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a week after the latter unveiled a brand new statue of another Soviet figurehead, Josef Stalin, in Moscow.

Yikes. They're still celebrating Stalin with new statues. Bizarre.

I am not surprised in the slightest. I mean if you have a bunch of smart, highly motivated people it sounds like keeping the crazy man at arms length is the kind of thing they'd organise very effectively.

NASA is clearly capable of things given the right circumstances and budget.

Absolutely agree with this but there is no denying the innovation levels at spacex are higher (I'm not saying this is down to musk specifically. The man is a horror story of a human).

We were all in total awe when seeing booster stages land themselves successfully for the first time. It was such a giant leap forward and to the best of my knowledge no government funded space agency was even considering it before spacex.

Ah!!!!! Makes perfect sense. Thank you!

I don't get this (as I do use British English). Could you explain?

Myself and a friend decided to share a cigarette in the toilets one day. This was fairly common practice way back then. You'd get someone to look out and they would cough if a teacher was coming. It wasn't flawless but it has a high success rate.

So we're utterly destroying one cigarette between the two of us as quickly as we can and there's a cough followed by loud banging on the door. We're rumbled.

"OPEN UP. I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE"

So we open the door, sheepishly.

"WHAT WERE YOU BOYS DOING IN THERE?"

Now we're both confused and look at each other. I timidly reply:

"Smoking, sir"

"WELL I HOPE THAT'S ALL YOU WERE DOING"

and the man stormed off. We couldn't believe our luck. Smoking apparently A-OK once you're not being gay.

This is one where the passing of time will really be the only thing that helps. A breakup like that is essentially a grieving process in my experience. When I was younger and still dating I found that trying to lose myself in something (anything) helped after a painful one like this. Movies, games, walks, time with friends, reading - whatever switches your brain off from the grief for a while.

For what it's worth, it sounds like you absolutely made the right call. Being with someone that's not emotionally there for you (and in particular, anyone who is belittling) is very, very wearing and detrimental to both your mental health and self confidence. It can be a tough call, but breaking up is the right one.

When you've had a chance to gather yourself you will hopefully meet someone more suitable who will be emotionally available, empathetic and fight for your relationship.

That's really cool. Hadn't ever seen it before.

48 or 128? (rubber keys?)

Pretty sexy looking but obviously limited. What did you use it for?

One of the things I remember shocking me in first year computer science was the number of people with zero home computer experience. Like they were raw dogging their college course basically.

Obviously this was a long time ago when computers were very expensive compared to today (and people here were poorer).

What a blessing. Absolutely top tier machine.

I'd say archive.org would do you a solid there.

edit: I got curious and checked myself on archive.org

• September 2012 - 7.8
• February 2014 - 7.0
• May 2016 - 7.1
• August 2018 - 7.1
• June 2021 - 7.1
• Current - 7.1

I use IMDB a lot so a few things worth noting: initial scores tend to be high as you have folks who actively wanted to see it voting. There is inevitably a drop off as folks who aren't "into" a specific genre watch and vote. It then it gets harder over time to change the score as more votes have cemented the average. There are currently 305K votes so that 7.1 is likely stuck forever now.

It definitely lost money but there was a fan push for a sequel that seemed to have a bit of steam for a while.

Urban played the perfect Dredd. He absolutely nailed the comic book and Anderson and Ma-Ma were superb too. Definitely one of my favourite sci-fi flicks of all time.

Duuuuuude! What does mine say?

And theeeennnnn?

And then?

Dude! What does mine say?

You know, you could up your viewership by at least 33% by posting a link ;)

That's a bummer. I find a lot of toxicity in YouTube comments that are just wildly disconnected from my experience with actual humans in the real world.

I think that's one of the things I really like about Lemmy in that folks will generally respectfully disagree or be kind to each other. Generally.

Not too shabby!