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Seconded

I read the whole article and that particular test was the least alarming to me. Arricle sais the cells died 3x faster than when exposed to a more diluted solution, but the article doesn't mention references for what concentration levels were tested or if the levels were anywhere close to what a real human being could be exposed to. They just say the particles might accumulate over time, but that doesn't really mean anything without hard numbers.

So is the abusers ability to go through with it 🤔

The big studios have been putting all their eggs in the most profitable basket in the last few years, which is huge action-packed franchises that consume record-breaking budgets. The mid-budget summer movie as we knew them up to 2015 or so (think Hangover, Superbad, Bridesmaids,...) have been dying out as a result, unfortunately. But the cracks of this model are now starting to show due to many "big" franchise productions bombing at the box office this summer.

I mean it depends which community/subreddit you engage in. If you try to have deep political discussions on r/worldnews (or any mainstream subreddit for that matter), you should be prepared for the most populist, hive-minded, karmawhoring reactions you can imagine. Nobody would expect a truly balanced, facts-based discussion in the comments section of foxnews.com either. There's dedicated communities for that kind of thing for a reason.

I agree with you about the state of reddit, but your particular take you pull up as an example doesn't make you look more reasonable than the average redditor. Just my personal opinion.

How exactly does that drawer thing work to access my subscriptions? I haven't seen it properly explained anywhere yet.

As a workaround, voting and un-voting a post should also mark it as read.

I don't like to be a pessimist, but as a musician and writer, and seeing how the value of my work has steadily decreased years before AI became mainstream, I don't see how "real" art will become more valuable. Maybe on an individual/personal level, but not in the industry as a whole. Especially once an untrained person can't tell the difference between AI and "handmade" art.

AC leans even harder into Wes' unabridged self-indulgent side imo, so I wouldn't get my hopes up.

This is an interesting graph! I think the phenomenon of longer runtimes has two major reasons:

1. Streaming Studios are much less stringent with how long a movie can be since it's less of a concern how many times it can be shown per day/theatre. Also, runtime doesn't matter as much when the viewers can pause and return to it whenever they please. This is encouraged by streaming services because it also increases the overall time spent in the app.

2. The vanishing of medium-budget movies High-profile, high-budget movies by known directors have always been longer on average, because they can afford to do so and are expected to draw large audiences. In recent years the number of mid-budget movies, the likes we are used to from pre-2010, has drastically decreased in favor of big blockbuster productions (here's an article about it). So the average runtime has increased as a consequence of this.

I personally don't like this trend. Although I really enjoy longer movies, most of them wind up with obnoxious amounts of badly written filler-content.