Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@stux

It's like having multi-factor authentication and then putting the server on a cloud-based service.

@bonifartius

In climates that don't get below freezing, you shouldn't need any heating device at all. In those cases a well insulated home and some thermal mass along with the ambient heat from electrical devices and body heat is enough to keep warm.

In climates that get very cold, it might make sense to install the outdoor unit of a heat pump underground in a cellar or something because they lose efficiency when it gets really cold. Cellars stay warmer than the outside air when it gets really cold outside and the ground can act as a heat source that way.

Conservation is the best strategy, and not making so many babies will help in the long run.

@bonifartius

https://qoto.org/@Pat/110209579247355906

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#OutOfContext

https://www.patriotholdings.com/agi-calculator

@tomheyes

>" if you put hummus in a warp is it still a dip? 🤔"

Then it's an inter-dimensional condiment. 😂

@trinsec

@braindouche

#TruthBeTold

(not all of them are true, but a lot of them are)

@CardboardRobot @natharari

In jurisdictions that offer initiative ballot measures, petitions are the first step.

Way back when, when petitions were actual pieces of paper that you signed, I would sign almost every one that somebody showed me just to support the process, whether I agreed with it or not.

(ps - Mifepristone is still legal and will remain so.)

@peterdrake

This is a great find! I don't remember this one at all. Looks derivative of The Blob. I'll have to watch this one.

@natharari

If content is not available anywhere, then the copyright holder can't claim any economic damages if it is copied without authorization.

@bonifartius

>"PSA: save things to your local devices, they will vanish otherwise. especially if they are of any discomfort for those in power."

And remember to post to multiple locations also. If a site tries to take down something, then respond by distributing it even more widely.

@micromotility

I think this is cruel, implanting a device in an animal's brain like that.

@acjay

You did not address my comment. It's a project designed to try to take down Mastodon and put federated social media under plutocratic control. That's what it is designed for.

@pj

My point was that making something illegal doesn't stop it from happening. Also, millions of people shoot guns every week in the US without incident, so making an activity illegal because one wacko decides to kill a bunch of people while he is doing that activity is nonsensical.

@KodeGhinn

So beautiful, and the sounds!

@pj

Shooting one's neighbors in Texas should be banned and criminalized.

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

12 Monkeys (1995)

Magical realism and unrelenting dysphoria characterize this '90s time-travel sci-fi about a guy who tries to go back in time to help correct a massive pandemic that happened in the future. The attention to detail in this film is extraordinary. The writing, the acting, cinematography, the score, special effects, art design; everything in this film is so tight; very well done. Terry Gilliam deserves praise for his direction, for which he had great creative latitude during production. In fact it's so effective at creating a feeling of unease I think it requires a content warning for people who are under stress or who otherwise may be vulnerable to unsettling content. But there’s plenty of comedy for those who enjoy demented humor.

Brad Pitt had the most demanding role, I think, with lots of rapid dialogue playing an over-the-top delusional crazy guy. Bruce Willis, the main protagonist, also played a guy who is losing touch with reality. Madeleine Stowe, who plays a psychiatrist opposite Willis' character, is absolutely flawless. All the actors in this film did a very good job even in the minor rolls. I saw only one flawed bit performance in the whole film.

There were two societal phenomena happening when this film was produced in the 1990s – animal rights activism was at its height, and the Rodney King beating and subsequent riots had just occurred. Pitt’s character plays the leader of an eponymous underground animal rights group (Army of the Twelve Monkeys), which is apparently planning a horrendous act.

The film features a lot of black actors, which was unusual for films in the early 90s. I think filmmakers at the time were intentionally trying to correct for past racial bias in the film industry in the wake of the Rodney King beating. However, none of the black players in this film had major roles, only minor parts. None of the black players played any of the many scientists and doctors in the story, they played mostly cops, orderlies and such. I counted twelve credited black roles in the film, which I’m sure was a coincidence and the producers had no intent to denigrate. (ambiguous sarcasm)

The film presents overshadowing stereotypes of people who have mental illness, a trend that continues to this day in filmmaking. The single female protagonist is also stereotyped as a mostly weak and submissive character even though she plays a psychiatrist which should be an authority figure in this context. (In all fairness, her character evolves considerably.)

However, in spite of it’s gaffs on political correctness (which were common in the 1990s), I think it’s such a well made film that it’s well worth watching.

Accessible video description:

a man (Willis) in a hazmat suit in a winter environment stoops down near some equipment, a bear startles him and he panics. Cut to a closeup of the central arch in Fre Carnevale’s “The Ideal City” as a woman’s voice reads Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the camera slowly zooms out to show the full painting and an old white woman reading to a small group of people seated on folding chairs in Walters Art Museum, a subtitle says, “Baltimore April 1990”. A beeper goes off as a white brunette woman in a little black dress looks at her beeper message, stands up and fumbles as she awkwardly walks out. As she walks by a man wearing silver shoes, her shoes inexplicably turn from black to silver. Then Willis and Pitt are in a mental institution and a black man with a gray beard wearing formal attire talks about not being from outer space with goofy looks on his face. Cut to old black and white cartoons with crazy characters. Then a guard at a desk reads a newspaper with a man on stilts in the background changing lightbulbs in a hallway as Willis stumbles to an elevator, the guard tell him it’s not working, but the guard’s appearance subtly changes from one face to another, his newspaper’s headline says, “Bat Child Found in Cave” with a scary photo. then Willis and Stowe are in a car, Willis has sad expressions while Stowe has incredulous expressions. Fade to Pitt with long hair wearing dark clothes and a black stocking cap as he explains his theory of predictive neuro-analytics, he grabs his crotch in a funny gesture, tosses a globe to the floor and walks around the room making exaggerated gestures. then a small logo for the film appears and the camera slowly zooms in, it is red silhouettes of monkeys arranged in a circle with the title “Twelve Monkeys” over it.

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#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #TimeTravel #MentalIllness #animals #MagicalRealism #1990s #AnimalRights #shoes #iSeeDeadPeople #barn #Ignaz #PredictiveAnalytics #virus #pandemic #Baltimore
(fair use, unauthorized trailer)

@acjay

It's a fundamental problem with the business model. If a social platform is in it for profit, they're going to feed you what they want you to see not what you want to see. In Mastodon there are no algorithms and you decide what you see. It's better.