Just finished watching it. Not bad, TV-movie-quality but a straightforward script.

Besides Richard “Shaft” Roundtree and Sam “needs no introduction” Raimi, the actual ex-boxer who “Raging Bull” was based on, Jake LaMotta, plays a Detective.

I watched it on Tubi… currently ad-free with uBlock Origin adblocker (on Firefox, at least…)

Sorry to hear that, fam. I hope it got better eventually.

So there must have been one day on which the Tethys Ocean was suddenly no more, right? I looked at the wikipedia page and it wasn’t clear.

Mondrian’s work had an enormous influence on 20th-century art, influencing not only the course of abstract painting and numerous major styles and art movements (e.g. Color Field painting, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism), but also fields outside the domain of painting, such as design, architecture and fashion. Design historian Stephen Bayley said: “Mondrian has come to mean Modernism. His name and his work sum up the High Modernist ideal. I don’t like the word ‘iconic’, so let’s say that he’s become totemic – a totem for everything Modernism set out to be.”

The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog

Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man.

Kinda interesting that the hat looks like an Andean chullo. And it looks like the front of the Thracian cape could be untied to become a poncho. I guess if you’re living in a cold region with lots of wool, there’s only so many different ways you can make a cap and cloak, huh?

Well let’s see… first we gotta figure out the analogy:

• carriers = posts promoting a product
• carrier escorts = posts commenting on and upvoting the “carrier” post
• torpedos/dive-bombs = bot-delivered replies that disparage “carrier” posts. They “hit” if they get highly upvoted
• fighters = bots that downvote carrier-fleet posts and upvote torpedo/dive-bomb replies
• carrier “screen” fighters = bots that post attacks on enemy fighters and munitions
• carrier AA fire = bots that downvote attacks by enemy fighter bots

The analogy is still a little clumsy… are “carriers” posts, or are they the bots that make the posts? etc. But a Midway-like battle would involve a modest but strategically-positioned product-promoting community that is about to be surprised-attacked by a rival, who will make several posts disparaging the product. But the attack is identified through corporate espionage. The posts are hard to find, so the “fighters” have to search for them but ultimately they do, and after fierce up- and down-voting, the attacking posts are deeply downvoted.

Because migrants are generally peaceful, non-violent people who just want to work hard and improve their lives.

ur gonna give birth to a meme.

Businesses wouldn’t offer free self-defense classes – liability! They’d just put up a ribbon in tribute of all the fallen babies. Maybe they’d sell ribbons too, so you can honor the babies.

Also elderly people. Me or other family buy groceries for an aunt, she has Amazon for emergencies.

Median is the better metric, since we’re talking about outliers.

fleet of accounts

I like the use of the term “fleet” in this context, bc it brings to mind the Battle of Midway but re-done with bots online.

Inform us, o wise one. er, I mean…

man vibe

Sounds like you were summoned by ouija board.

In Jon, Lyman’s desperation posture is affecting, I really feel for the guy. His cartoonier pose in Garfield is funnier, less melancholy. I think the joke lands better.

yow, there are different elements from each version that I like better.

• in Jon panels 2 and 4 I like Lyman’s pose better than the later equivalent. The full prostration really helps deliver the joke, which is falls flat (ha!) in the later one. But panel 3’s pose is better in the later version (more “typical melodromatic pose”)
• I kinda like the earlier “my apartment is your apartment” better bc it subverts the expected “my home is your home”. It’s still not enough of a joke to carry the strip by itself tho.
• I like the later “ding dong” panel just showing Garf’s face. dunno what’s up with that background tho
• glad he got rid of the unfortunate use of “massuh” there.
• either way, Garf’s sandbox is off-limits.

Oh hey the original strip is kinda that Barber paradox, huh.

(edit: I kind of regret posting this image for reasons described below, but I’ll leave it up for context.)