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I used to work admin in a university, the lecturers complained Wikipedia set out all the sources so students didn't need to do any research of their own. Now AI will just *make up* sources for them instead
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The action did distract from it in the end for me too, just seems like an odd artifact to leave in
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I liked the style and loved the stories, but the animation was a bit jerky in places, like the frame rate was dropping
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If only Musk went up in one of his Mars rockets like Rush went down in his sub, but Musk doesn't seem *that* stupid
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I used to remember our old family holidays by the maps and Irish country guides that would hang about the house for ages afterwards, now it's the WiFi connections for attractions and coffee shops that hark back to the year we went to see Hook Head Lighthouse in Cork
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Shorts of food being cooked or train rides?
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Agreed, it's the ingredients, not the stick, that makes it one or the other for me
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Always a new British atrocity to learn about
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Or you might pick up someone plugging their NES into the rooftop aerial by accident
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I gave mine away and it was in the name of getting a bit of space in my house that I can fill with rare to find extra pairs of the nicest Bluetooth headphones I've found yet, coincidentally made by Sony
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Same up North, it's gone to the supreme court because it's prescriptively Christian and opting out doesn't make it easy on the kid
humanists.uk/2025/05/22/s...
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Looks like they've just popped out of the 90s
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I need to start on that, I slept on Invincible for way too long already
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If he doesn't announce himself with a "YEOOOOOOOWWW" I'll be disappointed
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My favourite is the Northern Irish guy though, who looks like he's just come from watching a World Cup qualifier in a Spoons.
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Special functions that only Dads could use
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And not just an amphetamine fuelled pulp novelist?
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Found a place like that in Belfast
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Weirder since Israel seems to hate the UK
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He did some fantastic covers for La Domenica del Corriere
x.com/PulpLibraria...
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That's what they should have done with the Predator franchise, show us one dropping in every era of Earth's history and hunting
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I confess I made that one myself to try and get in on the memes for once last year, a whole 18 views on YouTube 😂
youtu.be/_jPvDq0h3_U?...
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And they did it with Flash Gordon too?
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Maybe a 4th, people who found a song through a TV show, movie or video game and complaints from people who bought the original album and demand that it's the only way to discover and enjoy it
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Shout out to George Lucas, embedding anti-Imperialism and anti-fascism in a hugely popular science fiction wrapping, so that not even Disney in the time of Trump can drown it out
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The Ulster Museum in Belfast has an example of my first mobile/cell phone as an exhibit for kids to see how we lived in the past
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Ban staff from participating in astronomy of any sort
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The most ridiculous idea I've read is having an electric car that mimics a manual gearbox.
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Going downhill towards a corner felt weird first time I tried an automatic, my mind was thinking "the brakes are taking all the strain, this is wrong"
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The RHI scandal still drumming up some PR for her years later, millions well spent
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Disgusting.
Though I remember I could sort of do it in my teens.
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CD/tape/rap combos just seem so complex inside, more than a VCR or TV.
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Game Boys
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Someone used one of those thread archiving apps to save most of it, no pictures, but general instructions and memories of family life are there
threadreaderapp.com/thread/15842...
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What footwear would you expect to see? As soon as I think about wearing shorts I think about sandals and socks
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I see they want to have a "conversation" about trans people in Ireland now 😶
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Could have made some money back renting it to people making episodes of late 90s Star Trek
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Of course, Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent
m.independent.ie/irish-news/l...