oh no who will perform the totally real and actually effective exorcisms now??

Etc. Pride march when??

He’s one of the greats, I agree. Plus he has no rape/sexual assault allegations or abusive behaviour on-set over a 40+ year career, so that gives him a 900% boost in my estimation.

He plays a lot of ‘safe’ characters. That is, characters that don’t require him to dig deep into his own capacity for human depravity or whatever, and I think this gives people the impression that he’s not in the same league as your De Niros or Pacinos. But I have never watched a film of his where he didn’t completely sell the performance to me, even if the movie itself was shite. He’s content and secure enough to not need to take roles that require him flay his psyche on-screen, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I love watching those intense performances of course, but he isn’t any less a master of his craft just because he has other focuses. It’s like guitar virtuosos such as Steve Vai, who can play just about anything with superhuman levels of skill, speed and precision, versus someone like BB King, who plays stuff that a beginner guitarist could use as great training material. No one, including Steve Vai, would say BB King is a lesser guitarist or musician because his music doesn’t require 12 fingers on each hand to play. Tom Hanks is the BB King of this tortured analogy, and someone like Gary Oldman is Steve Vai. Both great, but there’s more to it than mere ‘spectacle’.

I would love to see him to something more dark and evil, if only once. If Robin Williams can play a serial killer, and can play it well, Tom Hanks would absolutely smash that shit. Especially now that he’s an older fella; I think he could get away with a lot more without damaging his ‘brand’. I wanna see him be a serial killing, necrophilic, EVE Online-playing demonic monster.

c/NoStupidQuestions style question:

Why is making enough RAM to go around so hard now? I know the cause of it - AI cunts - but what is the actual bottleneck in the production of RAM that means it can’t be pumped out fast enough to meet demand?

This is like being called a ‘filthy slut’ and then producing 3 different STD panel results as proof that you’re not, and then mocking people who aren’t on first name terms with the nurses at the clinic as being somehow sluttier than you.

P.S. Shout out to sluts, I would be one too if ladies would actually fuck me.

Low hanging fruit, but “The next president of the United States is Donald J. Trump”. And I heard that shit twice. The second time was definitely the dumber of the two, but the drop off from 2nd to 3rd dumbest thing is about as wide as the known universe. It’s cartoonish in its absurdity.

But the dumbest thing I’ve heard personally from an individual is that unbaptised babies who die go straight to hell. I was told this by a woman who liked to preach Jesus’ eternal unconditional love in my town centre. I’m atheist, but by default. Like, I didn’t read my way into it or anything, I just completely lack any impulse to believe despite being made to go to Catholic mass every week for 17 years. All that’s to say that I don’t have particular animosity towards believers, but that kind of believer can suck a dirty dog dick.

Apart from it being insanely unfair to babies - roasting away like a rotisserie chicken without even the consciousness to know what’s going on - it’s also beyond evil to tell that to believers who’ve lost children soon after birth due to disease before they even leave the hospital, or have miscarried through no fault of their own, etc. Strangely, I never hear that argument from the anti-abortion religious fanatics. That is, “don’t abort the baby, or it’ll be sent straight into Satan’s Big Green Egg!”

Imagine being Satan, and having a daily influx of humans too young and unformed to even walk when prodded by a demon’s pitchfork. Even a supremely evil entity like he’s alleged to be would have to wonder just what the fuck is going on with heavenly bureaucracy for this to be the way things are done.

200 years isn’t that long ago, but call it 2,000 years: If you go back with at least a cursory grasp of the scientific method, that might be enough to get things up and running, if not for you then for the more intelligent and scientifically-minded types around you. “Try to prove yourself wrong at every step of the process” isn’t a natural impulse for most of us, but once taught and understood, it changes the game.

You could also drop a few tantalising nuggets even if you don’t know what they mean:

• E=MC²
• Basic concept of evolution by natural selection
• Germ theory of disease
• Electromagnetism
• Lenses for microscopy and telescopy, using the same lenses to start fires with the sun
• Electrical conductivity of different materials (e.g. metal good, wool bad)
• The basic components of a battery
• Newton’s first few laws
• Radio waves
• Calculus
• Periodic table of elements

Those are all things you can read about in any library, so you could do a crash course and memorise the broad strokes or write them down, or just take the books with you if that’s allowed.

If it were me, however, I’d just instantly kill myself.

The intent and impact of the word was a lot different back then, certainly so outside of the US, but still, using a subset of humanity as a stand-in for an adjective is pretty grim stuff. Shows how little was thought of them. Like if the characters had instead become white from a flour mill explosion, it’s unlikely they’d have been described as being “as white as scampering little crackers”.

