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Vanth

@ Vanth @reddthat.com

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  • Neon Sets April 10 Release For Steven Soderbergh’s ‘The Christophers’

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  • Problem loading the page, evidence points to a personal IT issue. So I will be inserting my own head canon.

    This is about the Chrises Pine, Hemsworth, Evans, and Pratt. Each character played by the Chris to the left.

    Villains are Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe, each playing the other. But twist, they're not really villains, they're trying to break the Chrises free from Hollywood's control. They all shift into Bollywood musicals instead.

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  • No, sadly "tank" is the action applied to "industry.

    I watched the industry [...] tank.

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  • Close. Engineering. Lots of engineers hung on 5-8 years longer than originally planned because their retirement plans got hurt so badly, which meant fewer jobs for fresh grad engineers to get hired on. I'm starting to see it again with colleagues who want to retire this year but are tacking on an extra couple because their finances aren't where they planned to have them.

    Then I can get going about removal of pensions back in the day and expectation that people jump job to job to get pay increases instead of getting raises in-role that match let alone exceed inflation, incentivizing people to NOT stay with a company for long, leading to a shallow bench for the next line of leaders and experts. I'm mid-to-late 30s and am on my 4th company since college and 3rd job within current company; contrast that with my dad who worked for the same company for almost 40 years and holds as many patents for them and knew that company inside and out. I will never be as knowledgeable and efficient as he was. Where industrialization allowed specialization, it seems like we're actively pushing to go back to generalization where workers are replaceable with minimal changeover time.

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  • There's a way. UBI. But there's no appetite for it because politicians and corporations don't make mad profits off it. Line must go up faster and faster each quarter; letting the poors die in debt does this better than providing them a basic income.

  • Replacement for Roku?

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  • Is there a reason to not just use the laptop? It's already bought and paid for. I would just setup it up for maximal ease; get a good keyboard and mouse and side table she's comfortable with, bookmark everything for her, set the TV's default source to the PC, make all the text 200% size or greater so it's easy to read from 3m out.

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  • In college, watching the industry I was getting a degree in tank (and many others). I chose the field in part because of historically good job stability and 95%+ job placement after college. That all evaporated. Folks who should have been retiring were having to work longer, leaving no room for fresh college grads.

    I hope this AI crap resolves down to a more stable level. I'm concerned the folks in college now will have it even worse between another generational bubble working it's way through and now AI making things more "efficient" so fewer humans are perceived as necessary.

  • Those strange red dots in James Webb images finally have an explanation

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  • I too had red dots when I was young. Acne is a real drag. I feel you, young black holes.

  • Cartoon physics is now in effect. What are you going to try?

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  • Have a conversation with my now-talking dog.

  • What mistakes did your parents make while raising you that you will be careful to avoid in your own parenting?

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  • Don't have so many kids you barely know their names, let alone needs and interests.

    Don't parentify the girls, making them into mini-mothers that care for the others.

    Don't instruct the boys that keeping a clean home, cooking, and hygiene is women's work and beneath them.

    Don't use physical negative reinforcement (no hitting, no limiting calories).

    Don't teach that reaching out for help is a moral failing.

    Don't indoctrinate them into a religion.

    Don't instill pride and moral superiority in being "better" and "different" than other families.

    Do sit and introspect on how you're treating your kids. Challenge your preconceptions. My parents could read the above and insist they never did any of them, that they were great parents.

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    Inside the PSL Scale: The Looksmaxxer Rating System That All the Teenagers Are Referencing Are you a mid high-tier normie or subhuman?

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  • Not tech related.

  • What's the dumbest/silliest reason you got in trouble for in school?

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  • Catholic school with uniform including khaki pants. I started my period and bled thru. I swapped to sweatpants. Most teachers just figured I must have some reason and didn't bother me. A couple asked after it, one accepted my reason and offered to to let me out of class to have a little more time to cleanup or call home or whatever I needed to feel comfortable. The last one gave me detention for being out of uniform.

    School administration reversed it when they heard why I was being sent to detention. I was advised to just go to the main office if it ever happened again so they could help me instead of having to deal with each teacher myself.

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    YSK this is Professor Edward Bullmore from Cambridge University, one of the world leading expert on the brain. He believes a lot of depression and anxiety is actually linked to inflammation

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  • Inflammation is measurable. Where are the studies correlating inflammation measured via whatever medical scans to depression diagnoses?

    An incomplete article if the studies exist and weren't mentioned. A useless hypothesis if the guy is already authoring books but hasn't done any studies yet.

  • What was your favorite part of today ?

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  • Waiting to board a plane and then I'm going to nap so hard. I should get some jet engine wash tracks for sleeping normally at home. I am usually asleep before the plane takes off.

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  • My highest rating on Letterboxd for a film from the 50s is The Night of the Hunter. I really haven't watched much from that decade. It is a pretty good movie, great at building suspense.

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    Are wasians the most attractive?

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    What’s the most meaningful “personal” gift you’ve received — and would a custom song feel sweet or cringe?

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  • If someone gave me an AI-generated song, I would be baffled at how little they know me. Any friend of family member of any depth would know I would place zero value on an AI-generated song as a gift. Even "it's the thought that counts" doesn't work because there's no thinking, it's been outsourced to a bot.

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    Are wasians the most attractive?

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  • ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Writers Team with Tim Burton for ‘Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman’ (Exclusive)

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  • Just watch the movie, there's only one at the moment. Sequels are planned but not out yet. Or if you really don't want to invest an hour and a half to watch the movie, there are probably recap videos on YouTube.

  • Anyone else on here a "Reddit refugee"?

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  • MAGA freaks should love me. I didn't get banned from reddit, I self-deported.

    I actually had a Fediverse account several years before the Great Reddit Migration, but it didn't keep my interest at the time. Tried again and stuck with it after the API change killed third-party reddit apps and they started inserting reddit-approved mods into all major subs.

  • was middle school mostly good or bad for you?

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