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hankbaumbachjr t1_iy5h0fz wrote

Reply to comment by picklepartyprevails in I'd like to pay homage to Daniel Stern in Home Alone 2 for one of the funniest comedic performances in movie history. by firkin_slang_whanger

Thank you for mentioning this and saving me the trouble.

Daniel Stern was phenomenal for a 4 or 5 year period including City Slickers, Bushwhacked, Home Alone, and both acting & directing Rookie of the Year.

I know he kept working since then but he totally fell off the map relative to his greatness from 1990-1995.

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hankbaumbachjr t1_ixdl8x8 wrote

Reply to The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks | The practice of adding ‘leap seconds’ to official clocks to keep them in sync with Earth’s rotation will be put on hold from 2035, the world’s foremost metrology body has decided by yourSAS

So what's going to happen when clocks diverge going forward? Will that create issues with precision or solve them? I genuinely don't understand this problem.

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hankbaumbachjr t1_ivfqqsn wrote

Reply to Humanoid robots could generate $154 billion in revenue over next 15 years, Goldman Sachs reports by Gari_305

If our economy was not so cart before the horse in being set up to funnel wealth to the ownership class, automation would be an amazing step for our species in freeing us from the human labor debt incurred in maintaining a modern society.

Due to our current work-to-eat model of labor, displacement of any of the labor force is bordering on a death sentence for the working class precisely because our efforts in automation are focused on increasing profit margins for those already incredibly wealthy.

Instead, we should be focusing automation on producing and distributing the basic (modern) necessities of running a human society.

Food, water, and electrical production and distribution should be the primary focus of automation, reducing the hours of human labor needed for each to the point that the notion of "paying someone" for electricity becomes moot.

Coupled with automation we will need to focus on de-centralization as well. Power plants will still exist, but we should augment their capabilities on a local level by encouraging all new structures have their own source of power generation via improving solar and wind technologies and tapping in to geothermal energies where avaialble.

Technology throughout human history has always meant increased leisure time for a given civilization until 300 years ago when the current economic system threw away cooperation in favor of competition and abandoned sustainability for increased profit margins next fiscal quarter.

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hankbaumbachjr t1_iug2det wrote

Reply to When you see an actor who seems familiar, do you feel like you need to KNOW who he played before? by fabrizziop17

Early on it wasn't as big of a need and would be a fun conversation piece with my friends later if they recognized them and I did not or vice versa.

In the modern post internet, smart phone era it is absolutely paramount that I see everything that vaguely familiar face was in even at the expense of the current movie im watching them in.

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