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    Favourite albums of the last 10 years?

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    Nils Frahm - Music for Animals

    Tyler, The Creator - Call Me if You get Lost

    Charles Bradley - Black Velvet: Stripped-Down Mixes - EP (kinda cheating but...)

    Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass

    Carter Burwell - The Banshees of Inisherin (Original Score)

    Those are the only full albums I've bought the last 10 years, haha

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    Social Media's Effects On Our Minds & Lives

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    14 minutes ago, chenGOD said:

    Finally pulled the plug on twitter. What a festering shithole. No matter how hard I tried to train my algorithm to give me music and football, I kept getting vile shit, most recently some Hitler apologetics.

    Anyways, done with it.

    I only check the "Following" tab. That way I only get tweets from people I follow. But to be honest, I've recently stopped checking Twitter excessively as I used to do and now I only check BlueSky.

    YouTube on the other hand keeps trying to get me to watch videos of horrible ambient producers. Bleep bloop with tons of reverb.

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    Elon Musk's Starman - Is this shit real wtf

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    23 hours ago, EdamAnchorman said:

    https://jalopnik.com/a-tiktoker-got-trapped-inside-her-115-degree-tesla-mode-1851404777

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    Tesla Model 3 Traps TikToker Inside 115-Degree Car During A Software Update

    Tesla warns owners that opening their doors or windows while installing a software update could damage the vehicle, so she stayed put

    A TikToker got locked inside of her Tesla Model 3 for 40 minutes in the hot sun while it was installing a software update, and as of this writing her video has over 10.7 million plays after a single day of being online. Before you go jumping to conclusions about her ineptitude, Brianna Janel was actually following the rules laid out by Tesla.

    According to the Tesla owner’s manual, “Vehicle functions, including some safety systems and opening or closing the doors or windows, may be limited or disabled when installation is in progress and you could damage the vehicle.” Janel chose to heed Tesla’s warning and did not attempt to open her doors or windows during the installation process for fear of damaging her vehicle, but this seems like a very dangerous oversight on Tesla’s part that she was able to be stuck inside at all.


    The door mechanisms on the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y are electrically operated, and under normal circumstances are opened from the inside using a simple button to unlatch the door. Should the vehicle have no power, these models do have auxiliary manual cable release levers also found on the door panel, but Tesla warns against using the manual mechanism, citing that it should only be used when the car has no power. Janel said she was aware of this option but didn’t want to risk damaging her car, and she felt confident that she could stick out the heat.


    In contrast to Tesla’s potentially dangerous warnings, Lucid Motors requires all occupants to exit the vehicle before the installation process begins, and the Lucid Air owners manual states that owners will not be able to lock or unlock the doors during an update. The Air will start a two-minute countdown when an owner chooses to install an update, giving them enough time to get out prior to the update beginning.

    The Tesla owners manual states that the car will not initiate a software update if Keep Climate mode, Dog Mode, Sentry Mode or Camp Mode are engaged, but it fails to require vehicle occupants to exit the vehicle before the debilitating installation process begins. Tesla also recommends owners install software updates as soon as possible, which could cause some owners to feel obligated to initiate an update in a compromised environment.


    Janel said her car estimated the install would only take 24 minutes, but it actually took 40 minutes, which was long enough for her car’s interior to reach 115 degrees. In a follow-up video, her caption states that she was afraid to mess up her car by getting out during the installation. She claims to have owned a Tesla for six years, and she said she will continue to own her car for many years, despite this experience.


    Tesla needs to either require that all occupants exit the vehicle before beginning a software install, or at least alter its verbiage to prevent incidents like this from occurring, especially as we approach a summer with higher global temperatures than ever before. If someone living in a town like Phoenix, Arizona or Las Vegas, Nevada were to face the same situation, it could pose a more serious health risk. If there are any Tesla owners reading, please make sure you are not parked in direct sunlight when you initiate a software update if you are going to remain in the car.

     

    Thank god, it was just a TikToker and not a real human-being.

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    I was stuck with a bunch of people I didn't know yesterday. All of them a lot younger than me and my girlfriend. All the girls knew each other whereas the men had never met. I can usually talk to pretty much anyone, but these people were the biggest challange I had ever faced.

    At one point I ask one of the guys, "So, what do you do?". I know it's not the most exciting question, but hey... I had to break the ice in some way.
    His response, and I shit you not, was, "I'm a consultant at a company".

    And that was it.
    He didn't add anything to that line, so I had to say, "buddy, you're going to have to elaborate on that". And so he did by saying, that he would consult companies about various issues they're facing.

    I gave up and asked the next guy the same question and his response was, "I work for an online store".

    Jesus Christ. All this tasteless Ed Sheeran crap and TikTok has really fried these people's minds.

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    8 hours ago, ignatius said:

    oof. send them a message and walk it back or tell them you just committed to something for a certain amount of time or whatever... it's a fine line of obvious bullshit vs. a convincing story.. but the other option is to fess up and tell them you spoke w/o thinking and are obligated to hold up your end for other clients.  you never know.. they could say "Well, we're prepared to offer you $1 billion and a foosball table" 

    Yeah, that's a pretty good idea actually.
    My guess is they'll either get back to me and say they can offer me 3 days a week, which I won't say yes to, because I know that in this line of work 3 days quickly becomes 5 days. And I'm not working 5 days a week for 3 days pay. Also, I don't think profitable to hire me full time. Without going into too much detail, I don't think it would be profitable for them to hire me anyway. I know they use me quite a lot, but that only sums up to about 5-6 months per year.

