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paulwhitedotnyc t1_jdylc1t wrote
Reply to I'm looking for movie (or maybe even a TV show) with an actor that looks like Sven-ole Thorsen from The Running Man (1987) but with a longer and darker beard. by Different_Account4Me
He always plays the same type of character. You’re probably thinking of him as La Fours in Mallrats.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_jdg7zap wrote
Reply to comment by djdjddhdhdh in NYC’s Museum of Failure opens to make us feel better about our lives by NYY657545
For sure this guy Russell E. Oakes, an amateur American inventor, he invented spikes on his arms to enable him to push his way through a busy department store, a wind-up spaghetti fork and an automated hat that used a leaf to fan the wearer, Along with a million other failures, but he always kept trying.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_jdg6h3s wrote
Reply to comment by djdjddhdhdh in NYC’s Museum of Failure opens to make us feel better about our lives by NYY657545
I worked on an ad campaign once where that was the whole idea, all the almost great inventions throughout history. Researching them and the people who created them was so interesting, really made you realize how hard people work even to fail sometimes.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_jdfx5yl wrote
Reply to comment by Captaintripps in NYC’s Museum of Failure opens to make us feel better about our lives by NYY657545
The De Blasio wing I believe.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_jcwtuq4 wrote
Jesus, I just tried it and it works.
It’s super rudimentary right now, but that definitely won’t last.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_jaki6qy wrote
Reply to comment by siposiposipo in NYC is more ethnically diverse, less racially segregated, report finds by Ice_Business
How dare they move to a neighborhood they can afford and attempt to be polite and accepting of their new neighbors, especially with the color skin they have.
New York is so easy to afford, they could live anywhere they want, and then to not even be able to explain the actions of the millions of other people that look like them?! Disgusting!
paulwhitedotnyc t1_jabctm4 wrote
Reply to How do you feel about movies with main stars that were cancelled / or had done nefarious things in the past? I post this after having watched American Beauty tonight. by Fischer_Jones
I can understand when people choose not to support particular individuals or businesses by refusing to contribute to them financially. It’s effective, sends a message, and is their right as a consumer. However, in cases like your example, there is nothing left to achieve, your support, or lack there of, is insignificant. If someone is able to gain some enjoyment out of the collective work of hundreds of people, at least it’s a silver lining.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_ja5te1y wrote
I’m still not going to go back to working in an office, nice try though.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j8ykwha wrote
Reply to comment by Putiman in JFK Terminal Shutdown May Last Days Amid Power Woes, FAA Warns; International Flights Disrupted by Putiman
Sorry to hear that, but no I’m in terminal 8 luckily.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j8y7la0 wrote
Reply to JFK Terminal Shutdown May Last Days Amid Power Woes, FAA Warns; International Flights Disrupted by Putiman
What an awesome thing to read on the air train to JFK.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j8jqv8p wrote
Reply to comment by Borrowedshorts in An AI recently piloted a Lockheed Martin aircraft for over 17 hours during a testing period in December. by Dalembert
I have no idea what I’m actually talking about, but I would guess that piloting a helicopter is far more difficult to automate than a plane or jet. Not that they couldn’t do it, but I would imagine this is an easier first step.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j8jqcnv wrote
Reply to comment by SWATSgradyBABY in An AI recently piloted a Lockheed Martin aircraft for over 17 hours during a testing period in December. by Dalembert
What do you think a predator drone is?
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j7t1zfu wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in The Prophet of Urban Doom Says New York Still Has a Chance by coolbern
Part of the credit goes to a 600 million dollar research facility, so it was a joint effort.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j7s3w6j wrote
TL;DR - the economic effects of the pandemic could be bad, but maybe they won’t be. 🤷🏻♂️
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j6o42fn wrote
Reply to In Gangs of New York isn't it hugely inconvenient to have buried Bill + Vallon in Brooklyn? by Tristram_ZX81
The person he was based on, William Poole, was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, I don’t exactly know why, but they did have boats, so maybe it wasn’t that inconvenient, but I would like to know too.
Edit: from an article I found
“Bill The Butcher Poole had one of the largest funerals ever seen in the city of New York City, with thousands of mourners following the casket from Christopher Street to the Battery where a ferry took the remains to Green-Wood Cemetery. It was reported that so many people stood on the roofs of buildings to watch the procession that one house collapsed under the weight killing four people. John Morrissey organized an array of Five Points thugs including the “Original Hounds” Engine Number 36 and a gang called the Short Boys to throw rocks and bricks at the mourners.”
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j6lzvgn wrote
Whatever you do Germany, never vote for someone named Badoff Whitler!
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j6laf3s wrote
How could you possibly give a shit about this?
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j6h85yl wrote
Reply to The King Of Comedy vs Buffalo 66' by swxtchblade3
The King of Comedy is probably the safer choice, Buffalo 66’ is the kind of movie you either really love or really hate. I hated it, but to each their own.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j6fzyd2 wrote
This sounds like one of those 1950’s speculative ads about the future where “you’ll be able to take a Sunday drive with the family around the rings of Saturn in your brand new convertible Buick Roadmaster!!!”
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j6etpny wrote
Reply to I can't stand found footage style films by [deleted]
I would guess 75% of people would agree with you.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j66ccpm wrote
Reply to I watched ‘Everything Everywhere All at once’ in theaters at Harkins and in the middle, someone said ,”this is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.” by Yazzieyaz24
Audiences either buy in to the universe, suspend their disbelief and enjoy it for what it is, or they don’t and it gets increasingly more ridiculous, confusing and ultimately boring.
I can understand doing either and felt on the fence the whole time.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j668ezq wrote
Reply to Natural Born Killers by [deleted]
Oliver Stone is an asshole.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j65opnz wrote
Reply to comment by GayHitIer in Superhuman Algorithms could “Kill Everyone” in Due Time, Researchers Warn by RareGur3157
Ah yes, concern and precaution, the trademark of idiots.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_j65ofx6 wrote
Reply to comment by JVM_ in Superhuman Algorithms could “Kill Everyone” in Due Time, Researchers Warn by RareGur3157
“The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else ."
That’s a cold ass thing to say to a motherfucker.
paulwhitedotnyc t1_jeahfw1 wrote
Reply to Me in 1995, looking like 1975 by RobertFahey
You kinda looked like Wolverine if he got into software development instead of the X-men.