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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I think it's refering to that they were only using a single camera and that the episodes were performed all the way though (up to 16 times per that article) on location without stopping. With those constraints there isnt really a way to make cuts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

He could be lying, but the cinematographer for it says each episode was a single shot

“There’s no stitching of takes together," cinematographer Matthew Lewis told Variety. "It was one entire shot, whether I wanted it to be or not."

I dont see why he'd say that if it wasnt as he'd look pretty stupid if some else came out and contradicted him.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

If someone is going to single you out for looking at list that includes "cancer", "divorce" and "loss of a parent" they didn't need a reason to target you in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago

Similar but not quite as bad, Watson and Crick who did the analysis that figured out the structure got the Nobel, but Rosalind Franklin who did the xray diffraction that got them the data that allowed them to figure out the double helix structure got left out.

Still pretty bad, but not as bad as giving the prize to someone who did no work for it and actively argued against Bell's conclusions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Obviously its important, but pretending its not political doesnt make any sense. If a community doesnt want to discuss politics (and as far as I've seen the OP didnt say which community this was in) then its a reasonable post to remove.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Of course its political, what else would it be? You are talking about peoples rights (a political concept) being breached by an administration (poltical) using an arm of the government (political) as a paramilitary force (political).

 

Countries including France are said to want to tie a new post-Brexit security deal to more beneficial access to British waters, potentially holding up military cooperation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I think they also ruled out a wealth tax, but the other two for sure could be done. Now is the prefect time to raise a tax as well with the argument that we need to raise more money for defence as it turns out the USA is selling the rest of NATO down the river.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

If the article is to be believed

Aye, there's the rub. Contending that reliability of electricity generation isnt an important fact is wishful thinking at best (and boosterism of something you're invested in at worst). There is nowhere bigger than an isolated town or so that manages a grid without either reliable generation or power exchanges with another location that does have reliable generation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Perhaps, I think its more likely that active moderation is the cause of that rather than word lists that let p!ss, pi$s and pιss through when trying to block piss.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah the article seems to be "Nuclear and fossil fuels are reliable and list that as an advantage, geothermal is also reliable and lists that as an advantage", to which: yeah? That is the case. The problem with fossil fuels is that they are an exceptionally good energy source, apart from the fact that they are slowly choking the planet. If they werent so good at providing energy they would be a lot easier to replace.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The Scunthorpe problem is hard, and any simple blacklist method is bound to give both false positives and false negatives.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Trump has played one side of Kelogg's plan, cut off aid to Ukraine if they dont move toward peace. Now lets see if he follows though with the other side of it and dramatically ramp up aid to Ukraine if Russia dont move towards peace.

I hope he does but I'm not holding my breath.

 

Once, anti-establishment youth disillusioned with mainstream politics headed left. Now increasing numbers are tilting right. Why?

Josh is 24 years old and works as a carer. It’s not easy work, but he prefers it to his old job in a supermarket: most of his clients are elderly and “just want someone there with them, because they’re lonely”. In his spare time Josh used to be into boxing. But lately he’s got into politics instead.

Like many of his gen Z contemporaries, he’s thoroughly disillusioned with the mainstream kind. “The two parties that have been in power for 100-plus years have done nothing. The economy’s a mess,” he scoffs. But if he sounds like the kind of anti-establishment young person who once rallied to the radical left, Josh’s frustration has taken him in another direction. An ardent leaver in his teens, who backed Boris Johnson in 2019, he now belongs to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

 

I considered leaving Twitter as soon as Elon Musk acquired it in 2022, just not wanting to be part of a community that could be bought, least of all by a man like him – the obnoxious “long hours at a high intensity” bullying of his staff began immediately. But I’ve had some of the most interesting conversations of my life on there, both randomly, ambling about, and solicited, for stories: “Anyone got catastrophically lonely during Covid?”; “Anyone hooked up with their secondary school boy/girlfriend?” We used to call it the place where you told the truth to strangers (Facebook was where you lied to your friends), and that wide-openness was reciprocal and gorgeous.

“Twitter has broken the mould,” Mulhall says. “It’s ostensibly a mainstream platform which now has bespoke moderation policies. Elon Musk is himself inculcated with radical right politics. So it’s behaving much more like a bespoke platform, created by the far right. This marks it out significantly from any other platform. And it’s extremely toxic, an order of magnitude worse, not least because, while it still has terms of service, they’re not necessarily implementing them.”

Global civil society, though, finds it incredibly difficult to reject the free speech argument out of hand, because the alternative is so dark: that a number of billionaires – not just Musk but also Thiel with Rumble, Parler’s original backer, Rebekah Mercer (daughter of Robert Mercer, funder of Breitbart), and, indirectly, billionaire sovereign actors such as Putin – are successfully changing society, destroying the trust we have in each other and in institutions. It’s much more comfortable to think they’re doing that by accident, because they just love “free speech”, than that they’re doing that on purpose. “Part of understanding the neo-reactionary and ‘dark enlightenment’ movements, is that these individuals don’t have any interest in the continuation of the status quo,”

 

Earlier this year, a Boeing aircraft's door plug fell out in flight – all because crucial bolts were missing. The incident shows why simple failures like this are often a sign of larger problems, says John Downer.

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