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    15 minutes ago, J3FF3R00 said:

    I feel you, dude. Freelancing for a good client has the perfect balance of commitment/non-commitment. You never have to worry about being “fired” and things getting more uncomfortable than them finding someone else. However, full time is full time. Benefits can be great. But they own you. 
     

    The biggest problem is that I would have to tell all my clients that I'm no longer available. And then what happens if it doesn't work out working full time for these guys? I would have to come crawling back to my old clients and ask if they're still interested in using me.
    Another thing I didn't think about... in about 6 months time I'll find out if a show I worked on will be picked up for a second season. Working on that first season was the best experience ever.

    I really should learn to keep my mouth shut.

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    Hm, I'm in a bit of a pickle.
    I was in a meeting with my best clients. The stuff I do for them is so much fun.

    We were chit-chatting and they mentioned that there was more stuff around the corner and they would tell me more at a later point. I then opened my mouth and without thinking said, "Let me know if you ever need a full time sound designer". They went quiet, looked at each other, and after a couple of seconds one of them said, "hm... interesting...".

    Fuck. Why did I say that? I didn't even consider what I was saying and I didn't consider how they would react. The team lead is already checking up on if it's possible to hire me and I don't think I want this.
    Even though it's tough as fuck being a freelancer - especially since having a kid - I still love it. I hope this doesn't work out, haha. Fuck.

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    Favourite YouTube Videos

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    10 hours ago, Nebraska said:

     

     

    I need context. From what I read on Youtube the guy in the blue t-shirt cheated on the plastic thing on the left, right?
    You know what... actually. I don't need context. Fuck, I hate the internet so much now, man.

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    TWIN PEAKS

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    https://theplaylist.net/snootworld-david-lynch-netflix-caroline-thompson-20240408/

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    Well, well, maybe David Lynch hasn’t “retired” from filmmaking after all. The iconic surreal filmmaker declared in 2017 that he would never make another film again, the same year his Showtime series, “Twin Peaks: The Return” aired. While the director seemed to change his tune vaguely over the years, hinting at a new project in 2020, since 2017, the filmmaker has not released anything significant ever since. And while there were false reports in 2022 that he had a new film ready at Cannes, those rumors were very fake. One element might’ve been confirmed, however. The director had been rumored to be cooking up some kind of project at Netflix over the years, and we finally may know what it is. However, Netflix isn’t making it.

    In a new interview with Deadline, Lynch revealed that he did have a project in the works at the streaming giant. Called” Snootworld,” it’s an old, unmade animated project from years ago that Lynch evidently revived in secret (here’s a brief mention of it in a Daily Beast article from 2009). It’s a collaboration with screenwriter Caroline Thompson, writer of quirky fairytale-like projects including “The Corpse Bride,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Edward Scissorhands,” and the live-action feature film “The Addams Family.”

    A film affectionally referred to a “wackdoo” fairytale story, apparently Netflix eventually passed on the project.

    “I don’t know when I started thinking about Snoots, but I’d do these drawings of Snoots, and then a story started to emerge,” Lynch told Deadline in a rare interview about his unmade animated project. “I got together with Caroline, and we worked on a script. Just recently, I thought someone might be interested in getting behind this, so I presented it to Netflix in the last few months, but they rejected it.”

    READ MORE: David Lynch’s Main Requirement For Doing ‘Fabelmans’ Was A Bag Of Cheetos: “Any Chance I Can, I Get Them”

    Given this was “in the last few months,” it’s unclear if this Netflix project was the one Lynch was rumored to be developing circa 2020.

    Lynch acknowledged the uphill battle ‘Snootworld’ faces in the current animation landscape. 

    “‘Snootworld’ is kind of an old-fashioned story, and animation today is more about surface jokes,” he explained. “Old-fashioned fairytales are considered groaners: apparently, people don’t want to see them. It’s a different world now, and it’s easier to say no than to say yes.”

    This candid take still makes us curious about what could have been too far out there for Netflix, given they don’t always seem as discerning with other greenlights. 

    “It takes my breath away how wacky it is,” Thompson added, “The Snoots are these tiny creatures who have a ritual transition at age eight, at which time they get tinier, and they’re sent away for a year, so they are protected. The world goes into chaos when the Snoot hero of the story disappears into the carpet, and his family can’t find him, and he enters a crazy, magnificent world.”

    Lynch and Thompson co-wrote “Snootworld” together, and the filmmaker is now seeking financial backers to help make it after the streaming giant has moved on. However, Lynch hasn’t decided if he’ll direct it, after telling Deadline in their interview that he had hoped that his daughter, Jennifer Lynch (“American Horror Story”), could potentially do it.

    We’ll keep our fingers crossed that something materializes to push the project across the finish line, as more movies from Lynch, wackadoo or not, are completely fine with us.

     

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