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Hey everyone,

I'm in the mood for some truly rewatchable sci-fi - movies that are so thought-provoking, stylish, or layered that once you finish them, you immediately want to go back and experience them again with fresh eyes.

To give you an idea of what I'm into:

Arrival - Loved the emotional core and how the non-linear storytelling unfolds differently on rewatch.

Blade Runner 2049 - The atmosphere, the questions it raises about identity and consciousness, and that haunting score keep pulling me back.

If you've seen any sci-fi films that made you pause, think, or just feel something deeply - and especially ones that reward a second or third viewing - I'd love your recommendations.

Thanks in advance!
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Most were about that white smoke. My fave one:



Anyway. Here are some others:

LINK1

LINK2
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Assuming you are not retired, do you use AI tools in your work, and how often do you use them?

Examples: Daily, weekly, seldom, or never.

I use it once a day or so, mostly for editing and clarity. It does concern me that kids won’t have to learn how to write because of it. Missed brain connections and all that.
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Well, they aren't exactly direwolves.

And naming one of them Khaleesi was an affront to the entire Game of Thrones fanbase, duh!

No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction
Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species

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Dipshitty dipshits keeping on doing dipshitty stuff.



Influencers 'new' threat to uncontacted tribes, warns group after US tourist arrest

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, allegedly landed on North Sentinel Island in an apparent attempt to make contact with the isolated Sentinelese tribe, filming his visit and leaving a can of coke and a coconut on the shore.
.....Mr Polyakov blew a whistle off the shore of the island in a bid to attract the attention of the tribe for about an hour.
He then landed for about five minutes, leaving his offerings, collecting samples and recording a video.
It is illegal for foreigners or Indians to travel within 5km (three miles) of the islands in order to protect the people living there.
......such visits pose a threat to a community which has no immunity to outside diseases.


Or hey, maybe you can contract something from there and bring it back to the rest of the planet! Wait... nevermind that.
In November 2018, John Allen Chau, also a US national, was killed by the tribe after visiting the same island.
Mr Chau was shot with bows and arrows upon landing:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46293221

That's part of a wider problem of course. Influencers are having to engage in more and more outrageous activities to attract attention. As a result one has been shot, several have fallen off cliffs and many have suffered well deserved punches to the face. There have been some high profile arrests as well including in Asia where some countries have strict laws against causing offence.

A 'click' is a powerful thing. Seems it's like social media heroin.
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Social media has become flooded with penguin memes after Trump slapped 10% tariffs on all exports from the Heard and McDonald Islands, barren sub-Antarctic Australian territories. Both islands are uninhabited by humans, but home to thousands of penguins.

Nothing can stop you from being dumb, I guess.






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'Shining anus' volcano in Tonga coughs up cloud of smoke during recent eruption — Earth from space

A 2022 satellite photo shows smoke rising from a caldera on Tofua, highlighting the "looming threat" of the volcanic island.

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You'd think these guys have gone to tremendous lenghts for nothing. Well, if you count proving a point about fact-checking and scientific veritability as "nothing", that is.

It's not just about the true total length of blood vessels in the human body, mind you:

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FIFA World Cup set to introduce Super Bowl style half-time show



"FIFA President Gianni Infantino has announced that the 2026 World Cup final will have a halftime show, similar to that seen at the Super Bowl. The next edition of the World Cup will be hosted by the USA, Canada and Mexico."

Also please introduce 5 minute commercial breaks between set pieces. Then we can all move on from football and watch rugby, thanks.
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It's this day of the year again. "Baba Marta" (grandma Marta), the ancient tradition (probably Thracian, or Old-Bulgar) of exchanging red-and-white woolen, silk or cotton threads (Martenitsa) and tying them to the wrists of your dear ones or pinning them to their lapels, and wishing health and success to everybody. People wear these threads on their wrists and lapels until they see a stork or a blossoming tree. Then they remove the Martenitsi and either put them on a tree branch (many trees stay piled with Martenitsi throughout the year), or under a stone, and if there are ants under that stone after 1 month, there will be a good harvest throughout the year.



There are many legends about the origin of this tradition. One says that it originates from the time when the Old Bulgars arrived around the Pontic steppes (north and east of the Black Sea), and they had a tough battle with the Khazars; after a difficult victory, the Khan sent a pigeon home with a message about the victory, tied with a white woolen thread. But the pigeon was shot by a Khazar arrow. Still, it was able to deliver the message, and then died. The blood, mixed with the white thread, gave the white-and-red color of the Martenitsa.



Being an old lady, Baba Marta is the symbol of March, the trickiest month of the year, weather-wise. You can expect anything from Baba Marta: frost and sunshine, and quickly changing moods. It's the month of pink-cheeked giggling kids playing in the late winter snow, and of snowdrops and crocus flowers popping up from the ice and heralding the coming spring and the rebirth of nature for a new life; it's the time when the ancient Kukeri ritual is played out throughout towns big and small, people pulling on their traditional fur costumes and going on a carnival, making noise to the heavens to scare off the bad spirits of winter. It's a time of joy and festivity (as if we don't have enough of it throughout the whole year!), lots of dances, lots of food and lots of good drinks around the fireplace.



It's a pagan tradition that has endured for millennia. It's probably the most Bulgarian holiday of all. So I'm tying a virtual Martenitsa to each of you and wishing you all good health and lots of luck through the year!


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You may've heard of this map trying to record every battle ever fought throughout recorded human history. Based on Wikipedia:

LINK
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Shock!!!1!1 Alien mothership prepares to invade New Jeresey!

Pentagon Responds to Unidentified Drones Flying Over New Jersey​

The Space Lizards have launched their drone fleet over New Jeresey. Invasion is imminent. They might be backed by Jewish Space Lasers, and no one seems to be doing anything about them. There is only one solution to this imminent alien danger. Good guys with guns need to flock to New Jeresey and fire blindly into the sky until every damn alien is shot dead.
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A new study shows Earth may hold an untapped energy source — trillions of tons of hydrogen gas buried deep beneath the surface.
Best of all? It could power the world for centuries on end.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado0955

Worst of all? That'll cause quite a stir geopolitically.

Thoughts?
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No surprise, Sweden wins this thing.

I give you Blodplättar! Yeah, no kidding, blood pancakes!



And there's more:

100 Worst Rated Foods in the World - LINK
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I'm talking of the season when you've got to chase the evil spirits away and allow for life to be reborn and spring to arrive. And what a better way than an ancient scary carnival? So I give you the Kukeri tradition, dating back to Thracian times and still revered far and wide across these very Balkans:

Kukeri – An old and scary Bulgarian tradition

They're everywhere. The events keep popping up every week. They're colourful, scary, funny, weird, and very, very noisy.


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Of course I'm biased as it's Battlestar Galactica and there's no way I could've picked a scene from another place, but still. My fave sci-fi scene, the Adama Maneuver, one of the most unique moments in the history of sci-fi, IMO:



Not long afterwards, stuff gets really epic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjgG_f35vZY

Yours?

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