Yeah that was a bit crazy. But I didn't really think about it too long because almost everything else is supposedly a whole other timeline now, so it's a not point.
Also I've seen "Beyond" twice now, but got distracted both times so I still don't know much about it.
Seems more like cardboard to me. I've never liked their burgers, I only ever got the nuggies and their chicken sandwich, whatever it's called. The cheap one that was on the dollar menu back when that was a thing.
I enjoy both. The original series is so dated (buttons, knobs, switches, and lights on the control panels? Pffff) that even as a fan I find it hard to look at.
No one seemed to take the show that seriously. I don't think anyone had a clue it would turn into a whole franchise, and the acting is so hammy I can't stand looking at a lot of the scenes.
All that said that even old start tell movies were more action oriented than a typical episode plot. (Except for maybe the first movie, which unless I'm remembering wrong literally was almost a carbon copy of an episode)
I'm "racist" against billionaires and not even pretending not to be. There's like no more than a small handful who do much (relative % I mean) good for anybody. Those should be noted and tasted normally (if they weren't while on the way up), but they should be taxed out of existence. Il
I don't know what the number should be, but it shouldn't be possible for your net worth to even approach a billion.
Probably smaller than $50M. Shouldn't be possible to surpass that much. Even that amount should be heavily forced into charity.
If you're in that upper echelon, I automatically hate you before I've heard of you, and I'm fairly confident the amount of times I'm wrong would be extremely small.
Super rich people have to prove they're worth not hating. Their default position is "hated idiot" until proven otherwise.
There's just so little possibility I wouldn't want them dead in a vacuum (devoid of other moral considerations).
What does concern me is the number of people fleeing organized religion because they view it as a source of harm. Seeing the way faith has been wielded as a political weapon for much of the last few years speaks to that.
Faith is inherently and specifically a weapon. It works like this: Tell everyone to believe a certain thing based on nothing at all but believe it right to your very (native and stupid even) core where no evidence will sway you no matter what. Just believe the things we want and fight for that reality when needed.
Get a critical amount of people believing the right thing and yes, you get a weapon. One like maga. A weapon that will try to start a coup and cheat an election and then just kinda say "nah, that's not what happened". And you know photos and videos of it would've been enshrined in history books as a "how we took the country back" type of deal if it had worked. Thankfully it didn't but they're all doing that face from the meme (I think from Cuphead) of the flower doing the bashful face instead.
This kind of faith will always lead to these kinds of outcomes. You can't have radical belief without radical action.
Faith needs to be removed from society completely. That's probably one of the steps of evolution the aliens are waiting on to finally greet us lmao.
That and learning how to stop being psychos. But that could happen faster if we could at least all believe the same general thing. Everybody will have differing other beliefs of course, but if we can stop believing in supernatural sky daddies first then that will go a long way.
Islam and Christianity both need to die. Breaking from those 2 will have the biggest immediate impact given their populations, and I would hope that lack of belief starts adding up when the other religions start finding themselves with bigger and bigger amounts of non theism.
Plus those 2 are the most likely to fight about it. Christianity in particular has caused more suffering and death than any single other thing on the planet probably. I don't have sources for that but it's definitely up there. Plagues are up there too.
But yeah. Faith is a weapon. Sorting out your beliefs based on how much it agrees with your favorite book (that you haven't read) is never a recipe for success.
And even in their own religion god deserves hell based on the book. Like even Jack the ripper and the OKC bomb guy (literally blanking on his name atm- Bundy maybe?) would deserve heaven so much more than god would. But he gets a free pass because of something or other.
I already know what I'm getting because it was all disclosed via Amazon wishlist and (although I did have the "no spoilers" option or whatever is called enabled) my brother just blabbed it was empty.
I didn't have much on it tbf. But I guess I know what I'm getting. Except I've forgotten some of it by now, so it's kind of a surprise.
Can't he just get depressed and kill himself already? That would be one of the few times that practice actually benefits society.