ThePyroPython

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[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Given that it's Northampton, I'm in favour of this population reduction strategy.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I have no idea what is going on but it was hilarious, thank you for sharing this, it's been a long week with car issues, me being in hospital for a throat infection, and my mother needing an operation, and the power being out all day, so thank you this has really lufted mine spirits.

I really want a translation, where's Liam Carpenter when you need him?

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

From what I've seen most German humour comes in two flavours: intentionally very dry puns and unintentionally hilarious dry attitude to everything else in life.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 101 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Ship GPS, Transponders, Sonar, weather information from a data feed, and the large scale deployment of sea monitoring bouys allowing us to observe and measure storms and rogue waves.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So I just went and watched that specific scene because you do raise some good points here.

If the computers know he woke up why release him instead of just killing him?

It looks like the machine that releases him is a different one from the usual Sentinels we see elsewhere in the films so I assume it's just there to monitor the humans in the pods. It is probably programmed to just dispose of humans into the sewer that either wake up due to technical issues or that die in the pod by yanking their neck using the grabby arm and unscrewing the neural spike. Flushing the live/dead body down is just the last step in it's process because even if they wake up alive in the pod, once they're flushed down they aren't going to be fed nutrients to keep them alive and these vat grown humans barely use their muscles so they can't swim well and will most likely drown quickly. Why bother wasting energy making sure they're dead when they most likely will die anyway?

If they did know he did woke up, and didn't kill him because he's the one... Wouldn't the crew find it unusual how easy it was to get him?

I don't think the machines knew he was The One at that stage because he was yet to perform any of the feats that the "prophecy" laid out. I don't think I could explain the whole prophecy thing they go over in the third film well enough but from the sounds of it, until Neo can see the Matrix for what it truly is the machines don't know if he's the one or not so until he gets shit by Agent Smith and comes back to life to the machines he's just another human that broke free and being a bit of a pest like the rest of them.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I agree that they'd try to help if they could but I think we'd have to assume that getting someone plugged back into the Matrix permanently would carry a much greater risk for the crew required to carry out this operation than is acceptable.

I think this assumption is reasonable because:

  1. When Neo leaves the matrix, within a minute of "waking up" a machine quickly arrives to unscrew his neural connection and flush him down the waste disposal at the back of the pod he was "asleep" in. So we can assume that there's constant monitoring of the pods and lots of machines to quickly dispose of humans that wake up.

  2. The humans want to stay as far away from the machines as possible, hence why they use a dish to broadcast a signal from a hidden portion of the world outside of Zion so they can jack into the Matrix remotely and disconnect when they need to move to avoid detection. Getting inside of one of these human pod farms likely would be a nigh-on impossible task as can be seen when A. Neo and Trinity fly into the heart of machine territory in the 3rd film and B. Morpheus and the crew wait until after Neo gets flushed out into what most of the time is a corpse sewer to fish him out.

  3. During the whole explanation of the matrix from Morpheus we can see that as soon as a human is grown enough to be picked they're moved into one of these pods. So even if they somehow manage to sneak into one of these facilities without being detected by one of the innumerable monitoring machines they'd either need to A. Time it perfectly between a dead person being flushed out before the pod is repopulated with a new young person from the farms. Or B. Swap Cypher in when someone else wants to come out, when they state in the film that spending enough time in the Matrix to extract someone is already a risky operation.

  4. They might not be rule tyrants but Zion clearly has a leadership hierarchy and risking a whole crew and a ship which has information on how to find and get into Zion in it's systems would likely be a completely unacceptable risk to Zion management who already don't like Morpheus' recklessness for chasing the prophecy by freeing Neo in his 20s when they normally only free people when they're younger.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Having interacted with the British public on a regular basis, I can confirm: they don't know owt!

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Sign me the fuck up as well, Solarpunks unite!

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Oh boy, just wait until you hear about zero-crossings and phase-lock loops.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's not forget they're fiddling strange multi pronged metal sticks, muttering about impedance matching, in a giant spiky room with large metal doors.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah the marketing ghouls have worked out that making people feel scared, angry, and sad means they're more likely to impulsively pay for stuff they don't need in a panic or out of desperation.

Funny thing is it used to be trying to get the consumer into a happy and relaxed state so they felt they could depart with some of their disposable income to "treat themselves".

Now that more consumers don't have disposable income, they're leaning more heavily into preying on insecurities and fears.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That moment when OP doesn't know about the seashells (sremoveds in Rob Schneider)

 
 

This has been shining in my eyes for the last 10 minutes whilst the bus driver takes a break.

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