My family took a novel approach to it. Everyone gets judged when they die, but only the worst go to hell, and the best go to heaven. The rest wait around until the rapture and then there is Judgement 2: Judgement Day where all the people that were waiting around get judged against all the new people, and then they are split based on some kind of holy bell curve. It was really just a lot of bullshit to get around my family being full of drug addicts and racists and no one wanting to admit that if they go by the Bible they are hellbound.

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Neuromancer if anyone is curious. One of the best opening lines in literature.

Same. He’s got that, “He’s crazy, but he’s our kinda crazy” vibe going on. I guess I’m just glad he’s on our side. I’m not buying any merch though.

If a few years of AI have wiped out your ability to code, you weren’t great at coding anyway.

Remember when the world didn’t suck so bad that you could have windows above the third floor that people didn’t want to jump from?

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She’s a career politician with ties to a lot of GOP shitstains like DeSantis and Rick Scott. She’s helped them all get elected, which means A) She’s good at her job, and B) She’s rotten to the core. Personally, I hope she dies before I’m done typing this, but I’ll also settle for shortly after I’m done.

Statistically, the guarantee there will be a “last time” means that every time it isn’t the “last time” your chance of the next one being the “last time” increase… So, you know, don’t freak out or anything because that increases the chances of the next time happening sooner.

It’s more of a “the audacity…”, not a “why would you…”

Also, how are you gonna plagiarize Hannah Fry? She’s the fucking best.

This is facts. I have a PC that can handle just about anything I throw at it in terms of graphics (aside from Control, that game is the devil for some reason), and so I don’t bother with “how cool does this look.” I want to know how well it plays. Not just the FPS I can expect, but the gameplay.

I think that’s the difference between console and PC. Consoles are still about “Look how much we can squeeze out of a PS5.” PCs don’t have that problem anymore. We know what we can get. We want to play the fucking game now. I think you don’t need to look further than the Steam Controller launch. We are so hungry for New that we’ll destroy and entire storefront for a $100 controller. No one is burning the Sony servers for the PS Remote Play.

Granted, it’s a fucking awesome controller.

I’m going with Raccoon because it starts with Thief, which means free berries and left overs.

The citizens pay for the infrastructure. Yes. That’s how it works. You want mail? You want your package delivery? You want your grubhub? You want things to be in stock at the stores you shop at? You want the farmers at the farmer’s market to be able to bring your their sweet corn? Even if you don’t drive, you use the roads. All of the time, every day. This myth of “I don’t drive” or, “I ride a bike” or whatever excuse is en vogue today, it’s reductionist logic that doesn’t hold up. You belong to a society that uses infrastructure, and as a member, you use it as well.

This wasn’t “a few years ago”. It was probably closer to 15 or 20 years ago. I remember watching it in college.

That being said, the description you gave is accurate. I’ve only seen it once, and that is exactly what is burned into my memory. Also the taste of Disaronno because that was the only bottle I’d snuck in, and I needed something to drink.

The future: “Why didn’t we fight harder to stop Chinese Imperialism?”

“Because every said to do so was American Imperialism.”

Lol, I’m not sure what’s worse. Using an LLM to summarize and article for you, or not even reading the article and assuming you know the contents by the title. Fucking people…

I’m sure it doesn’t hold up, especially the treatment of mental health issues, but damn, I loved that movie as a kid.

Edit: So, I went to go look it up to watch it, and what do you know, the movie I’m thinking of isn’t The Wiz, it’s The Wizard… And so, I, in fact, have not seen The Wiz.

Came out just months before American Psycho, which was his breakout role.

Because I want more things in my life that bring me joy? Seeing something I love from a new perspective sounds like a fun experience?