And Earth is a place where pretty much everything stemmed from the same evolutionary trunk. We are far, far more closely related to octopi or centipedes than we would be to anything that evolved outside our biosphere. In fact it's pretty likely that we may not even recognize alien life as being alive, at least in the sense we are used to. A silicon based or argon based life form would exist and operate in a completely alien manner (heh) to the carbon base that we're used to seeing.
Moral of the story being, the chance of humanoid aliens existing is a miniscule fraction of the chance of alien life existing at all. Much more likely that we'd scan right past an alien lifeform and quite possibly not even notice it was there, especially if we're busy scanning for carbon-based Earth style life forms. Gotta keep your eyes and your options open, because the end result of a completely different evolutionary timeline will inevitably produce a completely different style of creature.
Forgot to mention the part where that democratic society is upheld by the fact that you can (and will, if you're an asshole) be stabbed dead by nearly anyone you interact with. Your own crew, your "customers", the law, rival pirates, all of them have a will and a way of removing you if you don't play fair. This is great for ensuring a fair society, only at the constant imminent risk of death.
Although to be fair I suppose cowboys and samurai were also pretty frequently in deadly dangerous conditions.
I remember back in the day when I had apple devices where they would push updates for devices long past their capability to actually run the updated software. Rather than refuse the update or get a pruned patch with security fixes only, it would force updates and bloat your phone and grind it into unresponsive unusability after a few years.
I hear that's not so much the case anymore, so that's nice. But I remember. The main reason I upgraded my phone was because of that, the hardware was great, but I could hardly use the software anymore even after clean installs.
My point being, I guess, extended support is great if managed properly but it can also become a bludgeon with which to drive you toward the new generations of devices.
They almost certainly won't follow it up. It was an excellent running gag for re-entry but I expect from here forward we will have more "regular" Futurama.
Honestly though, I thought it was great and would have been a little disappointed if they didn't at least lampshade their 10 year absence. Making it such a central joke was unexpected but welcome and it didn't wear out its welcome.
I think OP is missing the point that TV, most especially animated comedy, has always been "meta" and makes references to the trends and cultural shifts of their day. Just look at Simpsons or South Park or Family Guy and see how often they reference events that were current at the time of the episode. Futurama has always had its own plotlines but hasn't been above poking fun at current events of the past.
Holy shit, guy, he points out that you posted a notoriously garbage source and you immediately jump to personal attacks. I don't care what his post history looks like, he's correct. Jezebel is a rag that posts garbage, more often laughably false than remotely true. Regardless whether this particular story is true or not, find better sources.
That's a bit more of a stretch, but barely. It's in the same spirit, yes.
Please do note that I'm not necessarily agreeing with the ruling here, only trying to draw a more accurate analogy. The problem with equating those two though - the tor node ruling vs gun manufacturers being liable for deaths - fundamentally comes down to a few facts, that guns are sold with the intention of killing people, that guns are sold by corporations with lots of money and power, and that governments don't want tor in the hands of citizens. Tor node keepers are easy to prosecute in many countries, as individuals hosting software that is frequently used for illegal action. Gun manufacturers are not.
It's like being jailed for having your car stolen and being used to hit a pedestrian.
Exactly this, except that nobody stole your car. You are providing free and no-questions-asked open access to your car for any member of the public who needs to use it. Many other people also used the car that day for legitimate business or for fun, but then one guy got in it and ran over 32 people in a furious rampage.
Clearly the driver is at fault here, but a case can be made (and apparently, was) that this would not have been possible had you not provided access to the car to the perp in question.
I was thinking maybe we should stop giving the disgustingly rich lots of shit for free. But that's just me. If some of that free shit makes it into the hands of people that can use it, all the better.
Assuming a position of good faith is starting your response on a flawed premise. Notice how there is never any evidence or even claims of evidence, merely a assertion that [insert current democratic president here] is "the worst president evarr!!!1!" When Obama was in office he was also "the worst president evarr!!!1!" The next Democrat president we have will also be "the worst president evarr!!!1!"
I appreciate your attempt here, because I do think it's important to have level headed discussion surrounding these sorts of statements. It's a benefit to the rest of the bystanders that will come in here later and not see that sitting unopposed. But as far as engaging an actual conversation, you are surely wasting your time. You'll notice that the hour old comment has 13 replies on its chain but only crickets from the original commenter. I'll be very surprised if we hear from them again on this thread but if we do you can be assured that it will contain more of the same bizarro clown shit with no identifiable basis in reality.
I am really, seriously reaching the end of my rope here with the willful ignorance and purposeful misinformation. This is the sort of thing that has taught me I should not ever be allowed to be in charge of anything, because if I were, this is the sort of person I'd have imprisoned on the basis that they are a danger to society. But fortunately for them our constitution enshrines their right to be an idiot and to talk about it.
I see that Guilty Gear theme music playing in the background. Nice setup, but that's what I personally really want to talk about.
Do we have a GGST or Guilty Gear general community yet? Or even a general fighting games community? I miss seeing Sol memes
Edit: oh man and with Asuka having just come out the lab nerds must be losing their minds, but I refuse to go on reddit to check, I should look on discord
Pixelfed is the federated image hosting service. I wouldn't spam it full of stuff unless you're hosting your own instance, but it's good for small things like this that don't necessarily need to have permanent availability.
Because 99% of memes coming through Lemmy are coming from 196. The 196 community has only one rule, to wit, "If you visit you must post something".
People without much creativity would often simply title their post "Rule". Ones with a bit more will frequently make a pun around the word Rule as their title. At this point it has become customary to make a rule-based pun or reference when posting, but is not required.
This is, however, specific to 196 so if it bugs you (or if you otherwise don't want to see relatively low effort memes) you can block 196 and you'll cut out about 90% of the Rule traffic since it pretty much all comes through here at 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
I feel like I've just discovered something I shouldn't have. I also feel like a couple of those are just unreasonably fucking funny to me. This artist fascinates me and I both worry intensely for their mental health but I also want more just like this.
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And Earth is a place where pretty much everything stemmed from the same evolutionary trunk. We are far, far more closely related to octopi or centipedes than we would be to anything that evolved outside our biosphere. In fact it's pretty likely that we may not even recognize alien life as being alive, at least in the sense we are used to. A silicon based or argon based life form would exist and operate in a completely alien manner (heh) to the carbon base that we're used to seeing.
Moral of the story being, the chance of humanoid aliens existing is a miniscule fraction of the chance of alien life existing at all. Much more likely that we'd scan right past an alien lifeform and quite possibly not even notice it was there, especially if we're busy scanning for carbon-based Earth style life forms. Gotta keep your eyes and your options open, because the end result of a completely different evolutionary timeline will inevitably produce a completely different style of creature.