I watched this movie when I was a lil' kid. I didn't really "get it" bc it was cartoons, right? So I figured it was kid stuff. But it's not. It's kind of a slightly sleazy Italian take on Fantasia. Like take a look at it's animation of Ravel's "Bolero": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmgI_kgPhM Now that I'm older I'm like that's pretty freakin awesome, but at the time I was like wtf?!? There's another song that has an aging satyr and as a kid I was like: I THINK something's going on there that I might undersand someday....

Anyway apparently there's a 50th anniversary showing in NYC next month, and if you're anywhere near there I recommend you get to that theater and check it out. Apparently they're showing it with "Fantasia" so it is literally a b-movie. But it's really more of a cult movie. According to Wikipedia the Disney animators of the time respected it. Hopefully there'll be a wider release, at least in art house film theaters, it must be amazing to watch on the big screen.

it's take on Bolero ... it's true... civilization really is like that....

3w ago

Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

FTA:

... since founder Jamie Siminoff returned, the company has renewed its focus on using its products to prevent crime.
Siminoff said he came back because of the possibilities AI brings. With this technology, he believes neighborhood cameras could be used to virtually “zero out crime” within a year.

3w ago

"i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

Sometimes I go visit an elderly aunt, who watches a lot of TV. One time I was there and watched a bit of TV with her and my cousin. I had the remote, and started manually muting every time that ads came on.

They thought I was crazy. Why would I want to mute ads? They just didn't understand why I would do that. Anyway, I haven't watched TV with them since then.

3w ago

So what happened with San Francisco's March for Billionaires

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

Yeah it took me a while to figure out. Basically they're making fun of a specific set of techbros.

This article, linked to in the sidebar, describes their perspective: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/before-its-too-late-buddy/
this wikipedia article describes the people they are making fun of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

3w ago

So what happened with San Francisco's March for Billionaires

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

Yeah that's right. discuss.online musta defederated from awful.systems, or it might be a bug...

3w ago

So what happened with San Francisco's March for Billionaires

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

check out the most recent post on !sneerclub@awful.systems

3w ago

What do you think about AI?

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

eh, we've been here before.

3w ago

Today I replaced the wipers on the car

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

I can do you one duller. I got my wipers replaced last week and had someone else replace them.

One of the three (2 front 1 back) I had to break apart with a pipe wrench to get it off because it was completely stuck.

Whoa there Indiana Jones! Too much excitement for me!

3w ago

New Rule

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

Mbin carries onwards, but with only <1k active users world-wide one wonders for how much longer.

I think you're failing to see the potential. We promoted Lemmy for a while, now for novelty we're promoting Piefed. Once that gets played out, we can promote Mbin. After that, we can cycle back to Lemmy and so on ad infinitum!

3w ago

What are some of the best films that do not yet have a sequel or remake

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

Napoleon Dynamite

Check out Tapawingo, it's not a sequel but it stars Jon Heder and has the same kinda mood: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14146836/

3w ago

To those who think that you should experience everything in the world at least once:

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

I'm guessin this is bait, but anyways:

human emotions have cognitive (as well as physiological) components that interact in ways we don't yet understand. For example, if two people listen to a song that they enjoy, one person's memories may be wistful and another's may be tinged with a negative emotion, and each of these will trigger different physical reactions (which will themselves trigger cognitive responses, etc.)
"The happiness you experience from eating is the same as the happiness from cocaine." lel, no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine#Pharmacodynamics
That being said, there is something called "loving-kindness meditation" which encourages intentional benevolence for all things and is kinda in the spirit of this post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitr%C4%AB#Mett%C4%81_meditation

3w ago

Michael Garrett from the North Carolina senate made a wholesome and powerful statement about Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance (full text inside)

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

FWIW there's a school of thought that Belize is actually part of Guatemala, that was stolen by the British. I don't have any personal take on this (and I don't know if Bad Bunny does either) but you can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belizean%E2%80%93Guatemalan_territorial_dispute

3w ago

Halftime rule.

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

Y'all are both awesome. One of my regrets in life is I didn't spend more time studying statistics.

3w ago

Grausame Töchter - Get Your Kinky Overdose

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

Interesting. I've put it on my calendar, gonna try and make it to the nearest tour stop tho it's prolly only 50/50 chance I'ma be able to.

3w ago

Wearing Black Guide [meme]

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Sergio @piefed.social 3w ago

Yeah I mean Dead Kennedys had a huge impact on me at one point, same with Minor Threat a couple years later. I never spiked my hair or anything but that kinda thing stays with you deep inside. Like I read this recent-ish interview with Ian MacKaye and it resonated: https://www.huckmag.com/article/ian-mackaye-survival-issue-interview