Dinosaur movie wammen = good
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I have been holding on to this quote for a while from the second book in the JP series 'Lost World' and this is as good place as any to use it.
Ian Malcolm: "Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species."
"Yes? Why is that?" asked Harding.
"Because it means the end of innovation." Malcolm said.
"This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they'll evolve very fast. You put ten thousand on a big continent, and their evolution slows down. Now, for our on species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. And everybody on earth knows that innovation only occurs in small groups. Put three people on a committee and they may get something done. Ten people, and it gets harder. Thirty people, and nothing happens. Thirty million, it becomes impossible. That's the effect of mass media --- it keeps anything from happening. Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there's a McDonald's on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity --- our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees. But we haven't figured that out, so now we're planning to put five billion people together in cyberspace. And it'll freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global uniformity. Oh, that hurts. Are you done?"
"Almost," Harding said. "Hang on."
"And believe me, it'll be fast. If you map complex systems on a fitness landscape, you find the behavior can move so fast that fitness can drop precipitously. It doesn't require asteroids or diseases or anything else. It's just behavior that suddenly emerges, and turns out to be fatal to the creatures that do it. My idea was the dinosaurs --- being complex creatures --- might have undergone some of these behavioral changes. And that led to their extinction."
This is brilliant. Thank you.
While I am inclined to agree with Crichton's take now, given have things have panned out, I don't think it's as bad as laid out. For one thing, it's astonishing how not-online many people are, even younger people. Sites like Twitter or Youtube are really only frequented by a very small part of the population. I know someone who tries to stay informed about current events but still thinks reddit is "too far out there" to visit.
Since you mentioned accents, I work for a company in the US south/south east. I mostly work with small and local businesses. When I need to contact a company I either speak to a low level employee, like a receptionist, or the owner. Almost always I am greeted by a southern accent. The lower level employees I know are younger than myself and the owners I know are older. These are the not-online regular people. I don't know where they get their news from, if they bother to check at all, but they are certainly not part of the internet hive-mind. So there is still hope. And we have a large reach, covering many rural areas as well as most large cities in the south.
An interesting thing about the company I work for, even as new and re-opening jobs are almost entirely work from home, we only hire people in our region. As it was said to me "someone from New Jersey would have no idea how to handle these interactions" The company explicitly understands there is a cultural, regional component.
From what I've heard the Great Plains region is also doing the same thing, keeping business local and not expanding beyond their region to keep that "homey" feeling.
Nationalism vs. Globalism
I want Jurassic park but the dinosaurs win.
Only if Sam Neil gets out alive.
DeWanda who the father is. He aint sheet.
The last one was so god awful I can never be excited about this movie. Plus I have this stinking feeling the popular original characters are gonna get killed off (or atleast just Grant)...that's pretty much the playbook for wokeshit these days.
Nah if they kill the white guy it'll be Chris Pratt.
Became summer's breakout action stars?
Did this movie already come out? I've never even heard of it and I damn sure won't be watching it based on what I see here. This cover is the definition of cringe. I'm guessing they're trying to will this into being? Haha
Good point. It's a magazine for NPCs. They're telling them what to think.
Of course lol
Talk about fivehead. Yeesh.
Assuming you mean the one on the right that's at least a six.
"muh natural hairstyles". So natural, they rip your hair off your head.
Is that the purple haired cunt from Star Wars?
Yes. She'll probably play the same character.
I see Bryce has had a boob job in an attempt to look as much like Christina Hendricks as possible.
From this cover, the next one movie will be written by Christie Sims and Chuck Tingle.
Black bitch looks like a Bogdanoff
I believe female T-Rexes are larger than males, though.
In most bird raptor species, the female is larger than the male. This goes against conventional biology logic for nearly every other bird/mammal/lizard species, but it is indeed the case assuming you're basing T-rexes off a raptor.
But you were probably thinking of velociraptors. Given the initial size of T-rexes, there wouldn't be an evolutionary advantage for a T-rex hen to be notably larger than a T-rex drake (or whatever the sexes are called), since anything that might attack their nest is getting squashed anyways.
I just thought that the biggest skeletons they found of T-Rex were female. But I read wikipedia and it sounds like nobody knows. So nevermind.