Also… The disproportionate police response when it’s wealthy and/or connected people compared to poor everyman Joe and/or a minority is as frustrating as it is sad.

I don’t see anything related to a foot fetish in the summary.

The amount of boot licking going on here, it has to be a fetish

telling people your technology will replace their jobs, devour their electricity, and possibly end civilization isn’t the winning sales pitch billionaires imagined.

“but what you guys aren’t getting is the fact that it’ll make me a lot more money.”

Maybe the robot should be charged for blocking her way

Unfortunately it’s not just a US or a “in Okinawa” problem. It’s a problem as old as civilisations have had militaries and sent them to other countries.

I’m not saying there’s no point in trying to fix it but… It’s pervasive in time and space.

Great song BTW

I understand your point but that feels a bit like a zero sum game.

If people like zone out action games, and those games are made and sell reasonably well, and people enjoy them… Isn’t that fine?

Yeah maybe it’s shit quality for the amount of money/talent behind it and it could have been better etc… But that feels a bit like people who play every cod version ever complaining about indie games having “bad graphics” or being too hard etc. They’re different games for different audiences.

It is very hard, without writing a mini essay, to convey all the relavent context, tone and meaning via a text based comment.

Often what people write will end up being interpreted differently by people reading it and different to your intentions.

Also the, for lack of a better term, “dog pile” effect really matters. If the first few people down vote you, that changes how successive people will interpret your message. “Maybe it seems harmless but it’s -3, so I might have missed some context and it’s more nefarious than I realised” etc.

On one hand… I get it. On the other hand, massive protests against touring South African sides during apartheid helped bolster public understanding and support for bringing it down.

Like, should Russia and Israel be allowed to play?

Aww man it was end it? I’ve really liked their songs and their videos lead me to beleive they had a good sense of humour

It’s often a red flag of emotional problems as well

Wooowwww… This is an insane generalised judgement.

removing individual freedom is never good

I generally agree that prohibition doesn’t work, and is bad, but having an absolutist position like this is usually problematic. For example we have to restrict some people’s freedoms. Like some people want to harm or kill others, that should not be a freedom people have.

Most things in life have a lot of nuance, which means we can’t usually make blanket rule for things.

In saying all that… Prohibition usually doesn’t solve the issue, sometimes makes it worse, and often ends up hurting people who are already suffering (usually why they resort to harmful substances)

Don’t forget the last one in Qatar

The “best” part is that none of these end up taking into account the fact we’ll cook ourselves/the planet from excess heat waste long before climate change can finish the job

And this was before ai started to speed up the job

I don’t know if cloony said it before, but a bunch of actors said they’d “leave the country” if Trump got elected, then didn’t. So it’s nice to see someone follow through

Oh. I guess I needed the /s on the first part or there’s a misunderstanding, because we do agree

a way to say that he got to talk about whatever he wants

I can’t tell if your serious but he absolutely did not get to talk about what ever he wanted. Their jokes were limited and had to be vetted beforehand.

He actually got to talk about whatever he wanted in America. He just didn’t like people telling him his jokes were bad and he was being bigoted

The joke is “haha! see? I’m not funny! I’m just a soulless piece of shit grifter”?

What… That’s not funny. He’s using an ongoing tragedy to deflect from his blatant hypocrisy.

Freeer over the by the way, where they, checks notes, literally took his script and said what he could and couldn’t say.

Fuck that bigoted hypocrite