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reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

#voyager 1 #nasa

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#animals #cute animals #dogs

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whats the difference between outlaws and inlaws

#hellsite hall of fame

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dr who’s on first, doctor strange is on second and doctor house is on third. theres no way theyre getting through a single inning

#doctor strange #doctor who #doctor house

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animation of charmander makin some pancakes

#animation #charmander #pancakes

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#love #chippythedog

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#dunki #fanart

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#luttputtgaya #dunki #art

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#housekeeping #gender roles #women

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Can we talk about this person thread? Aka Captain America: Civil Acrylics😂😭. These memes are officially out of hand lmfaooo

#captain America: civil acrylics #captain America #Bucky Barnes #black panther

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New Crow Time 🐦‍⬛🦊🌟

#webcomic #comics #animals #crow time #crow #fox #crow and fox

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i must ask you reblog this so said beast, you know. actually has attributes also ping me or something if you draw it i want to see.

#polls

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Bonsai apple tree growing a full-sized apple.

#apple #apple tree #when life gives you lemons sell them and buy an apple tree

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During a test for ADHD, I stopped to write down “Ratatouille is the antithesis to the Lion King.”

#that’s probably what gets you an ADHD diagnosis

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can’t stop smiling in inappropriate situations

#forgive me father for I have grinned

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More thoughts about Dunki

I wrote my review right after seeing the film, because I was off to spend a couple of weeks in the bush right after and wouldn't have internet. Now I've had more time to think about it, I've got a few additional thoughts.

The first half of the film is stronger than the second half. It's not because the second half is bad, but because it's missing a beat, to drive home the themes and really pay off the tragedy at the end.

What it needed was a sequence about the humdrum life of living as a refugee in England, with the main goal of working and making money, in a country that doesn't feel like home, and not having much of a life of their own. It wouldn't even need to be long - maybe 7 to 10 minutes. A series of jump cuts of Manu driving her taxi as she steadily gets older, maybe watching life happen in the back seat via her rearview mirror, or as she expands and hires other dunki arrivals who have managed to get visas by claiming refugee status, and perhaps with her starting to take pills for headaches. And/or Balli working his way up from statue to overworked sewing machinist to tailor who hires other dunki arrivals, always sending money home, but with never enough money to marry. Although honestly, I can't be the only one that assumed Balli and Buggu were a couple, right? And that's a big part of why they wanted to leave India? It's the only thing that makes sense, because surely all three of them wouldn't really be single all that time! Making that more overt would have added to the characterisation and overall tragedy of the story - especially the ending, when they are back in India.

It would be harder to add in a bridging sequence like that for Hardy, just because of the way the film is structured, but it could still have been done - showing him acting as the replacement son for Manu's parents, and doing tasks for them.

The story needed that sense of time passing to link the flashback sequences better to the current day sequences, to emphasise all that they had lost and won - their rising wealth, but more importantly their rising regret for what they had to give up to achieve that wealth.

With that extra beat, the themes would have been deepened, but it would also have made the ending more poignant.

The more I think about the emotional shape of the film, the more that gap bothers me. There isn't enough sense of four lives not-fully-lived as a result of the dunki trip and the regrets that brings with it.

Anyway, I still enjoyed the movie. Not enough to see it again at the cinema, but I'll definitely watch it again on streaming, and I still recommend it. It has a lot to enjoy, despite my quibbles.

I suspect that a lot of people who have written reviews saying Dunki is boring were expecting an action film like Pathaan or Jawan. Expectations can ruin a film if they are off target, and the terrible trailers really didn't help in that regard. Dunki does have some action sequences, but it's not an action movie. Go in expecting something more like Swades, but a tragicomedy. That should set you up to enjoy it.

#dunki