Pat @Pat@qoto.org

In case you missed it, the accessibility description I added for the movie poster reads,...

“movie poster showing portraits of Hopkins (a white man) and Rock (a black man) Rock's eyes are asymmetrical and slightly squinted, and his mouth is tilted. Hopkin's are neutral and even.”

#racist #hollywood #film #movie #chrisrock #anthonyhopkins #blm

Bad Company (2002)

The description for this film reads, “...a streetwise punk is recruited by a CIA agent to stop an arms deal from going bad.”

Anyone want to guess which one is the CIA agent and which one is the “streetwise punk”?

#racistHollywood

#mind #psych #science #language #brain

#inflation #wealth #stock #bitcoin #crypto #money #economy

Who is affected more by inflation?

This video was taken on April 6, 2022. Now it turns out that she got COVID-19. What a "surprise, surprise, surprise"

Next time wear your respirator, Nancy.

#covid19 #covid #covid.gov #respirator #mask #masks #vax #vaccine #socal #distancing #WH #Uspol #CDC #CDCP #NIOSH #N95
#science
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Here’s Nancy Pelosi speaking on the crowded floor of the House of Representatives without wearing an N95 respirator.

She is in the line of succession to the presidency, yet she carelessly takes an unnecessary risk by exposing herself to COVID-19 without wearing a respirator.

Ironically, she was talking about how the US is falling behind other countries in science. Duh!

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spoiler warning – Tron/Wizard of Oz

I forgot to mention one of my favorities, The Wizard of Oz (1939). Tron was certainly influenced by that film – the protagonist goes to a alternate reality, meets others who together help to kill an evil, autocratic bad guy.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #dream #world #film #movie #hacker #culture #war #justice #liberation

Retro SciFi Film of the week…

Tron (1982)

This was the first major motion picture to extensively use CGI. The film was targeted at the small, niche market of computer users, as well as others who were interested in the new fad.

This dream/fantasy world narrative was influenced by early literature such as The Odyssey and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Tron had considerable influence on subsequent science fiction films such as The Martix, Vanilla Sky (Abre los ojos) and Inception.

(movie poster image owned by Buena Vista Pictures; low res fair use)

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Tolstoy: War and Peace

Putin: I'll use Napoleon's campaign as my playbook -- invade another country to try to influence their alliances. What could go wrong?

Tolstoy: War and Peace

Me: TLDR

#mind #psych #science #language #brain

Choose:

#respirator #COVID19 #vax #vaccine #mask #masks #omicron #delta #BA2 #N95 #cdc

N95 respirators are much more comfortable to wear than cloth masks because they allow more air to flow through them.

So, how can a mask that allows more air to flow through it still filter almost all of those tiny (100nm) viruses?

Here’s an article that explains the amazing science behind the N95 respirator:

https://www.wired.com/story/the-physics-of-the-n95-face-mask/

#AcadamyAwards #BestActress #BestActor #film #films #movie #movies

Congratulations to Jessica Chastain and Will Smith for being awarded Best Actress/Actor at the 2022 Academy Awards.

(Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SDCC_2015_-_Jessica_Chastain_(19111308673)_(cropped).jpg, CC-BY-SA-2.0; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TechCrunch_Disrupt_2019_(48834434641)_(cropped).jpg, CC-BY-2.0)

#covid19 #covid #covid.gov #respirator #mask #masks #vax #vaccine #socal #distancing #WH #Uspol #CDC #CDCP #NIOSH #N95

#TruthBeTold

The truth is…

Press Secretary Jen Psaki became infected with COVID-19 because she didn’t wear an N95 respirator.

Psaki doesn’t wear a respirator when she gives her press briefings to the White House correspondents.

According to the CDC, none of the White House correspondents who were infected by Psaki are considered close contacts.

(In epidemiology, a “close contact” is anyone who was close enough to an infected person to possibly become infected themselves. It’s used for contact tracing to locate people who may have become infected to help prevent further spread of disease, among other things.)

#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

You can watch the episode here:

https://archive.org/details/flash_gordon12/chapter12.mov

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #space #race #film #movie #death #ray #war #justice #lgbt

Retro SciFi Film of the Month...

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Doom of the Dictator (1940)

This is the final episode of the film series in which Ming is defeated (no spoiler – it’s in the title!)

"Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" was produced in the US shortly after the start of World War II, when the issue of whether the United States should enter the war was a hotly debated topic.

#germany #nordstream2 #russia #ukraine #oil #food #hunger #solar #panel #water #fuel #gas #energy #science
#nato #eu #europe #driving #electriccar #earth
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Energy saving tip number 13

Eat plants…

Calorie for calorie, a plant-based diet is much more energy efficient than feeding those plants to animals and then eating the animals. Beef requires about 53 times as much food energy than if you just ate those plant calories directly. (Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-efficiency-of-meat-and-dairy-production)

Eating “lower on the food chain” will also help to alleviate the global food shortages that are expected due to the war in Ukraine.

(Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soybeans_at_Harvest_(10138472185).jpg, United Soybean Board, CC-BY-2.0)

Another thing you can do to save heat from hot water is to stop the drain of your sink or tub/shower to prevent the hot water from going down the drain.

Let the water sit in the sink for a couple of hours before you let it drain. That way the heat from the hot water will be released into the room to help heat the living space, instead of being wasted down the drain.

This saves a surprising amount of energy because water holds many times as much heat as air does.

(They make heat-recovery heat exchangers for the drian that can do this automatically, but it's really just as easy to get in the habit of doing it yourself.)

Note: Although Nichelle Nichols (as Uhura) was a character in Star Trek, in the particular episode featured here in this series, she only had a bit part. (Plus that one was not a movie, it was TV.)