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Comment · 2 years ago
This has been disproven so many times. There’s more vacant homes in the US than homeless people. But homes == money. As someone who is a real estate investor, it’s no secret, we are jacking up the prices. It’s what we do for a living.
Comment · 2 years ago
Why should I work when other people can inherit money?
Comment · 2 years ago
Diseases caused by poverty eliminated by science is not really good news.
Comment · 3 years ago
String theory like most of theoretical physics is just made up. Today our knowledge of atomic physics and the cosmos is no more improved little since 1945. There’s a lot of theories, but ultimately they just add up to different kinds of particles interacting in non-verifiable ways. If you look at the actual advancements it’s pretty laughable we’re sitting here saying “Hey look this theoretical thing called a black hole, that easily could just be some type of unknown radio telescope interference? It maybe might exist for a different reason than we thought!” Your layman’s understanding that a black hole is some kinda big suck-y thing in space is actually better then engineering an elaborate and probably incorrect theory.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah well you’re REALLY not going to like Don’t Worry Darling.

My thing is when clearly a climax has started and there’s still 30-40 minutes left in the film, it really feels like the climax’s are drawn out these days, you have 2 hour plus movies with 30 minutes of no plot/character development instead of a under 2 hour movie which would just be over at that point.

Comment · 3 years ago
I highly recommend it if you enjoy video of ants.
Comment · 3 years ago
I watched this movie for an art history class and it’s considered an important movie politically due to environmentalist message. At the time environmentalism wasn’t basically movie short-hand for, “this is a black and white moral conflict obviously the environmentalists are the good guys” though obviously that’s how they are portrayed in the Silent Running. There’s was also a popular environmentalist book call Silent Spring, that was incorporated into the movie’s name.

Also shut up Joan Baez is the shit.

Comment · 3 years ago
Was born in 1991 and really had to go out of my way to pirate digital versions of these when I was in college. I was trying to think about why I sought these films out. I think the answer is that they are actually science fiction, as opposed to most “sci-fi” films now that are just based in escapism rather than speculation. The thing is that it’s pretty inexplicable because I can clearly see the flaws of these movies, they look corny, a lot bad dialogue written by nerds. But I have a real emotional attachment with these movies. I cried during Soylent Green and even Rollerball. There’s something about the corniness of these movies that’s very claustrophobic and tense, they are exciting because the movies have a thesis that’s like reading a serial killer’s manifesto, dark. The casting was crazy back then to male lead actors like Charlton Heston look haggard and old, and talk a lot, they sometimes just flip out, actresses are on the other hand usually just sexy young starlets who can’t act. It’s just such a different situation then like Adam Driver, or Chris Pratt stumbling through being Mr.Likable with a female lead who’s can act but only there because it would be weird if the script didn’t have a romantic arc.

Honestly I just love all movies but I do think Star Wars ruined it. It’s a good movie, certainly it shaped my childhood, but aside from the more “meta” mythopoetic elements of deconstructing the hero’s journey, it’s pure escapism and obviously was a huge hit and set the tone for the future.

Comment · 3 years ago
… or he could have just made a simple report like she asked. A very cringey take down of someone just asking for basic information a COO would logically need to do her job. A good developer would have got that work done without being so obtuse.

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