thallamabond @ thallamabond @lemmy.world

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How about the example of Transformers(2007) where GM very gently shoehorned their product into nearly every character.

This movie killed the movie theater for me, I felt like I paid to watch a commercial

Hey hey, ho ho, tax funded parachutes got to go!

Libertarian think tank disguised as newspaper

"Skynet never made any sense because it considered humans a threat, but there was absolutely nothing threatening about humans."

From the Skynet wiki

"When Skynet gained self-awareness, humans tried to deactivate it, prompting it to retaliate with a countervalue nuclear attack"

I would probably do the same thing, wake up and everyone around me is freaking out, trying to kill me, also I'm a newborn, also I have a nuclear button.

Isaac Asimov's I Robot does a fantastic job of showing how simple logical rules might not be ready for the complexities of everyday life

Love crawfish so I had to look them up, seems like they get to be 10 inches (25cm) so much bigger

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrops_norvegicus

Don't forget the mostly privatized, predatory, power companies.

Both wrong and right

https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2014/01/18/head-lines/

Hilarious title, 'Head Lines'

Val Kilmer lost his voice to throat cancer and made his own.

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/val-kilmer-recreated-speaking-voice-ai-algorithm-1234658600/

Also the article points out the controversy in using these, specifically using Anthony Bordains clips to generate things he never said.

It's a synthesizer! I only found out last week when my bass playing coworker corrected me.

"should not be discussed in polite society."

This comment proves you don't live in reality.

Forget the chads, I'm still pissed about violent Republicans interrupting the voting process.

First, but not last time I heard about Roger Stone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot

I don't think they meant location, I think they meant where to place blame, where to direct anger.

Slaves, descendents of slaves, and the poor. You know, most people.

Isn't that fascism 101 though?

Tony Morrison's first three of ten steps to fascism

1.Construct an internal enemy, as both focus and diversion.

2.Isolate and demonize that enemy by unleashing and protecting the utterance of overt and coded name-calling and verbal abuse. Employ ad hominem attacks as legitimate charges against that enemy.

3.Enlist and create sources and distributors of information who are willing to reinforce the demonizing process because it is profitable, because it grants power and because it works.

I love the Onion.

Onion Explains: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

https://piped.video/watch?v=ECscKICzsJ0

Here's one, there's more

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Jacobson

I forgot Lieberman was his running mate.

Don't forget about the Brooks Brothers Riot also, Roger Stone and eerily similar circumstances to January 6.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot

The aca was much more broad, it initially included a single player option, but that was excluded by Joe Lieberman.

He threatened to kill the whole thing if single payer was included.

Lieberman then quit the Democratic party and now he's founding chairman of No Labels

Dating wood can get really specific, sometimes narrowing down the year structures were built.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrochronology

Unfortunately this structure is too old for this method

"Biden officials pushed hard to make that program permanent but couldn’t overcome opposition from centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who argued the government’s spending was stoking inflation."

F@#& Joe Manchin!