SARGE

They're saying it's on the SUV driver to prove they didn't do illegal things that resulted in the accident, assuming normal police requests don't do it first (security camera footage of the intersection) because nobody knows for sure who ran a red light except the people involved, unless there's proof.

Not "someone said the SUV ran a red light and everyone believed them instantly without proof and the SUV was found at fault"

In a row?!

Evolution.

It knows what it is, and nobody in it is under some illusion that they're making some masterpiece of cinema. That is not at all a criticism or even backhanded compliment. I like when the actors have fun with the things they're working on. I mean, who doesn't love seen behind the scenes of Ian Mckellen slapping a dummy of Sean Aston around.

It's fun, it's ridiculous, and it leans into it a bit.

Plus they came up with the Thanos Weakness a long time before the avengers fans.

This reminds me of that one time in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

I had recently read a book that had

Shit, imma need that title....

I can’t for the life of me remember which book that was…

Well, shit.

If you remember, let us know! I'm a huge book nerd that (clearly) loves sci-fi, and that sounds pretty neat.

Matter=energy=matter.

If you can replicate matter with energy, you can turn matter into energy.

First you use a little wall power or even solar power, replicate some chargeable power cells, and then hey look you've got some portable replicating that will work without an obvious power source.

And as long as you have enough matter on hand to convert to energy, you have enough power to replicate things until we replicate space tech like deflector dishes and bussard collectors to soak in all that tasty hydrogen that's just laying around all over the universe.

Jaysus, Keiko, it's like you don't even listen to me when we're having dinner...

back to the pattern buffer for you I guess...

First thing anyone with matter replicators needs to do is IMMEDIATELY replicate 100 replicators and send them to enough countries that there's no WAY for any corporation or rich fuck to quash it and maintain dominance.

Replicators would immediately destroy any economic system because no economic system would be needed when everything you can think of is a button press away.

Honestly any version of replicators....

Lol nvidia CEO couldn't do my job for an hour.

I am absolutely confident that I could do his job for an hour.

The empty chair in his office does his job just as easily, too.

You can tell me all about the meetings and deals they have to worry about but ultimately, by the time a company gets that large, it could run itself without a c-suite for quite some time.

My last employee orientation really didn't like me saying to the group of 10 or so "anti-union speeches should be just as illegal as insinuating we aren't allowed to discuss wages"

And also I have called a new employee a fucking idiot for saying "guys we aren't supposed to talk about wages" when the topic came up one day and "I'm gonna get a manager" when the discussion continued.

Klingon has an empty crate bounce off him and he's ready to end it all.

I get tortured in a mind prison for decades, and I'm expected to show up for work the next day...

No worries, tone isn't easily conveyed in text and with everything else it's totally understandable.

And if I'm being completely honest, it may have a slight bias toward that way just from me being from the US. I just didn't consciously/purposely do so.

I did mean to simply say that I wish we could achieve such things here without resorting to what arguably most modern governments have done, if not recently then in the past.

It's doable, we just need the people in charge to have the best intentions for all people.

Fat fucking chance of that in the US these days (or for the last 40 years)

You just gave proof that the people who are in the way don’t matter in the US either, as long as it’s about building inner city highways.

I don't know where I managed to say anything to the contrary... As you point out, I literally give proof that people in the way don't matter.