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These aren't people who are driven by ideas about building anything. Everything they have they buy from someone else, and for them the world they inherited is there to be broken down and liquidated, and nothing more. Money for them is to be kept and admired, not spent on people who build the world.
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This is so terrifying to see happen. And I'm so scared it will be irreversible, because I don't think even a Democrat successor will act with the same energy to undo the devastation, because that would be "changing the status quo". (I would love to be proven wrong, obviously.)
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No, but only because my hands are unsteady and I almost never draw a perfect curve in the first place
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Skimming off single characters to meet the limit, didn't remove the one that was actually a typo and shouldn't have been there at all. I'm very good at this
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The only conclusion that can reasonably be drawn is that the people who run the world are deliberately trying to kill us all.
A reasonable conclusion to draw from THAT might be that there should be a proportionate response.
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I have responded to the consultation and I wish I could believe it will help. But I feel a depressing certainty that they have, as usual, already picked the outcome they want, and will simply refuse to acknowledge any feedback that goes against it
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Their whole "plan for business" or whatever it was has literally just been "do exactly what big corporations want us to do and fuck everyone else". So at least they're consistent!
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This shit makes me so, so sick. We are on the edge of economic and ecological collapse, and no one in power seems to want to do anything but chase this ridiculous, pointless gimmick that is literally making the situation worse. They are wasting time we don't have.
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"we obviously don't actually understand how this tech works, but some rich guy says it'll solve everything, so we're just going to let all the pensioners freeze in order to fund it" how can you fucking do this stuff with a straight face and claim to have any sense of morality
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Labour's fucking audacity to claim to be the "party of working people" while literally diverting money directly from vital health services into the pockets of billionaire bullshit artists is actually staggering
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The consultation starts with and never challenges the assumption that AI development is a positive and needs to be encouraged. That makes it difficult to engage with if you fundamentally disagree with that assumption, and it's an assumption the government should not be making on the evidence.
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Slow Horses, Foundation, and For All Mankind top picks for me.
Obviously a lot for just the one weekend though. To narrow it down...Foundation? Only 2 seasons to get through and I think you'll appreciate Lee Pace('s workout routine) in it.
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I'm really hoping the next Dualsense has Hall Effect stick sensors, which would fix this. That and a black colour option are pretty much all it's missing from being perfect.
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I dunno. There's a few different ways they could've gone that would've been cleaner and more well-rounded than the plot they actually ended up going with. Unfortunate they didn't manage to get there, because the rest of the production really deserved a better core.
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Now there's a running throughline with sparks for emotional moments between them, and the characters can neatly motivate each other. You can still have Maximus as someone Pedro Pascal looked up to, but we don't need the "secret son/prince" thing at all, it's tired.
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Not to backseat scriptwrite, but:
- The wife lives instead
- Pedro Pascal sees her in the coliseum and brings her into the coup plot
- make the tension between them over the opening battle a big theme, they have to overcome their grudge for the shared goal of revolution to stop Rome's wars
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Pedro Pascal: wait, I know I killed your wife, but don't kill me!
Hanno: why not?
Pedro Pascal: I also banged your mum
Hanno: oh my god, there's no way I can kill you now, I'm willing to give my life to save yours
didn't give that one a second draft, huh?
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Actually on reflection I'll downgrade that "OK" to "eh". It's visually and sonically spectacular but there's a sense that it's missing a bit of heart. Didn't really care what happened to anyone in the end. Some of the dramatic dialogue moments weren't particularly well-designed either.
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yeah it was a little bit stupid for him to get a license point for this incident in Qatar, but like, it's ONE POINT. He's not being oppressed. (and where the fuck were you when he was getting away with things that absolutely should have had a severe penalty)
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I actually quite enjoy high boots for formal wear, but most modern suits aren't balanced for it at all. Something more 1800s style with tighter trousers and a big jacket, I'm in, but this just looks like he wasn't expecting to have to ride today and threw the boots on over the top last minute.
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Obviously take this as the opinion of someone who's not even close to Derek's level of fashion sense, but I think that looks absolutely awful. Totally clashes.
IMO, going untucked works fine (when done properly) because most of the boot is hidden, it's more subtle.
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Politely disagree. It was very common for actual working cowboys to wear their trousers outside the boots, and I don't think tucking would look very good with most modern suits. (Clearly there are ways to make non-tucking look stupid too...)
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an alternative proposal for a High Dynamic Time Range was dropped over concerns about potential violations of causality
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this will improve the world by making it impossible to schedule meetings
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I could never have a white lock screen with white text, it would drive me insane within a day
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To be clear, I'd still have voted against Trump (again not a US voter) and I think it would be wrong not to, but in order to win they also have to reach people who don't have that hard line. Actually committing to specific positive promises goes a long way.
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The "Republicans also like us" stuff was pure self-sabotage, too. That shit doesn't make the left happy, and it won't make the right vote for you anyway. That just catches the relatively small enlightened-centrist market who'll vote for that over actual policy (and they were already voting Dem)
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Maybe some "tough on immigration" but come on, anyone voting on that would vote Trump anyway.
I dunno if it was a failure of messaging or if they really didn't have anything to offer, but "we won't..." is a really weak platform.
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Hi Bob!
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Foundation Season 2 followup:
- haven't seen a bad (or not hot) actor yet. Casting team on fire.
- Constant is awesome. Love her light goblin energy and when she does her serious face.
- everyone should have a friend(?) like Beki the bishop's claw