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I found it hard to believe no major motion picture was ever shot in the Dominican Republic. According to a quick search, The Godfather Part 2, Jurassic Park, Apocalypse Now, and Miami Vice all had filming locations in DR

He did a great job in that all-white remake of The Color Purple

Evil Kingstevel

Could somebody please stop J’Biden

Yes. What I was trying to say is that MP3 players were the first media player that you could have a ton of different artists music on. Yeah there were mix tapes and mix cds but it wasnt as easy as mp3s made it to have so much music in one player. Having to physically change a cd, or an actual album, made it more likely for people to listen to larger sections of entire albums before changing artists.

Once people could have the diversity of the radio (or a giant mix tape) but with the press of a button we ended up kind of killing off the point of making a cohesive album. All attention is focused on individual tracks now more than ever. It was a slow death though that incrementally progressed alongside technology

I think both types of listening have their place. Especially when listening to music from the era when music was made with the intention of it being heard as an album in its entirety. Like literal albums is a method of playback where you are typically listening to at least a whole side of the album, you wouldnt be skipping around. CD players even you were likely to listen to more than one song of the album, just because it would require changing the CD vs letting it play.

Most music made after the proliferation of MP3s isnt really made in that same vein. Usually at most you get the “concept album” or something where an artist delves into a particular type of music. Those are still cohesive albums, but it’s also very different from something that is literally more or less one piece of music a la Dark Side of the Moon or something like that.

Most modern albums are more of a collection of songs at best, and they may not have much similarity or relevance to each other. Take the Black Keys for instance. They mostly do albums by genre that they want to try making. So the songs have a related sound, but listening to them is more like picking out whatever you like and would want to hear again. I wouldnt listen to the album straight through other than the first time I hear it. They songs aren’t connected in an important way other than being the same genre

Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.

To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.

“Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.

Obvious Pump & Dump Sees Investor Slump, more at 11

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Just for air quality and nothing else, I prefer PurpleAir

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CGI’d the nipples right off that man

Classical pirates had more legal justification for what they were doing than this, since they operated in a grey area. This is just flagrantly illegal

Can I lick it? (Yes, you can)

In the DR, especially in Santo Domingo, there are a lot of Norfolk Island Pine trees / Araucaria. They are the only conifers that can exist there at sea level, so they look super out of place surrounded mostly by palm trees and other tropical plants

They look exactly like the fake cell phone tower trees (photo below of them somewhere else), but they are actually real. Really threw me for a loop seeing them when I was there

There are only so many data centers, so by hiking their rates 30% then they were able to reduce the already paid rate of probably 1.5M households by 1.3%. They didnt increase everyones rates 30% and then reduce it to 28.7% for the residential customer.

1.3% is pretty significant when youre talking about over a million accounts. Data centers use a ton of energy but thats a handful of accounts by comparison (or literally)

Mechanics are expensive, but buying enough equipment to do any kind of major job is even moreso. Not to mention the cost of trying to do complicated jobs without technical expertise, which could cost you a lot if you make a mistake.

Im all for doing work myself when its within reason and doesnt require much in the way of specialized tools. But theres more than a few reasons that mechanics cost a lot of money. Expertise is expensive, labor is expensive, equipment is expensive, etc. Some things are best left to professionals. Unfortunately we are long past the time of cars that are truly simple for the average person to maintain or learn to do work on

Yeah, I really appreciated having the visual workload done for me in watching the movie. The book was so good I read it in 2 days, then watched the movie.

The movie does a really good job and is visually stunning, but of course they couldnt do a fully faithful adaptation of the book. Making the book into a movie detail for detail would have easily been a 4 hour plus movie. I appreciated that they had little unexplained easter eggs to reference parts of the book they didnt have time for, like showing the names on the beetles before they launched. Sad the movie missed out on that killer Pete Best joke tho

Really hoping this success gives them the motivation they need to actually make the Artemis movie

Its important to remember that human bodies are effectively an environment unto themselves, and that there really isnt a distinct “you” and then other things like this.

For example, there are trillions upon trillions more cells of bacteria on/in you than there are human cells. Every person’s overall existence is composed primarily of stuff that isnt technically “you”, although it is inseparable from you. While people’s bodily ecology can be modified, you couldnt possibly remove every quasi-foreign substance from yourself and still survive.

Its part of why seemingly horrific stuff like fecal transplants can be very helpful. If youve cultivated a very mean ecology for one reason or another then resetting that to a healthier state is essential. Its like the gut version of you being a country suffering from unrest. But even though we think of negative or positive bacteria as being totally distinct from us, we are strongly defined by those bacteria. It affects your brain and emotions far more than most people realize. Scientists are still just beginning to understand the complexities of these systems, too.

These little dudes I would assume are a similar situation. They probably have some form of essential symbiosis with us that we may not even understand yet. Killing them off would likely be bad. And even if you did, you would be creating a vacuum that could be filled by something worse. Our bodies are fertile ground for such tiny individuals. Better to have benign ones or helpful ones than it is to have bad ones

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