It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.

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Bitwarden.

Paid. Not because I need the added paid features, but because I value it and want to show my appreciation for the developers.

An adorable little bag of Ricin.

Actually it’s pretty clear that part of domestication for dogs was making them less intelligent.

Had a Mastiff. Can confirm.

Quokka of course.

Precisely.

Part of the awe of watching movies (The so-called movie magic) is that at the same time as you’re in awe of the film, there’s a part of you in awe of how much collaborative work it took to create that stunt/effect/miniature, etc…

There’s no magic anymore when one can just do the same thing in Blender at home if they had enough time to learn.

Oh I’m not saying there isn’t skill involved. There’s obviously artistic skill involved.

But there’s already awards for that kind of thing. It’s a completely different skill set completely removed from the collaborative nature of film-making and film special effects.

One person sitting behind a computer, no matter how skilled, isn’t the same as a team working in tandem to create something awe inspiring.

CGI shouldn’t win cinematography or even special effects awards.

Both of those things used to be collaborative skills. Multiple people working together to make a great composition on the screen. (director, cinematographer, set designer, costumer, prop-maker, foley artist, actor, etc…)

A great shot in CGI requires a computer and rendering time. It’s not the same.

If you can do everything with a computer, than none of your special effects are special by definition.

Oh…You’ve got spiderman framed above buildings high in the sky in Into the Spider Verse? Great…cool shot…but took nothing to actually create it.

If you tell me that to get that shot you had professional stunt people doing wire work, a complex camera rig, two helicopters and high-speed camera? THAT is the special in special effect.

Made it in a computer? It’s meaningless.

Mr. Feeney from Boy Meets World

nano is usually built in. Adding another one is just redundant if all you’re using it for is editing an occasional config file.

Honestly never understood the hate for it. Who cares? Petty, stupid, nerd-wars over little crap like a text editor is the reason average people don’t even consider linux.

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“Silent Majority”

It’s always their go-to when pressed on when they’re called out.

They can’t grasp the idea that their beliefs are really that unpopular so they cling to an idea of a “silent majority” that agrees with them but is either too censored or too bullied to speak up for what they think is the truth.

Sorry buddy, there is no such thing as a “silent majority” quietly agreeing with you but afraid to speak up, you and your illiterate buddies are just assholes and your opinions are shit.

I forgot about Continuum. I’d definitely recommend it. Though I wouldn’t put it high on my list or anything.

Main actress was good, but not great. And the rest of the cast was a who’s who of Vancouver working actors who jumped in via the Stargate.

It was enjoyable shlock, but I wouldn’t put it up there with the other mid-2000’s/2010’s stuff coming from Vancouver like the Stargate series of shows, or the CW shows that were all filming there at the time (Flash, Arrow, etc…). Vancouver was a hub of mid-budget sci-fi back then. Might still be, I don’t know. I don’t know anyone in the industry there anymore since breaking up with my ex.

• BSG remake is a must watch for anyone, even those who don’t like “sci fi”

• Band of Brothers is a must watch, even for those who don’t like “war”

• Black Sails started amazing, dragged a bit in the middle, but well worth it for the final speech by Flint at the end.

• The Americans is a show that has tragically never gotten the love that it deserves and is well worth your time.

• Angel is better than Buffy in every conceivable way basically beginning in the second season and I’ll always point it out to people who won’t give it a chance because they don’t like Buffy. (I don’t like Buffy…but Angel was darker, more mature, less teeny bopper. And frankly funnier)

Edited to add:

• Boardwalk Empire, the forgotten red-headed stepchild of HBO’s prestige lineup. I loved it but for some reason it’s completely dismissed and barely remembered.

• 12 Monkeys. Someone else mentioned it below and reminded me that I need to do a rewatch. I loved it. But in the later seasons was to distracted by other stuff to finish it.

And I’d be willing to bet it’s the same damn people.

Executive Orders in the U.S. political system

I’m Canada we have the “Notwithstanding clause” which can serve a similar function; allowing a premier to unilaterally decide something without the approval of parliament.

Neither should be allowed to exist.

Also remove the entire idea of some countries having “veto” power in NATO and UN matters.

In Belle and Sebastian’s "Me and the Major’ my brain will simply not hear anything except

“Me and the midget don’t see eye to eye”

Which I find funny on a couple of different levels.

Voting requires citizenship. But citizenship itself should require more than just existing.

If we look back to Greek and Roman democracy, it was true that every citizen got a vote. But the people who were citizens was much more stringent.

The basic idea of the ars liberalis or Liberal Arts translates literally as “The work of freedom”. Exercising your right to partake in a democracy required that a person be knowledgable about history, civics, rhetoric, politics, philosophy. Without that knowledge, you were not allowed a vote in how things are run.

Essentially, you had to know what you were voting on.

Unfortunately, that meant that in essence only the rich landowners could be citizens because they were the only ones with the time and money to get educated while the underclasses were too busy working to suvive.

But in the modern age, where public schooling is a thing, we should be able to figure out a way to make such a thing work. Nowadays, the only thing keeping people ignorant is choice. And if you make the choice to be ignorant, you should forfeit your right to have a say in the governing of your nation.

I mean…I wouldn’t go that far.

I’d limit it at least to people who don’t hug the curb when making a right hand turn thus keeping anyone who’s going straight through from being able to fit in beside them at the stop light.