You mean there’s a sucker reborn every day!

If that bothers you, you’ll really hate that they even put plants in the Hail Mary, implying that there’s some expectation that they’d be needed at some point. But it’s still supposed to be a suicide mission.

Yes, but only if you can accept that a movie and a book are very different mediums. I’ll explain.

The movie and the book tell the same story, but they use different methods to approach that story.

The book is largely focused on man vs problem. This is made possible by being inside Grace’s head.

The movie is more man vs self. The problem is sort of secondary. You could remake the whole film where he’s a wizard trapped in another dimension and it would still work.

I adore the book (I think I’ve read 4-5 times now)! I loved the movie (saw it twice lol)! They both do a good job of storytelling, they’re just different, because books and movies are inherently different mediums. There are things I like more in the book version, and things where I liked the movie’s take better.

Stratt is much more human in the movie, which makes for an interesting take on her choice to send Grace on the mission. The actress is great, and a more human Stratt becomes some of the backbone for Grace’s journey. Grace is not as clever in the movie, which some people didn’t like but again, changes some of the motivations and I think it works since the focus is on Grace’s struggle with himself (more so than in the book, anyway). I love love love the deep science stuff from the book. It’s basically not in the movie. They skip a TON of the science. They also drop some of the fake science stuff from the book though. I don’t like the change to Rocky’s attitude about eating in front of Grace. I loved that they removed the coma resistance subplot (felt very contrived in the book anyway). Overall, they are both great, just understand that they aren’t trying to do exactly the same thing.

The film is visually stunning and despite being quite long it doesn’t ever feel too slow, even in those moments where it’s meant to give you a chance to breathe.

I have exactly one complaint with the film that I stand behind. We already know what’s on the other side of the wall when we first see Rocky’s claw. There is one (1) totally unnecessary, overly loud jump scare noise. Bad bad bad.

Fair enough! It’s rare in the US, and obviously that is not everywhere!

Although that makes me want to never ever ever cohabitate in Canada/BC because wow that’s fast (in legal terms, I mean).

Pretty sure it’s historic. Same was that x-mas is used for Christmas. I think it’s related to the Greek alphabet or something? Idk I’m feeling disinclined to actually Google it but I definitely even grew up calling it x-mas.

It should be noted that common law marriage is EXTREMELY rare. If you call them your boyfriend/girlfriend instead of your spouse, you’re (at least in states I’ve looked into) not ever going to be common law married. If you never hold some kind of ceremony, you aren’t common law married. It’s actually way more complicated than just living together.

Edit: filing taxes as if you’re married is also often not enough to make you common law married either, but obviously ianal and you need one if you want to know if you are common law married or not.

This is the actual answer, along with decades of right wing propaganda pumped into our ecosystem after Citizens United.

We have been cooked for a while now. Some people see it, but it’s not the majority, not by a long shot.

An interrobang‽ In the wild‽ Thank you for that!

Everyone is caught up on Cancer and Wolf and I’m over here like… Burst and Rupture!!!

I suppose that is true of everything in the world though. Cars jump to mind pretty quickly.

I’m curious how SMRs will end up affecting overall cost of nuclear as well. Once we get into a unit that can be mass produced rather than tailor making each site, I could see the line going down at least a bit and would also allow us to keep pushing those boundaries.

You are definitely being downvoted here by men who realize that they’ve used females as a noun and don’t want to admit why that was wrong. I’m sure I will be downvoted too, so let’s be friends!

I’m sorry, but I this just isn’t true. Calling women females is definitely an incel thing (although admittedly has come more into mainstream (male) lexicon because of the algorithms).

Female/male is an adjective. Woman/man is a noun. A woman is female (not in a TERF way, lol), but she isn’t a female any more than she is a short.

While I’ve not done a deep dive into the origins, incels pushed the female thing it seems largely because they don’t see women as human and want to make them sound like they’re a different species. It might have even started off from incels calling women “the female species” because that’s a term I’ve definitely seen before in those communities.

I’m not sure he misses out on sexual relationships at all though. Strap ons are a thing, and can be very effective (ask a lesbian, or a trans man!) and there are LOTS of ways to have sex that don’t involve the traditional act people tend to reduce it down to.

Also, disabled people also have sex. The idea that they don’t is ableist AF.

Sure, but keto says it totally fine to eat a steak and a stick of butter and nothing else. That doesn’t seem sustainable.

Also I’ve never met anyone that does keto that allows any carbs. I’m glad that apparently that’s not the only way though.

To be clear, I do not care if all you eat is steaks and butter. Not my business. Just trying to offer insight into the down votes. I don’t think it’s the IF crew doing it. It’s probably people who are anti-keto.

This has pretty much always happened to me too! You are not alone!

I think it’s because keto is not super healthy long term. You need fiber, friend. You. Need. Fiber.

That being said I’m a big believer of you get to choose what you want to eat, so do what you want with your own body!

I’m in this boat too. Most of my online friends I only really get to talk to via discord. Not sure what I’m gonna do, because they won’t end up budging.

I love pineapple on pizza and I almost reflexively down voted this… I should probably look at that in myself.

Wait - that’s a monthly cost? Are you in the US? $35/month is definitely not possible in any US state unless you’re supplementing with another food source. Even if all you eat is a box of pasta and can of sauce a day I’d be shocked if you could stay at $35 and definitely that’s nutritionally questionable.