Back on topic… Moana, Mr Flack is correct Disney managed a film about Polynesian culture that didn’t suck. In fact for a lot of Polynesian kids it was a really empowering film. Basically, I had a young kid at the peak time for seeing these movies a whole FUCKTON of times, as opposed to the more typ...

Really diggin To All Trains too. I was under the impression that the title was a salute to trains. I thought that was the joke. Like somebody in the band saw the sign and enjoyed the double meaning. Is that not the case? My copy is delayed in the post but for now I am appreciating the precision sym...

Similarly, I borrow the heavily Australian "No worries", but at least I don't accidentally slap on an accent. Probably in part because the Australian pronunciation of the word 'no' is nearly inimitable and seemingly contains 5 different vowel sounds. "No worries" is kind of form...

Then I listen to a podcast that says that these large language models get the answers to questions like "What time is it in London?" incorrect. What's a motherfucker supposed to think about all this? That you don't use a LLM to find out the time in London. That's like trying to do open-he...

Well, I guess if you were feeling charitable you could say it wasn't vanity that stopped them from reforming - although they did make statements about not wanting to "spoil" their fans' image of them in their youth - but simple laziness, mutual loathing and general lack of interest. But we...

zircona1 wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 8:22 am I was referring to something I read many years ago where they turned down a ton of money for a reunion tour.

Yeah but since they subsequently went and did something far more tawdry instead, it now seems like their principal objection to reuniting was not selling out but looking wrinkly.

And I admire how they said "no" to a multi-million $ reunion deal. In favour of a multi-billion $ Dorian Gray computer hologram fuckery show? It seems the only reason they turned down a reunion was because they believe their wizened appearance would be too tragic. Which is vain and silly.

I never thought of FM Steve as the shut the fuck up type. Whenever I see Peter Thiel's name I reflexively mentally prepare a "fuck Peter Thiel" comment, but here I read further and see somebody has already scratched that itch, and it's fm Steve. I used to feel happy to see fm Steve articul...

I was just sitting here thinking how Steve is dead and Trump is alive. What a bunch of bullshit. The thought occurred to me as well, but I've thought that before. Everyone deserves to outlive Donald Trump. To exist outside of his timeline. And only last night we were talking about beautiful people ...

My ex-partner/partner/it's complicated posted something about Steve on Facebook (I still don't Facebook) and got the Peter Sotos shit in response, next minute there's an internet argument going on between her and some randoms and she's having to block people she doesn't even know. I'm not sure what ...