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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

I think there's also a layer of personal interest going on. Helly has a better love life than Helena does. She's lived this weird locked-down Lumon cult life with no meaningful personal or family relationships that we know of, while Helly has made herself a family on the inside.

Helena is jealous of the emotional freedom that Helly has. I don't think she boned Mark S entirely for the mission. The chemistry that Helly has with him, Helena has also--c.f. Dylan G/eorge and Gretchen, Irving B/ailiff and Burt G/oodman. Given their shared physiology, it's not surprising that Helena likes Mark, in any incarnation.

At this point in the season, she's also been forced back into severed life, so she's no longer able to see Mark S, the one person in her life currently who (albeit via subterfuge) actually seemed to care about her. Seeing Mark Scout on the outside is the closest she's got and she seems to want to probe that connection.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

This is true. For this reason, US doctors of osteopathic medicine generally don't like to be called "osteopaths", to avoid being associated with their pseudoscientist counterparts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

How did you get my nudes?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

N'est-ce pas un chiropraticien ou chiropracteur ?

Osteopaths and chiropractors are slightly different kinds of liars.

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

Technically not a good choice for this community specifically. 2FAS Auth operates out of the USA. Being FOSS does change the implications of that, though.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Looks like development on AndOTP stopped ~4 years ago (July 2021). There's definitely an "if it ain't broke" factor, but the way Android keeps dropping support for older SDK apps, you will probably need to switch to something else eventually. I hadn't heard of Aegis before this thread, but apparently one of its big features is support for importing from other authenticator apps (including AndOTP and Google Authenticator).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I had an idea of them finding a way to invert their chips, so the outies are stuck on the severed floor and vice versa. This would force the outies to reckon with the reality of innie life and place the innies and outies in a more directly adversarial position. If oMark and Helena try to leave the severed floor, they'd only be setting iMark and Helly free. Then you could potentially have Gemma on the outside trying to get iMark to let her husband out or other new dynamics they could set up with the innies pretending to be outies full-time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

This one's not strictly enshittification-related, but I find YouTube Comment Search (Firefox, Chrome) extremely useful. YouTube videos frequently have way more comments than any sensible person is going to read through. By searching for keywords, you can check whether somebody else already said what you were thinking and 👍 that instead of posting another duplicate comment that will get buried forever.

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

For any Arthur-heads excited that the new lore just dropped, this is a copy of a previously documented rare manuscript rather than new material:

There are less than 40 surviving copies of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin text known to scholars, and since medieval scribes copied them by hand, each is a unique version. The one found at Cambridge University Library, for example, has decorative red and blue initials. Based on this as well as other features, the researchers suggest the text was written between 1275 and 1315.

That does not detract from the incredible work done here in any way, just wanted to make sure it's clear these are not previously unknown writings.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

The one time you may want to exit via the window in Russia.

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

Yeah, I meant un-severed, anybody on roughly Milchick's level who he would realistically be able to talk to about shared experiences within Lumon.

 

Spoilers, obviously.

In the finale, we get the back and forth comedy argument between Seth Milchick (Tramell Tillman) and an animatronic Kier Eagan (voice of Marc Geller, animatronics by Ben Stiller).

I'll quote the exchange below:

Kier: Hail your earthbound steward, your very own flooooooooooor manager!

[audience cheering]

Milchick: Thank you, Kier! And may I say, you're looking very handsome, sir.

Kier: Thank you. I'd say the same of you, if not for my favorite core principle.

Milchick: Probity?

Kier: No ... Vision!

[audience laughter]

Milchick: Well, it's truly special to host a man so illustrious, so sapient, so magnanimous--

Kier: My, you're verbose. Good thing you didn't write the first appendix. It would have burst!

[audience laughter, Milchick visibly discomfited]

Milchick: It's an honor to receive your barbs, Mr. Eagan. The legacy you've left behind is truly and irrefutably larger than life.

Kier: You mean my company?

Milchick: (coldly) No. I mean this wax statue that's five inches taller than you actually were.

[audience chuckles, awkward silence]

Kier: (darkly) Thank you for that feedback, Seth.

Milchick: Thank you, Kier.

This is clearly a prepared routine. It has setups and punchlines and Milchick is visibly reading most of his lines from note cards. However, the performance obviously goes some way off the rails in the back half.

Who wrote this routine? Who performed Kier's lines in-universe? Has Milchick rehearsed this routine or does he only know his own note cards? Is Milchick's height roast part of the script or improvised?

I'll post my thoughts in a separate comment.

 

The title undersells it a bit, they also got Jen Tullock (Devon) and Gwendoline Christie (Lorne from Mammalians Nurturable). Weird to hear Dichen Lachman's natural Australian accent.

TV Insider has been running a Severance Aftershow on YouTube for all of season 2. Full playlist

 

By Joe Brockmeier
March 4, 2025

Mozilla's actions have been rubbing many Firefox fans the wrong way as of late, and inspiring them to look for alternatives. There are many choices for users who are looking for a browser that isn't part of the Chrome monoculture but is full-featured and suitable for day-to-day use. For those who are willing to stay in the Firefox "family" there are a number of good options that have taken vastly different approaches. This includes GNU IceCat, Floorp, LibreWolf, and Zen.

If you're interested, you should read the whole article, but below are the summaries of the four tested browsers.

IceCat is probably a good choice for folks who are more concerned with the free software ethos and privacy than with functionality.

Overall, Floorp is an interesting project with some nice enhancements to the Firefox UI. However, the development roadmap seems a bit more haphazard than I would like—switching back and forth between Firefox rapid release and ESRs, for example. That may not dissuade other folks, though.

For the most part, users would be hard-pressed to spot many differences between LibreWolf and Firefox at first (or second) glance, so a screen shot of LibreWolf seemed a bit unnecessary. That approach is likely to appeal to many users who are uneasy with things like telemetry and Pocket, but don't want an entirely new browsing experience.

Currently, Zen isn't fully baked enough for me to consider switching to it. Others may be more adventurous in their browsing habits than I am, though. I can say that it has stabilized significantly since I first tried it shortly after its first public release. The project does bear keeping an eye on, and the Mozilla folks could do worse than to copy some of the ideas (and code) that the project is experimenting with.

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