you touched upon one of my other issues with the deer hunter - the pacing is a disaster. the first hour ish is incredibly slow pacing and then minus the first Russian roulette scene it’s a whirlwind of pacing until the end of the movie. really, really needed a much better editing job. cinematography? generally great. though you start to get some of that “everything dim all the time” approach during the fall of saigon sequence.

the main reason i watched it is as part of an effort to watch every feature length film which john cazale has been in, which, isn’t a very long list…

i was surprised because by it since i went in pretty much blind. think i prefer born on the Fourth of July and apocalypse now as far as vietnam era movies go.

the Mount baker scenes totally took me out of it hahaha, that was very noticeable since ive like, been to those spots.

pretty interesting that cimino pulled this one off since the rest of his career seems to suck hard.

fuck that with being given performance on the documentation. i hope you’re able to successfully fight that.

finally got around to watching the deer hunter.

uhmmmmmmmm

it’s pretty fucking racist in it’s portrayal of the vietnamese and vietnam war

on the other hand i finally watched furiosa which was awesome

me and my team use ai sometimes. ai being...llms...

where it helps:

- do i already know what i want and am trying to do and just want some boilerplate code to start with?

- do i want a summary slide or summary or meeting notes or etc.?

if yes to either of the above, sure, it helps. it's not worth the energy cost though imo.

that said, even the boilerplate code requires an understanding of the principles behind it to know if it's right or not...and then that is really just the easy first 30% of the work that can be jumped off of from there. specifically, using it for things like JSON, M, SQL, nothing crazy.

if i don't have a great concept yet or it's a language i'm not well-versed in, it is absolutely not helpful and does slow things down. easier/better to just watch a youtube video or spend some time in a textbook.

again, texas basically just did this. move there or give it a few years and let’s see if it makes the difference you’re hoping it does.

texas basically just did this. plus kb already mentioned prop 65.

https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2025/07/food-for-thought-tx-enacts-food-product-warning-labels-for-44-chemical

there’s a massive and lengthy “yes, and” response to this but im too tired and lazy to type it out

our product costs less than $3 each and we haven’t raised prices this year

i can recommend a few radio stations if you’re looking for that sort of that. heck maybe we can even get a bluesreviews of them.

we reduced sales volume for the year by 7% because of consumer spending in the US and because of Canadian impact due to tariffs and political situation

meanwhile it’ll be harder (maybe not possible?) to get a covid-vaccine later this year? and the budget proposal is fucked

if there’s not a big democratic sweep in midterms we are fucked as a country

maybe the west coast can band together again like last time - definitely feeling more and more like WA should hold federal taxation and use it to fix our own shit at this point

glad y’all took that seriously and hope you have a quick recovery with minimal lasting consequences. that sounds scary in the moment and i don’t know how the majority of people who don’t live in a city with a major, major healthcare network like we do manage these things. id imagine they don’t.

that was an amazing read

graza sucks and is just marketing hype, it’s like the liquid death of olive oil and seeing it get tangentially shit on made me happy

sam altman is a hack