benignintervention @ benignintervention @lemmy.world

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Yup, conversational product plugs

So, ads in chat now?

Ketchup chips are eternally associated in my mind with Jon Lajoie singing High as Fuck

As if Elden Ring didn't already use a variety of their older assets?

Neat

I read the book once a decade ago and again last week. It's supposed to be jarring and to drop you into an alien seeming world. But it does all come together in the end.

If you're having trouble imagining the world, I recommend playing Cyberpunk 2077. It's fuuuuull of references to the Sprawl Trilogy and honestly some things are close enough to almost be copyright violations

The military promised to give me a job related to my degree, proceeded to then not do that, then denied me a higher degree both in my assigned job field and in my educational background because I lacked the background for the former and the job didn't require the latter. And now I'm struggling to get back into my original background

About a decade ago there was a huge Chinese hack into one of the security clearance contractors, who then lost the contract, so the final remaining contractor has been playing catch up ever since.

I had a top secret clearance in my old job. The whole process usually takes less than 9 months and anything outside a year usually means there's something fishy with your background. It boggles my mind that members of Congress aren't required to have security clearances and waiving background checks is completely insane. They're clearly hiding a lot of nefarious and dodgy crap that would otherwise disqualify them from office

Awesome!

Yeah I've only read Solaris and Cyberiad and they're simply incredible

I read this book years ago and I'm about to do it again! Who knew science fiction could be so fun?

Cortisol

I thought it was fine enough for scifi. What was the issue?

This is an incredibly important statement. You've perfectly summarized exactly how non-Harris voters felt. The opinions you share in here may or may not be true and the Lemmy population certainly doesn't like hearing it, but this was the thought process that brought trump to office.

Frankly, the way to save America is to attack corporations. Regulate, regulate, regulate, put money back in the hands of the voters. Whoever does this has the vote.

This is exactly the issue. A smaller studio has to distinguish itself with quality work. Disney is a media empire and pretty much a monopoly. They don't need to distinguish themselves from shit. They own dozens, maybe hundreds of networks, services, and production studios across the world and all they need to do is produce the most basic watchable content on enough of a scale to keep viewers subscribed. The high quality shows and movies they produce are the exception, not the rule.

It's time to break up every media empire.

By like 20 orders of magnitude or something

I've been saying this exact same thing. Trump is a raging moron and I fear the intelligent demagogue that follows him more than I fear a second trump presidency (although a second trump term might guarantee the former)

What the fuck does it even mean? It's like buzz word salad

This is a great point correlating gun access with gun violence. It shows that access to firearms is positively correlated with deaths by firearm