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Cyberpunk 2020: We Are Already Living in a Cyberpunk Technofascist Dystopia
A very accurate dark prophecy from Carl Sagan:
/>This, I imagine, is a baptism while observing the Megagovernment's mandated six feet of social distancing.
@APhilosophae Sep 3 I'm not certain the world we knew is coming back. I am certain that the world we are living in has changed. We can do better than this, regardless of any differences we may hold. Neighbors don't treat neighbors like a bunch of warring factions living in a Huxleyan fever dream.
One more data point indicating we're living in a cyberpunk fascist dystopia: A Walmart billionaire schemed to build his own designer "woke" city.
Another data point: New "reality" TV show will have "activists" compete. The prize is getting a donation to your stupid gay-ass cause. All of this crap is performative nonsense anyway; might as well get a performance out of it.
Usher, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Julianne Hough are set to co-host the Global Citizen competition series from CBS, The Activist. The five-week reality series premieres at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, on CBS and will be available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+. The Activist is a competition series that features six inspiring activists teamed with three high-profile public figures working together to bring meaningful change to one of three vitally important world causes: health, education, and environment. Activists go head-to-head in challenges to promote their causes, with their success measured via online engagement, social metrics, and hosts’ input. The three teams have one ultimate goal: to create impactful movements that amplify their message, drive action, and advance them to the G20 Summit in Rome, Italy. There, they will meet with world leaders in the hope of securing funding and awareness for their causes. The team that receives the largest commitment is celebrated as the overall winner at the finale, which will also feature musical performances by some of the world’s most passionate artists.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: trev006 at September 10, 2021 03:46 PM (NQnTk)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at September 10, 2021 03:46 PM (DTX3h)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 10, 2021 03:46 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Getting the banned back together at September 10, 2021 03:46 PM (n365n)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:46 PM (s2VJv)
Posted by: SFGoth at September 10, 2021 03:46 PM (KAi1n)
Seriously, I don't need a nuclear war to envy the dead.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:47 PM (s2VJv)
My friend, did you read Sagan's highlighted words and Ace's comments?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:47 PM (s2VJv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 10, 2021 03:47 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: irright at September 10, 2021 03:47 PM (SchQD)
Posted by: Ron at September 10, 2021 03:48 PM (pOrFv)
Residents, in turn, own their homes on the land and are enriched as home values increase, according to the project's site, and after a period of "hyper-growth," residents can buy the land from the community endowment.
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Do it.
It'll be an unlivable slum in three months, max.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 10, 2021 03:48 PM (LvTSG)
**********
I'd watch if the two losing teams were to be dumped into a pit of liquid hot magma.
Posted by: Sasquatch. The Original Trans-Wookie at September 10, 2021 03:48 PM (Uqk0T)
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 03:49 PM (uPJ1S)
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You're lauding Carl Sagan? Really? Carl. Sagan? He was a pot head.
Posted by: SFGoth at September 10, 2021 03:46 PM -
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Ans a droning blowhard in love with his own voice.
Posted by: irright at September 10, 2021 03:49 PM (SchQD)
Posted by: Flyguy at September 10, 2021 03:49 PM (CiLUq)
Posted by: irright at September 10, 2021 03:49 PM (SchQD)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 10, 2021 03:49 PM (QU5/8)
Posted by: Ron at September 10, 2021 03:48 PM (pOrFv)
I worry about who is going to be the Hershel Grynszpan.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:49 PM (s2VJv)
Posted by: Jonestown at September 10, 2021 03:49 PM (sVfvf)
This reminds me of when Dagny Taggart is tracing the demise of the 20th Century Motor Company and gets to the part where the woke heiress of the founder spent millions trying to get the workers to eat soy instead of meet, and live according to her ever crazier whims.
Posted by: ogmrobvious at September 10, 2021 03:50 PM (EjmR4)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at September 10, 2021 03:50 PM (TNyrE)
Posted by: runner at September 10, 2021 03:50 PM (V13WU)
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Better or worse that F-Boy Island?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 10, 2021 03:51 PM (LvTSG)
So let me get this straight; even using a lefty's own words as source material to make a cogent and timely point is some kind of effrontery to your sensibilities or a mortal sin?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:51 PM (s2VJv)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 10, 2021 03:51 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 03:51 PM (OCTRt)
https://youtu.be/gzEGBAG8x5U
I think it looks great, but I'm an idiot, so YMMV.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 03:52 PM (uPJ1S)
Posted by: Flyguy at September 10, 2021 03:49 PM (CiLUq)
I was about to disagree but then I realized you mean the RPG and not Neuromancer so... maybe?
Posted by: hogmartin at September 10, 2021 03:52 PM (ghoDT)
It is the subject of every good sci fi and fantasy novel. Even weird fiction turns on the grist mill of cyberfascism-marxism.
We're mired in a woke reactionary-Marxist mode. It won't last.
Posted by: 13times at September 10, 2021 03:52 PM (RpjyR)
Posted by: Otto Zilch at September 10, 2021 03:52 PM (U2esv)
Mf'er, I'm not doing shit to anyone. I'm not actively seeking out issues or causing problems where none exist. If you think you can do better in life, then obviously that's a you issue. Stop with this "we" shit and just use the flippin' singular.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 10, 2021 03:52 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 03:51 PM (OCTRt)
I thought that was a Nat'l Lampoon photo. I see instead it's reality. Or a close approximation.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:52 PM (s2VJv)
but he's taller then i expected...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at September 10, 2021 03:52 PM (8D42x)
Posted by: Flyguy at September 10, 2021 03:49 PM (CiLUq)
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Animal Farm was Cyberpunk?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 10, 2021 03:52 PM (LvTSG)
OTOH we're not really quite there, as I can't talk to any random shmuck on the street and get a quest to whack some dude or retrieve some lost
Posted by: Methos at September 10, 2021 03:52 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Glenn John at September 10, 2021 03:53 PM (LilNs)
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 03:53 PM (UW2ZS)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle
Bladerunner!! Flying cars and sex bots!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 10, 2021 03:53 PM (sVfvf)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at September 10, 2021 03:53 PM (YynYJ)
But he was also an unabashed leftist and no doubt believed that he was sticking it to "comfortable, upper middle class WHITE people" who voted Republican.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 03:53 PM (mR6Gs)
Should be fun to watch.
Posted by: spindrift at September 10, 2021 03:53 PM (h5TKJ)
Lore last week unveiled plans for his utopia, called Telosa, from the ancient Greek word Telos, meaning "highest purpose."
In which he is like a god or the Supreme Ruler.
Isn't this obvious to everyone??
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 10, 2021 03:53 PM (ejyaU)
I was about to disagree but then I realized you mean the RPG and not Neuromancer so... maybe?
Posted by: hogmartin at September 10, 2021 03:52 PM (ghoDT)
Nope, Cyberpunk. Diversity and Unity section.
Posted by: Flyguy at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (CiLUq)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (LvTSG)
Not gonna lie, I laughed at the pic.
Granted, it was a horrified laugh, but a laugh nonetheless.
Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (E/NJa)
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Even *more* dystopic than the mere fact of the event? Go look at the picture. Look carefully.
That event - of "political supporters" "rallying" in their cars for Porridge Brain - was sponsored. Every single vehicle is a Chrysler product, and they're all new. That "rally" pulled double-duty as a marketing op, while the megacorps that suckle at the government teat and subsist on the bitter fat of socialism throw their weight behind their preferred candidate.
It almost doesn't get more dystopian than that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (3p5uk)
Posted by: Flyguy at September 10, 2021 03:49 PM (CiLUq)
It was more like "Corporations are people- and you're not, you dirty prole."
Posted by: trev006 at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (NQnTk)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (XSRBF)
Lore last week unveiled plans for his utopia, called Telosa, from the ancient Greek word Telos, meaning "highest purpose."
We used to call muthafuckas like this Pharaohs.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (ejyaU)
Posted by: Methos at September 10, 2021 03:52 PM (kOpft)
I always try out the funny colored rock in the path or wall, there's always a treasure or map behind it...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (8D42x)
Watch it once and you'll never have to watch it again.
I had to immediately watch Slumdog Millionaire to pick my spirits up.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (bnkLv)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (axyOa)
I mean, the cities are completely fucked, so horrifying as to be out of a sci-fi dystopia from any number of authors, with no relief in sight at all.
Philadelphia...goes from the founding of the coutnry, to a filthy hellhole. Was just there, there is garbage everywhere, and people with bad tats and bad attitudes. A sewer of a city. Baltimore, people graduate high school without knowing how to add or read. Literally, cant read, but graduated. I read that one student made it through four years of HS, but had to be sent back to the beginning to do it all over again...I guess that's good though?
But BLM right? What happened to all those riots, they just ended, with what...they toppled a statue on the head of one black man, ripping his face off and damaging his brain. No apologies, no assitance, a casualty.
But Trumpers! They are the problem!
Would old Carl have voted for the old racist pedo Taliban Joe, would he also have ignored Joe handing over tech to China by way of reinstating the Taliban...
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (4WPW/)
But he was also an unabashed leftist and no doubt believed that he was sticking it to "comfortable, upper middle class WHITE people" who voted Republican.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 03:53 PM (mR6Gs)
True, but in all fairness, his routing about "It's a big club and you ain't in it" is a 10 megaton truth nuke.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:55 PM (s2VJv)
Residents, in turn, own their homes on the land and are enriched as home values increase, according to the project's site, and after a period of "hyper-growth," residents can buy the land from the community endowment.
