BlackPenguins @ BlackPenguins @lemmy.world

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It's on Prime now. Give it a watch.

I just finished rewatching this yesterday. It's on Prime by the way. And as the show continued I was like "Wait, am I siding with Liber8"? The terrorist group in the show. Seriously there are so many parallels to real life. This was made in 2012. A bit ahead of its time.

The people with the money making our laws. Our presidential cabinet is about to be made up of billions of dollars. Other corporations (Piron) buying the government so they can have political power. Lobbying.

The first episode when we saw the first grassroots support of Liber8 trying to take down a corporation using violence I thought of Luigi and his overwhelming support by the public. And the followers of Theseus that kept saying ideas are more powerful than violence.

The Theseus followers have a peaceful protest on a college campus, and they are arrested because their ideas align with Liber8 and therefore are "supporting terrorists". But really they are just supporting the cause, not the few violent people. Which is exactly like supporting the Palestinians. The police consider every Palestinian a terrorist even though it's only a few who did the atrocities.

In 2077 everyone is being tracked by their gadgets and your worth is dependent on your actual net worth. Everything is privatized. Firefighters actually chose to save a couple of board execs in a building over two kids because they "contribute more". History is banned. Anything that reports on history like VHS, DVD, books is considered contraband. We already are trying to censor slavery in Florida schools. Misinformation runs wild and the public just believe what the corporations tell them. Anyone against them is evil or a terrorist. See: FOX news today.

The time travel gets a little wonky at times but damn was it a fascinating show of the gray area. I kept flipping back and forth on who was right. And shit, the twist in season 3 I didn't see coming and basically upended the entire series. The future cop having her tech gadgets in 2012 working with the very same person who caused the future as an 18 year old kid is a fun concept. Making him an enemy of his future self. Definitely worth a quick watch. 4 short seasons.

And he didn't do this a year ago why? Oh right, exchanging lives for the reelection campaign.

Make the fascist look bad? Noooo, never.

Or Walmart. Really if you are paying for $6 eggs it's by choice.

That's 100% a VPN being used. Some countries get around it. You need to shop around.

They're $3 in Wegmans. You need a better egg guy.

There's a udemy course by Maximilian that is only $20 that helped me immensely. Highly recommend.

It's British humor so it's a bit dry and winded at times. But they don't talk down to their audience like the American version.

I guess it depends on how easy you can be discovered. It's easy to take off your clothes and get people to pay you to do it, but if you're in a sea of 1000s of women doing the same thing are you seen?

Same thing with being a YouTuber. Anyone can create a channel. It's hard to make that channel worth something.

And becoming incredibly relevant.

Which one? Both are good but UK is the best.

Docker: 😢

With AI that could literally be anything now. Or they could be LGBTQ. Or black. Or a woman.

Yeah the one thing I did do was attempt the cutout cookies she did. I found her recipe but it was very sparse in the directions. But they turned out great. So I'm glad I'll still have those. Apparently cream of tartar is what gave it that special acidic "Christmas feel" I've always wondered about over the years.

Thanks for sharing. I didn't expect anything from anyone. Just getting things off my chest. But I appreciate it. And my condolences as well.

My mom died on Mother's Day this year. Really wanted to just skip the holidays. No tree and decorations. She liked to do them every year. Little present ideas. It was pretty quiet this year. But we made the best of it.

Like destroying Twitter in 2 years?

State of Concern

#YouWantedHim

I would love for this to go trending for the next 4 years. Become the new #MeToo.