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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Silver appears on-screen at the beginning of Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Raoul J. Raoul, the director of the animated short Something’s Cookin. Raoul loses his temper at toon Roger Rabbit for seeing tweety birds when a refrigerator crashes on his head, and not stars as the script specified. This was a prank Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis pulled on then-Disney CEO, Michael Eisner, as Eisner and Silver had despised each other since their days at Paramount Pictures in the early 1980s, especially with the issues they faced making 48 Hrs. Silver trimmed his beard off, paid his expenses, and asked to not have his name in initial cast lists. Reportedly, when production wrapped, because Silver was unrecognizable, Eisner questioned who played Raoul and was told it was Silver, at which point, Eisner shrugged and praised his performance.

    Honestly sounds like he was a pretty good sport about having that reputation.










  • Copying a comment I made from another thread:

    If you select “No” it gives you an option to go to an alternate DDG homepage “noai.duckduckgo.com”. But it looks like if you just go to their normal homepage, they’ve got a link to DuckAI at the top, searching for images defaults to including AI images, and they have a Search Assist that uses AI as well.

    So even though the overwhelming majority of their users have responded “No AI”, they’re still defaulting everyone to the “Yes AI” experience unless you use an alternate URL. That’s kind of shitty. I mean at least they have a “no” option, but seems like it should be the default.




  • jballs@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@sopuli.xyzBow your heads
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    3 months ago

    I saw an article somewhere that pointed out the Hallmark movie formula is targeted at empty nester moms with daughters. It’s their fantasy that their daughter, who has left home to find fulfillment in a career will come back home and fall in love with a local boy, realize that moving to the city was a mistake, and settle down in their home town (near their mother).

    Kinda sad when you realize that’s why they’re so successful.






  • jballs@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@sopuli.xyzwhy
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    4 months ago

    I also found that if you really want to be understood in French, you have to force yourself into an over the top, bordering on ridiculous French accent.

    So the key to speaking good French is to default to the most sexist position possible and intentionally speak like an asshole.