It feels like he's desperately trying to be whimsical but is awkward and unnatural at it so his performance feels super fake. If you're going to make a Wonka movie then Wonka's performance matters more than anything else.
This is a prequel so it's a new side of the story. My bigger problem with this is that it just looks really bad. The performance falls really flat and feels desperate to invoke whimsy, but it's failing badly at it.
The political difficulty of implementing this will vary highly depending on the country. Technically, while impossible to enforce 100%, even if it is 90% effective it will be very effective at covering things up. The main accountability benefit of phones is the ubiquity, because everyone has a phone. If a fraction of people have workarounds it won't be nearly as effective.
Doesn't need to be 100% bullet proof to be highly effective at suppressing accountability though. Yes people will be able to get around it but the benefit of everyone having a phone is that it's ubiquitous. Everyone has a phone so if there's anyone in the vicinity of police committing a crime it can be recorded. With all those extra steps you listed, the number of people who will go through the trouble will be a small fraction of the current phone user base now.
I'm confused about the mechanics of that. They still need to pay for the gift cards and that money needs to come from somewhere. And even if they manage to hide where the gift card money is coming from, a 20:1 money laundering scheme sounds ridiculously inefficient.
I've been to drive thrus with 3 stages, speaker, payment, food. So I think what could happen is you go to the payment stage, tell the teller you want to pay for the person behind you, the person behind orders at the speaker box, you're still at the teller so they can charge you for both, and then give you both receipts. You then go up to the food box while they're at the teller box and since the food box is just told what to prepare, you show them both receipts and get both meals.
I might be misremembering, but I think it's technically possible.
Surfshark does have a Linux gui now. I got them because they had a really good deal going on at the time but I can't comment if they're the best option.
Just search led light dim stickers on Amazon and you'll find them for way less. They're just stickers. You could also find round stickers in an office supply or art store.
I never understood the is it art debate. Anything can be art. Whether or not it's good art is a totally different question and is subjective and up to debate.
I'm wondering if they will even decide to try to federate. They're bootstrapping threads with Instagram that already had 2+billion users. That's insanely big compared to the fediverse. What do they even benefit from enabling it?
In totk I wanted to explore as early as possible so I didn't know the glider was still in the game until I got to a tower without it. I just figured with all the new travel options they figured it wasn't needed anymore
Let this be a lesson to all devs out there. Never do work for corporations for free. Only contribute to FOSS. Devs are the backbone of the internet and before the fediverse there was no outlet for them to work on actually distributed platforms as opposed to libraries and utilities. If you want to do work on a social platform do it on the fediverse where you don't have some heartless corporation exploiting your free work and not appreciating anything you do.
Reddit should have been paying their own devs to do this themselves. This is literally millions of dollars worth of dev work.
It feels like he's desperately trying to be whimsical but is awkward and unnatural at it so his performance feels super fake. If you're going to make a Wonka movie then Wonka's performance matters more than anything else.