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Do it.
It'll be an unlivable slum in three months, max.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
He'll have to pick a blue state. No way a red state forgoes the tax base on a "gimmick". And the second the first tax bill comes due, the project goes into the shitter.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 03:55 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 03:55 PM (3p5uk)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (3p5uk)
They were all empty, and the Biden rally started crazy late. That night I remember.
Posted by: trev006 at September 10, 2021 03:55 PM (NQnTk)
Posted by: grammie winger at September 10, 2021 03:55 PM (45fpk)
Posted by: filbert at September 10, 2021 03:55 PM (NiXyF)
Posted by: Flyguy at September 10, 2021 03:55 PM (CiLUq)
Posted by: Randy "Macho Man" Savage. at September 10, 2021 03:55 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 10, 2021 03:55 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at September 10, 2021 03:55 PM (sGtp+)
Should be fun to watch.
Posted by: spindrift at September 10, 2021 03:53 PM (h5TKJ)
Imagine the freaking Karens that HOA is going to attract.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 10, 2021 03:55 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at September 10, 2021 03:53 PM (YynYJ)
From pipes.
Which we control, for your own good.
Posted by: Bill Gates at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (ACi07)
.......
Will they be nekkid?
Posted by: wth at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle
I want to live in a world like the one I grew up in where not everything or everyone was perfect but people were usually in agreement ( in principle) on most things and generally kept to themselves--while offering to share their beer or pot.
Is that too much to ask?
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (mR6Gs)
Posted by: wth at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (v0R5T)
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Yes.
And you won't like it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (2DOZq)
Congratulations! You're now a sharecropper.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (aXxgO)
Downside: I want to like it, but my brain keeps telling me it's full of nostalgia bombs like the TFA trailer, down to the musical swell at "THIS CHRISTMAS".
However, the most Matrix-y thing in the trailer isn't the nostalgia, it's the one shot of Neo in the elevator surrounded by people with their faces stuck in their cell phones.
Posted by: Methos at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (DXFDM)
Posted by: filbert at September 10, 2021 03:55 PM (NiXyF)
He never did get to tell us that it was time to panic. I think his death made that message plain as day.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (s2VJv)
What do you consider the original Cyberpunk? Nova by Delaney?
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (UW2ZS)
Posted by: Flyguy
Not that I recall. It was mostly describing mega-corps controlling a unresponsible government that lead to wide-spread crime and decay around pockets of super-tech and wealthy neo-aristocracy.
The only kind of social stuff was the sub-cultures and their weirdness like the Brady Bunch. The Brady Bunch 'gangs' all have surgically altered faces to look like characters in the TV show.
Yeah, it wasn't the best in terms of social predictions.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (1t5dY)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (XSRBF)
Sadly, not even in the top ten percent of "inappropriate priest watersports" on Google.
Posted by: trev006 at September 10, 2021 03:57 PM (NQnTk)
IIRC, the priest himself approved of that pic, saying he thought it was "cute."
If ever any prelate needed to be defrocked, excommunicated and burnt as a heresiarch, that asshole is one.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 10, 2021 03:57 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: rickb223
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LOL
IKR?
Looks like a Babylon Bee parody.
Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at September 10, 2021 03:57 PM (E/NJa)
Not gonna lie, I laughed at the pic.
If you did that to Pelosi she would burst into flame.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 10, 2021 03:57 PM (yQpMk)
Quite fascinating
Posted by: Lrrr at September 10, 2021 03:57 PM (jIL4c)
Posted by: Flyguy at September 10, 2021 03:57 PM (CiLUq)
26 states have declared they will oppose biden's mandates, including some suspect places like Alabama and Louisiana, which are run by covid cheerleaders.
Know why i think they felt they had to do it? Stadiums full of people yelling "f*ck Biden", with the prospect of even more this weekend. They had to give the bad guys "cover" to declare no more assemblies, but I think its too late, and they don't dare.
And the coo-coo leftists in my FB timeline are now being sad about how "the news" is so upsetting, nowadays. Seems like a big shift from "Republicans are bad"
Posted by: artemis at September 10, 2021 03:57 PM (AwPyG)
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at September 10, 2021 03:57 PM (xopIz)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 10, 2021 03:57 PM (cufFT)
Every dang time I see anything related to The Omega Man, that opening scene with Charlton Heston cruising around the now-dead LA(?) streets with Ron Grainers' soundtrack comes to the forefront of my mind.
Posted by: Thrawn at September 10, 2021 03:57 PM (5aFbR)
Thats as bad as my pastor.putting Jacuzzi jets in the baptismal.
Posted by: Diogenes
At least he's getting in there with you.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 03:57 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: artisanal ette at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (2o90I)
Looks like it has something for everybody:
https://youtu.be/pZsFREVz3CI
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (uPJ1S)
Wow. Heresiarch is not a typo but a real word. And a really cool one!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (s2VJv)
It'll be an unlivable slum in three months, max.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 10, 2021 03:48 PM (LvTSG)
Wait, so you build your home on someone else's land? What happens when they don't like what you did on their land? It would be like the worlds more powerful home owners association... Karen's everywhere.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (oHd/0)
Residents, in turn, own their homes on the land and are enriched as home values increase, according to the project's site, and after a period of "hyper-growth," residents can buy the land from the community endowment.
This may be the dumbest thing I heard today.
So you want me to build a house on property that I don't own with the hope that in the future I will be able to buy the property my house sits on? What happens if "the community" decides not to sell me the land? I have to move my house? What happens if the "period of hyper-growth" doesn't happen? What happens if "the community" goes bankrupt?
Posted by: Chuck C at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (EughT)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (3p5uk)
Yep, every single damned car was a brand new Jeep. Paper plates. 2021 models. Empty. Just a parking lot with cars, and nothing else.
That's something that would have been in a stupid "dark political comedy", but probably wind up on the cutting room floor.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: UGAdawg at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (tRd71)
Posted by: grammie winger
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It's not baptism.
Dunno what it is, but it's not a baptism.
Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (E/NJa)
Yeah, it wasn't the best in terms of social predictions.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (1t5dY)
Substitute Kardashian ass for Brady face and we're there.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: artisanal ette at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (2o90I)
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (UW2ZS)
Posted by: artisanal ette at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (2o90I)
Isn't this the story of Eric Swalwell's sex life?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (s2VJv)
Posted by: Methos
Prepare to be intensely disappointed. Like The Last Jedi mixed with Terminator: Dark Fate disappointed.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (1t5dY)
Goblinization started April 30 2021. When I become an 8 ft tall metahuman-ork there's gonna be a few scores settled.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (Yh0oe)
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It is gone, and it is not coming back. The future is unknown, but it is not the past. America is gone. The Postwar global order is gone. Whether we get continued dystopia along current lines, some kind of destructive revolution leading a different dystopia, some kind of destructive revolution leading to a New Republic, who knows.
But the world as we knew it is over, and will not be coming back.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (3p5uk)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Yeah, Commie Pedophile "pope" Frankie would undoubtedly think that's just fine, the worthless scumbag.
Welp, I'm off to say a Rosary since I typed that sentence.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (uPJ1S)
The water is still boiling...
Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: artemis at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (AwPyG)
Posted by: Jubal Early at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (MC9JN)
Posted by: blaster at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (mbFEM)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:46 PM (s2VJv)
Had a long talk with my doctor about that the other day. Told him I have no desire to kill myself (coward and also don't know if what comes next is worse than this), but do often wish I'd just go to sleep and never wake up again.
I'd give almost anything for Somewhere In Time to be real.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (2JVJo)
Supreme Court Moves To White House So They Can Strike Down Unconstitutional Mandates In Real-Time
Posted by: SMOD at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (uhU//)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (63Dwl)
So let me get this straight; even using a lefty's own words as source material to make a cogent and timely point is some kind of effrontery to your sensibilities or a mortal sin?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:51 PM -
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Nah. I didn't say anything about Ace using Sagan. (the first part of my comment was quoting another commenter) I just wanted to say Sagan was a blowhard in love with the sound of his own voice. I always found him quite annoying.
Posted by: irright at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (SchQD)
Posted by: wth at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (v0R5T)
I can take only so many hairy female armpits....
Posted by: Jak Sucio at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (jvt6t)
like La Reunion in Dallas.
these dummies don't know it's been done hundreds of times in the US and the Bernie Sanders problem causes it to fail every single time.
Posted by: x at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (oA+QO)
Posted by: wth at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (v0R5T)
you bet we will be
Trigglypuff, Sandra Fluke, and Hillary Clinton...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at September 10, 2021 04:00 PM (8D42x)
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 04:00 PM (2DOZq)
.......
Shitter's full, Marc.
Posted by: wth at September 10, 2021 04:00 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Chuck C at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (EughT)
Well then the Right People were not in charge.
It will work this time though, for sure.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 10, 2021 04:00 PM (ghoDT)
Posted by: Beartooth at September 10, 2021 04:00 PM (UAr4S)
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"enriched as home values increase" is the funniest shit I've read all month.
Posted by: Azathoth at September 10, 2021 04:00 PM (O5atO)
If you want predictions that came about, or damn close, look at Paddy Chayefsky's "The Hospital" and of course "Network."
The community leader meeting in Hospital sounds as if Paddy jumped 50 years into the future and attended a faculty meeting at Evergreen State.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 04:00 PM (s2VJv)
Posted by: Diogenes
At least he's getting in there with you.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 03:57 PM (OCTRt)
True.
And i appreciate the water heater!
