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byequivocal
2026 @03:42PM
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Attached to: Batman TV Series Premiered 60 Years Ago Today
Just streamed a movie with Burt Ward playing a part. It had other famous names: Swayze, Travolta...but not the ones that first spring to mind.
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byequivocal
04, 2025 @03:51PM
(#65836049)
Attached to: The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
I fully expect discs themselves to outlast the mechanisms needed to read them. Initially machines can be strung along with accessible repairs (replacing belts that reverted to crude oil, replacing bad capacitors) but eventually something vital and unavailable goes.
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byequivocal
2025 @01:12PM
(#65826521)
Attached to: Officials Clashed in Investigation of Deadly Air India Crash
One of the purposes of the CVR in recording all cockpit sound is to capture the sound(s) of switches and controls being manipulated. If the cutoff switches make a sound, the CVR should have recorded it. But teasing what's likely a subtle sound out of the noise won't be easy.
In regard to intermittent wiring problems I'll point to the Dali where a single mis-inserted wire eventually triggered a series of events which resulted in 6 deaths and the destruction of the Key bridge.
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byequivocal
05, 2025 @01:19PM
(#65775388)
Attached to: Australia Introduces 'Landmark' Streaming Content Quotas
Time to see <i>Hammersley</i> in action...fighting off the US Navy as it invades the Heard & McDonald Islands to make those fucking penguins pay that 10,000% tariff.
And more <i>My Cloudy Drovers</i> because no matter how many cast changes there are, somehow there is an infinite supply of daughters.
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byequivocal
15, 2025 @12:59PM
(#65726938)
Attached to: 'Save Our Signs' Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs
Libs invaded and are making a big stink about changing the name of Fort Bragg, CA. What amazes me is that there are [at least] two places, on opposite sides of the country, named for the exact same obscure US Army officer (and later, Confederate general and slave owner). I hope they rename it Fort Woke, CA.
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byequivocal
4, 2025 @11:47AM
(#65703130)
Attached to: The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
The great thing about The Great Gatsby is that the 10,000 year copyright finally expired. The National Politics Radio (NPR) economics team recorded an audiobook version to celebrate. Kept falling asleep...still don't know what it's about.
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byequivocal
01, 2025 @01:57PM
(#65696112)
Attached to: Boeing Has Started Working on a 737 MAX Replacement
I'd wondered why there were 2 stab switches but only 1 thing done.
Didn't see it in the wikipedia, but IIRC there was a delay of 8 (maybe 3) seconds after a pilot used the trim thumbswitch on the yoke before MCAS would resume trying to kill everyone. So there was a path out of MCAS deathwish: keep tapping the trim switch on the yoke in intervals less than the delay, or use the thumbswitch to power the trim into desired position then turn the stab switches off. Neither procedure was documented, as that would have been admitting to the existence of MCAS, triggering more retraining.
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byequivocal
9, 2025 @01:02PM
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Attached to: Million-Year-Old Skull Rewrites Human Evolution, Scientists Claim
Just a blank page.
(There is a noscript element to make sure they hit googletagmanager, which gets blocked by privoxy.)
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18, 2025 @11:29AM
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Attached to: Is TV's Golden Age (Officially) Over? A Statistical Analysis
Wasn't <i>Gunsmoke</i> running 2 new episodes a week for some period?
Somewhat amusing that back in the day UK actors lived in dread that their 6-12 episode/year series would get imported to the US and it's 26 episode treadmill. How can a real actor play the same character more than a dozen times a year? But now with streaming these short British length runs are the norm.
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r 10, 2025 @02:24PM
(#65651574)
Attached to: Reuters Withdraws Xi, Putin Longevity Video After China State TV Pulls Legal Permission To Use It
<quote>both xi and putin regularly have approval ratings that western leaders could only dream of,</quote>
Caught on the next hot mike...
Xi: My approval rating is 100%.
Putin: Mine is 110%.
Trump: Mine is 1500%
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byequivocal
5, 2025 @03:22PM
(#65641822)
Attached to: Ultra-Processed Foods - It's Time For an Improved Definition
Mastication is processing; therefore a purist must swallow their food whole. If it is a plant, it must still be attached to the ground.
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byequivocal
2025 @11:33AM
(#65624492)
Attached to: Reading For Fun Is Plummeting In the US, and Experts Are Concerned
It's always a "good book". That's too much pressure.
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byequivocal
7, 2025 @09:40AM
(#65619032)
Attached to: Class Action Lawsuit Targets Movie Ownership
Probably the most correct phraseology would be some variant of "pay per view": "View Once for $" and "View Unlimited for $$$". Amazon's use of "Buy" means that a Prime subscriber may transfer what they "bought" to another Prime subscriber. Where is that marketplace?
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byequivocal
2025 @02:17PM
(#65560854)
Attached to: Trump Suspends Trade Loophole For Cheap Online Retailers Globally
<blockquote>...to offset the income lost from his recent tax bill</blockquote>
You continue to over-think Trump, ascribing more thought to Trump than actually exists. Trump is literally "my number is bigger than your number". That's it. No more.
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byequivocal
2025 @12:39PM
(#65527306)
Attached to: Amazon Turns 30
2000: TAoCP
Someday I may get beyond page 9.
For me, Amazon is the vendor of no choice. Maybe someday they'll go the way of the company where I learned that phrase.
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