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I think they came off flat and lifeless because of comically bad directing by George Lucas, and a weak script. Not because of CGI.

Those movies could have been SO much better with an improved script and the kind of performances that you'd expect from the star studded cast they'd assembled.

Rosie the Riveter? And she was fictional.

Other than that, it's some home improvement personalities I think.

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

You have no idea what the internal construction is of that cable and neither do I.

Those are peripherals, not host devices. By "computing device" I mean a phone or laptop capable of USB host mode. Typically they are released at (or near) the fastest current USB spec available.

The common case is the other way around. Host devices that only have USB-C, with legacy USB devices being plugged in via adapter.

They're the only computing device manufacturer in the past decade that's released a USB-C device at forced legacy 2.0 speeds, so it was a reasonable assumption.

If it didn't support backwards compatibility to classic USB via an adapter, it wouldn't be very Universal, would it? Orphaning billions of devices isn't considered a win, unless you're a device company that routinely cashes in on planned obsolescence.

You have no idea how many users I've run into in the real world who are convinced that USB-C is a 2.0 protocol because their "new phone" is nerfed to 2.0 speeds, regardless of cable. Maybe you're not aware of how people talk about this as they pine for their lost Lightning connector?

Who knows how this particular cable is constructed? It certainly doesn't say. Also, that still doesn't imply that *USB-C itself* is limited to 2.0 speeds, which is the assertion I was originally responding to.

I literally asked the question because the statement I was responding to indicated that all USB-C was limited to 2.0 speeds, which is absolutely not the case.

Hahahaha imagine being a person that keeps a tightly notated list of every single person that's ever disagreed with a minor technical claim online. I can't.

It's a "weird axe" to recognize that a hardware manufacturer releasing an intentionally nerfed handset is bad for consumers?

That cable will likely do 5 Gbps or 10 Gbps when attached to a non-Apple device. The speed is governed by the device chipsets, not the passive cable. The cable just needs to be of sufficient quality.

Except it doesn't. Or wait do you mean the Apple thing? That's because Apple is a terrible company run almost exclusively by lawyers. There's no problem with USB-C itself, it does either 20 Gbit or 40 Gbit depending on devices and cable.

What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

Ukraine answered our call for help after the 9/11 attacks and deployed 5,000 soldiers despite not being in NATO.
18 Ukrainian soldiers perished.
Russia paid bounties to the Taliban for every US soldier they killed.
Let's not ever mistake who our friends and enemies are.

YouTube video by Farm to Taber "Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?

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DHS’s Neo-Nazi Memes Show the Agency for What It Is From the beginning, the Department of Homeland Security has downplayed the threat of white nationalism while focusing its law enforcement power on groups it deems a threat to an imaginary ideal America.

The message behind this ICE recruitment drive is so casually cruel that it seems like there must be more to it than just some guys got hired at DHS to riff on ideas from white nationalist accounts.

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Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dism...

Yes, the future of the United States government was very much influenced by the decisions of a 23-year-old from Lincoln, Nebraska. But there is much more to the Luke Farritor story. One of @jacobfeldman.bsky.social & @dvnjr.bsky.social's top picks via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Trump remains a clear and present danger to democracy, and seizing control of the election process remains the most direct path to authoritarianism.

https://trib.al/JTUFFz1

I think what you mean is that we never shed the poisonous UK class system. The wealthy families that dominated the economy of the Colonies embraced it both before and after the Revolution, and intentionally built institutions to serve their own interests.

Jeffries is >< this close to getting it

The filings seem to indicate this is at 1331 Maryland, which is an absurdly swanky executive apartment building. The only units even close to that price are 3 BR + den, and are more than 3k sqft. Would be cheaper to actually buy a brownstone in Capitol Hill.

Verizon Wants Trump To Kill Phone Unlocking. Consumer Groups Say That Will Drag U.S. Wireless Back To The Stone Age

With the Trump administration openly destroying whatever is left of U.S. federal corporate oversight, regulatory independence, and consumer protection standards, Verizon sees an…

“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.” The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.

“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart."

During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:

Hey Dems, you stand no chance of taking back control by timidly NOT BEING TRUMP. Your polls are in the toilet. Milquetoast doesn't sell. Take a lesson from MAMDANI instead of trying to kneecap him: have ideas, be creative, exude empathy and energy, know what people want and need, make things happen.

Imagine if banks could just make it a "policy" that financial regulators weren't allowed to visit them or ask questions. That's basically what ICE has done here. It's laughably illegal.

As someone who I suspect is much closer to these issues than you are, what you are claiming is grossly untrue. It's a big lie with a kernel of truth, which is that the grant funding does pass through US-based NGOs who coordinate and implement the work. But that work is done apolitically.