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My mother and aunt are teachers. I feel this one.

Only real problems I had with episode one were some geek nitpicks.

They were headed for the Borg cube super fast, if a cube was that close to Federation space I feel like that would have been a huge issue for Starfleet. Second I dislie that it seems the writers are totally against Janeway's solution to Tuvix. Tuvix was a trolley problem, there was no 100% right answer and Janeway chose the solution that saved the most lives. It's great fodder for philosophical and ethical debate but to come down and declare either choice as definitively right seems wrong. But then they did ultimately have their cake and eat it too by forcing a situation where no technically sentient life was lost splitting up the blob creature in then end so shrug I guess. In any even revisiting Voyager is aalway very welcome.

Episode 2 I gotta admit, I loved Moopsie. It's the cute bone-drinking Pokemon I never knew I wanted. Rest of the episode was meh, I'm so over Mariner's disrespect for chain of command, rebelious schtick. If they could just drop that from now on the show would improve a lot.

Thanks, I think so too.

Just enjoying the vanlife. Me and my dog rocking up to scenic vistas and staying a while 'til it's time to move on to the next. Note: The pic isn't my rig, my dog's a Rottie and my van's a shuttle bus.

Just to calm the nerves of anyone expecting to still be alive in 2029 or 2036, the "expected impact" asteroid mentioned is Apophis which is no longer considered to in danger of hitting us. It was ruled out between 2008-2013 after the patent mentioning it was applied for so the author's mention of it was the correct understanding at the time.

In any event I'd love to see a comparison of these patents (by a qualified physicist or engineer) with those of Salvatore Cezar Pais' patents here and here which are similar sci-fi level, UAP style tech.

The infosec world is full of activity. It hasn't slowed down in the least. The mainstream news orgs cover it less but you can check out sites like https://thehackernews.com or https://cybersecuritynews.com and see that the blackhats are always up to something.

From the producer:

CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT red band trailer (no, it’s not porn)

The new version of the film was an Official Selection at Cannes 2023, and will be premiering in North America (and around the world) soon!

This is an entirely new cut of the film, assembled from 96 hours of original negatives. All the hardcore footage that was added to the original has been removed, restoring the unseen story and performances.

The original location audio was restored for this version (the original is all ADR, no location audio was used).

Every frame is either an alternate take or an alternate angle, meaning 100% of the film is “never-before-seen” footage.

And responding on Reddit to someone asking if it was a cheap project stitching extra footage together to make a quick buck...

So it’s not really “extra footage,” we had all 96 hours of original camera negative. This project took years, it’s anything but an easy quick buck. At one point we had a dozen people going through every frame of film digitally cleaning and restoring them. The movie’s 3 hours long, and there are 24 frames of film in a single second. We cleaned them all. This movie literally went through every step of post production that any movie goes through plus before that could happen all the raw footage and original audio had to be digitized and restored. And, yo, Cannes is kinda prestigious, and yo we’re kinda proud.

I've actually never seen the original (was too young to rent it back in days of video stores and hadn't thought about it since way back then) so I'm interested to check this new version out. Looks cool.

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I don't want to mod another sub but I think someone should start a finance sub for stock and crypto posts at this point.