Overzeetop

Yeah, right. I wish I still had that much hair.

A movie-set must have certain features (full, even, ready for shooting on schedule) and there are millions of dollars on the line - you don’t just plant a field and hope it meets spec - I would think someone was making case it would be ready for filming. That that’s time and effort. The movie industry unions have livable - one might say exceptional - wages, even for someone just checking to make sure the corn field is maturing properly, much less planting and tending the crop.

An un-referenced medium article says he invested $100,000 in the corn field and he generated $162,000 in revenue, with no indication of the expenses of monitoring or harvesting. The best result would be $62k (compared to the $20,000,000 Nolan was paid for the film) in profit if the “investment “ included all of the miscellaneous expenses I mentioned above (as well as the lawyers cost for acquisition, travel and time spent finding the plot and securing all of the contracts for farming and harvest) and wasn’t absorbed in the “film budget”.

That seems unlikely. It would be hard to imagine that the total costs of planting and raising a movie-set quality corn field with industry labor rates would cost less than the returns on a 500 ac harvest of (I’m presuming) silage-quality corn.

The entire top/active threads are just the L4 bot (and 2 or 3 others) posting every article from a dozen online rags and the summary bot “participating.” Lemmy is still a desert of participation fluffed with 3 people who use it as their personal rss feed via bots.

Well shiver me timbers I didn’t expect it to be on the open seas so readily. May your grog be strong throughout the new year.

I need to find an navally appropriated version. I have both, but the version with the restored song is a 4:3 VHS(?) transfer I think.

The only way you die on that hill is from crushing as we are all crowded on there with you.

Hell, I picked up the book last year and had forgotten that Marley was a single (former) partner, not two brothers.

big carbon capture plant

I didn’t realize they had one, or even cared that much about it (since their power sources are something like 99.9x carbon free). I knew there was a research site that was doing deep drilling on the peninsula, but not the purpose.

You’re getting downvotes, but the implication that transatlantic tourism will grind to a halt is a big deal, and very real. For Iceland it’s an even bigger concern as so much of their economy depends on tourism (though this is the slow season).

One thing I haven’t heard mentioned is the Icelandic water spring source. It’s a big ($2B+) operation and (supposedly) located on that peninsula. I looked for it but could only find the operational/business headquarters.

It’s not about the nail.

I’m curious…are the heat pumps being pushed in the eu/uk water heaters or forced air systems which are common here in the US?

As someone who works in the residential housing industry, the difference between an $11,000 1960s house and a 2023 $300k house is staggering.

Granted, nobody is building houses that are 750-900 SF with one bathroom and no garage (in the US) these days, mainly because they can make more per lot by building bigger, and land is what is in short supply (in desirable, public service areas).

Houses are still impossibly priced for minimum wage because while housing prices have increased (median) 4-5% per year, wages have been lagging for two decades. And that really is a loss in buying power by about a factor of two.

You guys are using apps?

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I’m still figuring out the controls for Lemmy. How do you delete someone else’s post?

It’s worth noting that, of the 30000000 million r/pics members/subscribers, less than 50,000 participated. The venn diagram of new lemmy users and the SJO voters is pretty close to a single circle I’d bet.

This feels like a “technically correct” statement, given that (a) most subs have more than one moderator and (b) one moderator sets the flag to make (“leads”) a sub private. He’s having quite the Principal Skinner moment.

Really? The built in Defender seems to be all most people need. Everything that used to be good is now scamware. The only time it’s useful is if you need to lock down your grandma’s pc so she doesn’t give your inheritance to a scammer with a nice Facebook ad.