More likely scenario:

People vote politicians who’ve been bribed to use taxpayer money to fast-track research into ways to enable AI to make people dependent on corporations while keeping the people docile and then squeezing them for all their money which is then used to enable the lifestyle in the comic for the corporation top knobs while keeping the wage-slaves free-market-empowered labourers too fed to die but too hungry to think about anything other than being grateful for the scraps they are allowed by their AI-fuelled overlords.

So basically the status quo, only now with AI. Yayy.

At least they can finally admit that they are not a car company.

Seems a bit far-fetched.

I mean Palpatine is a well-respected politician. Their kind wouldn’t lie. He has said himself that his side are the good guys, what more proof do you want?

Eh, just throw them over your shoulder and you’re good to go.

I wonder if watching Rogue One before Andor (and of course right after once again) or seeing the whole thing chronologically will be a better overall experience.

It’s iterative AI slop but they don’t even have the excuse of being AI.

I disagree that the entire EU was better. To me, it seems like the combined works in the EU were just so enormous that there were enough high points one would positively remember WHILE at the same point allowing for singular bad instances to be mostly ignored. With the unified canon disney has established, having one bad trilogy will forever taint all the remaining pieces because you can’t handwave TRoS away and pretend it didn’t or will not happen in canon. Marvel and DC comics have hundreds of timelines and hundreds of different iterations and versions of heroes and wildly different stories and you can pick and choose what you like and ignore the rest. If disney does a poop at any point in the one solidified Star Wars timeline, that poop is now there to stay and everybody now has to bend over backwards to make it appear like it’s less of a poop than it really is.

If they had cut the second season down to a length where it didn’t feel like a good deal of padding up to the final episode, then the entire arc would have been A+. That last episode was just a surgically precise hit right in the feels.

Potayto, potahto, all depends on which reality you choose to inhabit.

These are called schools and universities and whatnot.

Honestly, if your goals include conserving an inhabitable environment for the human race in the future, conserving a semblance of wealth for everyone but the top, like, dozen people on Earth, conserving the rights of workers and consumers against an overwhelming opposition, conserving democracy for future generations (and all that against the best efforts of a supposedly “conservative” party), your parents may have been right.

Trump sues mirror for making him look ugly.

“Wouldn’t it be great if everybody gave my AI company money?”

“For doing what?”

“… I don’t follow.”

Sacre bleu! It’s almost like the free speech warrior does not know that the other aspect of free speech besides speaking freely is being able to choose whom to listen to! Does he think free speech means being forced to listen to specific people speak?

Surprised. Pikachu. Face.

Intern’s name is Guy. Fall, Guy.

But in return, it eats up 155 gigs of your HD. Win-win.

Four out of five doctors recommend Marlboro cigarettes. The fifth one would too, if he weren’t currently in the hospital with all this unrelated lung cancer.

Honestly, how else could it be explained that she is up-to-date and ready to coherently speak on current topics, such as may be asked during a presidential debate? STUDYING? PREPARING, you say? What lunacy is this? Real presidential candidates spend their days golfing and rage-tweeting from the toilet!

https://xkcd.com/927/

“Listen, we must decide whether we want to protect the NRA’s capability to make insane profits off of unregulated gun sales AND the additional sales resulting from all the sales that then happen because people are afraid of all the criminals with easy access to guns. And compared to that, your children ain’t worth shit. Start paying me as much as that lobby does and I may start to care, but until then, your children’s lives are a sacrifice I am more than willing to make for all that sweet, sweet NRA bribes money.”

• JD Vance probably, while protected by the Secret Service