Dang, Trucktober is almost over and I hadn’t re-watched this yet!

Solar is pretty good, hydro has serious ecological ramifications though. We really need to un-dam a bunch of rivers and restore salmon habitat.

I don’t think this one would work, since they don’t occupy any space in the flat plane the portals appear on. You’re just making doors.

“Water cooled” in that they submerged the nuclear heat-sink array in the ocean to keep it from destroying their boat.

They’re scientific instruments, not water pistols!

It’s not about “nuance” it’s about how “consent” can’t exist for an occupied people.

You are wildly overestimating the media literacy of the average person.

Snow Crash, from which Zuck stole The Metaverse, is about as heavy-handed as satire can be.

You could flip those numbers around and people would still say “that firefighter is a murderer!”

It’s never been easier to disseminate propaganda and misinformation. Billionaires own the media companies and the digital infrastructure.

The film doesn’t mention genetics at all. The redneck family in the intro is greedy and inattentive and lets their children run wild. They’re socially stupid, not genetically.

Honestly it holds up, but it is wildly intense for what is ostensibly a kid movie.

No, it’s because the President told them to do it.

But then they might not know why they got hit.

The Peter Lorre lamp? But he gave Lampy a new bulb! The car crusher is way more fucked up.

Jurassic Park scared me real bad. Probably too intense for a toddler.

There’s a lot of money behind these legislative pushes.

A shockingly high percentage of voters are essentially no-information, name recognition motivated.

ODD does not discriminate between sensible advice and “being told what to do”, it’s a childish knee-jerk reaction to any perceived authority. It is not a sane position to automatically reject any idea originating outside your own head.

the threat needs to be acute.

Why? Why is an immediate, obvious threat worse than a slower, veiled one? Assuming both are equally dangerous and inevitable.