Jeff LaMarche @jeff_lamarche@mastodon.social

Watched Blade Runner 2049 for the... fifth? time.

It still bothers me this movie wasn't more commercially successful. Such a beautifully shot movie.

I really didn't think they should do a sequel. I thought there's no way they could do it well.

I was wrong. After all these watchings, I only have two relatively minor complaints about the film.

"Trade wars are easy".

(it also helps that cable and streaming got the FCC the fuck out of the picture)

I literally watched almost no TV from around 1993 until a few years ago. No cable, just a TV with VCR or DVD for movies.

It's really amazing to me what has happened to TV during my lifetime. TV used to be really kind of empty calories; substance-less nonsense and overdone melodrama. Not worth the time.

Don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of crap, but there's some really amazing visual storytelling happening now, and the longer timelines allow much deeper stories than feature-length movies.

Really digging Man in the High Castle S3. Started a little slow, but man... really solid season. I wonder how long we're going to have to wait for S4...

(oh, and I'm not quite done S3 yet, so no spoilers please)

The House/Senate compromise made a lot of sense in the 1780s, but it has become incredibly inequitable. The only way to change that is to get a constitutional amendment ratified by 38 states, but there are 40 states with less than 10M people. who will never vote to give themselves less political power

I’m starting to warm up to the California seceding next year when its on the ballot. (2/2)

39 million Californians get two Senators while Wyoming, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana Idaho, and Nebraska get 14 Senators, and they have less people combined than LA County. (1/2)

I knew it was likely to go this way, but it's still a gut punch to see Manchin and Collins give their support to such an unqualified candidate.

Just... no, Netflix.

So, to answer my own earlier question, yes, you can turn off the FEMA Presidential message, but you have to turn off all governmental messages.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202743

My team at Apple is looking for a full stack web dev who will focus on front-end work. Link below, or feel free to send resumes directly to me. Private messages welcome, boosts appreciated.

https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?#&ss=114192908&t=0&so=&lo=0*USA&pN=0&openJobId=114192908

Can you opt out of the FEMA Presidential Alert? Asking for a friend...

I wish websites could detect Dark Mode and switch their color schemes. I have sensitive eyes and adore dark mode, especially at night, but man, when I open a typical white-background website, it hits my retinas like a baseball bat of white light.

All the #Inktober toots and tweets are making me jealous.