Stranger in a Strange Land.
Toronto, Ontario
Joined March 2009
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Nope, don't remember it as well. Perhaps the Mandela Effect is a parallel that has somehow merged with our timeline a tiny bit.
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I would really hate it if someone did this to me.
But I would laugh my ass off if it was someone else 😭
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This literally just exists to hunt and kill people.
This isn't like building a missile or a gun, those devices kill rapidly.
This is a weapon of terror.
It stalks you relentlessly.
You can run but you'll only die tired and scared.
This makes the flamethrower look like a weapon of mercy.
We really need some kind of modern Geneva convention.
Jesus.
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
Diocletian, the only Emperor to retire and die in bed peacefully.
Aztecs and Incas were not dolts but highly adaptable when encountering the Spaniards' advanced tech and tactics.. youtube.com/shorts/IMRyQ4ro9…
The last two guys alive from the Original Trek series, Shatner and Takei, are the two that hate each other.
Seems a bit harsh not to give your own mother a cent. She must have done other things and Tarantino hates her secretly.
Quentin Tarantino earned over 100 million dollars and never gave his mother a single dollar.
In the video below Quentin Tarantino talks about his mother.
Connie McHugh was a teenager when she gave birth to Quentin in Knoxville Tennessee in 1963. His father Tony Tarantino had already left. She moved to Los Angeles alone with the baby and worked as a nurse.
When he was 12 his mother mocked the screenplays he was writing in class. She said, with finger quotes, this little ‘writing career’ is over.
Quentin stood there and made himself a vow. If he ever became a successful writer, she would see no house, no vacation, no Cadillac.
He dropped out of high school at 15 and worked at a video store in Manhattan Beach. In the early 1990s he sold the True Romance script for about 50 thousand dollars. In 1994 Pulp Fiction grossed 213 million dollars and made him an Oscar winner at 31.
He is worth approximately 120 million dollars in 2026.
In a 2021 podcast interview Tarantino said he had kept the vow for 50 years. The most he ever did was help his mother with one IRS issue. He said he never bought her a house. He never took her on a vacation. He never bought her an Elvis Cadillac.
No house for you. No vacation for you. No Elvis Cadillac for mommy.
The screenplay she called a hobby financed every film he ever made.
Would you forgive a parent who tried to kill the thing that made you?