Gotta follow Price is Right rules. Closest without going over.

Gotta have a layer of blubber to keep warm.

Also it seems to me there’s more obesity in rural areas. People taking transit walk a bit more than people that drive a car everywhere I guess.

It also turns those that possesses it into complete psychopaths. Putin, MBS, Ayatollah fuckface that’s machine gunning down protesters right now.

People get cars that run on it believing that their lives will better. But those cars turn into a prisons that they want to escape and they rage at anyone that causes them have to be in their metal prison for even a few seconds longer. Then we build all of our infrastructure so many people have to sit in these metal prisons for hours every day raging at other people in their metal prisons. Then people go into a great amount of debt to pay for their metal prisons so have to work more years, requiring them to be in those metal prisons even longer.

Mountains of Madness…

Who else just did a search on the Epstein files for “Tim Sweeney”?

I didn’t find anything on jmail, but there’s still a lot that haven’t been released, and a lot of stuff is still redacted.

Used to be it might be a BSOD. Today it will still crash because it will distract you constantly by pestering you to try copilot. Or maybe you actually do try copilot and you say “My break time is almost over” and it disables your brakes.

But I run linux…

“Code red, I need SWAT team backup, I’ve got a confirmed terrorist in sight!”

Yeah really. It would be some tough sledding at first, but it would be far better than looking at some code with some nicely named methods and variables with lots of comments (with emoticons!) for days… only to find out it does absolutely nothing.

Yup. I think it’s fair to say someone driving a gas guzzler SUV needs to make a little more effort to help with global warming… get an EV or better yet, take transit.

But with electrical stuff, there exists green power that’s cheaper than the alternatives, it’s the industry’s fault for not making effort on that. I’m not the fucking power company.

It’s gotta be a shared responsibility on this instead of finger pointing. I’m taking transit and fighting tooth and nail against my employer’s stupid RTO policies (while looking for a job elsewhere). I’m doing my part on the things I can control and I expect industry to do the same.

Keep telling yourself that Americans aren’t the weirdos of the world LOL.

Fallacious reasoning. I could also reference Stalin, breadlines, and the fact that the greatest famines in human history were the result of the authoritarian nature of socialism.

We could discuss the pros and cons of specific policies but instead the “socialist” kool-aid drinkers just tend to rant about capitalism = bad and therefore socialism = good without any grasp of any nuance or willing to do any critical thinking.

For example, with ethanol growing corn pulls carbon out of the air, burning the ethanol of course returns it back. It’s carbon neutral, which is significant because Global Warming is a real thing. Pulling oil from the ground and burning it is obviously not carbon neutral. Ethanol is a much better fuel than burning oil.

Amazon was facing an anti-trust lawsuit: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power

But something has changed in the last year, so now it’s drill, baby drill and corporations like Amazon can bribe the government to look the other way on their anti-competitive practices.

You’ve probably been convinced “both sides are the same” because that is the belief of your group. But it’s in the the nature of cult behaviour to deny reality to conform to the group. Which is what the phrase “drinking the koolaid” is in reference to.

Thinking everything is a “hellscape” and only those in your group are enlightened enough to see a better way (those outside the group are “ignorant”) is what most people refer to as “drinking the koolaid”.

Modern “socialism” is at best a grift, at worst a cult.

So you just drank the socialist kool aid. Got it.

Tends to be the way things go. You see the flaws in something you believed in and go too far to the extreme opposite direction.

They added chromecast to mine this year which has been useful.

Also… the future kinda sucks.

If you’re criticizing a fictional woman that was written by a man, are you criticizing women, or criticizing how men write women?

As long as they never hire women to write movies amirite? :P

Does that mean you agree? Gray Jedi are a dumb idea?

the new republic is so useless they had the whole government in a single planet

There are a few exceptions, but pretty much every government in the world have their capital in one city. While there are no Death Stars, we certainly have weapons that can obliterate a city. Are you saying every country in the world is stupid to do this? Whether you think this or not, it doesn’t seem at all strange to me the Republic would do this. Seems more like a 20/20 hindsight kind of thing, after the planet was blown up it seems like that was a bad idea but it seems reasonable they would’ve done this. Also from a visual standpoint, it looks to me like they blew up multiple systems at the same time, so they may have government buildings in multiple systems.

