In the UK and Australia, yes

Fox News wasn’t founded until 1996 so the internet actually predates “reactionaries shoveling Murdoch bullshit”

Shawshank Redemption was a book. The Godfather was a book. Lord of the Rings, Forrest Gump, Fight Club, Goodfellas, Silence of the Lambs… That’s just from the first 25 of IMDB’S top 250.

The Thing is a remake. The Fly was a remake. Scarface, The Departed, The Mummy… all remakes.

The problem isn’t remakes or adaptations, the problem is they’re shit remakes and adaptations. Nobody cares that The Batman was the 75th adaptation of Batman, because it was good.

The fines start small, it’s the same in the EU. Then they get bigger until you’re being threatened with 40% of worldwide revenue.

For the conservatives, this is 2900 Abrams tanks or 362 1/2 F-35A fighters.

Tourists in Edinburgh be like

You think the only major film about Oppenheimer is not going to be played endlessly in history classes?

Dude has ruined multiple generations

Yeah I’m surprised I have anyone following me, this is creepy

What kind of emissions are we producing to build the ships?

We tried not censoring the internet and it hasn’t worked

If it makes you feel better, think of it as Europe defederating from Twitter

The same reason NY and California can make a law and the entire industry shifts to comply? If you get banned in Utah it won’t be long before the rest of the US.

“Hey Israel called and they asked about when we’re going to delete all the posts celebrating dead Israelis? Sorry Linda are you still there? You’ve gone silent. Linda???”

What’s the current version of SteamOS

Wait, there’s a University for Rice?

Why does Mr. Vader not just simply login to the droids to find the rebels?

It wouldn’t have gotten nearly as much visibility if gamers didn’t know who the dude was

Which is what a malevolent AI capable of mass misinformation operations would say

Gamers don’t know who he is so probably better

The problem is, and this happens a lot in science, often it takes so long for scientists to be vindicated they die poor and in disrepute. If the pandemic had never happened she may have gone the same way.