I am slowly discarding my differentiations between stupid and evil, there’s a different, mysterious third thing that combines both but exists on its own.

Willful Ignorance. Choosing to remain stupid despite access to information.

If its coming out of the Trump Admins mouths, its a lie…

A pocket protector for the modern age.

I forgot about Continuum. I’d definitely recommend it. Though I wouldn’t put it high on my list or anything.

Main actress was good, but not great. And the rest of the cast was a who’s who of Vancouver working actors who jumped in via the Stargate.

It was enjoyable shlock, but I wouldn’t put it up there with the other mid-2000’s/2010’s stuff coming from Vancouver like the Stargate series of shows, or the CW shows that were all filming there at the time (Flash, Arrow, etc…). Vancouver was a hub of mid-budget sci-fi back then. Might still be, I don’t know. I don’t know anyone in the industry there anymore since breaking up with my ex.

• BSG remake is a must watch for anyone, even those who don’t like “sci fi”

• Band of Brothers is a must watch, even for those who don’t like “war”

• Black Sails started amazing, dragged a bit in the middle, but well worth it for the final speech by Flint at the end.

• The Americans is a show that has tragically never gotten the love that it deserves and is well worth your time.

• Angel is better than Buffy in every conceivable way basically beginning in the second season and I’ll always point it out to people who won’t give it a chance because they don’t like Buffy. (I don’t like Buffy…but Angel was darker, more mature, less teeny bopper. And frankly funnier)

Edited to add:

• Boardwalk Empire, the forgotten red-headed stepchild of HBO’s prestige lineup. I loved it but for some reason it’s completely dismissed and barely remembered.

• 12 Monkeys. Someone else mentioned it below and reminded me that I need to do a rewatch. I loved it. But in the later seasons was to distracted by other stuff to finish it.

Unless I’m mistaken, I’m pretty sure Iran is trying to very carefully target only US infrastructure in those countries (air bases, embassies, consulates, etc…)

It’s a dangerous line to try to tread, but it sends a message that I think they desperately need to send. “We’re not against you, just against the assholes using your land as launching points.”

Frankly I’d do the same thing.

I’m more interested in seeing what happens with the second part of his threat, that he’ll “use those bases whether spain likes it or not”.

I believe that’s called an incursion on foreign soil.

And I’d be willing to bet it’s the same damn people.

That header photo brings back memories.

Exactly. Dell did it for years with some of their laptop models offering Linux.

It’s not like a company can’t do both on some devices so long as the sales support it.

If you have your 1 brain cell left after all those lobotomies, here’s the actual article

You realize that it’s possible to disagree with someone without being a dick about it, right?

I mean, I’ve certainly had my share of verbal dust-ups on Lemmy, but they always start off cordial instead of coming out swinging with the needless insults.

Executive Orders in the U.S. political system

I’m Canada we have the “Notwithstanding clause” which can serve a similar function; allowing a premier to unilaterally decide something without the approval of parliament.

Neither should be allowed to exist.

Also remove the entire idea of some countries having “veto” power in NATO and UN matters.

In Belle and Sebastian’s "Me and the Major’ my brain will simply not hear anything except

“Me and the midget don’t see eye to eye”

Which I find funny on a couple of different levels.

Voting requires citizenship. But citizenship itself should require more than just existing.

If we look back to Greek and Roman democracy, it was true that every citizen got a vote. But the people who were citizens was much more stringent.

The basic idea of the ars liberalis or Liberal Arts translates literally as “The work of freedom”. Exercising your right to partake in a democracy required that a person be knowledgable about history, civics, rhetoric, politics, philosophy. Without that knowledge, you were not allowed a vote in how things are run.

Essentially, you had to know what you were voting on.

Unfortunately, that meant that in essence only the rich landowners could be citizens because they were the only ones with the time and money to get educated while the underclasses were too busy working to suvive.

But in the modern age, where public schooling is a thing, we should be able to figure out a way to make such a thing work. Nowadays, the only thing keeping people ignorant is choice. And if you make the choice to be ignorant, you should forfeit your right to have a say in the governing of your nation.

I mean…I wouldn’t go that far.

I’d limit it at least to people who don’t hug the curb when making a right hand turn thus keeping anyone who’s going straight through from being able to fit in beside them at the stop light.

Eugenics isn’t survival of the fittest though. It’s one group arbitrarily deciding whether another group deserves a chance to live.

I get what you’re trying to say about “suvival of the fittest” but you’re butchering the most basic understanding of that phrase. Survival of the fittest isn’t a choice made by someone or a group of people.

The Habsburgs have entered the chat…

• Some people absolutely need to be killed for the greater good of society.

My last few phones have been Motorolas and I’ve been very very happy with them.

My only issue was that back then, I wasn’t really paying attention to alternative OSs like Graphene, Lineage or e/os and was therefore not really too concerned with ROM support/chip set. When I switched over to e/os, two of my Motorola’s (including the one I WANT to use with it) has no ROM support because it’s running a Mediatek chipset. So I’m using my second to last one while my nice new one collects dust.

Moving forward I’ll be paying more attention to Qualcomm vs Mediatek.

Not a corporation. They’re not “incorporated” and are not publically traded (afaik).

They’re a private company who are still able to do these kinds of things because they’re not beholden to stockholders.

To me, companies like them aren’t the problem. Corporations with stockholders are the problem.