No I don’t.

This is a discussion between Andy Weir and his book editor Julian Pavia. At the 6 minute mark, he talks about how both he and screenwriter Drew Goddard wanted the scene to be in the movie, but “It would have added about 6 minutes of runtime, and it’s like aaah, we’re getting pretty long, so.”

I haven’t seen the movie, I’ve read the book and seen interviews with Weir.

A couple details in the book that aren’t in the movie: To farm astrophage, they pave over the Sahara desert with solar powered breeders. This, among other things, starts throwing the climate out of whack even faster. Stratt, Grace and a climatologist character who isn’t in the movie muse about how manmade global warming was erased in a month. No, check that, global warming bought them an extra month. Well, if we were able to get that accidentally, imagine what kind of global warming we could do if we really set our minds to it. So they nuke Antarctica to break off a giant ice sheet, to release huge quantities of methane trapped in the ice.

Weir often mentions regret that he didn’t get to add that scene. It was written in the screenplay, and would have been relatively cheap to make because there’s no compositing. Just a dialog scene with no special effects, cut to a pure special effects shot. No editing puppeteers out of the set or layering a live action astronaut in front of a CG planet.

It got cut for time, and I don’t think the scene even got filmed, so I don’t know if a future special Weir Edition blu-ray will include it.

Stirrup jeans are a thing.

That right there is called a dammit. You can have inside or outside dammits. They make special dammit pliers.

That would be amazing, an automotive scarlet letter. Require them to sew a D for Drunkard on their shirts, both bumpers and both doors.

Pilot here, over been in the habit of using 12 hour for local time and 24 hour for zulu time. “12:45pm, 1745z”

Per Wikipedia:

A company is a legal entity representing an association of legal persons with a shared objective, such as generating profit or benefiting society.

“Company” is a vague almost meaningless term, like “animal.”

The Linux Foundation is a 501©6 non-profit corporation. Americans are more likely to be familiar with 501©3, which covers charity organizations, such as the American Red Cross and St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital. 501©6 covers trade associations, like the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association, the National Association of Realtors and the US Chamber of Commerce.

As a trade association, the Linux Foundation is not itself a for-profit business, but they have a lot to do with for-profit businesses. Maintaining the world’s most popular kernel is chief among them.

Linux, being the Linux Foundation, a US company, would make it a weird choice for “we need to be less dependent on the US” but, Western Europe being a load rather than a prime mover is nothing new.

Moss Cow! Moss Cow

Come and dance and love the fish

Mister Disco Summoned It

AHAHAHA! HEY!

You kinda don’t.

Windows is American, via Microsoft. MacOS is American, via Apple. Android and ChromeOS are American, via Google. BSD is American, via UC Berkley. Linux is at least partially American, via the Linux Foundation.

Western Europe has essentially nothing to show for itself in terms of processor architecture, instruction sets and operating systems. Globally, that’s pretty much all been done by the Americans and the British. They get to claim ARM.

Congratulations on going open source though, we’ll see if you stick with it longer than the krauts did.

Would a government choose Fedora rather than Red Hat?

Made a bunch of noise about switching from American software to American software.

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…Fearsome predator.

Tuna are giant fish that live far off shore. Cats are known to fish but they won’t land a tuna any more than a dolphin.

A carnivore sees an herbivore, makes the logical conclusion, and enthusiastically implements a plan.

Cats stereotypically love tuna.

No cat in the history of cats has ever swam out to sea and caught their own tuna. No member of family felidae, extant or extinct, has ever achieved that.

Huh, sure enough. Isn’t that amazing.

Yes, because of some shit the company pulled I’m no longer interested in games made in Unity.

It’s stupid but I’ve seen stupider.

I like the wrappy tail. I grew up with a cat who would sit down and then she’d wrap her tail neatly across her toes, reminded me of one of those 90’s automatic shoulder harnesses in cars the way her tail moved.