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@acrow said in In other news today...:
That money would be better spent on offering more old classics. Or anime. Or both. Something decent to watch.
Anything other than Netflix originals, please
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
That money would be better spent on offering more old classics. Or anime. Or both. Something decent to watch.
Anything other than Netflix originals, please
Better Call Saul was good.
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@topspin The thread or the series?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
That money would be better spent on offering more old classics. Or anime. Or both. Something decent to watch.
Anything other than Netflix originals, please
Better Call Saul was good.
The AMC show produced by the AMC network and distributed by Sony Pictures? I agree it's fantastic, but Netflix has nothing to do with its production
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@hungrier huh? Ok, mustāve mixed that up.
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@topspin You can probably find a handful of good Netflix originals. Stranger Things first season, the first few seasons of House of Cards, Arcane, etc. But for each of those there is a raft of absolute crap like the live action Cowboy Bebop
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
live action Cowboy Bebop
By M. Night Shamalamadingdong?
Filed under: Play Ja Ja Ding Dong!
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Or anime
Fucking weebs! Fuckers should get the rope.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
That money would be better spent on offering more old classics. Or anime. Or both. Something decent to watch.
Anything other than Netflix originals, please
Better Call Saul was good.
Orange Is The New Black was good.
edit: also Sex/Life for anyone who wants to see Sarah Shahi's boobs
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Another piece of the puzzle. The zodiac killer will be caught any day now.
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@cvi ah shit, numeronium was NOT supposed to fall into mehum hands. Well, expect this to be retracted soon. Research looks... flawed.
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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-amd-removes-intel-silicon
Thus USB4 supports up to 40 Gbps transfers
Or almost 400 FHD movies per second in Samsung pounds.
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@DogsB Can you convert that to dog holes?
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
But after Cuties [an American movie about preteens twerking], I'd say that problem is by no means limited to Japanese animations
: Cuties is a French movie about pre-teens twerking that was released in France without issue.
The backlash came from when it was re-released in America and Americans were upset that the movie was for pedos.
I'm not sure how that affects your point, but I'm not going to pass up the opportunity to shit on the French's weird sexual practices.
I'll see your and raise you a .
Pretty much the whole Cuties controversy can be brought down to how Netflix chose to market it.
Here's the French poster:
We've all seen the Netflix one by now.
Bonus TVTropes!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmericanKirbyIsHardcore
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@GOG The film, judging from clips released, does contain a minute or more of vigorous and suggestive air-humping, performed by children.
Even if the rest of it is decent, and doesn't try to make twerking more glamorous than it is, it's still less decent than TV-release anime in general.
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@acrow Well, yes, it does.
Given the whole premise of the movie - which isn't aimed at kids in any case - it would be rather odd if this culminating scene didn't exist.
The long and short of it is that we live in a world where suggestive air-humping has been a pop-cultural staple for over a decade. Kids are exposed to it through normal interaction with modern day culture (like watching music videos) and at least some will attempt to imitate it.
In this respect, the movie doesn't invent anything. It merely shows us the world we're living in. If we don't like such a world, I posit that getting upset with people who show it as it is isn't a sensible way forward.
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@GOG Fair enough.
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
@acrow Well, yes, it does.
Given the whole premise of the movie - which isn't aimed at kids in any case - it would be rather odd if this culminating scene didn't exist.
The long and short of it is that we live in a world where suggestive air-humping has been a pop-cultural staple for over a decade. Kids are exposed to it through normal interaction with modern day culture (like watching music videos) and at least some will attempt to imitate it.
In this respect, the movie doesn't invent anything. It merely shows us the world we're living in. If we don't like such a world, I posit that getting upset with people who show it as it is isn't a sensible way forward.
YEah, one of my ex's daughters started twerking around the age of 7 or 8, to the horror of her mother that tried to forbid her, which only made her twerk more. And she was really shit at twerking as well and kept boasting about how good she was.
Anyway, kids see what is in the media and replicates it. Always have, and always will. The cuties movie holds a mirror to society, and society reacts to itself.
Of course, the softcore ads from netflix didn't help.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Of course, the softcore ads from netflix didn't help.
I'm still wondering what the ad-crew thought they were doing. Who they thought they were marketing to.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Americans measuring the size of holes in washing machines.
Yet another baffling British prejudice. We use dogs.
Here comes the next strange Imperial Unit, I just found in an article on water use of Colorado river:
The Compact apportioned 7.5 million acre-feet (MAF; 1 acre-foot = 1233 m3) per year of consumptive use to each basin and specified the division between them as Lees Ferry in northern Arizona
acre-feet
. How do they compare tocrow-feet
?
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@BernieTheBernie Acre-foot apparently means the volume of a foot-deep pool that's an acre in area.
To be fair, it might make sense to farmers. After all, their fields are counter in acres, and rain is counted in inches.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Of course, the softcore ads from netflix didn't help.
I'm still wondering what the ad-crew thought they were doing. Who they thought they were marketing to.
