Rhaedas @ Rhaedas @kbin.social

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I'm more cynical because I think that high up are safe. Somewhere in the middle, the millionaires and small business, are probably the new targets. The change could also be simply because the lower end that are easy to do also more and more can't even pay the fines, so it's dried up.

Which begs the question why this is a new thing, going after the bigger fish. I'll bet part of the answer is lawyers, i.e going after lower income is easier because they don't have ways to defend themselves. Or access to methods in hiding the money.

Could also be Malicious Compliance.

Sure, if you live in that ten minute walking distance. Sometimes I think progressive movements are their own worst enemies. The nearest urgent care facility to me is 26 mins, by bike, on main roads that are used by cars and trucks. Some spots have a bike lane (which is its own joke and hardly safe). I'd love to see how many actually fall into the "ten minute walk". I don't even have a pharmacy that close, and we've all heard the meme about a Walgreens/CVS at every corner.

Point is, those who are able to use mass transit or are in places where things are conveniently close seem to always chime in with victim blaming of those who aren't like them. It's a subtle version of the "if you don't like it, move".

I would love a world where everything is local and self-sufficient, but all the calls to action never talk about how to get there from here, they only say we should do "something" now. A trip without a roadmap will just get you lost.

The only issue I have with this take is how it ignores how the changes happened over decades, not overnight. Of course no one would choose any of these pictures, but that's not how it started out, and the slow changes is exactly why we bought into the idea. It also can't be easily undone or changed, even in a progressive society.

What, we're out of cake again?

I think at least in TOS (where red shirts originated, perhaps statistically unfairly) all of the red shirts would get a name tagged to them before things went wrong. That seemed to be more of a "red" flag to me, get the regulars in a landing party, oh, and Mr. Johnson too. Yeah, he's toast.

Certainly by now someone has done a breakdown comparison of the many series - which series was more deadly to the "new" guy in the group? I don't think TOS was the worst, and no, whole ships don't count like Wolf 359.

We're still trying to recover from Reaganomics backlash.

The books are better for content, as is usually the case. There's so much more you can do with words that can't be translated well into visuals. I didn't care much for 3001, but 2001,2010, and 2061 were good. Even though 2061 both messed up the warning from 2010 as well as the epilogue.

USB-PS/2 adapters

That caused a flashback, as I haven't seen those in years (but I know I have a few still somewhere lol). It also made me think...I can not recall ever having to do the "1-2-3" tries when hooking a USB mouse or keyboard into those before I plugged it all into the back of the PC. Which makes me lean towards blaming the socket installation and lack of reference for a lot of the woes, not the cord or flashdrive (which you can see).

Time traveler: "Yes."

Parts of 2001 are more art than a movie telling a story. 2010 is a far better scifi movie overall and a favorite of mine. But there are critics of that one too that say it's terrible. I always think back to when I was a kid and reading a newspaper review of the new movie out I hadn't seen yet. "Star Wars is a failure and departure from the science fiction standard."

"Too early" is cliché, but based what she had given us there was so much more she likely would have contributed in the future. Plus the kids losing their mother. That sucks.

I'm not a fan of the Hobbit movies nearly as much as LotR, but I do enjoy some of the scenes and recognize that if not for Peter Jackson we would have gotten either nothing at all, or someone other director's version with pieced together parts of what had been done. I actually like Del Toro's concept he was trying to do, but it was obviously too complex of a puzzle.

Those who say it with a hard G must also say JFEG using the same logic. I'm fine with someone saying it either way, it's been around so long that I think the choices tend to be regional (aka BBS era).

No mention of any variability in recent times, so it must be incredibly stable conditions for climate change to have not affected its formation.

Captain Kirk in "Court Martial".

"But...that's not the way it happened."

There's no question I wrote the couple of things I've done for work to automate things, but I swear every time I have to revisit the code after a long while it's all new again, often wondering what the hell was I thinking. I like to tell myself that since I'm improving the code each time I review it, each new change must be better overall code. Ha. But it works...

Humans had one purpose in the universe - to produce plastic. Mission accomplished.

All terrible, but what about hanging back anything sharp blade first, like a knife or scissors?