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“People are saying – the best people, believe me, I know some wonderful, beautiful people, you wouldn’t, you just, it’s shocking, the way they – my ear took a direct hit from the biggest bullet. The hardest… and you won’t hear this in the media, you know, they’re making sure of it… see, this is the kind of treatment, very unfair, it’s what they do to you when you tell the truth, so unfair… the hardest an ear has ever been hit by any bullet, that’s what my doctor tells me, he says, Mr. President, sir, that bullet would have hit your ear even if it had been distracted by cyber cloud manipulation or whatever the hell the feds have been doing under Sloppy Joe…”

I have my own photo of that same thing, took it in Chicago in 2013!

Thanks for this. I’m glad you didn’t have to deal with searing pain since panic is already more than enough.

I don’t mean this to invalidate your experience in any way; I’ll just state sources to make clear where I got that idea.

https://medilexinc.com/a-spoonful-of-medicine-blog/the-process-of-drowning

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8928428

Yes, drowning is known to be quite painful but only for a very brief time before unconsciousness sets in.

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I spent a long time living in places that had saved their one last ‘classic’ movie theater by turning it into a rerun palace for ‘art films’, cult classics and other specialty cinema.

Also, I bought the DVD of Baraka that came out in the late 90s or so, and I was so disappointed in how visually awful the digital transfer was at that time, the disc was honestly not even worth watching. Not just because of small screens, the problem was that whoever did the digital transfer had completely fucked up the frame rate conversion in a way that caused every one of the many time-lapse sequences to move with a really annoying jitter. There was no possible playback setting or processing to fix it either, the process had removed information making it impossible to smooth or recover, at least back then.

So that junk DVD motivated me to just keep grabbing anyone I could, or no one if no one was around, and going out of my way to see the movie every time it came to a big screen within an hour of me. Now it’s been years since my last watch… I’m not sure how much more I could take of it now that it’s so clear the human race already sold out its long term survival for short term gain.

Baraka – I’ve seen it at least a dozen times, most of them in movie theaters.

Thanks for the info! Yeah, it’s going to take the fediverse in general some time to get smoother. I’m excited to watch it improve even if the pace is slow.

What motivated you to switch instances? Did your early ones fill up with junk posts etc? I was thinking that since I use a reader app (Boost for Lemmy) and everything is federated it wouldn’t matter much if I joined one of the large and general-purpose instances.

Or was it more about performance issues… service/instance traffic overload leading to slow response time?

You had me on board until… Hershey’s chocolate? That’s not even chocolate anymore, it’s like putrid brown wax!