No fucking way this was better than Hereditary. The Babadook is iconic, but if I think right now what I can remember after all these years, little remains. Yet with Hereditary there is so much that stays with me.
I literally feel there is a Hollywood exec that has done a line of cocaine and said exactly that
Fuck I hope Hollywood finally realises that they have really hit the the bottom of the barrel regarding remakes. Also, some sequels or whatever-quels have been hit and miss.
They need to focus on new fresh ideas, something new. Unfortunately they have to do something that is much harder now and that is not playing safe with proven IP. Make new IP, what ever gets the right team to be consistent with new movie ideas, maybe like Studio A24, will be in blue waters not fighting over the nostalgia against each other.
If you want to look at a country that solved their power problem with solar, I heard that is exactly what Vietnam did by incentivising the private generation of power, basically buying extra power from people's solar. But do your own research, not entirely sure of the whole story
Bullshit, South African here. Yes solar has helped, mostly the affluent who can afford to install their own private home/business solar power.
But The huge problem what caused it was the ANC, which in May lost its majority in the elections for the first time since 1994.
The state run power company, Eskom, had been run into the ground by the ANC due to corruption and incompetence. In 1997 a white paper showed there would not be enough power by 2007. The only two power stations they build, the two largest in the world if I am not incorrect has been the subject of the state capture commission due to corruption.
In 2024 when it became clear they might lose majority, they exempted themselves from a government policy, which affects all medium to large businesses, which mandated they had to procure anything like maintenance or supplies through a BEE (black economic empowerment) partner. The idea is good but has been abused as rent seeking by the politically connected. So now they are exempt and the OEMs can directly work to fix and maintain the power stations.
Funny due to the loadshedding, or rolling blackouts, we did not have enough power stations working, and as far as I know we were one, if not the only country reaching our Paris accords targets.
But solar power is here to stay, heck even I want it on my own place, due to the cost of electricity becoming unaffordable, if you take a 10 year loan on a solar system, the cost savings will pay of the system itself. This has led to the affluent that can afford high tariffs prices from Eskom switch to Solar, saving them money, but they were used to subsidise electricity prices for the poor. So now the poor must pay more for electricity.
The government did finally approve the independent power producers bill, finally allowing people other than government to produce electricity, and solar looks like a solid option, since we have lots of Sun and the falling prices. So government is loosing grip on the generation market, allowing the free market to make changes.
But I will say it has been so nice to have had uninterrupted power when I come home, not needing to throw out my freezer food, having a hot shower, being able to prepare food on a hot stove under lights instead of a braai/BBQ.
It is sad that the last noises were identified to be loud banging of what was identified as a controller against the shell. Probably to get it to work.
Well hopefully Logitech will improve their design in the future. Maybe in the future I will read the article and not make something up. Who knows
Well I have always tried Linux since 2008. But it had up until recently been hard, you needed an affinity to tinker, to try and identify and fix. And I do not have any IT background. Luckily there is a wealth of knowledge and your fix is one Google search away.
But recently, Linux, I use Mint btw, has really become stable, well rounded platform. I installed steam and most of my games work marvelously, put like 60 hours this last month on cyberpunk.
Also my Windows apps like Cura slicer are now available from the app Store, as an unverified flatpak, but still it is working as a charm.
I think Linux is 90% of the way there, once the large software companies start making their Apps fully available on Linux I do not see a reason why Linux could eventually become a major share of desktop os
Oh I have seen many photos of faces. Best one still is an MTV show just the tattoo of us where friends can choose what and where to tattoo on each other, there was a guy that got the full Trump portrait on his ass, and he loved it
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