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Thank you for your offer of employment at (company name redacted). I’m sure working at xxxx would prove to be an exciting and stimulating job. However, the salary and benefits in your offer don’t match my requirements at this time, so I will be moving on to other offers.

Thank you for your time,

Sincerely...

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Spoiler: revelation about this clip... 

After I posted this toot and clip, I realized that this particular clip has much more significance than I had realized.

Obviously, for those who have seen the film, the voice-over dialog by Sonmi is about her becoming "woke" about her own oppression and her potential. However, what I hadn’t previously realized is that this particular point in the film is a narrative midpoint, about which the film pivots, presenting a mirror between the first half and second half of the film. The first half introducing the six separate but similar sub-narratives, while the second half mirrors the first, but resolves those initial sub-plots in a reflective manner. The dialog itself hints at this, “Knowledge is a mirror, and for the first time in my life I was allowed to see who I was… and who I might become.” Sonmi’s character is acting a transient meta-metaphor for the film itself – realizing what the (first half of) the film is and what it will become.

This film is amazing. You can take as far as you want...

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This day just flew by...

Like a 17-hour intercontinental flight.

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Retro SciFi of the Week…

Cloud Atlas (2012)

Not so retro, but it’s one of the best science fiction films ever made and aside from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, perhaps the very best. It includes an ensemble cast of some of the most accomplished actors in the world.

The breadth and depth of this film is enormous and the quality is completely uncompromising. It uses a nonlinear narrative (lots of flashbacks and flashforwards) with an intricate plot and the actors play multiple roles, so it may be confusing on first viewing. This film demands a lot work from the viewer – it will probably take you at least three viewings to begin to understand it. If that’s not your thing, then I’d recommend you go watch ‘Sharknado (2013)’ instead.

The primary philosophical conclusion reached by the film is absolute bunk, but that doesn’t detract from its story and entertainment value. (And the presentation of its thesis up to that point is sound.)

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(Bathroom doors image, flickr.com/photos/10058483@N00, CC-SA-BY-2.0, modified with fair use images from STNG)

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I just blocked a qoto user for using a derisive racial epithet.

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Happy solstice!

(As of about 6 hours ago...)

(Image from wikipedia commons, public domain)

Image not to scale. 🙂

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Economics chart of the day…

(Yeah, I know I don’t do one of these every day. I only make one when I want to.)

(Chart from wikimedia commons, data from stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?Data)

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Most people are fuck-heads, and they don't know it.

So, statistically, I'm probably a fuck-head.

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Finding the luscious insinuation of deceit so alluring
She walked.
In search of an ark, a chalice, a vault…
A holy gray hill.
Surmount the suspicious tremors
That question this realty but
The reality check has bounced.
That cup is empty, gone inane
That whining water has turned toon to lip
Don’t give me any.
A million-strawberry alarm clock
Into a puppy hamster, suckling a tea ring.
So many heaped on that gray hill
Block the shinning from that city
On that hill.
Turn a blue pot into a pig
So all that were, are seven trees.


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Retro SciFi of the Week…

Supercar (1965)

Here’s a short, two minute clip from a 1960s TV series about a flying car. Of note here are the use of virtual actors and references to string theory – way ahead of its time.

(I doubt if you’ll be able to find this series anywhere, it's not well known and you probably wouldn’t be able to sit through an entire episode anyway… I’m pretty sure this is the worst SciFi of the Week I’ve done so far, but I couldn’t pass up the metaphor presented here regarding the promotion of putt-putt cars.)

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#45

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The truth is…

Trump didn’t commit suicide. It wasn’t suicide.

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Dyslexic’s summary of the January 6th hearings…

“I thought he was a patriot, but it turns out he was just a parrot.”

(Image Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-4.0, by TapTheForwardAssist)

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@icedquinn

(Responding to icedquinn comment about $40 chicken)

I think our democracy is more important at the moment than inflation.

Even more important than either of those is ONE MILLION people dead, who didn't need to die. And nearly 1,000 more people die each day in the US who would still be alive if not for the evil people in the government who are mishandling the pandemic. That is the number one problem that needs an immediate response and accountability.

Also, I'm vegan, so high-priced chicken is not a problem.

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Here's Dr. Fauci in 2020 talking about COVID-19. He said more than 20,000 cases per day was unacceptable.

Now we're having about 200,000 cases per day in the US...

Crickets.

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@icedquinn

Agree. The US is not a democracy, it's a hypocracy.

Of all of the wars we have gotten involved with during the past few decades, the one in Ukraine is probably the most legitimate in terms of supporting our values. Ukraine was moving rapidly towards democracy and away from authoritarian Russia. So it actually makes sense to support them with a few billion (compared to the trillions we wasted in Afganistan and Iraq.)

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Retro SciFi of the Week…

Metropolis (1927)

This film fell into the public domain in the US in 1953 when its copyright lapsed. More than 50 years later the US Supreme Court declared that it was back under copyright (retroactive to 1996), which of course is illegal to do in the US. Notwithstanding the court’s impotent proclamations, the film will indisputably be in the public domain at the end of this year. You will likely be hearing more about it at that time. It may remain under copyright in other parts of the world because Fritz Lang lived so long.

A decade after this film came out, Hitler exploited the sentiments expressed by the workers depicted in this film to implement socialism in Germany and take away the freedom of those very workers (and nearly everybody else’s freedom too).

A while ago I did a that referenced this film but I don’t think anybody understood it at that time (or only partial understood).

(Socialism and Nazism are just about the worst ideas ever and inevitably lead to the loss of liberty and justice.)

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The truth is…

The Van Allen Belt is a of radiation (actually two or more bands) that hold charged particles within Earth’s magnetosphere in space.

Other bands may be created from time to time.

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(image from: www.flickr.com/photos/anirudhkoul/1960120621; by Anirudh Koul; cropped; CC-BY-NA_2.0)

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spoiler 

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The butler did it.

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Another oil industry hack.

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