Also, it’s just about the size and shape of the machines basically and they’re in the same industries.

So is it really that different of an industry, or two sub-industries of like… plastics, in general?

John Oliver sort of did it.

But it doesn’t even need a LLM.

They just used predictive text.

https://youtu.be/1ZAPwfrtAFY?t=3m8s

What you have is shitty slogans and zero thought. You’re a trumpet for NRA propaganda and you’re too dumb to even realise it.

The whole “security for liberty” shit you’re referring to? Actually means the exact opposite of what you’re trying to say.

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous-liberty-safety-quote-lost-its-context-in-21st-century

SIEGEL: So far from being a pro-privacy quotation, if anything, it’s a pro-taxation and pro-defense spending quotation.

WITTES: It is a quotation that defends the authority of a legislature to govern in the interests of collective security. It means, in context, not quite the opposite of what it’s almost always quoted as saying but much closer to the opposite than to the thing that people think it means.

Now which is a more real risk to the collective security of Americans, daily mass shootings or some fantasy where the government is “coming to take muh guns” and you end up living in some hills fighting a guerrilla fight against a military made up of your fellow nationals?

Gee, idk, should we ask the kids who survived Sandy Hook how they feel about it? (They’re old enough to vote now.)

Well, there’s also a connection between Prometheus and Lucifer.

Prometheus brought fire. “Lucifer” means “light-bearer”.

Forethinkers are usually punished.

Oh yeah, they weren’t like democratic utopias, lol.

The point being that Sparta was as shit as anything in history, but they were a bit less discriminatory towards women. Probably because they weren’t really as posessive of them as many other cultures. For… some reason.

On the night of the wedding, the bride would have her hair cut short and be dressed in a man’s cloak and sandals. The bride appeared dressed like a man or a young boy to be perceived as less threatening to her husband.

In Sparta […] the cropping of the bride’s hair and transvestism likely aimed to transform her temporarily into an adolescent Spartan boy – a less threatening figure to the groom, who probably had made his own transition to adulthood via a close emotional and sexual relationship with an older male and was now in the position to sexually initiate other boys into Spartan society

If those are your views on privacy, mister, then let’s start by you giving everyone access to your personal messages, unedited or unrestricted.

Remember that “ancient Greece” is our term for an area, rather than a singular nation / empire like Rome.

The area of Greece mainly had Athens and Sparta, and Athens is probably who you’re referring to.

But Spartan women weren’t that bad off, compared to other places in antiquity.

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

Spartan women were famous in ancient Greece for seemingly having more freedom than women elsewhere in the Greek world. To contemporaries outside of Sparta, Spartan women had a reputation for promiscuity and controlling their husbands. Spartan women could legally own and inherit property, and they were usually better educated than their Athenian counterparts.

But they literally did have, well, not opioids, but opium.

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

Evidence from ancient Greece indicates that opium was consumed in several ways, including inhalation of vapors, suppositories, medical poultices, and as a combination with hemlock for suicide.

So no problem with pain medication, actually. @Etterra@lemmy.world

Sometimes it’s easier to recognise than other times.

Fifty-fifty.

But my history has at least one.

Yes, sure.

But like I’m sure the city doesn’t write that down as a goal on official papers, even when they know that’s what theyre doing.

No, millennials with rich parents will inherit the Earth.

But like, surely pushing through laws like this needs some reasoning behind it, and it can’t officially be “we hate poor people”.

So… what is it?

Do you know how many generations Palestinians have been dying to this shit?

Humans have a finite capacity to endure things before shit starts getting irrational all around.

Revenge was never rational, really.

Yes, I understand this.

The point I’m making is that they’re still pretending not be as cold and cruel as they actually are, so I’d think there’d be some extremely shitty logic behind this, no matter how wrong.

I just want to know what garbage reasoning they used.

https://youtu.be/CfTrdN4S0qI

Here’s the actor with a story that includes a bit about coming up with Boss Nass’s voice, iirc

How does this make sense?

Like what the fuck is the reasoning? Do they think if they can’t see homeless people, they won’t be homeless anymore?

True enough.

I just haven’t any local theaters that could be capable of doing that so I’m imagining like a play in London. Something like this

Yeah I saw the other credits of the writer to see if there’s any other works I haven’t seen. I was sad to see his passed in the late 90’s.

Oh yeah Billingsley is great. Although I only started properly watching ST several years after having seen The Man From Earth.

I’m a sucker for Trekkie bait.

Me too.

I’d like to see the movie done as a play.

Ooooh, I’ve never thought about that. Yes, that would be great. Who would you cast? I just started thinking of British actors and the first ones to pop into my mind, Ian McKellen — but he’s obviously too old to play John Oldman (but perhaps the skeptic Doctor?) — and Tom Hiddleston. On second thought, I don’t know if David Tennant could be good as well. He’s definitely played a young-ish looking ageless man before… He’s better in roles that require high energy, whereas Hiddleston has a sort of cool about him that might be fitting.

I watched the sequel. It wasn’t as special as the first one, had probably twice the sets as the first one. (:O) Worth a watch, I’d say.

It was available for free for a while some years ago, iirc. Don’t know about now though.

First one great, second one still good, although it’s been a while since I saw it.

I guess I’m one of those people who would rather watch a low-budget movie with a good story than a big-budget movie with a lot of spectacle but a bad story.

Might I make a suggestion?

The Man From Earth