surprised that in all the discourse about whether Nolan was going to cast Page as Achilles nobody mentioned that Achilles is canonically disguised as a woman
I had this exact conversation with an imaginary chud in my head but I don't actually talk to people who complain about this stuff, so...
That said Achilles hiding as a woman on Skyros isn't in Homer, it's a later accretion in Greek mythology, so its canonicity in an adaptation specifically of the Odyssey is debatable
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President Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on the contents of Tr
When President Donald Trump approached the podium to deliver his State of the Union address in February, one of the few people who knew what he was about to say was allegedly setting himself up to profit from the president's words.
Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on that speech and more than a dozen others on the prediction market Kalshi, federal investigators with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant to the president who has been operating Trump's teleprompter since 2016, is in talks with federal regulators to settle allegations he used his inside knowledge of the president's speeches to win more than $100,000, the sources said.
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In certain instances, investigators uncovered times when Perez would back out of certain bets mid-speech when Trump skipped over a portion of the speech that included a word he had previously bet would be mentioned, the sources said.
According to sources familiar with the investigation, Perez sat for an interview with regulators in recent months and acknowledged some of the trades. At some point during the investigation, the sources said the CFTC alerted federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who declined to open a criminal investigation.
Regulators at the CFTC have expressed a willingness to settle with Perez, and have discussed terms with him that would require Perez to give back his profits and refrain from making similar trades, according to sources familiar with the ongoing discussions.
it’s all fun and games for seattle and the bay and LA to shit on each other but when the US collapses we need to form pacifica immediately. keep your head in the game
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Since John Hammond "spared no expense", it is fair to say he picked 1GiB version at $3,598 a piece. That would give them 7 GiB of storage for a 2026 equivalent of $33,223.70. In 2026, 7 GiB of HDD would cost $0.49.
It is unclear how Jurassic Park crew got their hands on a Motorola Envoy. The movie was shot from August to November 1992. Motorola only finished the PDA in mid-1994 but delayed releasing it to February 1995[1].
EDIT : Hackernews user kalleboo solved the mystery!
The head of frogdesign (Hartmut Esslinger) ended up running into Spielberg on a plane and showed it to him. The one in the movie is an original mockup (source and discussion).
The Surfer is a Nicolas Cage fever dream but it's funny that it's so aggressively Australian when it's based on a Californian gang:
it ends up feeling like a dark satire of the Australian real estate market obsession and the Cronulla riots, never has the Australian accent sounded more obnoxious.
Was wondering why the American River, where they discovered gold in California, was called that, even though it had only been part of the United States for about fifteen seconds at that point:
During the 1820s, Jedediah Smith led an expedition to the American River with the goal of finding a safe route for colonizers across the Sierra Nevada. After a failed attempt to cross the mountains via the South Fork of the American River, Smith's group managed to cross via Ebbetts Pass on the headwaters of the Stanislaus River, becoming the first non-Natives to do so. In Smith's honor the Spanish settlers named the river Rio de los Americanos (American River).
メモ:The sign in the back reads “Frozen Foods Section,” I thought it would be nice to keep the original Japanese instead of erasing it and putting in English.
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I do appreciate Tom Cruise for showing the world exactly how long, with the perfect genes, all the money in the world, and every incentive imaginable, you can hold on to looking "well he doesn't look old really". And the answer turned out to be not quite 60.
Assuming they were telling the truth that it wasn't just your posts, what do you suppose the other reasons were for the kids throwing rocks at you?
I used to think it was because of something fundamentally wrong with me, something that everyone could somehow sense intuitively, but now that I've had years to work on myself I realize that they may have been throwing those large pebbles at me for reasons of their own. Who knows what their family lives were like? Who knows what kind of neighborhoods those kids came from? It's really a tale of system injustice I once mistakenly internalized as a personal failing. Nothing but peace and love from me from here on out brother
Assuming they were telling the truth that it wasn't just your posts, what do you suppose the other reasons were for the kids throwing rocks at you?
I used to think it was because of something fundamentally wrong with me, something that everyone could somehow sense intuitively, but now that I've had years to work on myself I realize that they may have been throwing those large pebbles at me for reasons of their own. Who knows what their family lives were like? Who knows what kind of neighborhoods those kids came from? It's really a tale of system injustice I once mistakenly internalized as a personal failing. Nothing but peace and love from me from here on out brother
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The Crusades are profoundly jarring within the much larger perspective of Roman/Byzantine history. Leave my baby girl who I don't actually like that much alone
The Normans are dicking around in some hill forts in Italy and then a century and a half later they're blowing up Constantinople with anachronistic dynamite. Sure the Romans were in like their third dotage by then, but at least "gradually getting trounced by easterners" was a venerable, historically minded way for them to go out
I guess we can be glad that the Romans did in fact go out that way. Can you imagine the legacy debates if the Roman Empire had fallen during the Fourth Crusade instead of when Constantine XI was stuffed into the world's largest cannon by Mehmed the Conqueror
Too many syllables. The likeliest outcome would be most women describing themselves as andros and most men describing themselves as gynos, which would just heighten confusion in a different way