Oh no, I get you. I think we are a similar age.

I was at the Reading Festival in '96 and I think offspring were playing.

There was a slightly older guy stood in the middle of the crowd shouting, you call this punk… This ain’t punk. This ain’t shit.

The kids were laughing at him.

This week in Glasgow Green Day played a gig and all I saw was middle aged men and their daughters wearing matching merch t-shirts.

I’m assuming at some point I travel back in time to '96 to try to stop this.

She may be a Puncke: for many of them, are neither Maid, Widow, nor Wife.

W. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1623)

Damn, you really old.

Seconded on round keys.

I blame cooking blogs for introducing this bloat.

“First let me tell you a little about my relationshio with cinnamon… It all started 40 years ago whilst I was…”

This was the video that caused me to post:

https://youtu.be/fBqOSENDakY?si=MWNDvT4OIkWsGW6J

Petition to edit all textbooks, renaming Newton as THE Motion Guy.

Yeah, no.

Newton was such a complex human. He seemed capable of holding many, sometimes opposing beliefs, at the same time.

Newton’s conception of the physical world provided a model of the natural world that would reinforce stability and harmony in the civic world. Newton saw a monotheistic God as the masterful creator whose existence could not be denied in the face of the grandeur of all creation.

There’s even a Wikipedia page dedicated to his religious beliefs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Isaac_Newton

If you are into learning about him there’s also a rather good read, The Janus Faces of Genius, by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, that looks into his occult work.

Furthermore, for the sake of complexity, we can look into how, when he was the warden of the mint, he became responsible for the deaths of 19 people. He turned a largely ceremonial role into a task force, chasing down forgers and sentencing them to death.

Feels very Black Mirror to me. Not a bad thing at all.

Absolutely loving the replies to this.

This is how the extended Linux community wins for me.

Sure we talk shit for fun. The Arch BTW stuff, the Gentoo shade and Slackware side-eye. But its all in jest, ultimately.

Well done.

Just like Marvin, my mind is blown.

“There are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user’s VPN runs on Linux or Android.”

So there are ways.

Folk can’t sit still in the dark while being entertained without having to eat a main course meal.

I see you getting downvoted for a correct answer.

IP addresses are like street addresses. I can live at 10 High Street in London, you can live at 10 High Street in Ohio. Those are not the same address right? Folk confusing public and private ip addresses.

Clown steps out of clown car, into the clown country he designed, gets back in clown car.

I mean if it was instead of ads that inyerupt the actual video I’m all for it.

I suspect it will be as well as the other ads.

Read somewhere today that all these disruptive technologies basically undercut the conventional competition and then slowly become them.

We are full circle back to cable now. A hundred different platforms all trying to gouge you for every penny you can spare.

Next up google gets good traction tattooing brand names on the inside of your eyelids. Or advertising to you whilst you sleep, or go to the toilet.

Still, infinitely prefer that to paying a subscription to a service and still having to endure adverts.

Yeah. We call it the stock market.

Bad AIDS?

If you’ve got wood, you’ve got something to drink.

I’m specifically talking about the difference in time between when he wrote the story and when that film was made.

That is, one is pre- the conception of cyberpunk as a formal genre and the other is very much post- it.

I wasn’t attacking anything you said, and I’m sorry you interpreted it that way.

Also, I’m not saying anything about the quality of the films made of his work. I sort of agree with you. They make fine books, but film is a different form and requites different ways of exploring narrative. If anything his work acts as a good launching point to explore ideas in film, rather than acting as templates for a movie.

You should read up on how Dick and his drug usage led to his own paranoia. This is practically a diary.

I also think you are confusing films made from his work with the actual work itself. To comment on the worlds Dick was creating you need to look at the text rather than adaptation that came decades after cyberpunk was already a thing (in some cases). An aesthetic veneer of cyberpunk works well with his narratives but not neccessarily with the writing style.