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The faculty should go on strike to protest this action against students. Legit removing their rights to education they're paying for.

Shout-out to this film being the only one in my life to put me to sleep.

My friend lives in Iran. She often shows pictures of Iran's beauty such as dried-up lakes and rivers because of dams.

My mischievous little tuxedo, back when she was really small. She's still small and mischievous at 2 years old.

One of the simplest ways to safeguard against breakage is to have your /home on a separate partition. I realised I wouldn't need to backup and reformat it from the beginning, I just need to wipe the root drive and reinstall again.

It's made even easier by writing an installation script. Simply put, you can pipe a list of packages into packstrap and use a little convenience package for pulling a partition scheme out of a file.

I like to tinker and I'm aware that things will break so I have these tools that let me rebuild the system again in as short a time as possible.

He died in 1982 but his works are hugely influential:
Philip K Dick.

Dude, Pakistan had politicians openly saying they'd ethnic cleanse the country of Pathans and Pashto people.

What's the full title?

YouTube will actually take action and has done in most instances. I won't say they're the fastest but they do kick people off the platform if they deem them high risk.

I don't understand the comments suggesting this is "guilty by proxy". These platforms have algorithms designed to keep you engaged and through their callousness, have allowed extremist content to remain visible.

Are we going to ignore all the anti-vaxxer groups who fueled vaccine hesitancy which resulted in long dead diseases making a resurgence?

To call Facebook anything less than complicit in the rise of extremist ideologies and conspiratorial beliefs, is extremely short-sighted.

"But Freedom of Speech!"

If that speech causes harm like convincing a teenager walking into a grocery store and gunning people down is a good idea, you don't deserve to have that speech. Sorry, you've violated the social contract and those people's blood is on your hands.

I would say the acting is pretty good. Especially Alec Newman playing Paul. The weakest one I always thought was the actress playing Chani but she gets better in Children of Dune.

The cast is strong in Denis's version for sure. I was uncertain about Chalomet for Part 2 but he did well. For me, the cast could've shone so much more if the character work was better.

Having seen the SyFy miniseries, I refuse to believe that Dune is unadaptable because it was possible in the early 2000s. It might not look visually stunning and the costumes look goofy but the character work is staggering and the writers go out of their way to give minor characters like Irulan something to do so that her character has a chance to shine. It does all this in less time than Dune 1 & 2 combined.

I came away from Dune 1 largely hollow towards the characters because it felt like they weren't all the way there. Oscar Isaac is a good choice for Leto but we so little of him that his character isn't there. Several of Dune's key points were removed and the film suffers because information is lacking further backing.

The importance of water isn't emphasised as much and as a consequence, Liet Kynes is non-existent. Kynes's dream is important because Paul manipulates it to control the Fremen. There's supposed to be a dinner scene where a lot of the power plays going on in the Empire are presented. It's also where Paul begins to play the political game himself. It's where Jessica's character has a stage where you can see what she's capable of. Not having this scene removed context for the politics in Dune's world.

After seeing Dune 2, I enjoyed it a lot more but it confirmed for me that the movies are all spectacle and no substance. I didn't care what was going on, it all just felt like it wasn't Dune, I didn't know these characters. I hated Stilgar, he was incredibly annoying throughout the movie. I have no idea what they're planning to do with Chani. She has a part to play in Messiah which requires certain things and I don't think we're getting them.