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Not exactly what you’re asking, but Cabin in the Woods is like a love letter to all horror movies. It drops references and homages left and right, making horror movie tropes actual plot points, including bizzare foreign horror movies that aren’t explained at all. The more you know about horror movies, folklore, and monster cinema, the more you will understand the movie.

If you haven’t seen it, go see it now. I won’t say anything else.

Can’t come in unless invited, don’t have a reflection, sensitive (or deathly allergic) to light, garlic, and holy water, these things are rarely explained.

Senior devs love vibe coding because they have the knowledge and skills to recognize and fix errors. They hate it because it makes morons think they don’t need the knowledge and skills to recognize and fix errors.

So, by definition, the people who do like you are…

Says the guy who lied about being progressive to win.

Bull, and I cannot stress this enough, crap. Conservative ideology eschews objective truth in favor of beneficial positions every fucking time.

The problem is that the left gets people cancelled for hate speech. The right gets people cancelled for objective truth. Read the comments that people are getting fired for. It’s a blatant doouble standard that shifts the overton window on public discourse. Fascist bigots are running the country, and there’s no room for compromise with hate.

If he talked to you about it, you probably would have talked him out of it. Tells me deep down he knew it was stupid, but he wanted to do it.

I would talk to him about that part of it, help him recognize the choice he made to ignore your voice of reason in his own head.

I wouldn’t punish him for it, especially because he came to you to talk about it, but he’s getting closer to the age when he has to really pay attention to that voice in his head because you won’t be with him for every decision. Although, my kids often act like having to talk to me about things is punishment enough.

Well that’s the trick, isn’t it? The people who rule presume consent, but what they are really expecting is compliance. Your compliance is presumed consent. You can revoke your compliance any time you like, but the rulers will respond to noncompliance with force.

There’s a process within the law, and there’s a process where we replace the current law with something else. Within the law, we can vote for representatives who will impeach the current corrupt justices and approve new ones who are hopefully not corrupt. Let’s call that option A.

Option B is the total overthrow of the government, which is ridiculous to even consider, but it’s the alternative you’re hinting at. Denouncing the SCOTUS doesn’t change the ruling government in any way. Society is built on the idea that we all more or less agree to be ruled in exchange for fair rules and national defense. In a democracy, you have the appearance of agency, but you cannot simply withdraw consent to be ruled. The difference between democracy and fascism is that fascism explicitly defines violence as the means of control, while democracy merely implies that violence will be used to keep order. Once a democratically elected ruler decides to become fascist, there is no remedy but violence.

To wit, those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.

That said, I do not think we’re quite there yet. I have no doubt Trump will try to go all in to remain in power, but I don’t think he actually has enough followers to pull it off.

But that still leaves the corrupt justices on the bench. We need to focus on elections for representatives willing to impeach corrupt justices. If you think that process is too slow, consider that a violent revolution would probably take decades of bloodshed, and there’s no guarantee we don’t get some other despot as a result. Violence is not the answer to this question.

Exactly. We don’t know their motivations. If they are unhinged, and I don’t think the odds are against that possibility, then they shouldn’t have ever had access to firearms. If they were acting in self defense, then that’s a different problem entirely. The former is a threat to everyone. The latter is a threat to fascists.

I would argue that shooting a fascist is an act of self defense. My point stands.

Anybody who shoots someone in cold blood is not someone who should have access to firearms. Whether you want the person they killed dead or not, they are violent sociopaths and we need common sense restrictions to keep guns out of their hands.

Check out Immich next. It’s sort of like a self-hosted Google photos except it allows you to own your photos.

I like that line. I’m stealing it. Might paraphrase to fit the situation.

I did technical trainings, and I always used to say that the only stupid question is the one you don’t ask.

Poe’s law, my dude. There are definitely dipshits who make the argument that milk doesn’t need to be pasteurized because breast milk isn’t pasteurized.

Maybe stop acting like this is new?

Yes, the vaccines are… Are you feeding that baby unpasteurized milk?!? What the fuck, guys?

Did he say “wash” or “watch” your behind?

4k tvs existed before the content existed. I think the larger issue is that the difference between what is and what could be is not worth the additional expense, especially at a time when most people struggle to pay rent, food, and medicine. More people watch videos on their phones than watch broadcast television. 8k is a solution looking for a problem.