“Ladies and gentlemen, with great pleasure, I give you RoboCop 2.”

Oh wait, are we doing quotes that aren’t in the actual movie?

Whenever I hear news of China, they built a new electric railway, invented something new, or made massive tech progress.

A lot of things in China fall apart in a few years. You can build things fast when you don’t care about people’s rights and just force them off whatever land you need, and make people work insane hours. A lot of the amazing things China brags about is a Potemkin village, just made to show the authoritarian leaders they did got the project complete on time and they in turn use it in their propaganda. Authoritarians always love to brag about making the trains run on time, right? The reality is often different from what the media portrays it to be in an authoritarian country.

But still, China is slightly preferable to the US at the moment.

Eh if you’re a peasant and stay at home you might be conscripted to fight for your lord against the people lord the next county over just because they have a disagreement or maybe because they’re bored or whatever. Probably gonna die a gruesome death either way. Going on a pilgrimage you at least see some of the world before you meet your gruesome death.

Yeah China is like the Soviet Union.

My grandparents had to hold their noses and be allies with the Soviet Union for a while.

But unlike the Soviet Union which was way behind the West in technology, China is ahead of us on EVs and we will have to catch up. But before worrying about that, we gotta take down the US.

US is the same as China now. Well that’s not true, US foreign policy is way more batshit insane than China’s. If you can even call it a foreign policy… it seems to me it’s just the whims of a deranged old child molester surrounded by fucking Nazis.

And China is further away and there’s pretty much zero probability China will invade my country. With the US, who knows? Kinda stupid to send money to a country I may have to be fighting against within a year.

How high are you right now?

Stop trying to make BRICS happen it’s not going to happen.

Also it sounds like you want BRICS to be a group of country where they don’t have freedom of speech? Why would this be a good thing?

“Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded” - Yogi Bera

Sure… but I don’t think there’s any particular malice towards people that build PCs. Just greed and incompetence. Gotta buy up GPUs that there isn’t enough electricity to run to drive up the share prices!

But when the bubble bursts and hardware gets cheap, is that something we’d considered to be goodwill towards people building PCs? Or will it just be a side-benefit of incompetence?

Just ebbs and flows of incompetence to me.

That implies there’s some thought behind this. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.

But what’s the point of it then?

I guess if you have multiple computers you can access the files from either computers. But for people that just have one computer the whole thing seems kinda useless. And then MS forces people to use this product they have no need for by holding their computer ransom. People don’t want their files on One Drive, they only have it because MS forced it upon them.

This is like forcing a passenger to fly a 747 and then saying “well the plane crashed because of pilot error” and ignoring the fact that someone was forced some to be behind the controls of something they understand against their will.

For a home user, a backup service or just a way to share files actually makes more sense than something that mindlessly syncs file actions, including deletes. One Drive could be useful if it were what people expect it to be. As it is, it’s useless for most people, and bad on them for thinking MS One Drive was a useful product I guess.

We’re not too far off given how many apps on my phone by default send notifications like “do you want to do this thing now?”

And so many interfaces that have been enshittified with pop ups wanting me to check out their new AI features.

A toaster constantly asking if I want toast is probably less annoying than a lot of technology now.

Well he was, but then he walked around the car and then was in the path of the vehicle again (because he feared for his life?) and continued around the vehicle and was mostly out the way of the vehicle when he pulled out his gun.

So he was directly in front of the vehicle two separate times. A vehicle that was being driven by someone alleged to be a terrorist intent on using her vehicle as a weapon had two opportunities to kill him with her vehicle before he drew his weapon.

So the story is that a “terrorist” had two opportunities to kill the guy with her car but didn’t so so until after he had drawn his weapon and was no longer directly in front of the vehicle. Because I guess a “terrorist” wanted it to be a fair fight?

Sorry just pointing out the fact that he was indeed directly in the path of the vehicle (twice!) since it’s really relevant in proving that it was not at all Renee’s intent to kill him… which is a story the government is pushing. Cops are generally trained to not be in front of a vehicle, especially not a vehicle with someone dangerous behind the wheel.

The fact that he was directly in front of the vehicle proves he didn’t consider her a threat and was not fearing for his life. Killing a person that you do not consider to be a danger to yourself and others is murder.

WTF did Pluto ever do to you? We finally get a decent photo and it’s got a big heart on it. Pluto is trying to make things work and you go on about how it’s not special.

I think you’re just racist against dwarf planets.

Are you saying normal people wouldn’t want to opt out of having “I support ICE” on all of their emails?

This email is targeting people that are angry at ICE. The people that support ICE presumably wouldn’t click the button to opt out.

I’ve donated money to lemmy instances before. If someone posts nazi shit on lemmy, do you consider me to be someone that financially supports Nazis?

Also the claim is that someone associated with a project has said some far right shit, not specifically a Nazi. I got a racist uncle, does that make me a Nazi to you?

Yeah it’s kind of a thing where the switch benefited from the failure of the Wii U while the Switch 2 is being hurt by the success of the Switch.

BOTW was available on the Wii U, but since so few people had one of those, it made sense to get a Switch to play it.

With the Switch 2 I feel like “Meh, I already have a Switch it doesn’t seem like it’s offering much more than what I already have”. Also it’s larger and when I want to use the Swtich hand held (mostly just when I’m on a plane) seems like that might be a pain in the ass. Also with the Switch 1 they eventually came out with a better OLED model, so I’ll just keep playing the Switch 1 until they come out with something a little more compact and maybe with a better screen or whatever. Stick drift has been an issue for me so also want something with more reliable sticks.

Seems like I might be asking a lot, but for the price they’re asking if I’m not getting what I want, then I’ll stick with the Switch 1. It’s fine.

It’s about corporations taking away people’s humanity. Note how few people in the movie have any empathy at all.

Robocop never actually escapes the control of the corporation. He’s only able to kill that guy at the end after he was fired.

It’s not a movie that demands you pick up on it’s themes. You can enjoy it as a dumb action movie where you see a cyborg shoot a guy in the dick. Or you can think about what it’s saying and get more from it.

It’s actually more consistent with the themes of Phillip K. Dick than Blade Runner was. I do like Blade Runner, but if we’re being honest, it is a little boring and only touches on PKD’s themes. One of the writers on Blade Runner wrote the script to RoboCop to get more of PKDs themes into a movie. Robocop has the PKD that Blade Runner missed . So RoboCop is a more exciting movie than Blade Runner, while having more PKD.

RoboCop gets the Dick right while shooting a guy in the dick.

Without some caveman rubbing sticks together we wouldn’t have fire. That doesn’t mean rubbing sticks together is better than a Bic lighter.

People can get arrogant enough to think that they won’t get caught.

Emmanuel Clase was a Major League pitcher making ~$5M per year. He got caught intentionally flubbing pitches for $5000. 5M a year gone now to get a few thousand dollars. Why would someone be that stupid?

Because they don’t think they’ll get caught.