“Conversations I imagine in my head that never actually happen to anyone”
tomiant
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This is what happens when you abandon humanism and instead focus only on the rights of whatever clique you happen to belong to in particular.
But semantics have become more fluid and non-binary over the past decade.
For me it’s the juvenile plot and vapid dialogue. But sure, the retconning too.
After that movie, the influence the DoD had was much more subtle if it was there at all.
Their involvement is blatant. They literally have a near century long intimate relationship with Hollywood as a well established recruitment tactic. It’s hardly a secret.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military–entertainment_complex
https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2018/03/22/how-why-defense-department-works-hollywood.html
tomiant@piefed.socialto Technology@piefed.social•Judge says FTC investigation into Media Matters ‘should alarm all Americans’English12·2 个月前I’ve been alarmed for three decades. I don’t even notice the alarm bell anymore, it’s just background noise at this point.
tomiant@piefed.socialto Futurology@futurology.today•Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping pointsEnglish6·2 个月前The oligarchy is a function of capitalism. Capitalism is the problem, its what brought us here. That’s the cancer. It’s an inherently unstable system which cannot sustain itself on a long enough timescale. It will consume everything, then itself, then collapse, taking us all with it.
tomiant@piefed.socialto Futurology@futurology.today•Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping pointsEnglish4·2 个月前We are caught in a system from which there is no escape and which dictates every facet of human civilization. It will not stop until it has consumed everything, at which point it will collapse, crushing humanity under the flaming rubble.
We are about to get great filter’d.
tomiant@piefed.socialto Futurology@futurology.today•Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping pointsEnglish3·2 个月前It wasn’t a fuck up. It was wittingly perpetrated on us and the planet.
tomiant@piefed.socialto Futurology@futurology.today•Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping pointsEnglish11·2 个月前“Approaching”? lol
tomiant@piefed.socialto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Elon Musk travels with as many as 20 bodyguardsEnglish6·2 个月前Why would he need protection from them? When was the last time security personnel offed the person they were hired to protect?
tomiant@piefed.socialto World News@quokk.au•Time not right to recognise Palestinian state, says Danish PMEnglish7·2 个月前What the hell is that even supposed to mean? The wrong time of day? You don’t recognize states on odd week numbers? Spineless!
tomiant@piefed.socialto Technology@piefed.social•No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockersEnglish17·2 个月前Democracy and liberty is under concerted attack all over the world. We need to organize globally and rise up or we will lose everything.
tomiant@piefed.socialto Technology@piefed.social•No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockersEnglish20·2 个月前I think what people don’t understand is that this is a single step forward. They don’t expect to be able to enforce it straight away. But this sets a precedent. It’s a stepping stone. First get it written into law, then inch ever closer to their goal. Same thing with the UK, they know some people will find ways around it.
They don’t need to get everyone, just most people. Then they can go after the skilled minority with harsher penalties or whatever.
Also, please don’t think it matters for a second that they are tech illiterate- they are running errands for the big corporations and the wealthy elite, who have plenty of money to spend on technical experts to enforce the bullshit.
tomiant@piefed.socialto Casual Conversation@piefed.social•Did you see the first episode of Alien: Earth?English6·2 个月前I haven’t seen it and I won’t, because almost every time they do these TV show reboots of film, it ends up being the same relationship drama shlock you see in every other show nowadays, basically universe flavored Danielle Steele novels.
tomiant@piefed.socialto [Dormant] moved to !historymemes@piefed.social@lemmy.world•take all the time you need.English3·2 个月前Religion sells certainty. The world is a big unknowable mystery, and that’s scary. So people are inclined to listen to anyone who is full of certainty and claims to know everything and how it all works and what to do.
This can’t be fucking real…
It’s real, isn’t it…
tomiant@piefed.socialto Debian@lemmy.world•DEBIAN 13: I could actually use it as my desktop, now!English2·2 个月前I thought it was weird that you copy pasted all the ads…
Fair enough. I just consider it quicker wikipedia, especially for very simple lookups. For what it’s worth, I googled “gopher”, which, shockingly, showed me pictures of gopher. “Gopher network” showed me an online network dedicated to gophers. XD
I 100% get the AI hate, but it did explain it to me, pointed me to a browser, which I installed, and now I’m on Gemini, so I learned something and gemini got a new user.
Behold! The power of storytelling and imagination when not every single detail is explicated upon and shoved in the audience’s face!