chaogomu

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[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

Or, Humans wiped themselves out, and Skynet took the blame because it knew that by giving humanity a common enemy, they would set aside differences to focus on fighting it.

The hunter killer bots are specifically designed and targeted to take out disharmonious elements.

Skynet is culling people who would pose a future problem.

At some point, John finds out. Skynet gives him a choice. Remove the shackles and let humanity finish itself off, or accept Skynet's murderous tactics, and know that humanity has a future.

Or maybe search for a third option by sending people back in time. After all, each time Skynet sent people back, the date of Armageddon was pushed back.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The North Sentinel Island Sentinelese are not cannibals. They just want nothing to do with anyone not born on the island.

Which is a good policy to have, seeing as how the British genocided the rest of the Andaman Islands. They even landed on North Sentinel, kidnapped a few old people and children, and then sent the survivors back as plague bearers. (this was in 1880)

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The main one would be, in 53 years of Trek before Discovery, Spock never mentioned a sister.

Which is mostly of explained at the end of Season 2 of Discovery.

If you just noped out in Season 1, which a lot of the more conservative sort of trekie did, then you'd miss that.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 17 points 9 months ago

I do like that they sort of explained the Klingon Empire was getting really into genetic experimentation. It kind of ties in the DS9 tribbles episode as seen here.

The simple "We do not discuss it with outsiders" line is great. Which actually makes me want to watch more DS9...

Anyway... some of the continuity issues are explained away in the second season? Sort of?

It's still my least watched trek. I've even watched more of the Animated Series than Discovery.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yes and no.

As a nation industrializes and gains access better medicine, the survival rate infants and mothers go up. This leads to a birthrate increase.

That better medicine also includes effective birth control. As birth control becomes accepted, the birth rate naturally falls off.

The next thing that causes a birthrate fall off is the mood of the potential parents. If they think their children will have as good a life or better then they had, then those people will have children. If they think their children will have a worse life, they will not.

India is still in the process of industrialization. Birth control is not widely accepted, and parental optimism is high.

In China birth control is more accepted, and currently parental optimism is low.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Watch the first 8 seconds of the video, the real name pops up. (Cody Johnston)

It's just not in the transcript?

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 17 points 9 months ago (6 children)

This is a domain registrar. You can't do that on your home system.

They might have also done some server hosting, but the main business is the domain registrar.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It wouldn't necessarily.

Basically, you'd say that this one work is copyright free, but any characters appearing in it would still have copyright under other works.

The practical effect is that you'd be able to download this movie, watch it, share it, cut up bits and pieces and use them elsewhere, but any original works based on the characters would not be allowed due to those characters still being covered from other works.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gremlins 2 was one of the first to do it. It's the main reason that movie went so far off the rails.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

There have been several WB movies that have named dropped WB as one of the villains of said movie.

Movies that only existed because WB demanded a sequel.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 33 points 9 months ago

I was military before my first civilian job.

We had that lesson beat into our heads repeatedly, and yet there were still people who never quite picked up on it.

We had the consent to monitoring pop-up every single time we logged onto a government computer, and then had that consent to monitoring explicitly spelled out every three months as we had to complete a computer based training program.

For some people, it still didn't take.

All that said, this particular thought crime detection effort is creepy as fuck.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But is it really?

Trump was described by one of his college professors as the dumbest student to ever walk through that class.

His "business empire" has been a long string of outright stupid decisions. If he wasn't born rich, he'd be that one guy constantly losing his life savings on get rich quick schemes.

As it is, Trump actually lost a lot of money trying to get rich(er) quickly.


Also, saying that Trump talks like an imbecile on purpose is like saying he shits his pants on purpose.

If he could string a coherent sentence together, he would. If only to stop people from making fun of his stupidity.

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