Resident Orkonomist, Advisor to Da Kommitte, and Hobbyist Teef Collector
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I have been predicting since ~2018 that the so-called “competent fascist” after Trump was going to come from the Democrat party. Elissa Slotkin may not be that person, but her rhetoric over the last couple months has kept me confident in that prediction.
In contrast: I imagine the lawyer was having a great time billing for this.
I been keeping this one in my back pocket for years :smuglord:
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E) also, underrated subtle detail is the ex-husband representing himself vs the ex-wife who hired a lawyer for the “divvying up the stuffies” civil case
it’s quite clear the battle droids are more or less fully sentient.
It’s explicitly stated that the B1 battle droids in Phantom Menace do not have independent thought, a feature omitted as a cost-cutting measure; hence the need for the massive control ships and yellow-painted commander units (which do have the capability for independent thought, so I guess as far as they go I agree with you.) The hubris behind this mistake is one of the major themes of the film.
but they show individuality at multiple points in the film.
This is a fine counter-argument, I 90% chalk that up to the goofy bullshit strewn around the movie (like Jarjar stepping in animal shit) and maybe 10% chalk it up to the concept in Star Wars that droids will develop sentience through accumulated experience if they don’t get regularly mind-wiped; which is another horrific concept in the convo about droid person-hood.
I only disagree with you on the specifics of the Phantom Menace because from what I understand the average non-commander B1 unit in that movie does not have the physical hardware to perform independent thought. This is textually not the case in the subsequent prequels because the conditions change. Otherwise I wholeheartedly agree that looking at The Clone Wars (the in-universe event) through the lens of droid person-hood (and by extension, Clone person-hood) really fucks up the surface level narrative in a good way.
At the end of the day though Star Wars is full of holes, it’s not worth arguing this in-depth about anything involved with it tbh; so your read is just as valid.
Eh not so much Phantom Menace, because all those droids are explained to be and shown as cheap, unsophisticated, and expendable models that are remotely controlled en masse from enormous orbital command ships.
In The Clone Wars/RotS, however, there is like no practical difference between the Clone Army and the Droid Army. Think of the juxtaposition of the cloning facilities in the first half vs the droid factory in the second half. It’s just a massive factionalist split between Corporatist fascists and Neoliberal fascists, a grinding war of attrition at the cost of trillions of de-personed yet still sentient beings.
He also admitted to not believing germ theory while hosting FOX during Covid.
There is a technique or art to easing into it. I find it very easy to talk about"lefty" stuff if you know what buzzwords to avoid, or alternatively, to abuse.
I Iike to listen to the Stellaris OST when in 
mode
Also my go-to tripping album is Crack the Skye by Mastadon but it’s not as light fare as the OST
Gork: Answer is unklear, best be askin’ Mork
Huh, weird this is generally Stephen PInker’s schtick. Wonder if he was already booked and they needed another epstein associate to tell 
everything is gonna be alright so long as line go up
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Original Comment:
I watched it a few nights back and although I thought it was well-made, well-acted, and entertaining, here are the few minor gripes I had with it: 1. The first 40 minutes were spoiled by the trailers. It felt like I was waiting for the movie to get going for a while. That’s more of a criticism of modern trailers than the movie itself though. 2. The deus ex machina ending felt anticlimactic. ::: spoiler spoiler [REDACTED] ::: Overall I enjoyed the movie and think it’s worth watching once, but I don’t think I have a desire to watch it again.
Edited Comment:
I watched it a few nights back and although I thought it was well-made, well-acted, and entertaining, here are the few minor gripes I had with it: 1. The first 40 minutes were spoiled by the trailers. It felt like I was waiting for the movie to get going for a while. That’s more of a criticism of modern trailers than the movie itself though. 2. The deus ex machina ending felt anticlimactic.
That the council could/would just immediately band together to oust Ruffalo once they saw abuse for the first time felt very unrealistic and immediately erased the stakes of the whole movie imo
Overall I enjoyed the movie and think it’s worth watching once, but I don’t think I have a desire to watch it again.
Have you ever interacted with American soldiers? Recently? The average American is used to those things.
I am an average american and I am not used to those things. I go to work, and then I go home and cook a meal for my family.
and the military makes more money through those contracts.
So then why do they need my tax dollars if they have all these lucrative deals with multinational billionaire companies? Although, this is beside the point that I don’t think any part of the U.S. Military should be “making money.” JFC
This is a simple and expected outcome of a capitalist society. If those establishments exist, we should give our soldiers the choice of having them in their lives.
Why? I find that those establishments are neither healthy nor economical compared to a basic vegetables and rice meal.
Do you know what our military bases actually look like? These people literally live on bases for years.
Then I would expect the bases to have facilities that reflect this fact. That is proper logistical thinking, after all.
If the soldiers didn’t want that food, then those places wouldn’t make money, and the military makes more money through those contracts.
This is an entirely different problem. Why is your assumption that the base desire is for fast food and not out of a perceived more palatable alternative of a not shitty mess hall?
There is no official color designation for the parties; and they used to commonly be “reversed” although it varied from media outlet to outlet.
The colors “switching” is almost entirely a media fabrication. Different television networks trying out different colours and configurations, copying each other, chasing viewer numbers, etc. and the 2000 election is where it gets kind of standardized as what we have today.
“My firm belief is that the turning point in red/blue states was the national map (that) USA Today ran the day after the election in 2000, in which — for whatever reason — red was Republican and blue was Democratic-”
Keating Holland, CNN’s director of polling and election analysis from 1993 to 2014.
I love it
but maybe someone should send Mr. Kubrick an email and tell him to stop stealing trade secrets from the DPRS film industry !!
It is treatbrained to think that not eating at Burger King = making them miserable.
Why not have a not-miserable mess hall as a rule instead of having the soldiers use their own pay on crunchwrap supremes?
Hard agree. Should have been Nanook.