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2021 04:00 PM (axyOa)
Welp, I'm off to say a Rosary since I typed that sentence.
Posted by: Sharkman
Oh Lord! Please forgive me for that, that's not right and bless the pygmies in Africa.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 04:00 PM (OCTRt)
She was beautiful before she got all the face lifts.
What a vain pos. Had to get rid of the Indian schnoz.
Her looks were her best feature. Just another below average actor who "made it big" and will do anything stupid
tv producers tell her to do.
Posted by: Glenn John at September 10, 2021 04:00 PM (LilNs)
That's something that would have been in a stupid "dark political comedy", but probably wind up on the cutting room floor.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (wAnMi)
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I didn't know they were *empty.* That's somehow even more of a dystopian vision than it was already, where in my mind there were paid supporters in them...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 04:01 PM (3p5uk)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at September 10, 2021 04:01 PM (eR96o)
Posted by: Flyguy at September 10, 2021 04:01 PM (CiLUq)
True, but in all fairness, his routing about "It's a big club and you ain't in it" is a 10 megaton truth nuke.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:55 PM (s2VJv)
Oh absolutely, and he was willing to point out hypocrisy wherever it came from.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:01 PM (mR6Gs)
That baptism is a joke.
Posted by: grammie winger
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It's not baptism.
Dunno what it is, but it's not a baptism.
Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM -
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I think she meant the photo taken intentionally as a joke.
Posted by: irright at September 10, 2021 04:01 PM (SchQD)
Posted by: Methos at September 10, 2021 03:56 PM (kOpft)
This! If the new Matrix is going to stab at social media, I could buy into that.
Posted by: G. Gnome will not comply at September 10, 2021 04:01 PM (OQcPl)
Posted by: 13times at September 10, 2021 04:02 PM (RpjyR)
Posted by: Chuck C
You hook your single wide up and tow it out of there!
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 04:02 PM (OCTRt)
No thanks. The flying cars were styled ugly and the sexbot wanted to kill you.
Posted by: Azjaeger at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM (3/XaG)
Thats as bad as my pastor.putting Jacuzzi jets in the baptismal.
Posted by: Diogenes
The Lost Boys
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM (2DOZq)
.......
Telosa sounds like the name of an as yet unimagined Tesla Pick up truck
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM (mR6Gs)
Oh, it'll be coming back... as THUNDERDOME!
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM (aXxgO)
*patiently checks 'Percentage of Genuine Injun Blood' Card, verifying 1/24th Cherokee; further patiently waiting until property values on this woke idiot's project reach astronomical levels so I can sue for building it on "MY LAND"*
If he's building it in North America, I win.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM (uPJ1S)
Oh, don't worry. If I'm disappointed, it will be by spoiler reviews on youtube.
Posted by: Methos at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM (Yh0oe)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM (YynYJ)
No one screams passion like I do.
Posted by: Yoko O. at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (1t5dY)
I'm not looking forward to it at all. Might watch it if the word of mouth (here) is one of wonder and astonishment. The first one was good, especially for 1999. New cinematic breakthroughs. So-so story, but with a few things that pushed it past potential mediocrity. The 2 that followed were awful. I have zero doubts the Wachouwslkoids see this as their chance to redeem themselves and hit new heights of virtue signaling previously undreamed by mere mortal. It will be beyond woke, in the most obtuse possible way.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: Archer at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at September 10, 2021 04:04 PM (xopIz)
Posted by: grammie winger
And the priest doesn't seem like his heart is in it.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:04 PM (mR6Gs)
Where's your food coming from?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 04:04 PM (OCTRt)
With a worldview like that -- there is no Creator God, no soul, no eternity, no Savior -- death is all that remains.
If we are but random atoms accidentally bumping into each other, who cares what one set of atoms does to another set?
There is no right or wrong. Then, for some "unknown" and "unexpected" reason, a civilization collapses.
...As if that's never happened before....
Posted by: Dan at September 10, 2021 04:04 PM (+NG5U)
I'd give almost anything for Somewhere In Time to be real.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (2JVJo)
MP4, I don't know you or anything but it really bums me out to hear that you have these thoughts. I know nothing I say will change it and I don't assume I have that power, regardless. But the last year or so has shown me the power and value of finding like-minded individuals, people like yourself. I enjoy your contributions to our little world here and they certainly help to validate much of what I think and feel about the world. Whether this means anything or not, I'll leave that up to you but I figured it was at least somewhat important to let you know.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 10, 2021 04:04 PM (KbCG3)
https://youtu.be/gzEGBAG8x5U
I think it looks great, but I'm an idiot, so YMMV.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 03:52 PM (uPJ1S)
First impressions:
1) Pretty colors and explosions
2) Releasing on Christmas?
3) Director Lana Wachowski... yeah no
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 10, 2021 04:04 PM (ACi07)
It'll be an unlivable slum in three months, max.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way
There will be violent clashes between The Bike Path Faction and the UberEats Faction.
It will be glorious.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 04:04 PM (uPJ1S)
Seriously, we are for sure in a fin du siecle moment. The world is on course for 200 years or more of Chinese and Islamic domination.
That will be World War 3: The Khomes vs the Ikeelyous.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 04:04 PM (s2VJv)
It's more like Scorsese's Bringing Out The Dead.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at September 10, 2021 04:05 PM (jvt6t)
Posted by: 13times at September 10, 2021 04:02 PM (RpjyR)
FLW was an immoral piece of shit. The mass killing at his home for his mistress is an interesting read though.
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 04:05 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 10, 2021 04:05 PM (QU5/8)
https://bit.ly/3nnkdSQ
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:05 PM (UW2ZS)
What's really sad is there's going to be a huge divide between students, depending on their schooling, going forward.
Private or homeschooled are going to be so much more employable and well adjusted. And it will start to self-select, so that the only people left in free public schools are left wing nuts, or people who don't understand the system.
Posted by: artemis at September 10, 2021 04:05 PM (AwPyG)
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:05 PM (XHhHI)
1975?
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at September 10, 2021 04:04 PM (xopIz)
1971.
Posted by: Thrawn at September 10, 2021 04:05 PM (5aFbR)
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM (Yh0oe)
You must have said something and your computer was spying on you.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 04:05 PM (s2VJv)
Posted by: runner at September 10, 2021 04:05 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM
The Bob Dole can help you with one of the others.
Posted by: Robert "Bob" Dole at September 10, 2021 04:05 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: irright at September 10, 2021 04:01 PM (SchQD)
No, I meant it was an abomination.
Posted by: grammie winger at September 10, 2021 04:06 PM (45fpk)
___
So serfdom?
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at September 10, 2021 04:06 PM (GQ5VU)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 04:00 PM (s2VJv)
Jensen would have had execs EXECUTED if they cost him a 40 share just to woke-lecture the audience.
Posted by: trev006 at September 10, 2021 04:06 PM (NQnTk)
Posted by: Jimco Industries at September 10, 2021 04:06 PM (buTO7)
No thanks. The flying cars were styled ugly and the sexbot wanted to kill you.
Posted by: Azjaeger at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM (3/XaG)
With my luck it'll be a 5th Element universe... with no Li Lu, but lots of Ruby Rod.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 10, 2021 04:06 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Azathoth at September 10, 2021 04:06 PM (O5atO)
Humble had a bundle on all the original cyberpunk rpg material a while back and I wasn't impressed. I know it came out a lot earlier than shadowrun and was probably the original. But I like Shadowrun better.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 04:07 PM (Yh0oe)
Posted by: redridinghood at September 10, 2021 04:07 PM (NpAcC)
So you want me to build a house on property that I don't own with the hope that in the future I will be able to buy the property my house sits on? What happens if "the community" decides not to sell me the land? I have to move my house? What happens if the "period of hyper-growth" doesn't happen? What happens if "the community" goes bankrupt?
Posted by: Chuck C at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (EughT)
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*scratch's head* Isn't that the Chicom's version of property ownership.
Posted by: WisRich at September 10, 2021 04:07 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Woke HR Departments at every Company at September 10, 2021 04:07 PM (GQ5VU)
Posted by: grammie winger
And the priest doesn't seem like his heart is in it.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:04 PM
Can't wait to hear Weasel 's take on form and technique.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2021 04:07 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Eisenhorn at September 10, 2021 04:07 PM (F6tBH)
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And underneath it: "REPORT NON-COMPLIANCE TO 311."
Out: Big Brother.
In: Big Karen ... the new 311.
Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 10, 2021 04:07 PM (49ssQ)
Posted by: Dan at September 10, 2021 04:08 PM (+NG5U)
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That will work until the first dishwasher breaks and some kid refuses to suck dick. The only utopian societies that function are small and living an isolated life somewhere in the Amazon basin. And the reason they work is they either kick out the assholes or outright kill them. This keeps everyones' minds right.
Posted by: LostInSpace at September 10, 2021 04:08 PM (t4H2r)
Posted by: Archer at September 10, 2021 04:08 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at September 10, 2021 04:08 PM (xopIz)
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 10, 2021 04:06 PM (oHd/0)
well, he was so over the top it would be entertaining at least...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at September 10, 2021 04:08 PM (8D42x)
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 04:08 PM (Yh0oe)
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at September 10, 2021 03:54 PM (4WPW/)
Yes, and yes.
Posted by: Flyover at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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heh
Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (E/NJa)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: redridinghood at September 10, 2021 04:07 PM (NpAcC)
I think that might have come from the Babylon Bee. I've seen it before.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (dfRN6)
Posted by: redridinghood
Think back to what you have heard here how churches, all churches, have responded during Coof and it becomes more believable.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (z4k8L)
If you break the law you're going to be chased down by giant rolling weather balloons.
