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You might be able to mail them a check. I don’t know how banks handle a check from another country, so maybe that won’t work.
My complaints with the film: Action scenes were uninteresting. Maybe it was the VFX, or maybe it was the fact that Harrison Ford is 80 years old, but I felt like the action scenes were too long even through not much really happens in them.
- Opening WW2 scene: Felt 3 times long than it needed to be.
- NYC chase scene: Once he hopped on the horse I lost interest.
- Morocco: I liked the casino fight, the rest of the car stuff after that went on too long.
- Diving scene: This was OK, it didn’t overstay its welcome, but there wasn’t much tension there either.
- Everything in Sicily and after: These felt good, individual action pieces were short and had proper stakes.
Honestly, I started to like the movie more once the villains put on their SS uniforms and marched onto the plane. It was so ridiculous and yet compelling that I finally got excited. The ending leaned into this, and I was OK with the whole Archimedes thing.
I was OK with Helena’s character being a foil to Indy, and he smug demeanor makes sense in this context given that he used to be smug and self-assured too. However, I think her character needed some explanation. Something like the opening young Indy train scene from Last Crusade to show why she became a treasure hunter. Something to explain how a young girl surrounded by archaeological mentors doesn’t absorb their morality of museums over personal profit.
Crunchbang was the distro that taught me Linux. I needed a *nix style build system for a programming class, and #! looked cool so I went with it. It was a magic moment when I learned how to install software from source.
Sorry, not here to answer your question, just reminiscing. I hope the project is OK.
I think an important distinction should be made between dentistry and orthodontics. I believe that in many countries with public healthcare, dental coverage is pretty normal. What many governments don’t pay for is orthodontics (teeth straightening, braces, bite fixing, etc) and so most people go without it (eg memes about British people having crooked teeth).
In the USA, orthodontics is a huge industry. It’s all about having straight perfect teeth. I don’t know why it started, but the reason it’s stuck around is mostly aesthetics and inertia IMO. If everyone around you has straight teeth, you’ll feel left out if you have crooked teeth. It’s also a huge moneymaker for dentists themselves. I avoided dentists for several years because I got tired of them trying to sell me expensive aesthetic services, like whitening or special bite splints.
I joined this instance because I like what SDF does as an organization. It’s cool that they offer so many public services that anyone can use if they follow the rules. Supposing Threads ever joins the Fediverse, I’d hope SDF keeps them around as long as it’s not harming SDF users.
This could of been for internal reasons, it could of been to fragment the user base knowing they had the most users and would force convergence, we really can’t be sure.
Given the well documented history of Google making absolutely dogshit product decisions, I think it’s the former. In fact, I don’t even need to think. Google already explained their reasoning. They had several different communication products (including Talk) that couldn’t be integrated together. They wanted the services to work seamlessly to try and compete with Messenger.
If chat wasn’t popular among their users, this wouldn’t of been needed. Sure, chat was probably popular. However, I bet that 99% of their chat users never cared about XMPP compatibility in the first place. When you’re a product manager at a billion dollar megacorp who’s aiming for a promotion and you have a choice between making 1% of your users sad and massively simplifying the complexity of your new project… you pick the 99%
they apparently didn’t shut down the initial XMPP servers until 2022
Sure. They probably had one client who paid them a pile of money every year to keep it live. If there was some plan to extinguish XMPP, surely they wouldn’t have kept it around for so long.
We can’t trust a for-profit organization to have the best of intentions
Sure. The solution is simple: don’t use corporate platforms. The way to prevent what happened was not for XMPP to block Google. It was for people to not switch to Google in the first place. Google Talk released in 2005. This was absolutely back when everyone still believed “Don’t be evil”.
Fair, but surely the solution is a “wait and see” approach vs just blocking it completely? Maybe Threads overloads the server for… an hour? A day? Then someone turns it off.
Plus, if there’s a lot of data exchanged, doesn’t that just mean that a lot of SDF users want what’s on Threads, or that users on Threads care about what happens here? Either way, seems like the right move is to keep the channel open if possible.
