Non-IT News Thread

NerdyDad

@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:

@NerdyDad I don't put a lot of stock into this, because I've heard that the magnetic field is supposed flip before, and when that happens, its supposed to create another life-ending event on earth. Sounds more like tin-foil hat theory to me but wanted you to get a read on it before I construed my opinion on it first.

someone missed the date....

Okay. They got one on me.

scottalanmiller

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/29/decades-garfield-telephones-kept-washing-ashore-france-now-mystery-has-been-solved

scottalanmiller

This could be so amazing!!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/technology/burger-king-impossible-whopper.html

travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

This could be so amazing!!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/technology/burger-king-impossible-whopper.html

They really are ramping up production of that stuff. I'm not searching them out to go try one, but from the reviews I hear it's good eating.

mlnews

Final countdown: Marvel drops one last teaser for Avengers: End Game

“It’s not about how much we lost, it’s about how much we have left.”

The first trailer for End Game dropped in December, giving us a glimpse of the Avengers who survived the Snappening, in which Thanos wiped out half of all living beings in the universe with a snap of his fingers, including many of our beloved superheroes. That's about all they could show us without giving too much away, although we did get a scene with Paul Rudd's Scott Lang/Ant-Man showing up, having escaped the quantum realm where he was presumably trapped at the end of Ant-Man and The Wasp.

scottalanmiller

BBC News - Canada warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, report says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47754189

scottalanmiller

BBC News - Abdelaziz Bouteflika: Algeria's president resigns amid mass protests
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47795108

scottalanmiller

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous

mlnews

Whistleblowers: FAA 737 MAX safety inspectors lacked training, certification

Senate committee launches investigation into 737 MAX certification process.

Multiple whistleblowers have raised issues over the Federal Aviation Administration’s safety inspection process connected to Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft, according to a letter to the FAA from Senate Commerce Committee chairman Sen. Roger Wicker on April 2. And the FAA’s leadership was informed of these concerns as far back as August of 2018.

scottalanmiller

@mlnews as if the whole country didn't already know that the FAA lacked the skills (or the desire) to be doing this.

mlnews

Microsoft kills off the book store you probably didn’t know it had

Anyone who bought books will have them deleted and will receive a refund.

For reasons that were never entirely clear, Microsoft released a book store for Windows 10 back in 2017. The Edge browser was given support for EPUB books, and the Microsoft Store had a book category, offering a range of free and non-free books. No longer: yesterday the company ended book sales entirely.

mlnews

Joaquin Phoenix breathes new life into an iconic role in first Joker trailer

It's a standalone film as DC Films moves away from the shared universe model.

Joker is intended as a standalone film, with no sequels planned—part of DC Films' decision to move away from the shared-universe approach of their prior franchise films (aka, the Marvel model). So it has no relation to the Justice League films that came before. That freed Director Todd Phillips to create his own darker, gritty version of this iconic character, with a much smaller budget of $55 million.

LilAng

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Joaquin Phoenix breathes new life into an iconic role in first Joker trailer

It's a standalone film as DC Films moves away from the shared universe model.

Joker is intended as a standalone film, with no sequels planned—part of DC Films' decision to move away from the shared-universe approach of their prior franchise films (aka, the Marvel model). So it has no relation to the Justice League films that came before. That freed Director Todd Phillips to create his own darker, gritty version of this iconic character, with a much smaller budget of $55 million.

People are comparing this to Taxi Driver

https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2019/04/joaquin-phoenix-joker-compared-to-scorsese-classics-taxi-driver/