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Shill4Hire 3 points ago +3 / -0

So who's the black shaman facing off against Little John? Weird anachronism, but Robin Hood stories get wild sometimes, I can dig it.

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Shill4Hire 3 points ago +3 / -0

Given the modern British accent developed quite late, societally-speaking, a Louisianian-sounding Robin Hood would actually quite likely be closer to the real sounding one than the blended High British he normally gets. But it's about truthiness, what FEELS right in the story.

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Shill4Hire 2 points ago +2 / -0

Or in short, "Robin Hood" as a set of two names belonging to a scofflaw definitely existed, a good archer who was nobility definitely existed, a group of bandits living in the woods that occasionally poached the King's wildlife also definitely existed, and loyalists to the King over the Prince definitely existed. But all of them in one entity is more doubtful, but also more convenient for fable-telling.

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Shill4Hire 10 points ago +10 / -0

That was the LAST case. This is THIS case. Dude's got a lot of cases.

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Shill4Hire 1 point ago +1 / -0

The problem with any "yes/no" chart is the subjectivity of the assessments. That person who had their foolproof chart to PROVE Trump would lose 2024, the chart was actually perfectly fine. If you followed it, it clearly proved Trump would WIN 2024, but the chart's creator said things like "We'll answer 'no' to any political unrest during Biden's reign: scandal-free! And the economy is great, both short-term and long-term! So slot those into the chart..."

Your chart can be TL;DR'd as such:

Possible? Useful? Safe? Affordable? Lacking Alternatives?

What is "possible" is tricky, as we can do things that were written in ancient texts as the realm of gods-only. So a "yes" is often going to be a VERY safe "yes", since we discover new "impossible" things fairly often. In example, Something From Nothing: As a kid, it used to be "matter cannot be created or destroyed, only changed in form", but now it is "energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed in form, one of the forms of energy is matter". Things where the answer is "no" should almost always only be "no... in the short term."

Useful is subjective, but at least less so.

Safe is wildly subjective: We'll use immediately fatally toxic, carcinogenic-to-the-touch spraypaints with only a T-shirt tied over our mouths for protection. Humans are stupid. A "no" on safe is easily overruled by "yes"es on the rest. It only impacts speed of adoption, not the adoption itself.

Affordability is also subjective based upon perceived benefit. A one-time gene therapy against cancer could be ridiculously unaffordable, but still "affordable" (like a million dollars, there's a huge market who'd pay a clean million for that, even if they had to sell their home to do so), or it could actually be so expensive it is only for the richest billionaires, costing a billion dollars a treatment. But knowing the economic reality compared to perceived personal benefit is a subjective judgement.

Lacking Alternatives is also subjective. I got smack-talked in marketing class for saying that BBQ sauce is an alternative to Ketchup. Both are vinegar-and-spices sugared tomato pastes. But others insisted the two are entirely separate markets, that nothing would make them comparable products. Yet I could go even further: Cajun dry-rub is an alternative to Ketchup: It is something put onto food solely to alter its flavor profile. But by that regard, commercial hypnosis is a substitute to Ketchup, since it can also have you perceive the flavor of the food differently. And clearly, hypnosis and ketchup are not comparable products by any reasonable measure. So... What defines an alternative? What "need" is actually being addressed? Missing the core need here will give you an inaccurate result.

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Shill4Hire 6 points ago +6 / -0

If you follow the plotline, she crashes out, becomes schizo and manic-depressive, commits completed genocide at minimum three times (and attempted even more), attacks sapients literally to just steal their coffee, breaks the prime directives continuously, defrauds, breaks any number of agreements and contracts, works with terrorists, passes off her command to a computer to take a nap, and, of course, parked her spaceship illegally.

And Sisko is considered the "Evil" captain.

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Shill4Hire 5 points ago +5 / -0

Zen was the only one of V.S. to publicly apologize to Nux. The only one to own up to its own fuckup on a fairly massive corporate scale, fueled by the corporate bugmen. Had more done so, perhaps they would have found the rot decaying their company from within much earlier, and either fixed it, or jumped ship before the whole yacht sunk. Zen is clearly more aware and observant than the rest of them, but just not quite observant enough yet.

Some L takes, for sure, but I did enjoy the crashout "While I'm making thousands, you content farm just to get one measly like on your tweet".

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Shill4Hire 2 points ago +2 / -0

"War is an inefficient, and therefore evil, act. It doesn't take the Chicago School Of Business to see that."

It's kinda funny. If Tanya weren't so based, she'd be a trans icon darling like Ranma (despite neither of them being trans, just body-swapped).

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Shill4Hire 1 point ago +1 / -0

Standard three-thousand-a-month rental room in Toronto, there.

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Shill4Hire 2 points ago +2 / -0

I do agree that in 10 years things could become very different.

It remains to tell if such will be a good thing, or a bad one.

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Shill4Hire 5 points ago +5 / -0

The Geneva Convention AGREEMENTS need to be agreed to. If you will fight like rats, you shall die like them too. Fight with honor, and gain honor in turn.

Of course, they lose any straight-up fight 100% of the time, but they'll lose the covert one too, and with fewer protections in place for the losers.

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Shill4Hire 3 points ago +3 / -0

The old one, not the remake. Hardcore, or no core.

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Shill4Hire 4 points ago +4 / -0

If every OMGWTFBBQ was presented as sickly and dying, severely immunocompromised, and feeble, I somehow don't think GLAAD would be all that... glaad about it.

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Shill4Hire 3 points ago +3 / -0

I am sure they're attracted to women, women are beautiful. But beautiful women aren't going to reliably spend 70% of their paycheque attempting to long-term-bribe the "bi" woman into sexual relations.

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Shill4Hire 5 points ago +5 / -0

This is just poorly thought out. They should have become MSM founders and board directors instead.

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Shill4Hire 3 points ago +3 / -0

Moore's Law is not a smooth slope, but a stepped progression.

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Shill4Hire 4 points ago +4 / -0

Hey, if you can't run my pixel-art slay-the-spire clone without a terabyte of RAM, that sounds like a skill issue on your side.

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Shill4Hire 4 points ago +4 / -0

It's just the Jewish folktale of The Golem (complete with the golem turning on its masters) but done for general audiences. A simple cribbing of an existing tale and localized, then pushed to popularity because... Reasons.

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Shill4Hire 1 point ago +1 / -0

China has been sabotaging the company

When Russia did such a good job in the cold war getting buy-in to do DEI initiatives (or specifically, planting the seeds of it in academia to filter down across two more generations of social poisoning), I don't think China needed to do much. Oh they might've. For sure. But it probably wasn't a lot of effort.

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Shill4Hire 9 points ago +9 / -0

10/10. They don't got the guts to run the ad campaign though.

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Shill4Hire 1 point ago +1 / -0

Culture and religion are both classical-definition-memes. And memes are downstream from genes.

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Shill4Hire 1 point ago +1 / -0

Cruelty to animals, of course! In the modern era, you need a reason like "make it halal" to have unnecessary animal cruelty.

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Shill4Hire 1 point ago +1 / -0

They were saying millennia before, so merely one century seems like an absolute win. WOOD lasts for a century.

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