Great film, even if not the most scientifically realistic. When lockdown came, binged on this, Containment, Residue etc.
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Denmark has a quiet word with Novo Nordisk to, uh, ‘modify’ the appetite-suppressing efficacy of Ozempic/Wegovy, increasing demand for Danish eggs, butter cookies and bacon, and augmenting Denmark’s bargaining position.
And surrenders Solvang to the Danish crown.
1·20 hours ago“Give me juſt the title, not the compleate novel.”
Most of the Chinese internet from the mid-90s to ~2010 has already disappeared.
For some people, Trump has shit the bed (invasion threats, trade wars etc) and has stimulated a number of people to move away from US-controlled services and products.
3·1 day agoThey didn’t want to stump up the cash for the fines & other costs.
But there was nothing progressive about the fines the city was racking up: San Francisco’s Supreme Court win negates proposed EPA penalties in the hundreds of millions of dollars and mandatory sewer system upgrades that would cost billions and billions.
1·1 day agoEvery time you load the page, the hosts (“Provided by…”) change. Mostly.
Super Fly, by Curtis Mayfield
When it comes to Blaxploitation soundtracks, Isaac Hayes’s Shaft title track get all the attention, but it’s basically just Ike reading out the elevator pitch for the film over a riff (admittedly, one of the greatest riffs of all time), and the rest of the soundtrack doesn’t hold up nearly as well.
But Super Fly is a whole album’s worth of delving into and exposing the underbelly of life in the big city. A concept album with moving lyrics, great melodies and driving rhythms throughout.
Yes, the hip-hop & rock collaboration!
My memory of the film is not so negative, but then:
- I was a sucker for 90s action, especially with a hip-hop angle.
- It’s been three decades since I’ve seen it (but been listening to the soundtrack pretty much ever since).
My favourite mid-90s US heist movie soundtrack was Dead Presidents, a film that didn’t get a sequel but whose soundtrack album was so successful it did!
Admittedly not original compositions, more a “greatest soul hits of the 70s” compilation.
12·2 days agoThe Nazis literally took Jim Crow as inspiration for the laws they made that eventually took millions down the path to the death camps.
2·2 days agoI can’t tell if Picard is about to say “Engage”, or is playing the world’s smallest violin.
[So that they could avoid having to publicly vote for or against the “emergency” the Dear Leader is using as an excuse to impose economy-destroying tariffs]
House Republicans inserted in their measure on Tuesday declared that, “Each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day” for the purposes of the emergency that Mr. Trump declared on Feb. 1.
https://lemmy.ca/post/40490906
Me: There are 365 calendar days!
Truly, an earned death!
2·3 days agoThe last few years I lived there, my rent went up 20-25%. Every. Damned. Year.
And that was before every last oligarch, monarch, and plutocrat in the world went all in on London property to store their {#$%}-gotten gains.
2·3 days agoHopefully that ↑.
But I suspect most will be like ↓
The future of European procurement?
Interesting, thanks.
I didn’t really know anything about AT Protocol. The idea & potential of the PDS sounds great. The centralized control of the PLC directory is concerning.