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I mean the island of Sark was unsuccessfully invaded by a single dude in 1990 (apologies for the terrible linked source, its just one of the first search results that wasn't a random reddit thread or other even less reputable source)

The local volunteer Constable, the only law enforcement on the island, being informed of the invasion thanks to the notices, decided to take the threat seriously. On the morning of the invasion, Constable Perrée began to plan the island’s defense, which was a two stage scheme. First, he went looking for Mr. Gardes. He found him sitting on a park bench in army fatigues preparing for the massacre that was about to befall this island. As the Constable approached the invading army (a.k.a. Gardes), he saw Gardes loading his automatic weapon.

The first “showing up” stage now complete, Mr. Perrée executed the second stage of the plan. He complimented Mr. Gardes on his choice of gun and convinced Gardes to remove the magazine and let him see the instrument of the island’s assured defeat, so the constable could better admire it. When Gardes acquiesced, the Constable took the gun and punched him in the nose. The invasion was over. The gun used in the attempted coup now sits in the Sark Museum next to old ships and a dedicated exhibit to one of the island’s two original telephone calls.

Edit: I'm a little disappointed there isn't a Wikipedia article on the subject with a list of belligerents, details of the strength of forces and a tally of the casualties and losses like this:

Sir, !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works is leaking out and beginning to spread

Probably is still true, but I've not been paying close attention to the AI market in the last couple of years. But the point I was trying to make was that it's an apples to oranges comparison

Seeing the person chewing out folks for calling for a fork is pretty funny in hindsight. They aren't wrong, but now they're the recorded naysayer in a pivotal moment for a major open source project. It's like anyone who said Open Office shouldn't be forked when Open Office was purchased by Oracle. Now Open Office is abandonware with only functionally useless commits and multiple unpatched security issues and Libre Office has completely replaced it

I dropped my music library into Jellyfin just as an extra. I've built up quite a collection over the years of CDs and always rip and tag them as I acquire new CDs, so while the collection is a little messy it's sizable and mostly correctly tagged

Jellyfin's music playback has been buggy but getting better with updates. At the current rate of improvement it'll probably be really good in a 2-4 years, but right now it's kinda meh. It exists but it's buggy enough that I don't use it much

You forgot the step of "presidential candidate quotes the Facebook post in a presidential debate"

It specifically mentions email addresses (used for account creation I assume) and what content is being watched, which a VPN wouldn't do anything for.

Okay, y'know how vanilla is very mid? Go buy a pint of vanilla yogurt, a bowl and a spoon and have it for breakfast or brunch. Or as a late night snack. My wife had a pregnancy craving for vanilla yogurt one evening and we've just kept a pint in the fridge ever since

I enjoyed Andor but I think that has more to do with it seemed to focus far more on telling a good story than relying heavily on all of the tropes that make Star Wars content Star Wars

My suspicion with Forrest Gump is more that it appeals to the people who saw live the news clips it parodies and lived through some of the times and experiences it depicts, since it depicts past events in a nostalgic tone, without ever trying to change how one might feel about any specific political policy that influenced the events, and it never tries to change anyone's mind about anything. It's just a story that never really challenges you

You can also see this when watching films from the 50s and 60s as they were really designed to cover a variety of genres at once. Has a little romance sub-plot for mom, action sequences for little Tommy and some cool cars/gadgets for dad. Y'know because everything had to be stereotyped to hell and back. But it is jarring seeing how much of variety films old movies really were

I'm currently reading the LOTR books because I've never actually consumed any LOTR content and holy crap it's very long-winded. Entire conversations that could be just a couple of sentences go on for pages. I appreciate the incredible scope, the sense of scale and the creativity that goes into it but reading these books I can only think how perfect they are for adaptation into film or any other format really. Or if authors "covering" another's works like musicians do ever becomes a thing LOTR would be a fantastic candidate, because Tolkien's writing style is such a slog to read through

It feels like it should've been 2 films. The last quarter or so of the film just felt a bit rushed and overly-convenient. I absolutely loved the world building and general lore to the movie though

My wife addores early Adam Sandler films, and I've really never seen any of them. She had me sit down and watch one Adam Sandler film one evening and while I could not stand his character in Billy Madison and turned it off within a few minutes, Happy Gilmore was quite enjoyable and a fun subversion of golf tropes.

I enjoyed Don't Look Up for the comedic pacing mostly. Where every time you seem to get a feel for the mood and direction it has something subversive to throw you off. Definitely could've been less on the nose with the allegory but some people just need some things shouted into their face for a chance at getting it

I enjoyed Interstellar, but I also went into it expecting so-so sci-fi and instead got an interesting story with really cool world building. I guess my expectations for anything space in media are low enough to not be disappointed by most films

The cursed Will Smith eating spaghetti wasn't the best video AI model available at the time, just what was available for consumers to run on their own hardware at the time. So while the rate of improvement in AI image/video generation is incredible, it's not quite as incredible as that viral video would suggest

Realistically the design goals of a gaming OS vs a general desktop OS aren't that different. You want to balance performance, batterlife/power consumption, and making sure it withstands insane abuse by users and software doing anything you could never imagine that nobody should have ever tried to do. About the only design goal that separates SteamOS from Windows is fleet manageability features

It's really wild how research is continuing to find strong implications that we are not individual microorganisms but multiorganisms that act as one

All thoughts are deposited on a random storage medium and format. So you might receive a 3.5" cassette formatted with ZFS or a flashdrive that must be read by laser refraction (like a DVD)