Posted by: Azathoth at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (O5atO)
Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated Kulak-American at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Roy at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (Ti+Tv)
1) Pretty colors and explosions
2) Releasing on Christmas?
3) Director Lana Wachowski... yeah no
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
I don't care if the director is insane and chopped off his own twig and berries as long as Keanu and Carrie-Ann Moss are in it. Which they are.
And Keanu has apparently been pumped full of blue pills by an evil Doogie Howzer.
What's not to love?
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (uPJ1S)
Posted by: Archer at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: irright
And a great voice he had. Billions and billions of mellifluents.
And yes, Sgt. Sefton, I not only read what Ace highlighted (and wrote), I'm familiar with Sagan's book. Not that I've read it, but I read excerpts of it years ago. I think Sagan would've been a Glenn Greenwald-type who wasn't reflexively tethered to his "side". (And, c'mon man, since when do I use "pot head" as an epithet? (Besides, the term is "pothead"; otherwise he'd literally have a pot for a head.))
Posted by: SFGoth at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: JT at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2021 03:58 PM (s2VJv)
I've applied it to Frankie Fabulous more than once.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (GQ5VU)
Posted by: JT at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: EveR at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (MUpk6)
No, they murdered normal, and can't believe we are not killing them yet.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (Cus5s)
It will be absolutely hilarious watching Bezos' fool town collapse in on its self though.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (2NHgQ)
.......
Will Marc be showing us how to farm the beets?
Posted by: wth at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (LvTSG)
Frank Lloyd Wright's Taleisen(?) West was supposed to be a back to the basics community. It turned into a dictatorship of the proletariat served by student-serfs.
Posted by: 13times at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (RpjyR)
https://is.gd/ugJc5I
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (3p5uk)
It will even be more fun when he calls the authorities onto me for spreading misinformation about the origin of authoritarianism.
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:11 PM (XHhHI)
Posted by: DaveA at September 10, 2021 04:11 PM (FhXTo)
If you break the law you're going to be chased down by giant rolling weather balloons.
Posted by: Azathoth at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (O5atO)
Oh, no, not again...
Posted by: Patrick McGoohan at September 10, 2021 04:11 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at September 10, 2021 04:11 PM (jvt6t)
This is a good one from Bjorn:
https://youtu.be/4-sVemGPhxA
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM -
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And a weird one from Bjork:
https://youtu.be/iIhLCXmrCm8
Posted by: irright at September 10, 2021 04:11 PM (SchQD)
Posted by: redchief at September 10, 2021 04:11 PM (Kab4E)
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 10, 2021 04:12 PM (oHd/0)
https://is.gd/ugJc5I
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (3p5uk)
That is a very pretty pilot
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:12 PM (XvPQV)
Sounds like Utopia! What could go wrong?
Posted by: grammie winger at September 10, 2021 04:12 PM (45fpk)
Posted by: jason farnon at September 10, 2021 04:12 PM (Gix6H)
One thing the left does to perfection is projection. All the time, with every breath they take. Just think of all the really spot on sci-fi movies of dystopian society, replace the evil Christian fundamentalists with government, and you got it. Of course, back then they were totally anti-corporation, so the ones that were an evil corporation taking over might have been accurate, they just didn't know how pro-corporation they'd become.
One thing Carl couldn't have predicted was social media boy did things snowball in the past 10 years or what? The only movie that pops into my head as being accurate *and* anti leftist is Demolition Man. Boy, did they nail the soy boy happy-joy-joy feelings thing or what?
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 10, 2021 04:12 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 10, 2021 04:12 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Roy at September 10, 2021 04:13 PM (Ti+Tv)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at September 10, 2021 04:13 PM (GQ5VU)
https://is.gd/213oUF
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 04:13 PM (3p5uk)
Kill myself? Hell no, your going to die first asshole. I don't want to just die without some sort of fight.
Posted by: JROD at September 10, 2021 04:13 PM (0jZnq)
Posted by: wth at September 10, 2021 04:13 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Azathoth
Dammit! I just had that dream on Monday!
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 04:13 PM (OCTRt)
No, I meant it was an abomination.
Posted by: grammie winger at September 10, 2021 04:06 PM
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You are not wrong.
Posted by: irright at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (SchQD)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (mR6Gs)
Isn't this why most "Indian" reservations have people living in shitty little houses or even trailers? Nobody gets to actually own the land, so why improve it? You can't use your house to build equity and wealth, so what's the point?
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (UW2ZS)
Posted by: redridinghood at September 10, 2021 04:07 PM (NpAcC)
Sally, this is a picture of your older brother Johnny.
But mommy, I dont have an older brother.
He's with Jesus now. The priest made a mistake.
Mommy, do i have to be baptised?
Next week dear.
SALLY: I am soooo outta here!
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (axyOa)
Tomorrowland?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (+Rh4C)
And Keanu has apparently been pumped full of blue pills by an evil Doogie Howzer.
What's not to love?
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (uPJ1S)
Well, if Trinity was The REAL One...that would do it.
Reckon I'll wait until others have seen and reviewed it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (XvPQV)
I could still take him in a fight, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM
Like clockwork?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Lefty Who Does Not Notice Irony at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (XHhHI)
Humble had a bundle on all the original cyberpunk rpg material a while back and I wasn't impressed. I know it came out a lot earlier than shadowrun and was probably the original. But I like Shadowrun better.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 04:07 PM (Yh0oe)
Shadowrun was a great idea with a horrid dice system.
Posted by: redchief at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (Kab4E)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (mR6Gs)
Posted by: klaftern at September 10, 2021 04:15 PM (r4sI4)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
When MP4 gets pissed he really brings the Literate Thunder.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 04:15 PM (uPJ1S)
Posted by: steevy at September 10, 2021 04:15 PM (uUDKV)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 10, 2021 04:15 PM (eJn7u)
Thought you might find this interesting. Just read my grandmother's recollections of family history put in writing at the request of her brother my Great Uncle. My grandmother lived on an estate of the McVicker family ( my great grandfather was the grounds caretaker) in NY. Mr McVicker was a film actor though it was his wife with the money. They knew many famous actors and actresses and would have parties and put on plays at the Estate. My grandmother was around six of seven when she recalls that Marjorie Rambeau was at the house and requested she play the part of a butterfly in one of the plays .
That's it but I thought you would know who Marjorie Rambeau was.
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 04:15 PM (2DOZq)
It is gone, and it is not coming back. The future is unknown, but it is not the past. America is gone. The Postwar global order is gone. Whether we get continued dystopia along current lines, some kind of destructive revolution leading a different dystopia, some kind of destructive revolution leading to a New Republic, who knows.
But the world as we knew it is over, and will not be coming back.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (3p5uk)
Excruciatingly sad but true. The end days. God didn't say exactly say how many that would be.
Posted by: Justsayin' at September 10, 2021 04:15 PM (Fs5vw)
Do they have sheepdogs to keep people in their pens?
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:15 PM (UW2ZS)
Kill myself? Hell no, your going to die first asshole. I don't want to just die without some sort of fight.
Posted by: JROD
Yeah. If I go, I'm taking some with me.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (OCTRt)
Egad I hate Progressive language.
The only "impactful movements" I've had involved finally getting over a bout of constipation.
And I think that's about where Progressive ideology is, as well.
Posted by: GWB at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (8YyYb)
https://is.gd/ugJc5I
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (3p5uk)
Hi I'm Bambi, Fly me!
Posted by: Archer at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (h1jJh)
Tomorrowland?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (+Rh4C)
Wasn't Telos 4 the planet with the bulgy-headed aliens in "The Menagerie"? Does everybody get a green Orion slave girl?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (dfRN6)
It's not going to work the way you envision it.
Posted by: Zombie Thomas More at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (mR6Gs)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 10, 2021 04:15 PM (eJn7u)
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Science guru who never did a lick of real science.
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (XHhHI)
Posted by: Azathoth at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (O5atO)
Ahh yes AWARENESS!!
Like how the NFL has pink shit for a month to bring awareness to breast cancel. Cuz before the NFL started doing that nobody in America had heard of cancer before.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at September 10, 2021 04:17 PM (GQ5VU)
https://youtu.be/4-sVemGPhxA
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at September 10, 2021 04:03 PM
Love the fucking goolag/YT posting the "conspiracy theory" about the NWO, and then linking to GD wikipedia. How much more dystopian can it get? Asshats.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 10, 2021 04:17 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: Skip at September 10, 2021 04:17 PM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:17 PM (XHhHI)
True. He specifically said he kept that secret even from His angels.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:17 PM (UW2ZS)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 10, 2021 04:17 PM (AJzTi)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
Needs a cis prefix.
Posted by: Feminist at September 10, 2021 04:17 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (dfRN6)
The one with the Biden wheelchair in it. Yes.
Posted by: Roy at September 10, 2021 04:17 PM (Ti+Tv)
Equitism is a stupid name, but Utopia has already been used.
This is nothing new and neither is the vanity to think "this time it'll work". It's just "hold my beer" but with more money.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 10, 2021 04:17 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: Patrick McGoohan at September 10, 2021 04:11 PM
That's *my* line
Posted by: a bowl of petunias at September 10, 2021 04:17 PM (EughT)
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Wouldn't it be cheaper for him to simply fly to North Korea?
Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 10, 2021 04:17 PM (49ssQ)
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (UW2ZS)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (d9FiS)
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (XHhHI)
*shifty-eyes*
Posted by: Bill Nye the Genderfluid Guy at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (h5TKJ)
Wasn't Telos 4 the planet with the bulgy-headed aliens in "The Menagerie"? Does everybody get a green Orion slave girl?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (dfRN6)
Wait....what?? I'm in!!
Posted by: Captain Kirk at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (jvt6t)
There's not enough hair gel on the planet for that.
Posted by: DaveA at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: steevy
I knew something was squirrelly when the black engineer turned out to be a robot.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated Kulak-American
Yeah, I was born in 1955, so there.
I don't think it's so much Left vs. Right. Those in actuality are kind of meaningless terms. It is the global corporatists seeking to absolutely control the economy, politics, culture and money.
They are using some of the catch - phrases and slogans of the Left to energize Stupid youth, who always want to latch onto Stupid Leftist Ideas because they are soooo Progressive. I learned this in college, 'cause I'm soooo smart!
You're not going to catch too many folks over 60 with "man the barricades for racial justice, and justice for LGBTq!"
It's all an ugly game to slip a harness on all of us, abolish freedom and turn the mob against this week's Emmanuel Goldstein. Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, the Unvaxxinated, and who knows who is next.
Even some people on the so-called left, like Tim Poole and Glenn Greenwald see this for what it is.
It's power for the few, slavery and servitude for the rest. It's a global reset!!! Check your watch.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....lost in a lost world at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (vcOmj)
But the world as we knew it is over, and will not be coming back.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 03:59 PM (3p5uk)
The post-WW2 world is gone--and with it all of it's prosperity, optimism and sense of purpose.
It had a good run.
But it's over.
Posted by: Zombie Thomas More at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (mR6Gs)
Posted by: 13times at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (RpjyR)
Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 10, 2021 04:17 PM (49ssQ)
Someone else already runs that one. He wants his own.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (ghoDT)
He used to narrate for PBS documentaries about the universe that were wind heavy and fact free.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (eJn7u)
Do they have sheepdogs to keep people in their pens?
yes. built by boston dynamics.
Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (v3pYe)
Science guru who never did a lick of real science.
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM -
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Never heard of such a thing.
Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (SchQD)
https://is.gd/ugJc5I
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 04:10 PM (3p5uk)
She can adjust my throttle any time.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2021 04:19 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (dfRN6)
No fuck I?
Posted by: Horta at September 10, 2021 04:19 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 10, 2021 04:15 PM (eJn7u)
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Science guru who never did a lick of real science.
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (XHhHI)
And my hero!
Posted by: Bill Nye at September 10, 2021 04:19 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: runner at September 10, 2021 04:19 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (UW2ZS)
___
But it's EQUITABLE!! Everyone's misery is equal.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at September 10, 2021 04:19 PM (GQ5VU)
What's not to love?
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 04:09 PM (uPJ1S)
Ok, I admit this is funny. Doogie's been pretty evil since he got into movies, hasn't he.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 10, 2021 04:19 PM (ACi07)
Heh. There was an episode of Stargate where there was this colony with the residents all hooked in to an internet (chip in brain sort of thing), so that they didn;t rely on memory, they tapped ino the servers for info. Something was killing residents, but the db would erase traces of these people, so that no one missed the people - they simply tapped into the db that said "no such person exists." I feel like that's where we are with the internet. It used to be a great knowledgebase, but now that people have become dependent on looking up things online these search engines, MSM, wikipedia, etc. can simply erase history, knowledge, a person;s work/blog, whatever and people forget.
*But also Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"
Posted by: Lizzy at September 10, 2021 04:20 PM (+Rh4C)
that's crazy talk.
Posted by: Mr. Bartholomew at September 10, 2021 04:20 PM (v3pYe)
Science guru who never did a lick of real science.
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM -
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Never heard of such a thing.
Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (SchQD)
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Right?
Posted by: Bill Nye at September 10, 2021 04:20 PM (GQ5VU)
It'll be an unlivable slum in three months, max.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way
Yep, these idiots need to see how their ideas on "equity" and "stake holding" play outing real life.
That being said a lot of Our Betters worldwide are building their own "Barbie's Dreamhouse Panopticon" version of cities. Basically, by excluding everyone who is not of the body.
They call them "woven cities" and they're popping up
and being planned everywhere.
As a for instance, Toyota is building one to the west of Tokyo. Residence by invitation only and limited only to genius-types.
Elon Musk is building one in central Texas. Etc. Etc.
This is their way of escaping the Violent Dystopian
Shitpiles they're constructing via horrible policy and socialism for the rest of us. Nice!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 10, 2021 04:20 PM (5NkmN)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 10, 2021 04:19 PM (ACi07)
He rocked the Nazi scientist thing in Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers.
Posted by: Bill Nye at September 10, 2021 04:20 PM (PiwSw)
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Well, sort of. That is a very weird interpretation of the word. Telos really means "end" or "final." It is the root Teleology, which is a study (or explanation) of things in terms of their end purposes rather than root causes. Partly, this relates to the assessment of *intrinsic* purposes, as opposed to the useful purposes to which man might put something (extrinsic purposes).
It is fascinating that they're calling it this, because it is a study of ends and finality (itself a major cornerstone of socialist theory - the end of history and the end of man as he replaced by the New Socialist Man) as well as a study of intrinsic purposes regardless of man's extrinsic uses.
It's hard to come up with a more dehumanizing name and root word, and it makes me wonder if it was intentional as opposed to ignorant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 04:20 PM (3p5uk)
https://bit.ly/3z0978n
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:21 PM (UW2ZS)
So do we.
https://www.heavensgate.com/
Posted by: Heavens Gate at September 10, 2021 04:21 PM (EughT)
https://youtu.be/ZP7K9SycELA
Posted by: hogmartin at September 10, 2021 04:21 PM (ghoDT)
Posted by: steevy at September 10, 2021 04:21 PM (uUDKV)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 10, 2021 04:21 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at September 10, 2021 04:21 PM (TCwdI)
Humble had a bundle on all the original cyberpunk rpg material a while back and I wasn't impressed. I know it came out a lot earlier than shadowrun and was probably the original. But I like Shadowrun better.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 04:07 PM (Yh0oe)
Shadowrun was a great idea with a horrid dice system.
Posted by: redchief at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (Kab4E)
It has balance issues with the magic system...but maybe it's ok that magic is more powerful than tech. Maybe.
I loved the mashup of Tolkien and Neuromancer, still do.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:21 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: wth at September 10, 2021 04:21 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: KungPow at September 10, 2021 04:21 PM (/AHhp)
I know there was the hellgate london video game but that didn't do so well. I did like the style of it, it had ex-blizzard people, but it failed to live up to its promises.
I think cyberpunk + gothic horror would make a good rpg.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 04:22 PM (Yh0oe)
Never heard of such a thing.
Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (SchQD)
***
That's definitely one thing I don't miss about Twitter... Having to see tweets from the planetarium gift shop manager copied from his astronomy fact-of-the-day calendar.
Posted by: Azathoth at September 10, 2021 04:22 PM (O5atO)
https://bit.ly/3z0978n
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Are these the cops who cried about Jan 6? LOL. Fuck 'em.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at September 10, 2021 04:22 PM (GQ5VU)
Posted by: steevy at September 10, 2021 04:21 PM (uUDKV)
Because the bugs are the communists.
Posted by: redchief at September 10, 2021 04:22 PM (Kab4E)
All of his crap about how "Science adapts" and all he did was hold fast to his un-tested assumptions about how the world would react.
Einstein was never accepted by his seniors. His juniors accepted his theories, until Einstein himself became a crank about Quantum Mechanics.
Most people don't know that when Einstein said that "God doesn't play dice with the universe", it was a tautology and a circular assertion. He didn't believe in God, there was no other person to whom Einstein was attributing this quality, but the *orderly* universe itself.
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:22 PM (XHhHI)
Posted by: Azathoth at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (O5atO)
Those dumbshits had a chance to figure this crap out with the Bhagwan Rashnishi back in the 70's.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2021 04:22 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 10, 2021 04:17 PM (AJzTi)
*points* *opens mouth abnormally wide* *howls*
Posted by: Karen at September 10, 2021 04:22 PM (Fs5vw)
I'm not an optimist.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:23 PM (mR6Gs)
I just got home from having lunch with Diogenes.
And because all 'rons are 29, handsome and polite, it was absolutely lovely.
Whoot!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 10, 2021 04:23 PM (U2p+3)
I mean, uh, that's....
That's something.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 10, 2021 04:23 PM (bnkLv)
Posted by: Bevis and Butthead at September 10, 2021 04:23 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 10, 2021 04:23 PM (U2p+3)
Did he ever find any coffee?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 10, 2021 04:23 PM (PiwSw)
This is their way of escaping the Violent Dystopian
Shitpiles they're constructing via horrible policy and socialism for the rest of us. Nice!
Posted by: naturalfake
I thought Musk's was for SpaceX peeps?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 04:23 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at September 10, 2021 04:24 PM (d9FiS)
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This will be heavily weighted toward breast size, amirite?
Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 10, 2021 04:24 PM (49ssQ)
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 10, 2021 04:12 PM (wAnMi)
++++
The Critical Drinker did an episode on this that he called "Life Simulator 2020 Edition"
https://youtu.be/FiG99WmpX7c
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 04:24 PM (3p5uk)
Posted by: Justsayin' at September 10, 2021 04:24 PM (Fs5vw)
Posted by: Archer at September 10, 2021 04:24 PM (gmo/4)
That movie is so stupid. I have no idea why people on the right love it so much. Heinlein's book is much closer to most of our politics than anyone in D.C. and Verhoeven explicitly calls it out as Nazi propaganda.
