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  • DABDA@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Luigi Mangione Played 'Among Us,' Breathes AirEnglish
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    1 year ago

    From The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu:

    Later, other Adventists based their hatred of the human race on other foundations, not limited to issues such as the environment or warfare. Some raised their hatred to very abstract, philosophical levels. Unlike how they would be imagined later, most of them were realists, and did not place too much hope in the alien civilization they served either. Their betrayal was based only on their despair and hatred of the human race. Mike Evans gave the Adventists their motto: We don’t know what extraterrestrial civilization is like, but we know humanity.

  • DABDA@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your fave movie of all time that you love to recommend to people?English
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    2 years ago

    There’s a video by a designer talking about some of the symbolism of Ellie’s journey (Full talk video here – SPOILERS for the film in both).

    And also an insightful YouTube comment(!) someone made in response describing their interpretation:

    spoiler

    "This is one of the most thoughtful and insightful reviews on deeper film meanings I think I’ve ever seen. In keeping with the rebirth symbolism, I would offer the following possibilities.

    1. The transport pod symbolizes more of a womb, rather than a gas chamber.
    2. The chair may not be an electric chair but rather a means for Ellie to assume a modified fetal position while in the capsule. This would mimic the position of a baby of in a womb prior to its own birth.
    3. The wires plugged into Ellie represent an umbilical cord to sustain her, rather than a means to kill her.
    4. The periodic updates given by the mission control staff as to the status of the machine (10%, 20%, 30%, etc.) mirror the increasing dilation of women in labor (1 cm dilated, 2cm dilated, 3cm dilated, etc.).
    5. The wormhole sequence mirrors the new life traveling through a birth canal.
    6. The capsule takes on a liquid form to symbolizes the protective amniotic fluid to keep the new life safe.
    7. After Ellie’s “birth”, the first person she sees is her father.
    8. This rebirth scene is enhanced by considering Ellie’s mother died from complications of childbirth when Ellie was born. This backstory enhances Ellie’s natural reluctance to be reborn as her initial birth killed her mother, and permanently altered her life.

    There’s undeniably imagery of execution and rebirth simultaneously occurring within the same frames! The filmmakers did an outstanding of capturing some very compelling storytelling while inserting remarkable symbolism."

  • DABDA@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•what does everyone think about piped bot and other botsEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The Piped bot pisses me off because it doesn’t seem to check if the triggering comment already includes the exact link it’s about to post. I used to preemptively include Piped links with any YouTube ones but since it would trigger the bot anyway I just stopped bothering.

    Aside from the clutter it adds, until I added the bot itself to my blocklist (instead of just relying on “Show bots” being unchecked in settings) it would also cause reply notifications that couldn’t be cleared in the default Lemmy web UI.