Ventoy > Rufus

Every time I meet someone new, especially if it’s a romantic partner, the second they learn I’m on a cocktail of psychiatric medication, their first impulse is to tell me how they’re gonna try to wean me off it. I’m sure their hearts are in the right place… kinda… but yeah, they can fuck all the way off if they think I’m going back to my pre-medicated state. They really think of psychiatry as some fluffy non-science that deals with amorphous and vague conditions, and no doubt believe the books that seem to come out every year claiming the entire industry is a placebo factory. Like, come spend the week with me when I stop taking my meds and tell me it’s a placebo 😒

I’m sorry to hear about your brothers. Two of my brothers are fellow depression sufferers too, multiple attempts between them, so I feel incredibly lucky when I read a comment like yours. It’s been hard, but it hasn’t been that hard. I don’t know what I’d do if one (nevermind both) of my brothers checked out. Doesn’t bear thinking about, and again I feel lucky that I have the option to not think about such eventualities. I can’t imagine what your family has gone through.

All the best to you 💗

Bigotry towards fat people is based on some Joe Rogan levels of insight into the basis of human character. They think of fat people as lazy, ignorant, gluttonous. Losing weight the hard way shows improvement of character, it shows they’ve broken free from their lazy ignorant fattosity, the weight-loss itself is almost secondary. Losing weight with a drug is just further ‘evidence’ that they have no character and are lazing their way through life. If they have such poor willpower and shallowness of character, they can’t be trusted in other areas of life either. They’re broken, defective people.

That’s been my experience, anyway. I was thin and athletic-looking up until my mid-20s, but my younger brother was always overweight. He was more active than me, there isn’t a sport you could name that he wasn’t doing on the regular. Even boxing, which is extremely intensive in the training. I spent my childhood eating cake and playing video games. There’s simply no fucking possibility that he and I were dealt the same metabolic hand. But people would often ask me how I managed to stay thin while my brother was fat. “Managed” being the operative word. I didn’t manage shit. But my brother faced nonstop bullying for his size, and I obviously didn’t. People really do have a 1 IQ understanding of this shit. You’re fat = you eat too much and laze around, so you’re a weak person deserving of scorn and rejection. If you take a drug to correct it, then you’re a liar who found a lazy loophole to avoid your much-deserved derision.

It seems people never outgrow that imbecilic idea, if that study is anything to go by. The irony, of course, is that the people who hate others over this sort of thing are gigantic hypocrites who have huge yawning chasms where their own character ought to be. Cunts, in other words. If their failings were visible to everyone, they’d likely resemble that fella in RoboCop when the tank of acid empties over him.

I thought this guy was a legit scientist, but I read his recent book Quantum Supremacy and it was all shit like “with quantum computing, in the future you will be able to solve athlete’s foot”. Literally everything you can think of is going to be quantummaxxed by cubits, according to him. Need your car serviced but the garage isn’t open on Sundays? Quantum computing. Need your mother-in-law to dial down the snarky comments about your new house? QUANTUM COMPUTING. Frequently walk into a room, forget why you went in there, leave, then immediately remember why you went in the second you cross the threshold? MOTHERFUCKING QUANTUM COMPUTING!

I’m sure he is a legit scientist, of course, but as a science communicator and terminal book-hawker, he’s no better than Joe Rogan.

Does Lemmy have an equivalent to the Herman Cain Awards subreddit? We’re definitely gonna need one.

They do, and they were there to see their dad get murdered. But podcasting and continuing his legacy of being a rancid bigot is more important, apparently.

I don’t know anything about logo artwork, but I know I love this! I also love how unexpected it is for a hotdog cart, in a good way. Don’t think I’ve seen anything like that before (again, I mean this in a good way!). Really nice work.

Tragic, but probably for the best.

2026 is gonna be the year I finally move to Linux. I have huge concerns about many aspects of switching, but they’re being overtaken by concerns about staying with Windows. I don’t even mind if my overall user experience is a bit worse on Linux (I am trying to have reasonable expectations that it won’t be the walk in the park Linux advocates on Lemmy like to claim), I just have much more faith in its security, privacy, customisability and - most importantly - the motivations and intentions of its developers.

I haven’t bothered to read the article yet, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume they want our PCs to be so overpowered in order to better run their AI bullshit. Gonna turn us into a distributed datacentre or something.

It is 100% for kids. Only a kid could be wowed by its extremely blunt and obvious metaphor. Not that I’m dissing it, but come the fuck on, it’s not exactly Ulysses.

It’s literally the most unstable, buggy, crash-prone piece of software I’ve ever used. I completed the game and got 100% of the cheevos, but it took me about 400% longer than it should have because I was having to relaunch the game every 5-10 minutes (not exaggerating, that’s how often it crashed).