marcos @ marcos @lemmy.world

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So, they wished the increased spending to the monkey paw and got exactly what they were wishing for: countries are cancelling orders of complex US equipment all over the world, and Europe is developing a military industry to compete with them.

about bees revolting against a corrupt system

Or is it about bees going astray because of a disinformation campaign? Because the bees on the movie really like the work... like bees.

killed by gas

I really don't remember if the movie explicitly acknowledges that the gas doesn't kill the bees. But this is absolutely about hyper-judicialization of society and a sleazy lawyer clearly lying to the audience and getting rewarded by that.

The movie doesn't fully anthropomorphize the bees. If you decide they are something the movie doesn't make them be, you can take any moral instance you want from it. It just won't be what's on the movie.

Just keep in mind that the cat's policy is precarious and dependent on the continuation of quid pro quo.

who will happily come in and sort out your security issues later

I really doubt anybody will be happy about it, even after considering the size of the fees. And also, you have a very high estimation of the capacity of those people to notice they have to call you, I really doubt it's deserved.

It's chemicals that make signals jump between neurons in your head. Electricity acts entirely withing single neurons.

Also, that's a control spell, not a summoning one.

So... Go try that and notice Windows is basically always encrypted at rest nowadays.

You can always decap your TPM and use a STM to read the static charges on its memory... But, good luck doing that.

More comprehensive, yes. But everything will only superficially resemble probability (or worse, statistics), without any idea zeroing on the real thing.

Alternatively, you can ask a crystal-hippie about quantum mechanics. Oh, well... we have LLMs nowadays, you can ask them anything.

It's from The Good Place. She isn't a person, and she isn't a computer either.

No one can cut off the US oil supply.

Well, if the US invests on being able to use its own oil without mixing with anything else, the can become true.

Not to mention they could simply seize oil haulers for themselves with their navy.

A few times, yeah. The world won't react well to the US specializing into constant piracy.

Some of the world is improving. Some has been regressing. The last 30 years weren't a very stable time, and even the accounts of what is happening is not reliable. Not acknowledging that has been incredibly harmful for everybody.

Anyway, yes, improve your life and the society around you. It's what you can do.

In Civilization, if you take a city from some player and offer peace, they almost always agree.

Are you saying international diplomacy isn't like a 90s video game?

I imagine the flat-earthers wouldn't accept that shape as "flat".

Thanks, but I think I'll pass that one.

My 2-months grocery runs take about 45 minutes, excluding the line, but I imagine it's a larger run than yours. Outside of that, I never reach 10 minutes looking for things.

My wife used to make lists, but they were never useful.

How many more of these stories need to come out before us around the rest of the world stop treating the United States like a democracy?

What do you mean by "treating like a democracy"? What countries have you seen treating the US in high regards recently? Or, what do you want to change?

I can either go to the groceries after some specific items, when I'll run erratically through every aisle until I find them all, or to "do groceries", when I'll run methodically through every isle browsing each product and deciding if I want it or not.

Well... If Kafka wrote it today, this could as well be the story.

At least he'll get the chance to text his parents before he shows up on the kitchen.

The restaurant has exactly the average quality of everybody that cooks.

Not of restaurant chefs or people good at cooking. Everybody that cooks.

Some declarations terminate on the name, other declarations go one requiring more tokens. In C, the only thing that differentiates them is the type.

Parenthesis in particular are completely ambiguous. But asterisks and square brackets also create problems.

Well, always remember that roosters are omnivores and really vicious hunters...