Makeitstop @ Makeitstop @lemmy.world

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What happened to "The American Way" that Superman was fighting for?

The same thing that happened to truth and justice.

While I support this, I am fairly certain that Elon doesn't care. The value of Tesla stock has very little relationship to their ability to sell cars to consumers. He killed the attempts at making a more affordable car that could get much wider adoption by the public in favor of big ugly toys for the wealthy and pivoting towards fleet sales. And that was before he was in a position to basically just tell the government to throw money at all of his various businesses.

In fact, I don't think Tesla dissolving as a company would be enough to slow Musk down at this point. Not when his shitty AI company will be getting paid to replace federal workers, and he has blank checks from NASA and the DOD to prop up Space X. And just wait until Xitter becomes the preferred payment system of the federal government.

And far less than the amount of money that either Trump or Musk will have funneled to themselves and their businesses over the next few years.

Trump doesn't give a fuck if his poll numbers plummet. He doesn't need to run for office again.

Sure, midterms could let the Democrats retake the house and senate, but it's not like Trump is using the legislature right now anyway. So long as the current administration can get away with completely ignoring the law, the other branches of government don't really matter that much.

Sure, it's possible they could impeach him and actually remove his ass from office. But that will require either Republican support which will not happen, or for Democrats to win every senate race, including the safely Republican districts.

At this point, the most realistic exit from this nightmare would be for the house to change hands so we have a new speaker, then for both Trump and Vance to cease to be available for the job. Trump's old and in terrible shape, so we could get lucky there (though luck hasn't been kind for quite a while), but Vance is unlikely to go away on his own.

At this point, I'm not sure if trump would bother trying to defend the US from an actual Russian invasion, especially if they invaded an area he doesn't like.

Creating an environment of corruption, chaos, hate and suffering. Hurting the majority of people economically, and ripping away hope for the future. Cutting programs that safeguard people, and specifically targeting their access to healthcare. And taking away the medications that help people deal with mental illness.

Sounds like a recipe for causing people to become desperate and decide they have nothing to lose.

I really hate this "real news or the onion" guessing game.

Call Little Mac

Here's to you Mrs. Robinson; She's a slutty moron you should know.

God I love that episode. Just a fantastic performance and great writing. There’s so many layers to it, and in particular I just love how ominous and terrifying the vorlons become the more you think about what they're doing here.

On the other hand, Star Trek made Piglet Jack the Ripper, and the thought of him in a top hat and mutton chops running around the hundred acre woods stabbing hookers is also quite enjoyable.

They never give a shit about the law, only about using every resource at their disposal to benefit themselves and harm anyone who isn't 100% loyal to them. They don't know or care what the law says, they just know they can invoke it to claim some sort of moral high ground while abusing their power and engaging in blatant corruption.

Funny, if I stole 80 million from the city's bank account, I'm pretty sure they'd do more than just sue me.

Losers need school. Winners pop out of the genitals of rich people, then invest their blood money into loser's companies, take all the credit, then pump the stock with lies and fraud.

Maybe we just need to convert the white house into a wellness farm so they can be reparented.

It's not that we don't have all that info and more available, it's that we want you to pay a data broker for it.

How many more ways can they find to fellate this man?

Which directly contradicts the statement in episode 2:

Obi-Wan: "Well if droids could think, there'd be none of us here, would there?"

If we accept Obi-Wan's characterization, then those droids may be able to operate independently, but they aren't actually thinking.

Again, I think a lot of Star Wars media has leaned towards making droids people and not just walking computers with a friendly ui. It's convenient for storytelling because it's easier to write and allows for droid characters to play larger roles and be more relatable to the audience.

But from a world building perspective it creates a lot of unfortunate implications and just makes less sense. The existence of truly intelligent robots should fundamentally alter the world but it never does.

I grew up poor in a fairly cosmopolitan city, and I still felt like I was going to crawl out of my own skin the first time I went to a slightly dressy business event. I have no fucks to give anymore, but back in the day, this would have probably been a fairly reasonable disaster preparedness plan if I had to be invited to something formal with a lot of social expectations that I was not familiar with.

It's walking into a different culture, and while the hosts should be understanding, it can be reasonable to prepare someone who isn't familiar with the culture before sending them in. Still, no need to be a dick about it.

Reminds me of my cousin. Her parents are lovely people, but they are not exactly... refined. Her dad in particular makes a first impression that I'd describe as a somewhat toned down Earnest P Worrell. And while he isn't stupid he never learned a lot of important life skills and his past mistakes have have caused a fair amount of hardship, and that only fuels the resentment.

By the time she was in high school it was clear my cousin was ashamed to be associated with her family. She kept her home life and social life as far apart as possible, and she was always excited to spend time with members of our extended family that she saw as much more normal. (Especially funny to me since my mom made that list and I've seen that woman scratch herself with the cutlery while dining out). She was also pretty fucking rude to her parents, openly talking crap about them while they were in the room. Very shitty, but not exactly shocking for a teenager in her position.

Fast forward to today when my aunt and uncle own a hipstery restaurant, while my cousin got knocked up ended marrying a contractor / meth head.

The easy way to defend it would be to suggest that they aren't actually sapient. The way they are treated in the original trilogy, and the way they are discussed in episode 2 in contrast to the clones would be consistent with the way we would view something like chatgpt. Sure, it can mimic a person, but anyone who is antheopomorphising it and trying to treat it like a real person is making a mistake.

Unfortunately, this isn't consistent throughout the franchise. Hell, even episode 2 explicitly stating druids can't think comes just one movie after we had a ceremony to present R2 a medal for saving the ship. And it certainly seems like more recent Star Wars stuff prefers to lean towards humanizing the droids.