“I love my unborn children far too much to subject them to the dumpsterfire of a planet we’ve built for them.”
I can’t help but feel guilty every time a friend or coworker or someone makes the announcement that they’re having a kid. We owe that kid better, but shit’s gonna be WAY worse by the time they’re old enough to despise us for it.
Much love to any parents reading this. You’ve got a hard job.
Really this is the first US ban on them?? I know the law moves slow and all, but as horrid as those things have proven to be, I’d have guessed this was already common practice in the less shit places to live.
Well, here’s hoping that ball picks up momentum asap.
Well, fuck. You have my empathy - that’s a shitty process, and by the sound of it, an even shittier status quo.
Keep your eyes on the prize, and good luck.
Light a man a fire and you warm him for a night. Set a man on fire and you warm him for the rest of his life!
Not to bitch about free food – free food is good food – but I’ve noticed the workforce uses food as a bandaid to cover more glaring absences like pay and benefits.
I’ve worked in a small handful of different industries prior to settling in healthcare, and it was (and still is) a recurring pattern: the jobs that had the best fringe benefits had the worst actual benefits. I’m positive there are exceptions to this on both ends of the spectrum, but it does prompt the question: are you not getting shit because your corp compensates you well enough that they don’t need to bother with fringe shit? Or are you not getting shit because they fall on that worst-of-both-worlds end of the spectrum?
If it’s the latter, start updating that resume.
Timothy Mcveigh likely broke the law when he bombed the post office in Oklahoma.
It’s only warm for a second; then it’s cool!
We took a personification of disease, and made him Health Secretary. Dafuq did we expect would happen?
Shitting ourselves is far from the worst case scenario here.
AI
Increasing Productivity
Pick one.
Or if we are, at least enable the whole “hard work pays off” myth. Money makes the world go round, but we’ve made a system that’ll just grind you down if you really dedicate yourself to it.
Can’t imagine why that isn’t working out.
Definitely adjacent. The distinction as I understand it basically boils down whether or not there’s magic.
Like Star Wars has a lot of sci fi elements, but then space wizards who use ‘the force’ which is just space magic. Fantasy.
Dune I’m less familiar with - never read the books. Saw the first movie but was kinda distracted and never have it my full attention. Main character definitely showed some magic super power stuff, but idr much outside of that.
Most of them kinda toggle back and forth, like Interstellar is mostly sci-fi with a sprinkling of fantasy up until the black hole scene, then it’s mostly fantasy with a sprinkling of science.
Or there’s Star Trek, which of mostly grounded in actual science and theory, but it’s got a sprinkle of space magic here and there too.
Not many purebreds.
Wormholes always kinda rubbed me wrong in sci-fi. They’re always depicted in a way that screams fantasy, not science, with only one exception that comes to mind, which was Interstellar’s depiction of a wormhole as a sphere, even taking the time to explain why it looks that way.
The only got it half right though, since as soon as they enter the sphere it’s straight back to the fantasy BS with the blue tunnel. That scene could have been a really cool transition of entering the one ‘side’ of the sphere while exiting the other simultaneously. Cut from the crew’s perspective seeing lens-like distortion of the stars, to an external view of the ship moving into the sphere.
I kinda feel like that’s how they intended to do that scene, with the whole buildup about the sphere, but decided to throw a nod to oldschool science fantasy for some reason.
Oh well. They got it half right, and that half was pretty fucking sick - it was the first presentation of a wormhole that didn’t instantly yoink me out of suspension of disbelief. Until the blue tunnel ofc, at which point, yoink.
To answer OP’s question, I guess for me it’s less a specific concept as it is presenting something possible only in theory in a believable way. The whole lens-distortion style transition would have been way less flashy, but less can be more.
Oh fuck no. There are a handful of people from highschool I wouldn’t mind catching up with, but the vast majority of them I either never met well enough to form an opinion, or actively disliked.
…and as long as it’s been, every single one of us is a completely different person now. It’d basically be like meeting a few hundred complete strangers. And at that point, I can just go to a bar or something and meet complete strangers right here - why travel to reunion for that?
Excellent! *champagne*
Can we still celebrate the sudden reduction in evil secondary to his death?
Honestly I think the bigger problem for theater revenue is less the quality of the film, and more the theaters themselves.
They charge three months rent for a bag of popcorn, a kidney for the ticket, and the remainder of your life of slave labor for medium soda.
Even smuggling in the noms, the cost of the ticket alone isn’t worth the experience… the experience being shitty, squeaky seats, the smell of butter, cigarettes, and BO, obnoxious customers who are incapable of shutting the fuck up, and some fucking redneck sitting right in front of you with a 10 gallon cowboy hat that’s obstructing about a quarter of the screen.
The live action lazy remakes are just icing on the cake.