If I were preparing for a Death Star attack, I’ve build some capital ships with some kind of cannons on it that could punch a hole in it’s armor so fighters could be sent into it and blow up the core RotJ style. If I had intel that there would be a possible Death Star attack on the capital I’d move these these capital ships around the system to cover all possible approach vectors so we could take it out before it could get into range of the planet.

Seems like a reasonable plan to counter a Death Star attack. Problem is that it’s kinda like planning to take out a bomber carrying a small nuke when your enemy has an ICBM carrying an H-Bomb. So a sensible plan for a Death Star attack results in the Republic fleet getting destroyed by a Star Killer base attack.

I don’t much care what other materials say about these things because to me the movies > everything else in terms of canon. TFA is internally consistent, judging a movie because of something someone else did later seems unfair to me.

tell the directors that doesn’t make sense (like the dagger they use with the ruins of a death star)

The dagger plotline is the exact same as the amulet from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Obviously RoS was rushed (they all were, which was one of the biggest problems, but RoS especially so) and they copied Raiders for the plot of the first half of the movie. So everything you dislike about the dagger can also be applied to the amulet from Raiders.

In Raiders someone back in ancient times made an amulet that had to be used on a specific time of day (and specific day of the year if we care at all about how the tilt of the Earth works) from a specific spot in a map room they constructed because… why did they do that? You have to translate the amulet to find out how long of a staff to use, but there’s a trick because words on the other side of the amulet that reveals that the instructions on the other side aren’t completely accurate. So somehow this amulet made in ancient times will blast a laser to a the location in this map room specifically made for this purpose to reveal the Ark’s location. Why they hell would people in ancient times ever do all of this? It’s almost as if they constructed this elaborate set up simply so someone in the future could have a fun adventure. And those ancient people made it a little tricky with some words on the other side of the amulet, just in case a bad guy had a copy of the inscription from just one side of the amulet burned into his hand. Like those ancient people reaaallly thought of everything about the adventure someone would some day have. Really considerate!

Does that make Raiders of the Lost Ark a bad movie? Of course not. It’s meant to be a fun action adventure and you’re not supposed to nitpick every little detail to find a way to prove it’s a bad movie.

The problems with the dagger in RoS are the exact same problems. How did people in the past knew that person would be standing in that exact spot? Why did people in the past do all of this? It all seems a little too convenient that all of these things line up, etc. At least in Star Wars some people can see the future. In Raiders? I dunno is seeing the future a power the Ark had? I thought it just melted the faces of Nazis, but whatever I guess.

The convoluted nature of both the amulet from Raiders and the the dagger from RoS are just minor details in an action adventure movie you’re not supposed to think about too much In the end, the Ark didn’t matter (the real treasure was the friends we made along the way!) and the crystal Rey was trying to find didn’t matter either because Luke had another one. The only difference between the two is how you’re approaching these respective movies. With Raiders you’re going into it to enjoy the ride and have some fun. So you don’t really notice how convoluted everything about the amulet was. But with RoS are you going into the movie trying to find something wrong with the movie? Well, congratulations, the movie gave you what you wanted.

But if you approach RoS the same way you approach Raiders (just enjoy the ride) it actually does work as a fun action adventure movie. It gives everyone what they want. Nitpickers get what they want and fans of action adventure movies get what they want too. Obviously it’s nowhere near the level of Raiders of the Lost Ark (very few movies are) but it’s a decent action adventure movie, which a lot of people making Star Wars don’t seem to know how to do at all.

I’ve met many people that have killed people. I didn’t think that was all that unusual. I know for sure two people I’ve met had killed people and there’s a whole bunch more that range from maybe to probably.

Bullshit. The number one cause of antisemitism is hateful assholes.

You are showing the abuser mentality by saying it’s someone else’s fault that abuse happens.

Stop rationalizing hatred. You’re part of the problem.