But tits and pew pew, right?
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (UW2ZS)
Here we are.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) The booster shots are unchanged doses for COVID-2019. It's 2021. at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (nMXLX)
https://youtu.be/ZP7K9SycELA
Posted by: hogmartin
He got his start at the Meat Lab. You know, at Mich State. That was a scary place.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....lost in a lost world at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (vcOmj)
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Whoa hold on there mister. I'm a boomer and have an excellent chance of winning!!
Posted by: !Yeb at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (GQ5VU)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 10, 2021 04:16 PM (dfRN6)
No, but Lowe can have the illusion that it is a functional, livable community.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (HG00O)
He'll fly over it like he's a kid looking at a Lego town he built, but back to his giant mansion that was built on goods sold from Chinese slave labor.
Posted by: Blago at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (iFIEh)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (eJn7u)
Posted by: steevy
Delos, not Telos
Posted by: zombie Michael Crichton at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (EughT)
I mean, uh, that's....
That's something.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
I think they call that "rubbing it in".
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (d9FiS)
Posted by: steevy at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (uUDKV)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (d9FiS)
++++
See Also: "Victory Lap"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 04:26 PM (3p5uk)
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (UW2ZS)
Pretty much, yes, those things exactly.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 10, 2021 04:26 PM (ghoDT)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
*points* *opens mouth abnormally wide* *howls*
Posted by: Karen
Fen! Quick! Use the water pistol!!!
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 04:26 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: Golfman at September 10, 2021 04:26 PM (hOMhY)
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 04:15 PM (2DOZq)
I recognized the name, but had to take a moment to look her up. Interesting career.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 10, 2021 04:26 PM (2JVJo)
However, when we get too many factors to anticipate, we often model the probability as random.
Thus random is a mathematical model and not necessary as an occurrence in the world. It's (almost) a confusion of terms. After all, dice rolls happen in Einstein's orderly universe, right?
So, does or does God not "play dice" with the universe?
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:26 PM (XHhHI)
One of the things that really stands out when I read older science fiction dystopias, is how incredibly optimistic they are. Sure, you’re living in a totalitarian hellhole, but you’ve got flying cars, robots, space travel…
They didn’t get that real innovation only occurs when people aren’t scared to innovate. When every new idea runs the risk of accidentally invoking an arcane militarized bureaucracy or a woke lynching, innovation tends to slow down.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 10, 2021 04:26 PM (CX3cf)
- The Family
Posted by: Archer at September 10, 2021 04:08 PM (gmo/4)
And of course the cult leader of The Family was a news broadcaster. Although Matthias was a bit slimmer than 'Tater.
Posted by: Thrawn at September 10, 2021 04:26 PM (5aFbR)
Posted by: wth at September 10, 2021 04:26 PM (v0R5T)
I mean, uh, that's....
That's something.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
I think they call that "rubbing it in".
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Spiking the old football.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 04:27 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: irongrampa at September 10, 2021 04:27 PM (KATBx)
>>See Also: "Victory Lap"
It's literally going to be the Muslim version of a Roman Triumph.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 10, 2021 04:27 PM (bnkLv)
Space Needle, not Washington Monument.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:27 PM (UW2ZS)
Here we are.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) The booster shots are unchanged doses for COVID-2019. It's 2021. at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (nMXLX)
Someone was dyslexic?
Posted by: Jordan61 at September 10, 2021 04:27 PM (Ez6QX)
Here we are.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) The booster shots are unchanged doses for COVID-2019. It's 2021. at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (nMXLX)
2012, 2021 - We also invented dyslexia
Posted by: The Mayans at September 10, 2021 04:27 PM (FJYfm)
But tits and pew pew, right?
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (UW2ZS)
This would require a much longer post to fully refute, but I'll start with: Verhoven never read the book Starship Troopers. He just ran with Military = Nazi.
If you don't like it, you don't like it, I can't persuade you that it's good or enjoyable.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:27 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:28 PM (mR6Gs)
***
"In retaliation the Biden White House will show a ten minute video of Biden shaking his fist at the unvaccinated."
Posted by: Azathoth at September 10, 2021 04:28 PM (O5atO)
Here we are.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) The booster shots are unchanged doses for COVID-2019. It's 2021. at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (nMXLX)
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In a season of Lost, or the movie Jacob's Ladder?
One would almost need a Sixth Sense...
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:28 PM (XHhHI)
I just got home from having lunch with Diogenes.
And because all 'rons are 29, handsome and polite, it was absolutely lovely.
Whoot!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 10, 2021 04:23 PM (U2p+3)
She's not wrong! We did have lunch.
And Nurse is as charming and fun a person as you could ever hope to meet.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2021 04:28 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: redchief at September 10, 2021 04:14 PM (Kab4E)
Dice pools. It's all d6 now but in the beginning, having d10 etc. was pretty awful. But you still need a lot of d6.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 04:28 PM (Yh0oe)
Posted by: Skip at September 10, 2021 04:28 PM (2JoB8)
https://youtu.be/iIhLCXmrCm8
Posted by: irright
And a new one from Bjorn and Bennie and Anni-Frid and Agnetha:
https://youtu.be/pAzEY1MfXrQ
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 04:29 PM (uPJ1S)
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:29 PM (UW2ZS)
And Nurse is as charming and fun a person as you could ever hope to meet.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2021 04:28 PM (axyOa)
Hell of a good shot, too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:29 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: wth at September 10, 2021 04:29 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 04:26 PM (OCTRt)
LOL. I'd be tempted with Karen.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 10, 2021 04:29 PM (AJzTi)
Posted by: steevy at September 10, 2021 04:29 PM (uUDKV)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 10, 2021 04:29 PM (6FeV1)
Here we are.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) The booster shots are unchanged doses for COVID-2019. It's 2021. at September 10, 2021 04:25 PM (nMXLX)
Remember who got re-elected that year? Yes, 2012 was the beginning of the end.
Posted by: Justsayin' at September 10, 2021 04:29 PM (Fs5vw)
But tits and pew pew, right?
Posted by: bonhomme
It made no sense, and was only flimsily connected to Heinlein's novel. I actually heard the Verhoeven never even read the book; got a synopsis and was off to make his neo-fascist fantasy.
The ONLY good thing about the movie is that is might have gotten new people to find and read the book, and discover the story themselves.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....lost in a lost world at September 10, 2021 04:29 PM (vcOmj)
Seems I've heard that somewhere before...
Posted by: red speck at September 10, 2021 04:29 PM (gS3OW)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2021 04:23 PM (OCTRt)
They're still calling it a "woven city", still planning it that way and restricting it to SX-types is still restricting citizenship, as it were, to the Elect.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 10, 2021 04:30 PM (5NkmN)
Posted by: chemist at September 10, 2021 04:30 PM (uSps2)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at September 10, 2021 04:30 PM (d9FiS)
"Sarah Moser, an associate professor of geography at Montreal's McGill University, put his chances of success at roughly zero."
LOL
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at September 10, 2021 04:30 PM (GQ5VU)
I would watch it if they executed the winner.
Posted by: JEM at September 10, 2021 04:30 PM (8erNz)
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 04:30 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:28 PM (mR6Gs)
Part of the playbook is to induce exhaustion, fatigue, eventually indifference.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 10, 2021 04:30 PM (ghoDT)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:28 PM (mR6Gs)
I was already feeling old. Wuhan and the Election theft just killed my country, which is its own brand of depression and rage inducing.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:30 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 10, 2021 04:30 PM (R/m4+)
Sickening, but you know what? Few of us will see the cruel irony.
"Dude. 9/11 was like 20 years ago...."
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:30 PM (mR6Gs)
Posted by: Justsayin' at September 10, 2021 04:29 PM (Fs5vw)
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Remember who posed for the other side?
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:30 PM (XHhHI)
Posted by: Flo at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (eJn7u)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 10, 2021 04:23 PM (U2p+3)
Did he ever find any coffee?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 10, and
Beer!
Wonderful glorious beer!
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: wth at September 10, 2021 04:29 PM (v0R5T)
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Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona and Texas are in the "running". Good God that is one race I would not want my state to "win".
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (GQ5VU)
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (2DOZq)
I am listening to Boston's first album, which was pretty damned good.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (eJn7u)
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Barack would not let us go back to our lives.
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:32 PM (XHhHI)
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Well, sort of. That is a very weird interpretation of the word. Telos really means "end" or "final." It is the root Teleology, which is a study (or explanation) of things in terms of their end purposes rather than root causes. Partly, this relates to the assessment of *intrinsic* purposes, as opposed to the useful purposes to which man might put something (extrinsic purposes).
It is fascinating that they're calling it this, because it is a study of ends and finality (itself a major cornerstone of socialist theory - the end of history and the end of man as he replaced by the New Socialist Man) as well as a study of intrinsic purposes regardless of man's extrinsic uses.
It's hard to come up with a more dehumanizing name and root word, and it makes me wonder if it was intentional as opposed to ignorant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 10, 2021 04:20 PM (3p5uk)
Oh, I'm sure they knew *exactly* what they were picking.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 10, 2021 04:32 PM (ACi07)
Posted by: Eisenhorn at September 10, 2021 04:32 PM (F6tBH)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 10, 2021 04:30 PM (R/m4+)
.......
