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  No no officer I didn't say antifa. I said I was a fashopp (Fascism Opponent)

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  I'll be the contrarian and say IMDb ratings are pretty accurate for me. The two exceptions are super inflated Cinema™ ratings and middling ratings for comedies. A 9.3/10 silent era movie gets too much credit for having functional lighting while a 6/10 comedy gets panned for its shallow character development.

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  A lot of people in this thread getting real defensive about objectively shit FOSS UI/UX. It's not just driven by corporate familiarity or laziness, it's a pretty major shortcoming in open source projects that never gets addressed because we constantly downplay it. Designing for user experience isn't solely Apple's modern consumerist method of dumbing down, hiding complexity and smoothing corners for the largest audience. Human centered design is a deeply researched field going b...

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  Other fun facts: - It was originally supposed to be Washington on a horse - At its completion it was the tallest man made structure in the world - It remains the largest free-standing masonry structure in the world - The 2.85kg aluminum cap cost about $7500 in 2026 USD. At the current price of aluminum it would be about $10 [Source](https://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/jom/9511/binczewski-9511.html)