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@cweickhmann

Wow! That's wonderful.

It's actually kind of odd though, you'd think that, being able to fly anywhere, that they'd pick better real estate than something right next to the train tracks. :smile:

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Here's a picture of a recent lunar eclipse...

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Retro SciFi of the Week…

Battlefield Earth (2000)

Battlefield Earth is infamously regarded as one of the worst science fiction films ever made. Based on L. Ron Hubbard’s navel of the same name, the film took nearly 20 years to finally get financed and produced. The film uses a stilted, campy acting style and copious tilted camera angles similar to the style made famous by the 1960s TV series Batman. The stilted acting style was interpreted by most critics as simply bad acting.

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@lucifargundam @skells

No. I don't block people just because I disagree with them. I generally only block those who are derisive toward others.

(I finally just blocked the entire noagendaxxx instance because of all the racists)

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@lucifargundam @skells

Didn't know there were any anti-vaxers still around. I thought they all died off.

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@lupyuen

Tor for crypto.

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@kmic

My comment was my opinion. My perspective. I live in the US, so that is my experience.

As I said, I don't remember the specifics. If it's important and you have an open mind about it, I can see if the episode is available somewhere and refresh my memory and point out specifics. It would take some time, but if you are actually open to seeing it when it is presented, I will do that.

>There is that thing where writers introduce an issue on purpose to resolve it in upcoming arc and force viewer to think.

The bias is not direct, written into the plot as a plot point or written into the character development. It’s not that a character is written to be racist, or the narrative is about racism. Sometimes there are narratives about racism in TV shows and movies, like in that short clip you posted, but that’s not what I’m taking about here specifically. It's subtle things, like limiting the screen time of black characters, or having the black characters most often delivering bad news, or having the black characters more often having negative interactions with the protagonists, or not letting the black characters smile very often, or most often placing the black extras at the back of the room or towards the sides of the frame. It's usually subtle, but it's definitely there.

As I said, I don’t remember the specifics, but I can research it again. I’m sure it must have been something significant for me to not even want to continue watching the series.

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@kmic

The series was created, produced, and originally released here in the US, so a US perspective is appropriate for this material. And yes, here in the US race is much more pervasive and more significant. We fought a horrible, bloody civil war over it. It literally tore our country apart.

And yes, I was referring to the first episode only. I have no idea how long they continued that racism. That short segment you posted seems to show some reflection on the part of writers, which is good. Maybe they got the memo.

Racism is generally socially unacceptable, so it's usually hidden. Writers, producers and directors don’t do it openly, they hide it so that it influences the audience unconsciously. So if one is “color blind” and they don’t see race, then they can’t see racism either.

With regard to projection, frankly you have know idea what goes on in my head, we’ve never met as far as know, and we’ve only had a few interactions here, so to declare my psychological state is extremely presumptuous. I was commenting on what appeared on the screen in that first episode. That’s it. And it was racially biased.

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>"This is similar to the gravitational lensing of a black hole, but it's curved less. Think of it as a lens with a long focal length. In this case the focal length is billions of lightyears!"

That's not correct at all. I really screwed this up. It doesn't act like a glass lens at all (except that it bends light). It's much more complicated than that and it doesn't even have a focal point or a focal length. So...

nevermind. :blobembarrassed2:

(The first paragraph is correct though.)

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@kmic

I mean to say that it is racially biased against black people. I don't remember the details at the moment, I think they only had one character who was black and the way that that character is treated in the writing and directing.

Watch it carefully and you will see. Season 1, Episode 1

I've written a lot here on qoto about how Hollywood is biased in their movies and TV. I pinned a thread to my profile and you can read it.

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@ze

> is a measurement of possible in .

That's an interesting definition. Although time can be measured, I’m not sure the measurement of time is the same as time itself. You measure time by comparing change in one location in space with change in another location, like measuring the change of the hands of a clock compared to the motion of something else through space. But I don’t think time is the measurement itself. I think it may be something more intrinsic.

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Here's another stupid and useless Linux command string using cat...

echo bark |cat|cat|cat|cat|cat > dog

Then when you type "cat dog", it says "bark".

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@octo

That won't work for me because my screen-lock password is jmndf, and my cat can easily guess that one. :smile:

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Patsplaining…

CLI=commandline interface (the command prompt)

The cat command is the UNIX command that concatenates files. You type “cat <filename> <filename> etc...” and it puts them together one after the other into one, which is sent out to the standard output. The standard output is usually the terminal screen. It’s probably most often used by people to quickly dump the contents of a single file to the screen, “cat <filename>”.

If no file name is given, the default is to take input from standard input, which is usually the keyboard. So if you just type “cat”, it will take whatever you type on the keyboard and send it to the screen without processing it, which is kind of useless, except in this weird case. 😄

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@kmic

I just recently came accross this little-known TV series and watched the first episode of the series. It was so racially biased that I didn’t watch anymore episodes.

This looks like it's from a later season. Maybe this was the producer’s way of apologizing for their racism. Kind of a backhanded apology – calling them messed up (“...mess up anybody for a long time”).

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@vovanium

Thank you. I agree.

I do something similar with .

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@vovanium

Some people will use the information to resist, while others will use it to hone their skills.

But we understand that the former is our motivation.

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@Patricia_andrea

Also, regarding infinite time so that infinite density could exist…

Because the curvature of spacetime around matter causes time to slow down (for an observer in another reference frame), as the density increases, the time would slow down. So time would approach infinity as density approached infinity and perhaps this would allow for the singularity to exist (or to continuously form).

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@vovanium

I don't think it is good to use these techniques or to promote their use.

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@Patricia_andrea

The question of whether the universe is “open” or “closed” is of great interest. Current observations seem to indicate that the metric expansion of space is accelerating, i.e., the expansion is speeding up, so all the matter in the universe will never be able to come together in a big crunch. However, that view can always change as more observations are made.

My thoughts on a big crunch, if it was possible, is that it would only involve matter coming together, not the whole universe. Even if all the matter came together in a giant singularity, the metric of space around it would continue to expand, because the expansion of the universe is not just all the clumps of matter moving away from each other in space, but it is the metric of space itself that is expanding.

Just like when a galaxy forms by matter coming together via gravity, that does not mean that the metric of space is contracting. It means that all those stars and other matter are moving through space to come together as a galaxy. The metric of the space that that matter is moving through, is still expanding. It’s just that gravity, the curvature of spacetime around the matter is causing matter to move together faster than the metric expansion is expanding.

So I don’t think the universe itself will collapse, but maybe all of the matter in it could (if future observations indicate that that is possible.) Although I could be completely misinterpreting those theories.

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