Roofing company I'm using to replace the roof that my insurance company is paying for is has recommended using GAF Timberline HDZ Shingles
are those quality?
I'm getting this error message in this video at 2- seconds. Red power button is flashing along with the lights going right to left on top of it. It's an error message that shows the chair is in neutral, so you're supposed to put it back into drive manually. Problem is the chair is not in neutral! I flipped it back from neutral back into drive multiple times and I keep getting the same error message. What do I do now?
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Sorry for the meme clickbait headline I couldn't resist lol
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sure some countries like Saudi Arabia can just build a pipeline to move oil to bypass the Strait of Hormuz within their own borders. However there's countries like Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, that would have to cross multiple international borders in order to build an oil pipeline. And once that happens it gets very tricky as to how to get permission to do that.
Plus sometimes they would have to cross countries like Syria which are currently very destabilized. So it's not simply a matter of just “building a bunch of pipelines”.
The other problem is oil is not the only thing that goes through the Strait of Hormuz. A large percentage of the fertilizer that grows our food goes through the Strait of Hormuz and that cannot be put into a pipeline.
He goes on into more details on the subject and it's a good video overall. His overall assessment is “when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz you broke it you bought it” and he expects trump to fix the thing that he broke.
I've read multiple reviews that said the movie was disappointing, or middling, or just sort of missed the mark. Very much disagree. This movie is a disaster. This movie is just flat out terrible.
Story: been there done that
everything in this movie RE: aliens has been done before, and been done better, by The X-Files and about 30 or 40 other TV shows and movies. Every plot point is a retread from another movie or another show. Nothing here is fresh or new or different or unusual. If the year were 1985 this might possibly be somewhat cutting edge. But it's not so it isn't.
Bad special effects
every animal in this movie looked in the uncanny valley, weird, zone. There wasn't a single second where I believe that any animal was even somewhat real. The scene with the cardinal hypnotizing the weather lady was positively hilarious but it was supposed to be dramatic. I honestly found it to be ridiculous.
The aliens in the archival footage looked about as life like as senator McConnell. These were the fakest aliens I've seen in a movie in ages. Just terrible. At least the final big boss alien looked somewhat OK.
Sluggish performances
Josh O'Connor we're so phenomenal in Wake up dead man and I was really looking forward to how he did in this. Unfortunately I think they put him on tranquilizers or something. Was it the directors choice for him to under act the entire movie? He seemed like he was sleepwalking through this entire flick. It was honestly confusing. I kept waiting for him to wake up and you know... act! Never happened.
The rest of the cast was, you know, mostly OK. But it was a weak script with weak dialogue and none of the actors could elevate what they were given
flat out bad filmmaking
there was a scene where our heroes were being chased in their car by a whole squad of bad guys in their cars. One of the bad guys cars flip and it completely and totally blocks the road, and you couldn't get around because there were trees. So they were totally cut off from following our heroes.
And then... literally 10 seconds later... all of the bad guys cars were right on the ass end of our heroes! No explanation given. Did they levitate? Are these flying cars? What was the point of showing the cars were completely blocked in if you were just going to pretend it never happened? That's just flat out bad filmmaking
the stupidest government agents you've ever seen
well let's see, we have our suspects cornered in a motel. They have the most important object in the Galaxy in their possession. Let's just run in through the front door and completely leave the back window open. And then after we barge in let's not even look out the back window to see if somebody possibly escaped. This is just the barest beginning of how phenomenally phenomenally stupid all of the government agents in this movie were. Just honestly some of the stupidest most incompetent morons you've ever seen on the silver screen. This is the kind of stuff you'd see in a comedy not a drama.
The mystical magical all powerful macguffin
is there anything this little piece of alien technology can't do? It can hypnotize people, it can make them see things that aren't there, it can drop people in to remote locations, it can make you invisible, it can turn you all your friends and two fire engines invisible, basically it can do anything and everything. I was waiting for somebody to just fly to the moon holding the Mac guffin. Whooo hooooo! Here we go on our way to the moon!
Spielberg is a legend
he's given us so many amazing movies. I just hope he chooses to retire instead of cranking out bad flicks till the end
This movie has an absolute crap ton of action scenes. I think at least 50% of the budget was spent on automatic weapons, and about 40% of the screen time are people engaged in long chase scenes and epic automatic gun battles. The acting ranges from terrible to bad and the special effects are occasionally actually pretty good and occasionally actually terrible
a young Thomas Jane hangs out in a hotel room completely naked with a super hot, angry, also naked robot lady with terrible breast enhancements. Why is he naked? He just is OK?
having said all that it's really kind of honestly fascinating the issues it brings up. For instance in the future if we could get a robotic leg and a robotic arm, and another robotic arm, etcetera etcetera at some point do you consider yourself a machine and or Android? Or do you consider yourself still fully human? And furthermore if there's some kind of robot uprising where would your loyalty lie? And could an ultra intelligent AI betray its own kind an ally with humans against a robot uprising? Could an ultra intelligent AI have emotions? Could an ultra intelligent AI become emotionally attached to a human being?
So yes it's cheesy but honestly I think it raises questions that other movies of this type don't really raise.
Whatever it takes to get you people to stop bitchin
Kennedy has focused on nutrition but has neglected food safety, critics say.
Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made it one of his top priorities to convince Americans to “eat real food,” including more fresh fruits and vegetables. But, it’s a hard sell when those real foods are causing real eruptions of explosive diarrhea across the country.
The Food and Drug Administration is investigating six outbreaks of foodborne diarrheal illnesses caused by Cyclospora, a unicellular parasite known for spreading from human feces onto fresh produce. Past outbreaks have been linked to leafy greens, fresh basil, fresh cilantro, snow peas, green onions, and raspberries. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tallied a record high of over 11,500 confirmed and probable cases across 41 states, with over 300 requiring hospitalization. And that case total is almost certainly an undercount.
The largest of the outbreaks is linked to Taylor Farms’ iceberg lettuce that was sold at Taco Bell restaurants and many other companies. The outbreak has sickened thousands of people across nine states, up from five states identified last week. One of the affected states is Michigan, which alone has reported 9,253 cases as of July 27. The other five outbreaks have no identified source.
Given the situation, it’s no surprise that a CBS News poll over the weekend found that about 40 percent of Americans are now buying or eating less produce amid the outbreak. Only 4 percent reported they were following Kennedy’s guidance of eating more.
The finding appears to be a setback to Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, which has typically focused on overhauling nutrition guidance while neglecting food safety and infectious diseases.
So for whatever reason there was a lot of underage kids on State Street on Saturday night. And at two different times a platoon of cops were chasing these underage kids all around State Street. It was kind of weird kind of funny and kind of ridiculous. Just a bunch of cops and a bunch of underage kids all just racing around a crowded State Street
They had like 3 or 4 cop cars triangulating trying to get this one girl who looked like she was maybe 15 years old. Some cop tried to pepper spray her and wound up pepper spraying himself in the face! Hilarious stuff. And then after all this they get her, arrest her, put her in the car, then literally 45 minutes later she's walking around the street again. What the fuck?
Also watching an overweight cop with a bunch of cop equipment on trying to catch a 15 year old girl on foot was pretty hilarious
I would call this show “OK”, at least so far. I really like the lead actors both Anya Taylor-Joy and Timothy Olyphant, I basically tuned in specifically for them.
At 2 episodes in it's basically a chase show with joy being chased around a casino then joy being chased around the city then joy being chased around the desert etcetera. Lots of chasing going on.
The setup is just very basic, there is nothing intriguing or remarkable about any of the plot aspects or any of the characters. It just feels like it's recycled family crime drama from about 10 different shows. The whole thing feels incredibly average. I may or may not continue to watch not sure.
I'm basically only watching this for Anya Taylor joy and Timothy Olyphant . Both of whom I really enjoy as actors. To be perfectly frank there's nothing groundbreaking here. There's a heist. There's drama intrigue and betrayal. There's a chase scene. Then another chase scene. And then after that guess what? Another chase scene.
Good action, characters a bit thin so far but you know it's only the first episode. All in all I'll keep watching and hopefully it improves as a season goes along. If you like crime and family drama and action scenes you can't go wrong with it. Just don't expect it to blow you away at least not yet
Spoilers for a 75 year old movie
instead of writing a long detailed review of one of the most reviewed movies of all time I'll just get some highlights
the fact that the cat and mouse game of the movie is played between two people who deeply respect each other and are great friends elevates this movie to the next level
the slow realization that the woman he's dealing with isn't just a bad person like himself, but she's pure straight evil is at the core of the movie. He realizes he's in over his head and scrabbles trying to figure out how to make things right
I like the fact that the murder actually went off without a hitch. It was basically the perfect crime, and yet despite being the perfect crime fate had another idea
pulling up to a drive in restaurant and ordering a beer that sits on a tray balanced on the driver side door, drinking your beer and then driving off, is really quite something isn't it?
the lead female character is bold, strong, intelligent, conniving, sexy etcetera. Obviously she's a bad person to put it lightly. But she's the major plot mover
the protagonist hanging out with his own murder victims daughter and becoming her trusted confidante is so weird and twisted, it was just diabolical. And yet there was something pure about it because he genuinely felt terrible about what he'd done and sort of wanted to make it right
if you put on dark sunglasses and talk to a stranger in whispered tones in the middle of a grocery aisle that's a completely normal thing to do. Not suspicious at all! 😂
this movie perfects what I call “situational high tension”, where the scene is just a few people in A room and yet the relation of those people and the secrets they hold creates extraordinary dramatic tension
overall if you haven't seen this movie you absolutely owe it to yourself to see it. Just get over the fact that it's black and white. You will forget about the fact you don't like black and white movies in about 5 minutes into this movie.
This is an interesting video. It starts off telling us all the great and the wonderful things that 5-MeO-DMT can do, and how it helps veterans break out of terrible depressive slumps that nothing else will help with. Which sounds awesome.
Then in the second-half they start talking about how they're not actually trying to legalize 5-MeO-DMT, after all it's a naturally occurring compound. You can't patent it. However! You can patent unique analogs of 5-MeO-DMT.
So that is exactly what they're trying to do. They are creating unique analogs and then testing them to see if they work just as well if not better than naturally occurring 5-MeO-DMT. And once you patent it then you've got a monopoly on that analog