Is it a base within reach of Iranian drones? Pretty please…

“Risk of attack is too great…”

Ah…so the US Navy operates off the same playbook as the Uvalde police department, I see.

Like Bitch, you’re a warship. It’s literally your job to put yourself at risk during a conflict.

Precisely.

Part of the awe of watching movies (The so-called movie magic) is that at the same time as you’re in awe of the film, there’s a part of you in awe of how much collaborative work it took to create that stunt/effect/miniature, etc…

There’s no magic anymore when one can just do the same thing in Blender at home if they had enough time to learn.

Serious question, because I really don’t know. But has there ever been a precedent in any country/city/school board/whatever…, where once someone has been removed from office, their term was completely expunged, as in every decision they made, every appointment, etc… was reversed and the clock reset back to before they took office?

I’m a 50 year old man with functioning retinas…

Oh I’m not saying there isn’t skill involved. There’s obviously artistic skill involved.

But there’s already awards for that kind of thing. It’s a completely different skill set completely removed from the collaborative nature of film-making and film special effects.

One person sitting behind a computer, no matter how skilled, isn’t the same as a team working in tandem to create something awe inspiring.

Checks and balances.

I know that it’s an unpopular opinion, but I firmly believe that we were at least marginally safer when the USSR was still a superpower acting as a check on American fuckery.

Once the USSR fell, US went masks off on the international stage because they had no reason to pretend to be the good guys anymore.

They convinced all their allies to disarm themselves, and then went full “nice country here…shame if something happened to it” the moment they were the only big dog left.

The world can’t re-arm itself fast enough as far as I’m concerned.

CGI shouldn’t win cinematography or even special effects awards.

Both of those things used to be collaborative skills. Multiple people working together to make a great composition on the screen. (director, cinematographer, set designer, costumer, prop-maker, foley artist, actor, etc…)

A great shot in CGI requires a computer and rendering time. It’s not the same.

If you can do everything with a computer, than none of your special effects are special by definition.

Oh…You’ve got spiderman framed above buildings high in the sky in Into the Spider Verse? Great…cool shot…but took nothing to actually create it.

If you tell me that to get that shot you had professional stunt people doing wire work, a complex camera rig, two helicopters and high-speed camera? THAT is the special in special effect.

Made it in a computer? It’s meaningless.

Mr. Feeney from Boy Meets World

I’d bet my life that they happen everywhere in Canada, unfortunately. It’s just that Saskatoon Police are the one’s who got caught because one of their victims (Darrell Night) had the sheer audacity to survive.

Low key one of the features I actually like the most about e/os is that in the App Lounge, you can see precisely which trackers and which permissions are necessary and which are invasive. If you click on that tracker it takes you deeper to see what each tracker is reported to do.

It’s changed the way I actually choose which apps I use on my phone and which apps I use only on my tablet which I’m less concerned with.

Surely…SURELY…someone in that administration was smart enough to snip the wire in big red button knowing that Trump is a lunatic.

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“Silent Majority”

It’s always their go-to when pressed on when they’re called out.

They can’t grasp the idea that their beliefs are really that unpopular so they cling to an idea of a “silent majority” that agrees with them but is either too censored or too bullied to speak up for what they think is the truth.

Sorry buddy, there is no such thing as a “silent majority” quietly agreeing with you but afraid to speak up, you and your illiterate buddies are just assholes and your opinions are shit.

That all actually started after World War 1, to be honest.

It was during the first world war that all of the European powers spent literally all their money fighting each other, with both sides then reaching out to the United States for loans to continue fighting each other, which America was of course happy to oblige.

The repayment of those loans constituted the largest transfer of wealth in human history from Europe to the Americas, setting the stage for the American war machine to be completed prior to world war two.

I’m not actually convinced that she actually lost the last one, with Musk’s shenanigans and other jerry-rigging all over the electoral college.

But I generally don’t bother dwelling on conspiracy theories. It is what it is, so we’ll see what happens.

If I’m asked a question like this, my immediate thought is that they’re asking about “My fellow citizens”. I (and I’m guessing a number of others) don’t really think of our political leaders as “regular people”. They’re “The State” and therefore aren’t a part of a poll like this.

Our right and our left in government is bought and paid for by the same billionaires that own the United States.

But on the ground, regular average joe people, both right and left, are generally good in the sense that they just want to mind their own business and live their life. It’s a small, very loud vocal minority on either side that drives division.

Kamala bad speaker

Kamala had a LOT of issues. But her public speaking talent was not one of them.

I’m not saying she should.

But the “I fucking told you so” campaign strategy might actually be somewhat effective for a certain percentage of swing voters.

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.