I mean, the US always had a bit of a pedophilian nerve with kids. Just look at the beauty pageants they have had for forever. And sex sells, so why not sexualize the kids in the ads for the movie? But now I feel that I'm veering off into the garage-adjacent lawn so I'll probably stop right here.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Of course, the softcore ads from netflix didn't help.
I'm still wondering what the ad-crew thought they were doing. Who they thought they were marketing to.
Possibly, they thought that the scene was meant to be "empowering", rather than the endpoint of a series of singularly bad decisions on the part of the lead character (that they were somewhat understandable, given her life circumstances and the fact that she was, well, eleven - close enough to "temporary insanity" in my book - being another matter entirely).
Although, to be honest, I think @Carnage has the right of it.
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@GOG Now I have to watch that movie. Just to see for myself how good or bad it is.
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@acrow I understand that it's yer somewhat typical Euro Art Fare, possibly interesting given the director's outside background.
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āThey canāt work out the proper charge for the bomb and keep blowing up the fucking money,ā said the cop, who wasnāt permitted to speak to the media. āTheyāve been unable to adapt from the easier days of using compressed air.ā
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Amsterdam has been plagued by gangs targeting ATMs with air compressors for years, but after authorities in the Dutch capital responded
No, not Amsterdam ā the Netherlands as a whole. Banks and ATM manufacturers didnāt improve them to thwart people blowing them up only in Amsterdam. IOW: Amsterdam ā the Netherlands. Thankfully.
āThe gang preferred the older German machines, which are vulnerable to using air compressors to blow them apart with air pressure,ā said the officer.
Well, yes. Because in the Netherlands this has been common for years, and banks in other countries apparently had been reluctant to heed warnings from Dutch banks that this method was likely to be used abroad as well soon. When the ATMs here started being hardened against that kind of attack, chances are the criminals would just cross the border to find ones that arenāt.
[military grade] semtex
Semtex is primarily a civilian explosive.
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@PJH In this country, they started welding chains to the face of them and pulled them out of the wall with heavy machinery instead. Money still intact and all that, seems smarter than blowing everything up.
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@Carnage Over here you simply can't easily reach them anymore, they're nearly always inside now so that they first have to get access to the building (and supposedly set off the alarm before they can even plant explosives or something to drag the money out).
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@PJH In this country, they started welding chains to the face of them and pulled them out of the wall with heavy machinery instead. Money still intact and all that, seems smarter than blowing everything up.
They skip the bit about welding on chains here...
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@Polygeekery said in In other news today...:
If WiFi can make people ill, either:
homeopathychiropracty is a real thing that works- microwaves cause all the diseases in the world
FTFM and to
Chiropracty may or may not work, but if it does work, it does not contradict scientific premises on such a fundamental level as if homeopathy works.
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UEFI, proven once again to be more of a liability then...
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As long as they stay there.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
As long as they stay there.
The species, or the scientists?
Yes.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
UEFI, proven once again to be more of a liability then...
:volkswagon.feature:
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@Gurth said in In other news today...:
Semtex is primarily a civilian explosive.
Kinda, sorta, but not really, it depends.
Semtex was developed as a military explosive by Czechoslovakia. From there it was distributed to lots of commie nations that fought against the US. Notably, Vietnam and Libya.
Since then it has been used a lot in the civilian world and also adopted by paramilitary and terrorist groups because it is more easily obtainable than other high explosives. Now, whether you want to classify paramilitary and terrorist groups as "civilian" is up to you. But because of the adoption of it by those groups US, Russian and Chinese governments have likely (almost definitely) used it in various intelligence and, dare I say, false flag operations that they needed plausible deniability on.
If you want to go down a rabbit hole look up the story of Bohumil Sole. He's a man who almost definitely helped invent Semtex, although Explosia now denies he had anything to do with it, and later spoke out against it's production and taggants (their lack of efficacy, and total degradation during explosions), and then for some reason decided to commit suicide by blowing himself up in a spa with an explosive that was totally Semtex until it wasn't because .
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'd vote for that before I would almost all current politicians.
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@Polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'd vote for that before I would almost all current politicians.
A donkey would be less of an ass than most of the politicians of the world.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Money still intact
Weren't there supposed to be this mechanism that sprays the money with ink or something, rendering it useless?
I mean, there's always one or two idiots, but you'd think a couple cases would be enough to deter any further fuckery. Unless they can disable the thing. Or maybe it just doesn't work very well to begin with?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Money still intact
Weren't there supposed to be this mechanism that sprays the money with ink or something, rendering it useless?
I mean, there's always one or two idiots, but you'd think a couple cases would be enough to deter any further fuckery. Unless they can disable the thing. Or maybe it just doesn't work very well to begin with?
Yeah, together with people selling "cleaning agents" to clean the coloring off of them. Of course, that was a scam. There was also rumblings here about colored money being used in criminal circles for buying services of the shadier sort for a while.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Money still intact
Weren't there supposed to be this mechanism that sprays the money with ink or something, rendering it useless?