Probably just miniature golf.
Posted by: wth at September 10, 2021 04:32 PM (v0R5T)
I am listening to Boston's first album, which was pretty damned good.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (ufFY
Yes it was. I had the 8 track.
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 04:32 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: steevy at September 10, 2021 04:32 PM (uUDKV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:32 PM (z4k8L)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (ufFY
Endorsed. Good stuff.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:32 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: steevy
Delos, not Telos
Posted by: zombie Michael Crichton
Picky, picky, picky.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....lost in a lost world at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (vcOmj)
https://youtu.be/ZP7K9SycELA
Posted by: hogmartin at September 10, 2021 04:21 PM (ghoDT)
Haven't watched that one in ages. Also Lord help me, I've got that Vangelis LP.
Speaking of meat planet, that reminds me of the horrific new Netflix Gay James Bond cartoon Q-Space (they gotta steal "Q" NOW Yo!) Apparently "meatspace" is a thing. And so is "Shrimp Christ". If this doesn't make people cancel their Netflix, then nothing will. Fuck Netflix (glad I've never given them a dime).
https://tinyurl.com/4uerafem
Posted by: Horta at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (wAnMi)
I am listening to Boston's first album, which was pretty damned good.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (ufFY
Just turn the radio on.
Boston's debut album has been playing nonstop since 1976.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (mR6Gs)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:28 PM (mR6Gs)
It's definitely moved up my retirement date. This society is not one I want to participate in.
Posted by: Wally at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (FJYfm)
**
And the President of the United States isn't commemorating it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (9ULwW)
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (XHhHI)
I am listening to Boston's first album, which was pretty damned good.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (ufFY
The songs may have all sounded really similar, but it was a good song.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (z4k8L)
Bad News: IT's an onsite job in California. So no trip to Musk City
Posted by: Beartooth at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (UAr4S)
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (wAnMi)
If you don't like it, you don't like it, I can't persuade you that it's good or enjoyable.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:27 PM (XvPQV)
Critical Drinker has a video about it where he compliments it pretty heavily but I wouldn't agree. It was pretty trashy low effort cheap entertainment. Showgirls in space. I've heard they have naked women on the internet now so they don't really need to bundle them with scify.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (Yh0oe)
Posted by: illiniwek at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:32 PM (z4k8L)
Max Payne is crime fiction, not noir. Which is fine, I like crime fiction too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (z4k8L)
Posted by: steevy at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (uUDKV)
If you don't like it, you don't like it, I can't persuade you that it's good or enjoyable.
well, at least it's no prometheus.
Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (ufFY
Endorsed. Good stuff.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:32 PM (XvPQV)
Also endorsed.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (axyOa)
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Yes. More of this. We need to bring "gay" back as an insult.
Our society used to be strong enough that it could tolerate some isolated, limited perversion. As long as that shit was confined to Greenwich Village and Haight-Ashbury,, we could could look the other way. Live and let live in
But now our culture is soaked with gay jizz everywhere. Every major institution has been pozzed with GRID.
It needs to stop. The gay shit has gotten out of control and we can't have media and culture and politics centered on nice hetero families. Enough. Gay is an insult. Use it.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (YUQbM)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (XvPQV)
Noir is also crime fiction. Chicken or egg?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (z4k8L)
It's definitely moved up my retirement date. This society is not one I want to participate in.
Posted by: Wally at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (FJYfm)
I used to want to live to 100, and thought I might have a chance to reach that.
Now, I don't give a shit.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:35 PM (mR6Gs)
Maybe, if you're thinking about Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling. Society has basically split in Shapers and Mechanists. The latter being highly technology oriented and the former being more or less emotional savants.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 10, 2021 04:35 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (GQ5VU)
.......
But Detroit has move-in ready infrastructure. And if it burns down nobody will notice.
Posted by: wth at September 10, 2021 04:35 PM (v0R5T)
Usher
Chopra chick
competing and going to the G20 meeting
The Hunger Games dumbed way down ( I didn't think this was possible) on CBS.
The Activist The Voice The Masked Singer The Bachelor and so on
Just lump them all together and call them The Walking Dead
might as
Posted by: Mandarin in the gulags for the win at September 10, 2021 04:35 PM (junJd)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2021 04:28 PM (axyOa)
She is, indeed. A rare gem.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 10, 2021 04:35 PM (2JVJo)
Usually, although sometimes its just relationships. But its a certain kind of crime fiction with an atmosphere and manner of depiction that sets it apart.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 10, 2021 04:35 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (Yh0oe)
Bit too harsh, I think. I liked the movie, but less so as I am now living in a reality closer and closer to that fascist dystopia.
Failure of Democracy, anyone?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:36 PM (z4k8L)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (z4k8L)
That cat lived for such a Long Time
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:36 PM (mR6Gs)
Posted by: steevy
I was already both, so it was pretty much a wash.
Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at September 10, 2021 04:36 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 10, 2021 04:36 PM (/hlAi)
Very interesting, that anonymous posters are doing the heavy-duty investigative journalism no one else will do.
Posted by: artemis at September 10, 2021 04:36 PM (AwPyG)
Posted by: steevy at September 10, 2021 04:37 PM (uUDKV)
If you don't like it, you don't like it, I can't persuade you that it's good or enjoyable.
I'm willing to be persuaded that the movie is better than an extremely simplistic, heavy handed, cartoonish propaganda flick with a couple of action scenes and a shower scene tacked on. But I don't really see it.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:37 PM (UW2ZS)
Posted by: Eisenhorn at September 10, 2021 04:32 PM (F6tBH)
Like 99.999% of all dystopian movies.
Posted by: Justsayin' at September 10, 2021 04:37 PM (Fs5vw)
And the latter was deliberate. In the comic book the ruling government came from the left, and the people didn’t need to be tricked into choosing it. Just a disaster outside their control, some riots, and the left turned against everyone and everything they claimed to have stood for.
The writers ended up having to neuter V’s on-air speech because of the changes they made.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 10, 2021 04:37 PM (CX3cf)
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Original Yangsters? The Yang Gang? Yanger's Bangers?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at September 10, 2021 04:37 PM (d9FiS)
Posted by: Capital Eff at September 10, 2021 04:37 PM (dynG0)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (XvPQV)
Noir is also crime fiction. Chicken or egg?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (z4k8L)
Well there's overlap, but there are noir that aren't crime stories. And lots of crime fiction that isn't noir.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:37 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: steevy at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (uUDKV)
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"Evil" is stigmatized as a negative trait, so they can't admit to it. That would say something bad about them or the side that they chose.
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (XHhHI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (z4k8L)
Yeah! A buddy of mine would say that Boston's second album was the same as the first.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (ufFY8)
He knew enough of the book to consider it horrifying and burned with the need to make a satirical lampoon of the ideas presented in the story. But his need to turn it into a depiction of military and structured disciplined society into neo fascism ruined the book entirely.
It was basically a spiteful, hate-filled leftist attacking Heinlein's vision of an ideal society, a spittle-flecked rant on Twitter turned into a big budget film. That sucked.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 10, 2021 04:35 PM (KZzsI)
Which the first two Max Payne games copy or homage. Potato, potato.
Femme Fatales
Rain (the physical world mirrors and supports the psychological tone)
World weary protagonist
Backstabbing friends/acquaintances/employers
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (z4k8L)
The MSM is following Fight Club rules.
Posted by: Biblio at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (KILk7)
The post-WW2 world is gone--and with it all of it's prosperity, optimism and sense of purpose.
It had a good run. Posted by: Zombie Thomas More at September 10, 2021 04:18 PM (mR6Gs)
The Post-WW2 world was a fiat money world, with the pretense initially of convertibility of currencies to Gold only at the level of governments. The pretense of convertibility ended with Nixon's closure of Bretton-Wood system, and we are now dealing with global fiat currencies that are about to collapse as well.
Fiat creates a high time preference (due to systemic inflation) and disincentivizes any savings for the same reason.
With any view of the past, the collapse will be in two stages, first a period of serious inflation with an attempt to revalue the fiat currency with a new currency (with a haircut like in Crete, new currency like in Argentina or Germany, or repudiation of notes like State banks in the US in the 18th century or Republican France) and followed up with a real development of a hard currency (gold standard under Napoleon, Peru and El Salvador using US dollars, pegging the currency to harder currency with rules about keeping it there, like Argentina)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (HG00O)
Posted by: steevy at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (uUDKV)
It's nice to be able to finally fill in that blank.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (9ULwW)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (+Rh4C)
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Wouldn't it be nice if the retired SpecOp guys over there shot those fvckers out of the sky. One way of decommissioning some of our stuff.
Posted by: dartist at September 10, 2021 04:39 PM (+ya+t)
Everybody
Posted by: artemis at September 10, 2021 04:39 PM (AwPyG)
I am listening to Boston's first album, which was pretty damned good.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2021 04:31 PM (ufFY8 )
The songs may have all sounded really similar, but it was a good song.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:33 PM (z4k8L)
Tom Scholz definitely changed the music scene in the mid-70's, even if it was pure production work. In lesser hands, the songs wouldn't have had nearly the same punch. But for a debut, absolutely nailed it. Even the second one is pretty good, but it became obvious they were a one trick pony and that was that. Still an absolute classic, and lightning in a bottle.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 10, 2021 04:39 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:36 PM (mR6Gs)
Yeahhhhhhh-haaaaaaaa *guitar music*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:39 PM (z4k8L)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at September 10, 2021 04:39 PM (9ULwW)
Alan Moore did not write that as coming from the left, it was yet another one of his angry screeds against Margaret Thatcher.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 10, 2021 04:39 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (ufFY
Probably based more on a feeling than facts.
