I saw the film at a screening where the audience was majority Asian (or at least nonwhite), and it got a big laugh. Personally I didn’t even realize that character was supposed to be Bruce Lee.

When do you start counting up to 50? Complex telegraphic networks date to the 18th century, inventors experimented with cars and airplanes throughout the 19th century, and pop culture anticipated something like radio and tv in the late 19th century as well.

When do you start counting up to 50? Complex telegraphic networks date to the 18th century, inventors experimented with cars and airplanes throughout the 19th century, and pop culture anticipated something like radio and tv in the late 19th century as well.

It’s funny how often the idea of ‘panic’ comes up in narratives about the disaster. In Lawrence Beesley’s account he keeps on emphasizing how calm people were - and when he reaches the point where there were a large number of people dying in the water, he explicitly declines to describe it. Besides wanting to comfort…

You mean the US should beam the Wifi to Iran? That, if nothing else, would certainly cause WW3.

VPNs also are blocked - from the article it seems that after the internet is blocked there will be no infrastructure whatsoever that could wire Iran to the outside world.

The chances of that happening are less than zero.

Cute title image. Who's Ashley?

Maybe Facebook has hired matchmakers who're going to connect ppl who seem to have mutual crushes?

Somehow I doubt that in 100 years ppl will still be building their houses in the 20th-century modern style.

Salt water?

I wonder what kind of resolution raw film from mid century has compared to our SDs and HDs and UHDs.

Your grandkids who will take 100% realism for granted will think you're crazy, though.

Ah, but with a higher pixel density you wouldn't have to watch TV at a distance, and things like HDMI would suddenly become much more useful - On an 8K 50 inch TV you can probably display a full magazine without any loss of quality.

And to make it even worse diamonds could be grown in labs - its a scam to no real purpose.

So do I, but then I remember that in a few years ppl will think the exact same about me.

Well, considering that those who are younger than the baby boomers are going to spend their senior years in a time with much better health care, its a worthy trade-off. I personally will be 97 in 2088, which isn't that far off from 2100.

I used to argue on the internet all the time ... until I argued on Facebook with people I knew, using practically the same rhetoric I'd have used if we were anonymous. It was terrible, of course. Don't do that anymore.

Actually the term 'metaphor' is frequently used as an umbrella term for comparisons/allusions/symbols/etc. Things could be described as 'metaphoric' but never 'similaic'.

Hmm.