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I'm mostly just laughing at the notion of "being obligated by the government to show up on time to dinner" as some death knell to American freedom to leave other people waiting.

Further evidence of spookiness.

I would argue it isn't that media has become less effective, but that the role of media has changed from placating an agitated public to agitating a complacent one.

Liberals were insisting that the Wagner Group was doing a straight up Nazi Cosplay as they Blitzkregged towards Poland. But then also Ukraine's Ghost of Kiev had single-handedly shot down half the Russian air force.

Azov were freedom fighters rescuing all the beautiful blonde-haired blue eyed babies. Russia was in the midst of a pogrom against the Uber-volk. Half the Russian population had just been killed in an ill-conceived human wave attack against stout Ukrainian defenses. Then we got an earful about how the Spring Offensive would end in Moscow.

I think the craziest part of the war was when Prigozhin tried his coup and the Ukrainian front lines did not move. Like, if there was ever a fucking moment for western forces to reclaim territory, it was when Moscow was being evaluated and half of Wagner Group was racing towards the capital. But they just sat on their thumbs in confused shock, waiting for the next shoe to drop. This was the full extent of what Germany, France, the UK, and the US could bring to bare against Russia. Stunned silence as half of Putin's active duty military turn coat.

What a fucking clown parade.

would they have told us if one of those hypersonic missiles hit a parked F-35?

NPR lead in with the story by claiming "Iran's bombs killed a 7-year-old child". Not so much as a whisper of where they actually landed, before the announcer proudly declared 98% of the rockets were deflected by air defenses thanks to Rishi Sunak's UK Air Force.

These news stories are migrating from "puzzle pieces I have to assemble into something resembling the truth" to "pure shadows-on-the-wall manufactured gibberish". Just like with the air base bombing in Jordan, I'm at an absolute loss as to what's actually happening. Its just headline gore and a drum beat to war that's practically deafening.

Damn. WB really hates animation.

I like how we've invented a vast incomprehensible machine that can't do words good. A large language model that cannot model letters.

Literally any Markov Chain could output better than this by scanning a telephone directory, but ten million of the finest servers Microsoft can assemble have to slurp up the entire Jordan Aquifer to put out this dogshit.

If you don't get a rick and morty vibe from the pacing, animation, and humor in the first few episodes

I'm genuinely trying to figure out what you're referencing. Because the pilot episode of R&M had Rick drooling and shitting himself for half the episode while Morty just kinda wailed in terror in a hail of space-themed gunfire. And there was nothing remotely like that in Lower Decks.

I get the sense that you're just looking at the cell-shaded art style and drawing all your conclusions off of that. Or maybe you saw a two hour long YouTube brain-emulsifier video that tries to do some sort of weird shot-for-shot comparison between scenes in the most mind-numbing and pedantic format possible. Maybe you just had the capacity for enjoyment melted out of you. Idk. But you're comparing apples to anvils.

you have an ideological commitment to not liking rick and morty

I don't even not like R&M. They're a very shit-or-miss show. When they hit, its very enjoyable. But other than being an animated comedy High Sci-Fi show, there's no comparison. Might as well say Star Wars and Star Trek are the same because they both have Wizards and happen in space.

It's a shame we never invented a Space-Time machine

They're 100% right tho

They are not

Most of season 1 was just "what if Rick and Mort was in space still, but star trek?"

You can just say you've never seen the show

They've done a little bit of that in the latest season. Honestly, some of the best episodes