c/NotTheOnion material.

In the US, it’s probably Browns.

Yes. Let’s vote for the neo nazis because of his one good idea. What could go wrong?

(Remember, that time when he praised hitler? Praised a dude that thought he was subhuman because of his ancestry?)

(Also, you do realize that changing the 13th requires another amendment, so that’s basically not going to happen.)

you’d be surprised. A fairly large number of them are quite miserly, even in their personal lives.

oh. yeah. that’s different, SSD’s are wild.

I like seeing the ugly text. Blink and you miss it.

I may have heard this before.

I certainly cannot confirm or deny its veracity….

Not at all….

remember, folks, if you don’t obey in advance, you can get cool shit.

like golden traffic cones.

(which was added after people were doing traffic cones on statues and Glasgow just gave up and gave in.) (Non-serious issue, with a serious reminder,)

alternatively they could hypothetically just remove it during routine maintenance. Also its rather unlikely that they’d really need to use the ladder- I rather doubt people are scaling sculptures to slap them on things. it’s going to be mostly in reach of the ground.

A bigger problem is that most cities and towns will have an ordinance requiring immediate removal- meant to combat graffiti; and while most cities won’t be arsed to follow the ordinance themselves when Karen calls… well, it’s just less annoying to send the dang truck on a special job.

Just gonna throw this out there.

You can buy googly eyes in bulk on amazon. about 5 bucks for 2,000 in assorted sizes. Self adhesive, even.

somebody who still has a twitter they won’t mind seeing get yeeted into the nether (and possibly used for nefarious purposes or dastardly deeds)…

Jump over there and link whatever tweet he said that in; and post “Musk is a fucking fuckface Loser… That guy who brags about how expensive his truck his because that’s the only thing in his life that’s impressive.”

then please report back how long it takes to get yeeted.

“No? take a vacation.” - your fantasy boss.

Oh this is totally going to work.

and people are totally going to forget about all their dipshittery.

So… if it has robots and space and cloning, its science fiction and if it doesn’t it’s not?

so by that definition Marry Shelly’s Frankenstein is not proto-SciFi?

Or Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? The Steam House? Around the World in 80 Days?

Or HG Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Sleeper Awakes, and The Invisible Man are not?

Or maybe Snow Crash? …Children of Men?

I find it hilarious that you’re criticizing me for gatekeeping. Science Fiction as a genre is much broader than just space, or robots, or cloning. or any of the cool, glittery-glowy-things.

Sure, any single work can span a few genres. Even things you might not necessarily think go together like Comedic SciFi as in Red Dwarf, Farscape or Dr. Who. Sure, books and movies don’t have to be overt about it, and most the really good ones aren’t. The core of Science Fiction is (or any form of speculative fiction, really,) is asking “the question”. It’s asking “what if…” For example, The World Well Lost; the scifi elements are secondary to the emotional and social aspects.

If you enjoy Avatar, that’s great. I’m glad you did. I found it annoying, cliche and trite with terrible plot development and horrible characterization. The science or technological elements in Avatar could easily be removed for more…historic… settings, devices or straight up objects. the Unobtanium could easily be replaced with Lunar regolith or some sort of fancy Martian Marble™️ being sold for countertops. Or Inca gold. Or Peruvian emeralds. or anything to which an obscene value could be placed.

It serves no purpose at all to the plot. none of the technology or science or technology influences the characters, the plot or anything else. The entire movie is an orgy of CGI and an anti-capitalist screed. (nothing wrong with being anti-capitalist, mind.)

Ultimately, genres are delineated not because they’re necessary for the art they’re describing, but because people want to know what they’re getting into before they sit down and watch it. When you tell me something is scifi, and it turns out to be horror with aliens or… a marvel superhero movie… I’m not going to be very happy with you.

Me too.

It’s supposed to be an indictment of capitalism. But that falls flat when you realize it was one of the most profitable movies of all time; grossing over 2 billion and being one of the fastest to reach the various benchmarks at theaters.

Nope.

Science fiction is an exploration of how science or technology changes society, or how society might respond to stuff, or how a society with a given tech might exist; it’s a form of speculative fiction.

Avatar isn’t that. It’s supposed to be an indictment of capitalist greed.

Just because it has technology doesn’t make it “sci-fi” and the elements that might are just a maghuffin to explain what they’re doing there. It could have just as easily been gold. Or diamonds or alien art.

Take Marry Shelly’s Frankenstein and compare it to say, avengers.

gotta make headway before you start backsliding…

otherwise it’s just going the wrong way.

allow me to play the idiot-younger-sibling of said devil’s advocate and just point out you can absolutely touch electricity, which is why we use safety plugs to keep toddlers from licking electrical outlets.

in any case, I think the biggest problem with the movie is just how… meh… it was. Hive minds have been done before; and that was allegory for the interconnections inherent in a thriving biosphere. The Unobtanium was allegory for greed. (as was whale brains. maybe that explains RFK’s antics…?) The capitalist douchenozzles were… well… if I said it was allegory, it was so they could beat us upside the head with it.

I fall back to my original thought: is well thought sci-fi so hard to achieve nowadays? If seems there is a fixation about misery and destruction nowadays.

considering that mass media will slap a space ship into anything and call it “Science Fiction”… yes, actually. Because they’re idiots who will only copy what’s already been done because it’s a reliable way to make money.

You’re intelligent. Or at least, well read/educated.

I didn’t say it was a good plot-device. The entire movie was hamfisted from the world building through the dialog, the character development, and those hamfists evolved into bulldozers to bring the moral home.

The only thing it had going for it was the CGI… which was obsequious.

Regardless, it’s their fictional world. They designed it to be stupid and boring so they could make some sort of moral superiority bullshit statement about capitalism while grossing 2+ billion.

Also, I’m just gonna say it. It wasn’t even sci fi. sure, sure. it had ships and stuff. but that’s not what makes sci fi sci fi.