I mean, there's always one or two idiots, but you'd think a couple cases would be enough to deter any further fuckery. Unless they can disable the thing. Or maybe it just doesn't work very well to begin with?
Yeah, together with people selling "cleaning agents" to clean the coloring off of them. Of course, that was a scam.
Only a scam? I'd expect that to be an operation by the cops.
There was also rumblings here about colored money being used in criminal circles for buying services of the shadier sort for a while.
I doubt that given the money basically can't be laundered, in either sense of the word.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Money still intact
Weren't there supposed to be this mechanism that sprays the money with ink or something, rendering it useless?
I mean, there's always one or two idiots, but you'd think a couple cases would be enough to deter any further fuckery. Unless they can disable the thing. Or maybe it just doesn't work very well to begin with?
Yeah, together with people selling "cleaning agents" to clean the coloring off of them. Of course, that was a scam.
Only a scam? I'd expect that to be an operation by the cops.
I think it would fall foul of entrapment according to Swedish law, but IANAL.
There was also rumblings here about colored money being used in criminal circles for buying services of the shadier sort for a while.
I doubt that given the money basically can't be laundered, in either sense of the word.
No worse than bitcoin.
It's kinda hard finding any information on it, since in 2014 there was a glut of reports about colored bills being bleached or otherwise having the coloring "cleaned" off them and recirculated.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Money still intact
Weren't there supposed to be this mechanism that sprays the money with ink or something, rendering it useless?
I mean, there's always one or two idiots, but you'd think a couple cases would be enough to deter any further fuckery. Unless they can disable the thing. Or maybe it just doesn't work very well to begin with?
Yeah, together with people selling "cleaning agents" to clean the coloring off of them. Of course, that was a scam.
Only a scam? I'd expect that to be an operation by the cops.
I think it would fall foul of entrapment according to Swedish law, but IANAL.
It shouldn't. The people wouldn't commit any crime by the act of buying the scam cleaning agent, they would just lead the cops on their trace.
There was also rumblings here about colored money being used in criminal circles for buying services of the shadier sort for a while.
I doubt that given the money basically can't be laundered, in either sense of the word.
No worse than bitcoin.
It's kinda hard finding any information on it, since in 2014 there was a glut of reports about colored bills being bleached or otherwise having the coloring "cleaned" off them and recirculated.It is worse than bitcoin. Bitcoin is legal to use as basically any other security so as long as it has some value on the legal market, and it seems it has, it can be laundered.
Of course if someone did manage to bleach the coloring of the bills it would be possible. But I thought the idea is that the color is basically the same composition as the print, so any bleach that affects the coloring will bleach the print as well, leaving a blank paper. So they'd have to print it back on, which would still result in counterfeit money, though probably fairly difficult to detect.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Money still intact
Weren't there supposed to be this mechanism that sprays the money with ink or something, rendering it useless?
I mean, there's always one or two idiots, but you'd think a couple cases would be enough to deter any further fuckery. Unless they can disable the thing. Or maybe it just doesn't work very well to begin with?
Yeah, together with people selling "cleaning agents" to clean the coloring off of them. Of course, that was a scam.
Only a scam? I'd expect that to be an operation by the cops.
I think it would fall foul of entrapment according to Swedish law, but IANAL.
It shouldn't. The people wouldn't commit any crime by the act of buying the scam cleaning agent, they would just lead the cops on their trace.
Cleaning colored bills is a crime, so selling cleaning agents for that purpose would probably fall under entrapment. But like I said, IANAL.
There was also rumblings here about colored money being used in criminal circles for buying services of the shadier sort for a while.
I doubt that given the money basically can't be laundered, in either sense of the word.
No worse than bitcoin.
It's kinda hard finding any information on it, since in 2014 there was a glut of reports about colored bills being bleached or otherwise having the coloring "cleaned" off them and recirculated.It is worse than bitcoin. Bitcoin is legal to use as basically any other security so as long as it has some value on the legal market, and it seems it has, it can be laundered.
Of course if someone did manage to bleach the coloring of the bills it would be possible. But I thought the idea is that the color is basically the same composition as the print, so any bleach that affects the coloring will bleach the print as well, leaving a blank paper. So they'd have to print it back on, which would still result in counterfeit money, though probably fairly difficult to detect.
From the reports I found, it's fairly apparent, because the base colors of the bill is also bleached or discolored. But there are people that will charge you a % for the colored bills for cleaning them, so they probably do have a value among criminals, but that value must be lower than the % that those people charge, I guess.
I haven't been very connected to the underbelly of society in decades so I can't really say what's actually true.Well, bitcoin is pretty worthless as well. Not illegal though. I don't think that it's illegal to have colored bills, just to use them from what I can get by trawling through documents. Though I'd suspect that you'd get very closely inspected if you're found with any amount of them.