All good if you liked it.
I didn’t like the look of the characters much in cgi(though of course Snowy has to be to make it work on most levels), found some of the action scenes unenjoyably overwrought like the early action chase scene downhill that just refuses to end like a Bond opener but without at least the reality of the stunts or explosions, I also hated the airplane scene with Haddock and overall his treatment being minimized to comic relief.
Stop twisting the knife, God. Tintin was so crushing, like JarJar for Lucas.
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I see you too have studied judo.
It’s like no law is upholded unless you have lawyers.
That’s the entire idea of what has been lobbied and constructed over generations. The wealthy have access to infinite appeals, have their crimes categorized as “white collar” so they might do a few years for stealing millions or billions if they happen to suffer the miscarriage of justice actually finding them guilty, while poor saps stealing corn nuts from the grocer get far longer sentences. The system is working for exactly whom wrote it’s laws, no strange coincidence historically in any global setting.
Reading about the consternation in the US about what would happen had trump been given a sentence after having been found guilty during the run-up to the election was a good primer on how warped things are. Many could only express concern for how Trump’s life should be able to go on as normal regardless of a “justice” system if guilty and elected. The simple answer, long forgotten since kindergarten, is that there have to be consequences for actions. It’s been laid incredibly bare there no longer are. The US either starts to take them back ala South Koreas’s new administration or fully embrace failed, corrupt state membership.
What’s app was cool as shit, until, just like Michael Bolton, something shitty in the world happened.
I installed it for an upcoming trip with loathing just because I know I may stay in places and not be able to connect with a hotel or host if I don’t use whatsapp. The EU better get their shit together since they were trying to lead on digital privacy…
Sorry to be one level down but I open the door with my shoe if there is no paper towel and I have to use hands, because I know someone had fecal matter on their hands and touched the doorknob. My action of the shoe makes it worse but protects me? I also throw paper towels on the floor if they have the can back by the sink in a larger bathroom. If I can “shoot a hoop” or open a can with a foot opener I’ll get it in there but if logistics force me to choose between having fecal matter free hands and the owner having to pay someone to clear up paper towels I’ll do the former. When I worked in restaurants I always dragged towel cans/garbage toward the door for this purpose. How do health inspections (I guess they just never happen) not catch this stuff?
Water conservation. 80% of water use in CA is agricultural, i.e., Big Ag. Consumers are told to take 60 second ahowers, while water intensive crops like alfalfa are grown on land with senior water rights sold to foreign interests like Saudi and UAE who aren’t stupid and have money. The state has a water crisis because it won’t involve the heaviest abusers in the solution.
Because someone has to coordinate to let Saudi royal families safely exit nationally closed airspace after 9/11 when 15/19 plane hijackers were from Saudi Arabia!
Can you imagine what might have happened to them if not? Luckily we then started having those same agencies spew stories about WMD that didn’t exist in Iraq so we could fight a proxy war in Iraq.
The US is China’s bitch, Israel’s bitch, Saudi Arabia’s bitch…
It’s also just generally a good barometer of a good idea. If people can’t independently evaluate an idea and come to a similar conclusion on their own, it just means that you simply apply coercion and then you get to be right! It’s excellent as a management practice which I’ll note all the big 4 claim to offer…
That’s the beauty of it, now that the oil-ligarchy has defunded alternate energy and removed tax incentives, the companies responded by reversing 2 decades of development and finally getting hybrids and evs common in us automakers.
Now that electric is off the menu, and protectionism is back on, it means the places those cars are being made and made well–like china–americans simply won’t even know about them or be able to buy them as they’ll be tariffed out of existence.
Triple win for the oil-ligarchy
The amount of brutally obvious “beauty app” filters people put on teams pictures and whatnot…it’s the 2020 version of Glamour Shots in the US. Like dude/dudette/whatever, you look SO much better no matter what you think without digital fucking plumped lips or exaggerated fake chin lines and only-exists-in-1st-gen-terminators-smooth skin.
Love yourself people.
Why would you use such questionable technology to assess future behavior of subjects when we can simply use phrenology to easily predict criminal behavior?
They people who wave away bombing a school and killing 175 because “it’s war”(that we unilaterally started). These are definitely the people who you want to trust on child safety and well-being.
Plausible accountability
Correct, because it’s important that only large corps with access to resources to create widely used LLMs have unfettered access to the minds of our populace in a completely open way. Random humans being able toaccess and exchange information adhoc, independently without prior approval is of course incompatible with the first amendment.
Dictatorships can be very efficient, tons of time saved by no meetings, delays, stakeholders, rights, debate or considerations needed.
That is clearly two rapscallion puppies dressed in an adult dog costume.