Bravo

Orbán does just enough for farmers to keep them voting for him. Keeping Ukraine out of the EU is part of that - if Ukraine were a member, Hungarian wheat prices would plummet.

What makes you think they will?

Well, duh.

Can't Bazzite just permanently branch away from Fedora?

I'd genuinely be interested to know how many human beings need to work a 40-hour week in order to produce and distribute enough food, medicine, clothing, shelter and education for all 8.2 billion humans, and how many of the rest of us are really just building follies purely just to keep everyone busy.

If tech billionaires insist on continuing to make jobs like "taxi driver" and "checkout operator" obsolete via automation while also refusing to share the proceeds of that automation with the humans whose expertise was used to train said AI and then got replaced, then the question of "exactly how pointless do the new jobs (I mean, 'influencer'? Really?) need to be before we accept that money has ceased to make sense as the way we incentivize people to not have more kids than the global industrial output can sustain?".

Trump is out of his depth

Ehehehe

Irish man here; I've never been to a funeral that was open casket but I've also never been to a removal that wasn't.

Probably not a coincidence that most Golden Age superheroes were created around the beginning of WWII:

• Superman 1938

• Batman 1939

• Captain Marvel/Shazam 1939

• The Human Torch 1939

• Namor the Sub-Mariner 1939

• The Flash 1939

• Captain America 1940

• Green Lantern 1940

• Wonder Woman 1941

When I was a kid in the 90s, the 70s were in vogue and if you wanted to be retro it meant the 70s. That 70s Show for example, plus N-Trance doing all those old disco remixes, plus Dazed and Confused, plus Almost Famous, plus the disco songs in The Full Monty, etc.

And in the 70s, retro chic meant the 50s, what with Grease and American Graffiti (which was actually set in 1962 but was still about the 50s aesthetic) and Happy Days etc. So it seemed like "retro" meant "20 years ago".

How, in 25 years, have we only advanced to the 80s for retro chic? Shouldn't we be on the 90s by now at least, if not the 00s?

PS: perhaps this is indicative of a reduction in cultural influence, today, for the 20-to-30-something demographic, compared to the cultural influence that demographic had in earlier decades. Quentin Tarantino was 29 when he made Reservoir Dogs so he made a movie steeped in 70s vibes. Because in the 90s that age range was where revolutionary thinkers were expected to come from, so naturally the decade of their childhoods, the 70s, was in vogue. Do today's 29-year-olds have the same platform and opportunities?

Musk is going the Genghis Khan route. In 500 years he wants to be genetic ancestor to the majority of humans. To accomplish this goal he must:

1. Have many children (we're seeing this)

2. Encourage his children to provide him with grandchildren (we see his reaction to his trans child who is therefore unlikely to give him biological grandchildren)

3. Maximize the amount of wealth and assets he earns in his lifetime so that all his children and grandchildren can each be obscenely rich as well, thereby increasing their chances of having many descendants

4. Leverage the capitalist system to give him and his descendants as much control over the means of production and the levers of power as possible, thereby making them more likely to survive societal upheavals

This will give him the posthumous status he desires the most, as people are more likely to forgive historic wrongs if those wrongs were committed by their own ancestors. He can be as horrible as he wants and still be remembered in a good light if the only people around to remember him are people for whom he is intertwined with their own sense of identity.

He expects the future to slowly reduce the amount of children poor people can have as the global population drops due to obvious and intractible economic pressures.

It's a series of vignettes like The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, except the vignettes are based on dreams Kurosawa had.

I've only seen Seven Samurai, Rashomon, and Dreams. Of those, I actually like Dreams the best. I suppose that's probably going to be an unpopular opinion.