Bean

[fresh @fauxfresh]

couldn’t tell you nothing about this show other than i loved it

[Bean @enderbean123456]

@MarrieIzzy @ClaireMax they are trying to keep details simple in their minds so that they can more easily self insert.Since by not reading the main characters thoughts a lot of them just take the dialog and backfill characters motivations based on the dialog they had versus undersing their motivations.

[Bean @enderbean123456]

@MarrieIzzy @ClaireMax A lot of the book reviewers who mention only reading the dialog seem to be reading books that lean more towards romance/erotica so I think they avoid mediums like graphic novels because they don't want to see the adult images. Plus the way they discuss the books it almost like

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

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[The Little Platoon @PlatoonPod]

There's a bit in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (written in 1979) where the heroes come upon an intergalactic flight has been grounded for thousands of years.

Its automated systems told it not to launch until it was fully stocked up with lemon-soaked paper napkins, for the comfort of its passengers. But the surrounding civilization collapsed, and the napkins never arrived.

Consequently it put all the passengers into hibernation (waking them once every few hundred years for coffee and biscuits) until such time as another civilization might arise, and restock its lemon-soaked paper napkins.

The Guide is a more accurate and prophetic account of modernity than most Very Serious Science Fiction writers could dream of creating.

[Bean @enderbean123456]

@deathbyfaerie @ohdangitsmimi If he was doing it to pass the time when he pooped I could easily see you not being aware even if he is doing it 3-5 a week. For a lot of guys it can just be something to pass the time versus an uncontrollably sexual urges thing. Personally when I am stressed it helps me sleep.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Steven Spielberg cast John Goodman as Fred Flintstone by ambushing him during the first script read-through for another movie. Goodman later said he felt he couldn't refuse. The Flintstones grossed $341 million and won Worst Screenplay at the Razzies.

The casting got weirder. Danny DeVito was Spielberg's first pick for Barney Rubble. DeVito turned the role down and suggested Rick Moranis. Jim Henson's crew, the people behind the Muppets, built the puppets: Dino, the talking bird, and the pig used as a garbage disposal. The digital dinosaurs came from the team behind Jurassic Park. The director, a lifelong Flintstones fan, voiced the pig himself.

The casting was the calm part. Spielberg's production company bought the rights in the late 80s and trashed every existing script. Director Brian Levant pulled in his friends from sitcoms like Happy Days and Family Ties. Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, who wrote Splash and City Slickers, reportedly got $100,000 for two days of work. By the end, around 35 writers had passed through the project. Rick Moranis thought there had been 18. The real number was nearly double.

McDonald's ran a summer "RocDonald's" campaign for the movie, one of the first two worldwide marketing programs in company history. The other was the 1994 World Cup. Frito-Lay, Tetley tea in the UK, and a Flintstones video game all paid for separate tie-ins. MTV broadcast its weekday dance show, The Grind, from the movie's Bedrock set the week of release.

The Flintstones opened Memorial Day weekend 1994 and broke the four-day box office record, beating Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It held the top spot for two weeks before Speed knocked it out, and grossed seven times its $46 million budget. Critics destroyed it anyway. Rotten Tomatoes settled at 22%. Joseph Barbera, who co-created the original cartoon and even appeared in the movie, later said the story "wasn't as good as I could have made it." The Razzies handed out Worst Screenplay to 32 of the writers. Not one showed up.

[Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc @JasonKPargin]

You will absolutely not be prepared for the logo that flashes at the end of this drone combat video

[Michael Smerconish @smerconish]

What was Ted Turner really like behind the scenes? Media titan John Malone, Ted's friend of 50 years, joins Michael Smerconish to remember the CNN founder and reflect on Turner’s lasting influence on television, journalism, and cable news. Watch the full 30 minute interview here: https://t.co/yLd4rhqiaK

[Anonymous @newsweathertraf]

@Carterthe_Great Ted Turner is the reason Iron Giant is a well known movie. It flopped in theatres but Ted loved it and decided to play it very often on his stations where it became a classic.

[•☽°❀•allie•❀°☾• @AllieTheEditor]

@Todd_Spence you can watch the entire performance https://t.co/oeDmTRPiUH

[Bean @enderbean123456]

@TiffaniMarie483 I always like "Take a deep breath. I can't understand you." Since I gives them something to do/focus on and tells them a problem they need to fix. Which tends to take their mind away from the issue causing the freak out.

[Nate Igor Smith @drivenbyboredom]

Kodak made a new point & shoot camera and I wrote a review of it featuring a bunch of completely unedited NSFW photos because I love you and I think it's a great entry point into film photography and I am gonna keep shooting with it. https://t.co/HGew32dBf7

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

In Bärnau, Bavaria, in 2024 a young student architect (Julius Schönberger, 23 at the time) built a series of homes using only natural materials and with techniques handed down from Romans and medieval craftsmen. The idea was to trial methods to create contemporary homes with modern comforts using local materials and skills (the majority of the necessary labor can come from completely unskilled people). Hemp, lime, clay, wood etc. Electricity has been installed, as well as a modern pellet heater rather than fireplaces, and some of the traditional roofs have been extended to provide more space for future solar panels. The design was completely informed by the materials and the local climate, as it always was before plastics and the ideology of modernism.

An interesting discovery was that the building process itself generated no garbage at all. All natural insulation easily cleared modern codes and the buildings generate less waste, pollution and CO₂ than any single part of a home built with modern materials. I am looking forward to following this project to create a method to build homes for 500 years and that break the destructive teardown and rebuild business model that is currently ruining both us and nature.

[Bean @enderbean123456]

@ChristinaTasty So you either has sex killers or really fucked up demons

[Bean @enderbean123456]

@ChristinaTasty So any models that are supposed to reference the non-sexy aspects don't fit your expectation of what is Slaaneshi. Honestly I always felt like they should have either backed off representing the other aspects or turned up the demon aspect to represent them.

[Bean @enderbean123456]

@omgsidewalks If you have to take something apart always take pictures as you do it. Makes it so much easier to put back together.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[Bean @enderbean123456]

@roleandtell @mhp_guy Especially when cyber trucks have a history of their tow hitch literally cracking off from the cast aluminum chassis. Since the aluminum ends up having a lower failure weight then the hitch.