The biggest problem is they’ve over committed what those things are and what they can do.

A lightsaber can cut through anything and the force can do just about any telekinesis you want it to.

Now you need to either ignore these incredibly powerful tools or carefully design intricate, thoughtful problems that can’t be flashily solved by CGI theatrics.

So what do they do? Well, 9/10 times, they just make a normal fucking movie/show with Star Wars painted on top. Lightsabers can be blocked by whatever weapon the bad guy has (make it zappy and then it’s basically the same as a lightsaber). Things get knocked just out of reach, people hang by their fingers of ledges, bad guys run away down that long street with no way to catch up and some Jedi stands there like a fucking oaf wishing it wasn’t so.

All Disney does it up the ante. More power, more different lightsabers, more aliens, more locations. But then they slap that shit on whatever story they have laying around.

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But a B-List actor told me it would trickle down half a century ago, so let’s give them the benefit of the doubt and maybe we’ll catch a dribble

Book of Boba Fett would have been a decent Star Wars story if it was the Book of Bib Fortuna seizing power.

Boba Fett was saved by Tuscans, but spends the whole show talking about protecting “his people”, the city folk.

It’s like if James Bond was left for dead and rescued by Navajo, then became sheriff of Albequerque and needed to keep the streets clean for the saloon and “his people”.

It’s not the character we know, and it doesn’t even make sense as a character arc!

Carbon taxes need a caveat that prices cannot change due to the tax. Otherwise it’s just another way for big business to profit.

“We had to raise our prices because of the carbon tax!”

“But the tax is 8% and your prices have gone up 20%”

shrugs “Dunno. Carbon tax.”

In other news, new evidence shows Hitler “wasn’t such a great guy” even as early as 1932.

I’m not a scientist, I don’t know one way or the other if there are “cleaner” fossil fuels. But I believe the Exxon CEO when he claims there are.

Hanlon’s Razor doesn’t apply to CEOs. It’s always 100% conscious malicious choices.

While it’s easy to believe Exxon would make up “we could have done it cleaner but it cost more than the market would bear” its much more in tune with big oil’s real strategy of “we absolutely knew about it and beyond doing nothing, we actively suppressed action about it and spent a lot of money ensuring no one else would too.”

The real key is local bottling where local production isn’t possible.

Ship vats of Coca-Cola syrup to the 200 largest cities (more or less) in North America and create local bottle circulation.

Spice it up with local bottle designs or recycling marks. Now you’ve got novelty sales, collector sales, eco-conscious sales, ‘support local’ sales…

I think Watto saying “I’m a Toydarian! Mind tricks don’t work on me!” like that is a cultural pride thing, not a physiological thing.

Makes sense to me too: a bunch of self-absorbed, uneducated, man-children lashing out with impotent rage as contrarians just to feel important and relevant. Source: me. It was me. I was one of those man-children.