Sergio

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There’s a 1957 romantic comedy movie with a subplot about reference librarians feeling threatened that a computer will take over their jobs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk_Set

Yeah, Jane Austen’s easily one of the top 20 English novelists of all time, and one of my personal favorites. She gets kind of a mixed appreciation these days bc the movies made from her novels usually focus on the romance (often in a way that would have scandalized her) and skimp on her commentary about human nature and society’s pressures. And plus her prose is just gorgeous and that is difficult to adapt to film. Probably the best adaptation is the BBC 1980 Pride and Prejudice miniseries ( wikipedia , tubi ) which was adapted by Fay Weldon, who was a novelist in her own right. That miniseries turns a lot of Austen’s prose into dialogue, which is beautiful to hear in that context, though as a consequence the series is a little slow for a wide modern audience. Really you have to read the books themselves.

Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Middlemarch is imho one of the best novels ever written in the English language.

So you’re saying “No TRUE fascist”, huh?

ojala escribes un cancion de metal despues de hacerlo.

check out these feeds of Lemmy communities:

• memes and humor (not focused on politics or tech): https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent
• general (not focused on memes, politics, or tech): https://piefed.social/f/highsignal

Sounds like you’re ready to listen to The Naught.

“The dead know only one thing: it’s better to be alive.” -Full Metal Jacket

Team Rocket would!

Pull the couch out from the wall a couple inches and lay a blanket up there and I bet you could fit a couple more cats.

bawk

Dang, I didn’t even notice. I’ma spell it that way from now on. I won’t bawk at doing so!

Hmm… maybe you need to negotiate a deal first. Tell them you’ll give them a treat in exchange for a recording, then let them think about it for a while.

Oh yeah but it’s ok when humans install a fascist government just bc they can’t stock their fridge completely full. (/jk) (kinda…)

I totally would hang with your cat! I might even record him and put him over an industrial beat.

And yet the somehow charge more for it.

seguro esta protegido por el Diablo, quien le dice: “I like your style!”

ikr being a public figure and leading a high-stress life seems pretty hellish tbh.

I love playing lil hypothetical games like that.

There is a hypothetical set of actions that, if I had taken them last year, would have made me a million dollars. So I just lost a million dollars.

If I took the knowledge in a current human biology textbook and rearranged it in just the right way, I’d come up with the secret to immorality. So I have a chance at immortality but will fail at it.

I could go up to any person and, in theory, have just the right conversation with them to get them to do pretty much anything I wanted. But I don’t know that conversation to have. I have lost control of the world, of which I could have been master.