I must have missed my ride back to the mothership.

“I didn’t know I couldn’t do that!”

I’m really fucking tired of cleaning up after people who told me I was overreacting.

You are correct.

DC, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Guam, US Virgin Islands, if you want a 51st state, there are better options that don’t require starting a world war with our closest allies.

Is that like how a sunny day shifts towards being long?

You really think 2/3 of Americans are progressive?

Honestly, that’s bullshit. The left shows up to vote consistently for the Democrats. All polling data confirms that the people who stay home are the disengaged and the moderates. It’s not that people can’t agree on what is left enough, it’s that the center tries to win votes from the right by demonizing the left, and it doesn’t work. Successful campaigns across the political spectrum are persuasive and idealogical. The voters are never going to be more enthusiastic than the candidate.

And that’s the difference between leadership and pandering. Telling people in the center what they want to hear because you’re afraid to lose is precisely how you lose.

It is indeed, but I think the point is that the right has been able to move the window so far to the right because there is no functioning left.

Oh my bad I misunderstood your intentions.

You should know that a lot of companies engage in performative hiring processes. They post jobs and accept applications to create the appearance that they are hiring. It could be to send a message to investors, or competitors, or current employees. If you find yourself in yet another round of group interviews with potential team mates, consider that maybe you’re the show and they are the audience. “Look what we could have instead of you. Look how eager people are to work here, younger, cheaper, more qualified. We are in control of this situation.”

“Culture fit” means “are you going to disrupt our little codependent circle-jerk?”

“Law enforcement in their duty.”

ICE agents have no legal authority to conduct police actions or abduct people without cause. There is no legal justification for any of this. It is naked fascism, tolerated because no one will stop them.

That’s a good idea, too. I’ll probably freeze one and experiment with however much of the other one goes stale.

Or maybe Just In Time. Time Out. Time Bandits, no that’s taken. Taken Out, no that was my spec script for the finale to the Taken franchise. Time and Again.

I hadn’t hear about that, but I think of all the streaming content producers, Apple has the best track record for producing quality content. But yeah, the fact that I barely remember reading Neuromancer, and what I do remember was confusion, I bet that’s a tough needle to thread.

Noted, thanks for your feedback.

Huh, I read Neuromancer a long time ago, but I forget almost everything about it. Would that make a good film?

The correct answer is District 9.

However, I find I’m often disappointed by sequels to great movies. I feel like there are far more mediocre movies that failed to fully explore the depths of a good concept, where a sequel (perhaps in a different genre) would retroactivel make the first movie better.

For that, I also choose Johnny Mnemonic.

Also, In Time, Elysium, or Chappie.

I also think now would be a great time for a Galaxy Quest sequel. There’s a lot of fertile sci-fi tropes that could make for another hilarious movie. Like, after the end of the revival of the original show, there’s a Next Generation spin-off that overshadows the original, plus a bunch of expanded universe content. The Thermians and other aliens keep replicating the nonsense as real technology. What remains of the OG crew has to convince the new cast and writers/showrunners to stop being so lazy in their hand-wavy rushed bullshit, because there are very real consequences to poorly executed cash grabs full of plot holes and dangling threads. Maybe there’s a prequel series that creates a schism in the Thermian society, with the older generation following the Never Give Up, Never Surrender idealism, and the younger generation believing in a grittier, cynical imperialistic ideology.