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niktemadur @lemmy.world
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The Party of Democracy
  • Have you seen this person's post history?
    You are wasting your time, no truth nor reason can penetrate that stone, it's all frenetic narratives (like - "Jan 6 was a hoax") that never bother to pause and look at themselves, nor will they ever, as there is zero will to do that.

  • Dune 3 | Release confirmed for late 2026; could its title be something other than Dune: Messiah?
  • Dune Messiah has a lot going for it, like the inner workings of palace intrigue and some fantastic elements of world-building (a prime example being the Tleilaxu and their biological tech).
    There's also Irulan becoming a key character, her Bene Gesserit POV has a ton and a half of cinematic potential, especially with Florence Pugh at the helm.

    But how do you make that Paul and Chani arc satisfying for broad audiences? Also and maybe particularly for reader fans, with how much Denis changed Chani's character from the first book. And even though Paul is galactic emperor, the scale of the story and events does feel smaller than in the first book, there are no new true paradigm shifts.

    Things don't get swashbuckling and truly epic again until Children Of Dune, which I loved.

  • Dune 3 | Release confirmed for late 2026; could its title be something other than Dune: Messiah?
  • Also to have it ready at this point, means he is eager about it.
    Like the man said: "Inspiration does come, but it has to find you working". Well, it seems Denis tapped into that well yet again and before he thought it might happen!

  • Blursed Bot
  • Ahnold with one of those white mushroom hats and an apron.
    Puts the tray of confections in the kitchen counter - "Ah'll be back..."... returns with one of those cones with a bag that squeezes out vanilla cream custard.

  • No, time is not on Russia‘s side
  • It's not that NATO is weak, it's more a combination of Ukraine being in some sort of a political heritage gray zone and of the insidious way in which amoral corporations became bloated monsters with an insatiable appetite, got its' tentacles in every corner of the world with no oversight, a process that began during the reagan and thatcher era.

  • Do you see it too?
  • The thing about any crackpot argument for "ancient electricity" that just dawned on me, is that they call it The Bronze Age for a reason, the ancients insisted on the versatility of their metal (bronze = copper + tin) over its' conductivity (pure copper).

    There was a more ancient Copper Age, but it was brief, bronze was the definition of a technological leap forward.

  • Ask Your Jesus Doctor
  • Do you hate your life but are lazy and a coward about introspection?
    Do you hate the potential happiness of others more than helping yourself?
    Then the republican party AND its' churches are perfect for you!

  • The moviegoer experience these days
  • Focusing solely on the movie-going experience, I would love to live in a city like LA or NYC where they have a few theaters with added technological features, like 70mm IMAX and/or 4K projectors and/or rumble seats (those must have been amazing with something like Mad Max: Fury Road).

    There's at least one 60FPS theater in NYC, it must be wild to watch a film like that just by itself, or even WILDER, in 3D.
    But I believe there are a few theaters in Asia - probably in places like Singapore and Shanghai, but don't quote me on that - that screened Ang Lee's "Gemini Man" in the incredible-sounding combination of 120FPS in 4K and 3D, they said it was like the screen dissolved and you were watching the action happening through a huge rectangular hole in the wall.

  • Is there a way to watch NYC local access television Manhattan Neighborhood Network on a Roku?

    EDIT: I mean directly from the box, NO casting from a phone or tablet.

    All their channels are on-air via Livestream - here's an example - but a couple of years ago the parent company Vimeo discontinued their app for Roku, they just digitally yanked it out of our streaming boxes.

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    If space didn't expand/accelerate, would photons keep zipping along forever in the same wavelength in which they were emitted?

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    Do we know how long it took for cuneiform to develop from counting cows and barley, to drafting official documents and contracts, to creating literature?

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    If two identical radios are side by side and tuned to the same frequency, will they both pick up the signal at 100%, or will they wrestle for the same radio waves?

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    In the deep, far future, at the time of the "heat death" of the universe, if I turn on a radio will I get the sound of static or of total silence?

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    Beyond the established symmetries of physics - Charge, Spin, Color, Time, etc. - is there any such thing as symmetry of Information?

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    Is there a temperature so hot that relativistic effects are noticeable?

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    Why is time money and not, say... waffles?

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    Does anyone else see an alleged old painting or black-and-white photo you've never seen before, are unsure if it's legit or a recent fake created with AI?

    For example, places like HistoryPorn have some bizarre pictures of weird inventions or WWII experimental weapons.

    How come I'm only just now coming across them? Why didn't we see them five or ten years ago, even in specialized forums and subreddits?

    Places like ArtPorn or TraditionalArt are a trickier proposition. Here my lack of knowledge is vast, but I've really loved the history of painting for over two decades now, and have recently kept coming across a lot of 18th-to-20th century paintings and painters I've never heard of before; some of these are excellent, I should have known about them... I think. But like I say, there's more that I don't know than what I do. If they are real and not recent AI creations, where are the original and who is digitizing and/or publishing so many of them all of a sudden in the past year?

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