Omnificer

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't recommend this if you fly very frequently, but you can take some ibuprofen or acetaminophen at the start of the flight / part way though and it should be active around the time you start getting sore.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

They reported 9.9 billion in profit for their third quarter last year, so I think 458 minutes of profit from that quarter.

I assumed 90 days in the quarter, or 129,600 minutes.

So dollar or minute wise, that comes out to a 00.35% penalty to that quarter.

Edit: Which isn't even close to the 36 minutes in that article, so I'd err on me being the wrong one.

Edit 2: I think I see the difference, I was looking at their profit, not their revenue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Sometimes I put stuff somewhere "safe". Which means I'll find it 2 years later.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I like Vesper (2022) as one of the few I know of that focuses on biological technology, and it is part of the story as opposed to a backdrop.

There's a lot of body horrror/Cronenburg stuff I like that gets close. Stuff like The Fly, Testuo the Iron Man, Videodrome, etc. But that's focused more on the "wouldn't this be fucked up?" than the exploration of biotech.

Repo Men (2010) and Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) have a strong focus on the commoditization of the human body and organs especially. Gattaca (1997) is a little similar in that genetic therapy is important to society. And The Island (2005) is centered on cloning. Of these four, I like Repo! the most, but for other reasons than its take on Biopunk.

eXistenZ (1999) is probably Cronenburg's most straight forward take of biology as technology, as opposed to just a source of horror, but I haven't actually watched this one yet.

District 9 (2009) and Akira (1988) have situations that cause massive biological change, but not centered on Biopunk in my opinion.

The Blade Runner films, despite being the posterboys of Cyberpunk film, have a lot of potential considering that at the end of the day Replicants are biological. Splice (2009) at least focuses on the actual development of new biological technology, but winds up being more of a Frankenstein tale than anything.

The Alien universe has hints of this with the Space Jockeys, xenomorphs, and androids. But it's not ubiquitous.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

In my opinion, when you prioritize money over values, it's just bigotry with more steps.

At least the end result is the same, even if the motivation is potentially different.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

The original design of that bench is an art piece protesting the commercialization of life (although it may have been implemented seriously in some place where they missed the point).

Ironically, I'd expect a person living on the street to have actual coins capable of operating the bench more often than most people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Way worse than break his neck, he outright accidentally shoots himself in the head.

And then it was insane that the zombies can magically tell if someone is specifically terminally ill and then will actively avoid them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The "recycling" in Soylent Green is due to global warming and overpopulation causing a bunch of food scarcity. It's definitely prescient in that way, but also weird in the context of the diagram.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'd never heard of Subsync before and I've just spent the last two hours fixing so many subtitles.

I'd had good results using SubtitleEdit to offset subs and set sync points before, but this tool is on another level. I might actually need to go back and use it to polish up a few subtitles that I got mostly right, but not quite.