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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by goldshirt*9 on Today at 09:12:23 AM »
Quote from: 8ullfrog on Yesterday at 10:50:47 AM
Goldshirt, that's exactly how you're supposed to feel about Jack Ryan. He's a professor forced into a world of intrigue. Unfortunately, the show mostly forces him into a Jason Bourne archetype, which is incorrect for the character.

Over decades of trauma, Jack Ryan becomes a hard, cold operative. And he STILL gets shocked by the brutality of the system. Ford did a great job displaying that in the movies, when everyone is cheering the raid of a terrorist training camp like a video game, he is appalled.

One of my favorite Jack Ryan scenes comes from another Ryan, Alec Baldwin. As an academic, Baldwin Ryan has done the research and presented the best possible analysis of Halsey. Connery Ramius is a man who has walked the walk rather than talk the talk but is also a highly educated man. He tells Ryan that Halsey was a fool.

It's a fantastic nerdy scene in the middle of an action thriller.

(Also, Ramius kills political officer Putin in the opening segment of the film.)
Im not sure The actor pulls it off TBH.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on Today at 09:07:47 AM »
Fresh cream scones with seville orange marmalade.  This batch of the marmalade was extra bitter.  What odd oranges they are:  bumpy skins and millions of seeds.  Nobody eats them right off the tree because they are basically inedible in their natural form.  They need this bizarre cooking and sugar addition.  I wonder if Seville Orange marmalade existed before Columbus "discovered" the Americas and sugar cane was imported into Europe.  I doubt it.  Seville was an important port, so the trees were perhaps imported for their flowers and foliage.  Certainly not for the fruit, initially.  I guess you can add honey, but I don't use that.  The oranges take days to prep and the marmalade varies from year to year, depending on the natural bitterness of the rinds.  This batch was one of the most bitter, but it's still pretty tasty.

Here:  https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/the-last-bitter-word-about-the-origins-of-seville-oranges-1.3953631
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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by 8ullfrog on Yesterday at 10:50:47 AM »
Goldshirt, that's exactly how you're supposed to feel about Jack Ryan. He's a professor forced into a world of intrigue. Unfortunately, the show mostly forces him into a Jason Bourne archetype, which is incorrect for the character.

Over decades of trauma, Jack Ryan becomes a hard, cold operative. And he STILL gets shocked by the brutality of the system. Ford did a great job displaying that in the movies, when everyone is cheering the raid of a terrorist training camp like a video game, he is appalled.

One of my favorite Jack Ryan scenes comes from another Ryan, Alec Baldwin. As an academic, Baldwin Ryan has done the research and presented the best possible analysis of Halsey. Connery Ramius is a man who has walked the walk rather than talk the talk but is also a highly educated man. He tells Ryan that Halsey was a fool.

It's a fantastic nerdy scene in the middle of an action thriller.

(Also, Ramius kills political officer Putin in the opening segment of the film.)
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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by goldshirt*9 on November 18, 2024, 09:13:17 AM »
Finished
"Slow Horses" S04 awaiting S05.
Tried to watch "Those about to die" but just could get into it.
"The rings of power" S02
I am now watching "Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light"
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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on November 17, 2024, 02:59:40 PM »
Just saw Season 1 of Pagan Peak (der Pass).  German/Austrian thriller with a detective from each country forced to work in tandem to find a serial killer whose victims span national borders.  Austrian detective is cranky excess driven guy who is super smart but teetering on corrupt while German woman detective is genial professional and also smart.  They get along like oil and water at first but things improve.

The end was satisfying and I'd watch more of it.  There's apparently 4 seasons.
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General Discussion / Re: Reader's Nook
« Last post by goldshirt*9 on November 14, 2024, 09:03:33 AM »
Quote from: 6pairsofshoes on November 12, 2024, 10:00:43 AM
I'm reading Germinal by Emil Zola.  Horrendous living conditions of coal miners under 2nd Empire France.  Whole families are reduced to the level of beasts and trapped in a relentless cycle of poverty as they opt to go into the mines.  There's terrible unemployment, so often this is the best job you can find.  Eventually, the miners get fed up and go on strike.  But the organizers of the strike have a variety of ideas about the relations of labor and capital.  Some of the owners live in a bubble and have no idea of the actual living conditions, so they think the miners are super greedy and unreasonable.  The striking miners adopt a mob mentality, and, of course, hurt the one owner who is a real mensch.  If this ends the way many of the other books by this author end, the capitalists will crush the workers with the wheels of industry.  This is one of those books I picked up due to insomnia.

Best accompanied by Heaven 17's "Work."

Wasn't that how the French peasantry were always kept ?
Possibly it is the reason why they "protest" today is due to this treatment ?
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on November 14, 2024, 08:14:05 AM »
Tea and a muffin.  Breakfast.
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General Discussion / Re: Reader's Nook
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on November 12, 2024, 10:00:43 AM »
I'm reading Germinal by Emil Zola.  Horrendous living conditions of coal miners under 2nd Empire France.  Whole families are reduced to the level of beasts and trapped in a relentless cycle of poverty as they opt to go into the mines.  There's terrible unemployment, so often this is the best job you can find.  Eventually, the miners get fed up and go on strike.  But the organizers of the strike have a variety of ideas about the relations of labor and capital.  Some of the owners live in a bubble and have no idea of the actual living conditions, so they think the miners are super greedy and unreasonable.  The striking miners adopt a mob mentality, and, of course, hurt the one owner who is a real mensch.  If this ends the way many of the other books by this author end, the capitalists will crush the workers with the wheels of industry.  This is one of those books I picked up due to insomnia.

Best accompanied by Heaven 17's "Work."
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on November 12, 2024, 09:53:57 AM »
Earl Grey tea and a cream scone with quince jelly and super bitter seville orange marmalade.  The marmalade is main and the quince is pudding.
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Technology / Re: scam hijack pages
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on November 10, 2024, 07:28:54 AM »
This is not so much about scam hijack pages as Facebook bots.  I ran into this profile of some "guy" asking one of my friends to friend him. 

Here's the text of his request and a link to his FB page.
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Hey, I just wanna say I love what you shared on your profile, both your posts and your ideas. They really resonated with me and I would love to learn more about your thoughts. If you're available, feel free to send me a friend request!

His FB profile page is pretty amazing as it contains posts like this one.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100080617054056&comment_id=Y29tbWVudDoxMDE2MTk0MTAxMTIzNzkyMF8zODg1ODY2NDU4NDAxODc2

"They examine patients, diagnose and treat diseases, provide medication, and perform surgery." followed by two photos:  One of him holding a pitcher of beet juice next to another photo of him pointing to a handful of carrots.  It's simply bizarre.  I love that he was trained at the Virginia Commonwealth School of Dentistry and works as an orthopaedic surgeon.  There's nice photos of him performing abdominal surgery on patients.  Just what you'd want -- have a serious internal injury?  Call a dentist!

She has lots of other similar requests, all from men.  This is the mother of a friend of mine, a retired nurse, and I wonder if she's targeted because all her posts are public?
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