Notices by Lydia Conwell (lydiaconwell@todon.nl)

Fedi is great for learning stuff like ... um ...

Restaurant owners in the US: Hey, Gordon Ramsey! Come to my restaurant and tell me how shit the food is!

And put it on TV too!

Pleeeeeease!

So when are all our current leaders going to be arrested and questioned for their collusion in all that Epstein stuff?

#JonathanCook | The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth

"Predictably, these revelations [about Israel] are gaining almost no traction in the establishment media – the very same media whose billionaire owners and career-minded editors once courted Epstein.

Instead, the media seem much more engrossed by weaker leads that suggest Epstein might have also had connections with Russian security services."

https://archive.ph/YIUtA

#Epstein #Media #EpsteinFiles

I don't need computers

What are computers used for?

What use are computers?

I think society would work so much best if there was a kind of bank account roulette where every bank account gets switched around every week and which bank account you get is entirely random.

@dgar I'm told Sting played both parts for both movies.

After Sting has sung a song he becomes Stung

#Sting

What's your take on warmongers?

Like? Dislike?

Or do you prefer coldongers?

One of the features of buy-me-a-coffee blogging is some posts just pander to what people want to read.and this can become a problem when the subject is politics or science, I think.

If there was a gladiatorial, killing game show, you'd tell everyone you don't watch it but you totally would.

Yeah, you can watch Gladiators but surely for authenticity their battles should be a bit more lethal.

A few thoughts on #StarWars

While it is an excellent movie in many ways, I've always seen it as the weakest of the trio. I know many people hate the Ewoks but I think Jedi is a much more successful movie in terms of story telling.

The look of Star Wars is just excellent. It really stands up after all these years, although some of the computer terminals do look a bit like 60s Star Trek. But overall, it looks good and there's no doubt it was pioneering.

One part of Star Wars that bores me is the space battle as soon as they leave the Death Star. It's like a scene that was just added in at the last minute and much of it is just cuts of each character turning their head edited into the section. It's just a very very dull scene and not strictly necessary.

I also find the final battle a bit dull. This is reprised in Jedi and that battle is much better, with them having to enter the Death Star and the added temptation of Luke bit.

I think maybe the problem with the attack on the Death Star in Star Wars is that we haven't spent much time with the rebellion, so the sense of loss and achievement is diminished. And the stakes are high, but they don't feel too high.

Another thing I noticed was Peter Cushing's acting. It's very theatrical and I think he plays the part too nice.

#scifi

I think the first space battle when leaving the Death Star is, dramatically, weak. There is a push for the character to escape and it seems that's the 'pay off' point.

When the TIE fighters come, the whole sequence feels to me like it was an afterthought. I'd prefer it if they'd just escaped or maybe escaped with the TIE fighters shooting at them.

It kinda doesn't make sense that the empire would only send about four fighters to chase them. They'd have thousands on the Death Star.

I think also the 'destroy the Death Star' thing is too much of an overreach. In hindsight, the destruction should have been left until the final episode - Jedi.

You've got this incredibly powerful weapon that gets destroyed by a couple of laser balls and the force.

It's a weak way to destroy the Most Powerful Weapon Ever Created™️

I think a better ending would have been for the Rebels to see off a single attack that didn't include destroying the Death Star. Or maybe accidentally (seemingly) destroying the Death Star.

I had a dream where I was in a college or something and there were a load of us sitting on tiered seating. I was bored but no one wanted to leave. They just wanted to look at their computers.

So I left alone and next to the road, behind houses and things, there was some fields covered in hay and some teenage boy anarchist with a squeaky voice was doing some charity rap gig.

So I decided to check it out and I went up some steps and ended up on a country path and loads of people were walking up and down. I went towards the gig there ended up a group of us going.

We ended up at this manor house and the gig was in the fields behind. But we were penned in at the side of the house and we had to wait. Then eventually a fancy carriage with no horses drew up. I was thinking it was a bit too posh to go to a charity anarchist rap gig in a fancy carriage.

But someone from the manor house got out with a load of saddles and we were expected to take one and go by horse.

Then I woke up.

#dream

You know in #StarTrek, do they have giant replicators that replicate all the smaller replicators?

@steter It's chilly though 😬 @FreakyFwoof

@RickiTarr Hollywood loves ruining Santa Claus. The movies always contain adults questioning Santa's existence - in a universe where Santa exists.

So where do these adults think all the presents appear from on Christmas day?

"Ooh look! Someone broke into the house last night and left a gift for little Charlie! How nice!"

All the wars the West is involved in are taking place (or took place) in areas rich in valuable natural resources and I'm sure that's entirely a coincidence.

Is there an operating system called sOSage?