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 04:39 PM (2DOZq)
they leave out the part that he states definitively that she died of covid because someone did not wear a mask.
Posted by: x at September 10, 2021 04:40 PM (oA+QO)
Both songs have a lot going on in the background that Rick picks out and plays for you, that make them even more fun to listen to. Tom Scholz is a genius.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 04:40 PM (uPJ1S)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:40 PM (mR6Gs)
They kept it going for 4 albums but the latest ones are awful. The last two were just political screams against Republicans and they suck reasty warthog scrotum
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 10, 2021 04:40 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 10, 2021 04:40 PM (+Rh4C)
Gattaca
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (2DOZq)
I liked Gattica. A surprising one. Not the best dystopian movie IMO.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:40 PM (z4k8L)
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Wouldn't it be nice if the retired SpecOp guys over there shot those fvckers out of the sky. One way of decommissioning some of our stuff.
Posted by: dartist at September 10, 2021 04:39 PM (+ya+t)
Can you imagine? And they'd be court martialed so fast... Can't have anybody embarrassing somebody who shits themselves and drools on national television.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 10, 2021 04:40 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: artemis at September 10, 2021 04:41 PM (AwPyG)
This is the end of the standard way of doing central banking, and is a strange change for the world.
The economies that insist on going from fiat to fiat to fiat forms will be the ones, like Brazil and Argentina, have "always been the economy of the future and always will be"
Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2021 04:41 PM (HG00O)
Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at September 10, 2021 04:41 PM (hQVBP)
That guy is a total dick, who writes good stories.
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:41 PM (XHhHI)
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:37 PM (UW2ZS)
No no, that's exactly what it is, and it's OK. You just have to realize that it has nothing to do with a novel that happens to share the name and nothing else.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 10, 2021 04:41 PM (ghoDT)
Posted by: steevy at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (uUDKV)
There's a pretty decent book trilogy: Wool, Shift, Dust. It's interesting who the bad guys are. Horribly bad, genocidal, mass extension level bad guys. And the author's politics. The author has written how he just picked the politics of the antagonists randomly.
Sure Hugh, sure. You know your kind Hugh. You know what lurks in their dreams because they are yours as well. You've just put them into narrative form.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 04:41 PM (Yh0oe)
I love how he had a sound in his head and since nothing could produce it he had to invent his own studio and amps.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 10, 2021 04:41 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (ufFY
Probably based more on a feeling than facts.
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 04:39 PM (2DOZq)
I am hooked on that sentiment.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2021 04:41 PM (z4k8L)
Nobody made it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Bless your heart, you are so, so blessedly wrong.
Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at September 10, 2021 04:41 PM (E/NJa)
Both songs have a lot going on in the background that Rick picks out and plays for you, that make them even more fun to listen to. Tom Scholz is a genius.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 04:40 PM (uPJ1S)
The WHOLE edifice rests on a foundation of multi-tracked acoustic guitars
Posted by: JoeF. at September 10, 2021 04:41 PM (mR6Gs)
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 04:40 PM (uPJ1S)
And Rick Beato is a national treasure.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 10, 2021 04:41 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2021 04:41 PM (Yh0oe)
Everybody
Posted by: artemis at September 10, 2021 04:39 PM (AwPyG)
And Bat Out of Hell
Posted by: Wally at September 10, 2021 04:41 PM (FJYfm)
Posted by: artemis at September 10, 2021 04:42 PM (AwPyG)
Posted by: Skip guy who says NOOD at September 10, 2021 04:42 PM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at September 10, 2021 04:34 PM (YUQbM)
Oddly enough, the only people i know who still use gay as an insult are gay.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 10, 2021 04:42 PM (6FeV1)
Gattaca
Posted by: Just a side note at September 10, 2021 04:38 PM (2DOZq)
Excellent musical score too.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 10, 2021 04:42 PM (ghoDT)
And honestly, its a good argument. I don't want even older Trump to run.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 10, 2021 04:42 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 04:42 PM (uPJ1S)
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 04:40 PM (uPJ1S)
Great series - been watching for years. Very entertaining, even stuff I don't like.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 10, 2021 04:42 PM (wAnMi)
If this means trans drug addicts shitting on the streets while onlooking bipoc adolescents twerk count me in!
Posted by: havel at September 10, 2021 04:42 PM (Ea2qS)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 10, 2021 04:39 PM (KZzsI)
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There you go.
Posted by: Axeman at September 10, 2021 04:43 PM (XHhHI)
Really, he says it was random? LOL.
I liked the first two but couldn't finish the third one.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 10, 2021 04:43 PM (+Rh4C)
The communists were the heroes.
Posted by: Justsayin' at September 10, 2021 04:43 PM (Fs5vw)
Posted by: Chuck C at September 10, 2021 04:43 PM (EughT)
Wrong. Do not be unequally yoked with non-believers.
My neighbor that wants my business shut, my church shut, my body forcibly injected with bio-agents, to be denied health care, to be denied trade, to be have my children brainwashed, to have my rights stripped.....he's not my neighbor.
He's the guy that lives next to me, and f*ck him. We are not all Americans. And I'm sick of the 'be better and stop arguing' sedative spread by the smart set. I will not 'get along' while someone is voting and supporting my oppression. No more.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at September 10, 2021 04:43 PM (5We2S)
Preterism. Which as the years go on I am leaning more and more into. Christ already came: in judgment, on AD70.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 10, 2021 04:43 PM (KZzsI)
Carl Sagan is a sad case. He did present some topics well but it became increasingly difficult to find everything he said believable because of his leftist views. If his fear of the dystopian future was genuine, then at best it can be said he had blinders on. He never saw, assuming he was sincere, that the evil was coming from his leftist friends.
I wonder if he was alive today -- like David Horowitz, would he see what he couldn't see now? Would he believe in justice and truth enough to stand up against the woke warriors?
I like to think he would be I have little faith he would.
Posted by: Arnold at September 10, 2021 04:43 PM (PfqG+)
As it stands, "ST" is pretty much a perfect movie.
It has great direction, a strong plot, great to well...okay acting, incredible action, a strong viewpoint that is consistent throughout, characters that grow, a sly sense of humor, the good guys win, and is an incredibly entertaining and fun watch.
The only way it could be better is if they had Tom Cruise as the main character cuz this is a funhouse version of his usual early career movie.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 10, 2021 04:44 PM (5NkmN)
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 10, 2021 04:44 PM (wAnMi)
If you don't like it, you don't like it, I can't persuade you that it's good or enjoyable.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:27 PM (XvPQV)
Verhoven started out doing recruitment videos for the Belgian army.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2021 04:44 PM (HG00O)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
I think it was Heinlein's idea of a practical society and government that would work. It was not ideal. He even says as much through a couple of his characters in the book.
The people that could vote and hold office were "veterans" of Federal service. And it was all voluntary. The ethos was that at some time in their lives, they had put the needs of "society" ahead of their own, and thus had skin in the game as far as preserving civilization.
As this was written in 1959, he also had some harsh words for what happened to the North American Republic, known as the United States. Where citizens lost track of their duties as citizens, while seeking every gimmee they could get.
People are still people.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....lost in a lost world at September 10, 2021 04:44 PM (vcOmj)
If that's exactly what it is, I don't get the love for it.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 10, 2021 04:45 PM (UW2ZS)
His intro to the book was. But the book explicitly states that Labour had got back into power.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 10, 2021 04:45 PM (CX3cf)
I was thinking the same thing -- maybe because of how the current government destroys all artifacts of the past that brought joy (or any extreme emotion) - literature, music, art, snuggly puppies. . . The enemy is emotion, and that's akin to the woke's obsession with not being "offended."
Or maybe it's the cool martial arts?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 10, 2021 04:46 PM (+Rh4C)
There's the visual aspect, taken from German Expressionism.
There's the femme fatale who leads the protagonist astray.
There's doom and cruelty, noir is never nice.
There's an ambitious quality to everyone and everything, a tinge, a taint.
Ace in the Hole is a Noir. So is The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers. Notorious is more of spy movie, I wouldn't call any of them crime movies. Though some of the best known noir are indeed crime stories as well.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 10, 2021 04:46 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Lizzy
That and the punishment for people was death by fire. Which is weird.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 10, 2021 04:47 PM (uPJ1S)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 10, 2021 04:47 PM (2JVJo)
The communists were the heroes.
Posted by: Justsayin' at September 10, 2021 04:43 PM (Fs5vw)
If you quit where what's her name meets "TMitHC", then essentially you have the book as written, more or less.
I stopped watching after that. The communists as heroes is just something some group of Hollywood Dildoes came up with.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 10, 2021 04:47 PM (5NkmN)
People are still people.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....lost in a lost world at September 10, 2021 04:44 PM (vcOmj)
Also the government losing all validity due to abandoning huge numbers of soldiers in retreating from a lost war, without any attempt to recover them
Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2021 04:48 PM (HG00O)
Posted by: Rbastid at September 10, 2021 04:55 PM (9tAca)
Posted by: Epobirs at September 10, 2021 05:15 PM (AJKgl)
Maybe she can use some of that klout to find out what happened to fellow actress-activist-whatever Zhao Wei
Posted by: Swamposphere at September 10, 2021 05:26 PM (7icbQ)
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