

“TELL ME! WHO’S PRESIDENT IN 2025 - DONALD TRUMP??!?!”
“TELL ME! WHO’S PRESIDENT IN 2025 - DONALD TRUMP??!?!”
In before Muzak version of Blood Sugar Sex Magik. :)
I wanted to watch the OG Nosferatu before the new one, my wife could not stop laughing.
“No! This serious horror movie!”
(snort)
If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.
As much as I hate to admit it, yes. That’s 30 years ago now.
Think of it like this… If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.
🤯
Movies from 1955 were old in 1985, so movies from 1995 are old now.
There was a company reproducing artwork like this using an advanced printer that used paints. Not sure whatever happened to them.
Even with humans, there are good translations and bad translations.
Some of my favorite authors did not natively write in English and the translators did a stellar job of capturing the nuance of the original.
I can’t imagine AI giving anything other than a straight denotative translation. It would be readable, but with no soul.
Here’s a passage from Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s “The Shadow of the Wind” in Spanish (“La sombra del viento”):
“En una ocasión oí comentar a un cliente habitual en la librería de mi padre que pocas cosas marcan tanto a un lector como el primer libro que realmente se abre camino hasta su corazón. Aquellas primeras imágenes, el eco de esas palabras que creemos haber dejado atrás, nos acompañan toda la vida y esculpen un palacio en nuestra memoria al que, tarde o temprano —no importa cuántos libros leamos, cuántos mundos descubramos, cuánto aprendamos u olvidemos—, vamos a regresar. Para mí, esas páginas embrujadas siempre serán las que encontré entre los pasillos del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados.”
The English translation:
“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return. For me those enchanted pages will always be the ones I found among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”
Google translate:
“I once heard a regular customer at my father’s bookstore comment that few things leave a lasting impression on a reader as much as the first book that truly makes its way into their heart. Those first images, the echo of those words we think we’ve left behind, stay with us for a lifetime and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, how much we learn or forget—we will return. For me, those haunted pages will always be the ones I found in the aisles of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”
Can’t tell if 4/1 gag or not! Brilliant!
Freedom comes at a cost, what you want is for other people to shoulder the burden and take care of you and that’s not an option beyond a certain age, and having someone do that for you also comes at a cost.
Your basic needs will be met either in the military or in prison, but that’s not freedom.
You can get a job and pay for your basic needs on your own, which while also not freedom, is still better than the military or prison. :)
You can enroll in college and have food/shelter taken care of, but if you don’t have a job to pay for it, you’ll bury yourself in debt, paying for your freedom now, with debt chains later.
Yeah, the kids in this story are more unrestrained id than murderous, but it sure works out that way.
Yeah, latest in the “old man” line following Old Man Logan and Spider-Man Reign.
You guys must hate it when I point this stuff out:
Absolute Green Lantern #1 - Martian Manhunter was great, hearing good things here.
Birds Of Prey #20 - Now that Shazam and Power Girl have ended, I’m worried on this one.
Cruel Kingdom #4 - Final Issue
Hornsby And Halo #5
Hyde Street #5
JSA #6
Justice League The Atom Project #4 - Part of the larger Justice League Unlimited/Question conglomeration.
Moon Knight Fist Of Khonshu #7
Ultimate X-Men #14
X-Men #14
Phone functionality is the least of my problems, I need an open source replacement for Android Auto / Apple CarPlay.
Not sure how that would work, you’d either have to emulate it to talk to the infotainment system, or get all the infotainment producers to add an open source layer… Sounds like a nightmare either way.
Man, I don’t even know…
Google says… 4/20.
Did you see some of the guys at the Oscars this year?
Colman Domingo SLAYED it.
https://www.instyle.com/best-dressed-men-oscars-2025-11689188
We can have sash belts now? Nobody told me!
Doubling down makes them even more entrenched, then they start believing CRAZIER things.
Sorry, Bungie. You fucked up Destiny 2, no more money for you.