scoring content quality”.

    (Emphasis mine)

    This is the same tone deaf response I've come to expect from Reddit for some time now, and is why I'm happy to no longer be a user of their platform.

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