It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.

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True. But I was meaning more spiritually.

If Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, Suse, etc… are the Greek Gods, then Debian and Slackware are the mythological Titans that preceded them.

Distros that come after the Greek Gods (Elementary, Manjaro, CachyOS, etc…) are basically the equivalent of every time Zeus or another god would go down to earth to have sex with a mortal and create a demigod (Hercules, Achilles, Aeneaus, etc…)

Debian’s the grand-daddy from which the others all were born.

I’ve thought about making the switch but what holds me back is stability.

I don’t mean stability from a software perspective. But from a distro perspective. Distros come and go all the time. Four or Five have stable enough support through community developers and industry sponsorships that they’ve managed to become large enough and supported enough to be considered Evergreen Distros for lack of a better word. In other words, distros where the support base is large enough to be considered “too big to fail” (Ubuntu, Mainline Arch, Manjaro, Fedora, Gentoo, etc…)

The rest eventually just fade away. I’ve always avoided distros that are maintained by a small community of enthusiasts because enthusiasm goes away really quickly once the real work of maintaining a distro rolls around.

I won’t pull the trigger on any small community project until I’m reasonably sure I’m not going to have to jump to a new project a year from now when the developers get tired of it and move on to something else.

Bitwarden.

Paid. Not because I need the added paid features, but because I value it and want to show my appreciation for the developers.

An adorable little bag of Ricin.

Actually it’s pretty clear that part of domestication for dogs was making them less intelligent.

Had a Mastiff. Can confirm.

Quokka of course.

So Hank’s head on Bobby’s Body is basically Cotton?

Is it a base within reach of Iranian drones? Pretty please…

“Risk of attack is too great…”

Ah…so the US Navy operates off the same playbook as the Uvalde police department, I see.

Like Bitch, you’re a warship. It’s literally your job to put yourself at risk during a conflict.

Precisely.

Part of the awe of watching movies (The so-called movie magic) is that at the same time as you’re in awe of the film, there’s a part of you in awe of how much collaborative work it took to create that stunt/effect/miniature, etc…

There’s no magic anymore when one can just do the same thing in Blender at home if they had enough time to learn.

Serious question, because I really don’t know. But has there ever been a precedent in any country/city/school board/whatever…, where once someone has been removed from office, their term was completely expunged, as in every decision they made, every appointment, etc… was reversed and the clock reset back to before they took office?

I’m a 50 year old man with functioning retinas…

Oh I’m not saying there isn’t skill involved. There’s obviously artistic skill involved.

But there’s already awards for that kind of thing. It’s a completely different skill set completely removed from the collaborative nature of film-making and film special effects.

One person sitting behind a computer, no matter how skilled, isn’t the same as a team working in tandem to create something awe inspiring.

Checks and balances.

I know that it’s an unpopular opinion, but I firmly believe that we were at least marginally safer when the USSR was still a superpower acting as a check on American fuckery.

Once the USSR fell, US went masks off on the international stage because they had no reason to pretend to be the good guys anymore.

They convinced all their allies to disarm themselves, and then went full “nice country here…shame if something happened to it” the moment they were the only big dog left.

The world can’t re-arm itself fast enough as far as I’m concerned.

CGI shouldn’t win cinematography or even special effects awards.

Both of those things used to be collaborative skills. Multiple people working together to make a great composition on the screen. (director, cinematographer, set designer, costumer, prop-maker, foley artist, actor, etc…)

A great shot in CGI requires a computer and rendering time. It’s not the same.

If you can do everything with a computer, than none of your special effects are special by definition.

Oh…You’ve got spiderman framed above buildings high in the sky in Into the Spider Verse? Great…cool shot…but took nothing to actually create it.

If you tell me that to get that shot you had professional stunt people doing wire work, a complex camera rig, two helicopters and high-speed camera? THAT is the special in special effect.

Made it in a computer? It’s meaningless.

Mr. Feeney from Boy Meets World

I’d bet my life that they happen everywhere in Canada, unfortunately. It’s just that Saskatoon Police are the one’s who got caught because one of their victims (Darrell Night) had the sheer audacity to survive.