My story is more tame compared to the others listed, but still a wild 15 minutes for me.

I was walking from my house to a friend’s on a warm April day. As I left my house I saw some rain clouds but figured it was a quick 15 minute walk and I’d be fine, no need for an umbrella.

The first five minutes of my walk, the clouds quickly changed, shit, rain was coming. Sure enough, downpour. Buckets of water coming out of the sky.

Then it paused, for a moment, only for it to start hailing. Bright sun but hail dropping from the sky.

Then nothing. Clear skys, bright sun, a beautiful April day. I picked the exact wrong 15 minutes to go outside.

I’ve never been hit so hard by a YouTube video until his final video, “so long nerds”. Just an excellent Minecraft YouTuber, funny and with a heart of gold. I look forward to the documentary about his life.

In case it’s unclear this video is from 1996, when Collins was first elected to the Senate. So her re-election in 2002 would be her second term. Then she ran again in 2008, and 2014, and 2020, and now 2026.

I assume the person making the dough is also prepping by chopping vegetables and meats, as well as babysitting the machine.

Zero people is impossible (since regardless someone has to load the machine), but reducing from 3 down to 2 or down to 1, that could be possible.

Exactly, the dough alone is a whole job. I found other robots online that pull dough balls directly from a fridge and press them out, so those seem like they would save time.

And those robots also put the pizza into the oven, remove it, and cut it.

if you’re doing all three of those steps, dough, toppings and cooking, that would save some time.

You do still need someone for prep, making the dough balls, cutting most ingredients, filling the various machines, etc. But those robots could be helpful at reducing labor costs. Could being the key word.

If these things break I don’t know how long they take to fix. Sure people “break” too, but they’re easier to swap in.

Kindell previously used Picnic’s robots at T-Mobile Park, home of the Seattle Mariners, a baseball team.

Usually, he’d need about 10 people to make pizza in such a setup. With the robots that number fell to just two.

So I’m not familiar with the T-Mobile Park setup and I don’t know which specific robot they used, but I found a video demo of the Picnic robot. There is no way that system reduces the number of employees from 10 to 2.

First off you don’t need 10 people to make a pizza. The robot does the “toppings” step, which is the easiest step. You know how I know it’s the easiest step? When you have kids pizza making parties guess which step the kids do? The toppings step.

If he had said it takes 3 people to make a pizza and the robot brings it down to 2, or that the robot speeds up production by 30% or so, that’s believable.

Also the pizza making machine is huge. You’re losing a whole prep area with that thing. If you’re only making pizza then maybe that’s ok, but most pizza places I’ve been too also make sandwiches or other things. A robot making things is a novelty so maybe if you plan a new restaurant with this specifically in mind you can justify the space, but I don’t see this fitting into an existing kitchen.

C-SPAN to the rescue

Original article seems to be missing now,

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/8/30/david-finchers-cliff-booth-will-get-an-imax-only-release-from-netflix-playing-in-just-350-us-theaters

Seems to cover the same content. Source is a tweet so it’s possible it was taken down because despite the tweet saying confirmed there is no source.

Edit: “Source” tweet below.

Yeah Discord is definitely seen less, but it’s also more niche/focused. As an example I saw a post the other day about Linux support for a game .

Something like politics is more public generally speaking.

Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, they are all shared the same way because they are all shaped the same way.

Plus once sharing images of text became the norm, it happened everywhere.

I mentioned deleted content, but what about private content? Discord content is private, so how is it shared? As an image.

That same study also includes this figure,

But the study doesn’t measure other surfaces or things like “a nearby sink” or “a hand towel”. Perhaps for airborne particles they roam more freely, but what about surface particles? I feel like there is more to study.

Deny, deny, deny

So the reason is historical.

There was a time when Twitter was the source of information. So people got used to linking to Twitter because that’s where the conversation started.

However linking to Twitter is an extra step. If I sent you the message,

“Finally! I knew I was right!!! twitter.com/some/tweet/abc123”

then you have to click to know what I’m talking about. If I include inline the tweet “@nasa: Red balloons are stronger than blue balloons” then you have all the context immediately in whatever app you saw the message.

Plus what if that tweet is taken down/deleted? Now I have to explain what was said.

A solution to this is inline previews. Many news sites use this method and many apps provide an inline preview. But this doesn’t always work, especially if sites, like Twitter, would prefer you to follow the link.

Another reason is how people use social media sites like Reddit or Lemmy. Many of these apps/sites default or have an option for a “card” view or layout. The card layout is great for images, but not so great for text.

As an example visit https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/c/asklemmy , which defaults to the card/large view and just start scrolling mindlessly. If you visit right now you see a large man’s face, a bunch of text, and then eventually a Toy Story meme.

Now try, https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/c/workreform and do the same. You get nice big pictures, mostly tweets, but big pictures. The giant photo of Mitch catches the eye and you can quickly see the context.

Now try both communities again, but switch to the compact view. It’s a completely different experience.

It’s also why sometimes you get communities where the title is the same for every post or “I can’t think of a title”. The title isn’t important, it’s just images.

That isn’t to say that I think one layout over the other is wrong, it’s just a different way to explore.

So I was going to say that in general theaters won’t play films that are unrated or rated NC-17, although you might get a small independent theater to play an unrated film.

However in article discussing the film Terrifier 3,

Before the pandemic, few movie theaters would book a title that didn’t have a rating, because of strict limits on TV advertising, among other things. But times have changed, and Terrifier 3 was able to secure a berth in 2,513 cinemas.

…had [Terrifier 3] been submitted, it risked receiving an NC-17 rating, meaning that no one 17 or younger could buy a ticket, period.

theaters carrying the film, including the three biggest circuits (AMC, Cinemark and Regal), are treating Terrifier 3 as if it were an R-rated film

So it sounds like an unrated film could play in a major theater. However the film Terrifier 3 is a horror film and likely has a lot of violence, which culturally speaking Americans are more ok with. Your example is around sex which Americans are usually more taboo about.

Obviously it depends on the film, but I think if you made a film you think would get an NC-17 rating, you’d be better off releasing it as unrated and then trying to convince (major) theaters the film will be successful enough to make money in order to get it shown.

She’s apparently strongly rumored to play,

Sock, sock, show, shoe.

Sometimes you grab two socks and then one of the socks is wrong. I’m not walking around in one shoe to fix my sock problem.

So technically this new film isn’t based on a book, but really that’s just a difference between “screenplay by” and “written by”. One of the central characters of the new film wrote a book and I’m confident Aaron Sorkin read that book, but it isn’t technically based on that book.

It’s a companion piece or spiritual sequel.

The first film, “The Social Network” was based on a book with the screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin, and directed by David Fincher.

This film, “The Social Reckoning” is written by Aaron Sorkin as well as being directed by Aaron Sorkin.

Can Aaron Sorkin write and direct a good film? Yes, he has in the past I would expect he has again.

I expect what makes this less of a sequel is the focus. The first film was focused on Mark Zuckerberg the person. This film seems to be more focused on Facebook the company and the people involved in the 2021 leak.. Don’t get me wrong, Jeremy Strong us going to play an excellent lizard person Mark Zuckerberg, but compared to the last film it’s going to be a big jump in character.

Banning cars is stupid. The goal should be to make cars the least viable option. Plumbers, electricians and roofers might be an example of people who need cars and that’s fine.

We’re always going to need exceptions, look at ambulances. We need roads that go to your house because who knows what tragedy may befall you. You might only need an ambulance once every ten years, if that, but we still want high quality roads that go to your house.