Notices by Sam Levine (srlevine@neuromatch.social)

Oh wow, whoever on here said the soundtrack was going to be good was right. This is already interesting (in a good and different way).

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@jonny Thank you, I needed one!

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The prosthetic ears: so obviously fake, but it doesn't matter I still want them.

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Fellow people who make reports about content that harms others (and yes, it's great you do this!): your mods are people too, make sure to use the little description box along with the little generic check-y box to give them a heads up to brace themselves for things. "bigotry" and "harassment" are very broad categories, and not every mod wants to handle every topic, give them the opportunity to pass to someone else for their own mental health if necessary.

@skinnylatte I've been to diners that had a short order cook who knew what "over medium" was and that's IMO the perfect fried egg. A vanishing breed, worth their weight in gold.

Oh wait, wasn't Danae the Zeus appears as a shower of gold to impregnate her one? No wonder he wants Perseus to live, that's a pretty cool trick, gotta have the baby for proof!

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Was that "let loose the kraken?" Do we already have a wrong mythos siting?

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Was that sword a literal glowing phallic symbol?

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Ugh, no. This is not how Perseus steals the eye. The myth is way cooler & also is somewhat gross. He fits in arm between them during a pass and grabs it via trickery. And then (threatens to) squeeze it until the witches agree to tell him what he wants to know.

I should really just dip whenever anything threatens to deal with the classics, my years of latin education and somewhat competitive Certamen participation (for the first few years anyway) just can't stand this.

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So what did Danae do wrong? I thought the greeks were fans of impregnation by the gods...

(at least I'm assuming she's being put out to sea for having a kid she wasn't supposed to, but it's been a while and my mythology is a little rusty)

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@nev Mooching over here again, thank you :)

Where are people buying their cheap-ish generic stuff now that target is a no-go? I'm out of contact lens solution and that was my standard place to buy that sort of thing (and hydrocortisone cream, and claritin, and misc simialr stuff).

Also: I rarely wear them, but my eyes like the fancy bio-true (& generic) stuff so places that only stock the most basic of options aren't going to work, target always had a variety of generics for all of the big brands.

DNA data quickly. In the 1970s!?!?!?

It was all still being done by sequencing gels! Not even sanger sequencing yet, right (that wasn't invented until 1977)?

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Angel dust? When was the last time you heard a reference to PCP anyway?

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"Complex organic serum that prevents blood from clotting" You mean as simple as warfarin? This isn't hard people.

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Metallurgical cross section of a VIB group metal. Uh, what?

You aren't going to see that on your little light microscope. This isn't making any sense, cells wouldn't look that way.

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Ooo, ooo, ooo! Please tell me we're going to talk about fish & various organisms that have weird ways to avoiding being frozen! It's so cool!

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Mucus producing shells with a crystal shape. Ok normally the science in these movies doesn't bother me this much, but they are trying so hard and failing in such weird ways in this movie...

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@nev Going to mooch over here tonight, thank you!

(I started ~1 min early, thanks to whomever warned about the archive.org version having the animation at the start)

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Was that a who is buried in Grant's Tomb reference?

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