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  • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]tomoviesDune 2 is awesome holy shit
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    1 month ago

    I don't think Herbert was making the point that decolonial movements are bad. Going on a galactic killing spree isn't decolonizing. Liet Keynes was the environmentalist decolonialist. Paul however was another imperialist.

    If you read the books its clear Herbert is a die hard historical materialist. Paul and Leto II will literally give lectures on it.





  • I'm a little suspicious that they clearly show a bunch of westerners touring the place and looking credulous but they never quote them. If you're not going to have them say "yeah I'm a nuclear physicist and this shit's real" then it just looks like cheap b-reel. I'm not saying their actors, but they for sure ain't physicists.

    Entire article quoted:

    China's new-generation "artificial sun" project Huanliu-3 (HL-3) has achieved remarkable progress in controlling nuclear fusion by discovering and realizing a new advanced magnetic field structure for the first time in the world, according to the China National Nuclear Corporation, one of the country's largest nuclear power operators.

    What is this? Propaganda for ants? Do better.





  • I have a standing fatwa on snap only because it comes installed and enabled by default on Ubuntu server. Maybe it's good for grandmas laptop but it's kill-on-sight in a server environment. Every Ubuntu server I've seen has eventually been taken offline without any warning because of snapd doing some auto update.

    Ubuntu server should have snapd disabled. Ubuntu shouldn't be the default distro for VPS providers. AFAIK its only the default because its the distro most people might have prior experience with.

    While I'm at it, Fedora is also on my shit list as dnf requires over a gig of memory to do a major version upgrade.




  • Few notes:

    • there's an isoformat method you can use instead of manually specifying the iso format for dates.
    • lol at that api-key key.
    • replace if good; return happy; else; return sad with if bad; return sad; return happy. Its easier to read and saves you some indents. It might offend functional programmers but this is python.
    • pandas is a huge dep and all your using it for is to make an xlsx. If you used CSV it all be standard python and the script would be more portable.

    Critiquing because its otherwise really good. Slap some argparsing on top. If you want to do bulk downloads look into asyncio and httpx.