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This 2022 film- the most awarded movie of all time, if you include its non-Oscars-- frequently gets called "groundbreaking." Those comments reference the success of an American film-which features a predominantly Asian main cast. Those same commentators often overlook how rare it is for (1) a comedy and (2) an SFF film to win best picture. Okay, sure, the publicity people don't call it Science Fiction or Fantasy. Most critics have defaulted to "absurdist." That's a perfectly cromulent designation in this case, but it carries a whiff of snobbery, as it has become the default term for works that could legitimately be categorized as Science Fiction and/or Fantasy, but which have literary and mainstream (although a lot of "mainstream" in the 2020s is SFF) and artistic aspirations beyond, I guess, what some people think SFF should have. Or, perhaps, they still think "SF" and "Fanta

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I may get a little hate for this, but it's just my opinion on the desktop Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux

Sadly, Ubuntu seems to be so much the default Linux distro these days that any search for a Linux "how-to" leads to an Ubuntu-centric solution. Not saying that it isn't a good distro, but I would like to clarify a couple of the points raised by Yakushin in the w-u above as well as add my 2ยข on the desktop distribution and how it works.

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March 14th: Pi day.

March 10th: Daylight saving time celebrated by many.

March 19th: The first equinox of the year.

March 31st: Happy birthday mad girl's love song!


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February 8: Happy birthday to panamaus

February 15: Happy birthday Admin to the goo!

February 15: Terse Quest 2024 begins!

February 23: Happy birthday Samuel Pepys!

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January 1: Gregorian New Year.

January 16: National Nothing Day.

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January 30: Happy Birthday O-Swirl!


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December 18: Hanukkah begins.

December 21: Winter solstice arrives 10:27 PM, EST.

December 23: Happy birthday to Nemosyn!

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November 5: Bonfire Night in the UK.

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November 23: Thanksgiving in the US.

November 27: Happy Birthday Estelore!

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