I’m honestly not impressed. Basic IP address that didn’t really provide an accurate location, plus the (no shit sherlock) state and country it was in. Told me it was ios, a browser, and that I’d turned a bunch of stuff off.

That’s it.

It would be one of those shows where they swap the main character and never say why.

Can’t prove a negative.

They think they stopped school shootings based on criteria they made up. Unless someone was physically on the way to a school, armed, they didn’t stop anything.

Wannabe Minority Report.

Well their work sure as fuck isn’t based on objectivity.

Right?

She was so good at it that whoever she slept with was like, “cool, here’s the promotion you wanted.”

Not really the dig the hater thinks.

Trek is utopia with whispers of benevolent authoritarianism. The Federation are the Borg at some level, looking to assimilate all they come across despite their morality that appeals to the viewers of the show.

Wars is dystopia with magic. Most people appear poor, all the power and money is concentrated in a few places. Gangs and warlords everywhere. Always someone trying to take more, whether it be Hutt or political fascists.

Don’t let facts get in the way of a good fascist takeover.

All the presidents back to the 1920s, combined, up to this term for trump, made $400 million while in office.

All of them. Added up to $400 million.

Trump had made over a billion dollars in his first year.

Best grift ever.

I‘m literally just starting that one now.

I’m gonna go a slightly different direction.

Try the Firefall series by Peter Watts.

Think a little more like a futuristic Vampire story. It’s supposed to be horror, like Alien I think, but I didn’t find it scary. Just a fun take on the genre.

Gibson’s books are really good, but they can also be a chore sometimes. He swaps in and out so many different characters I never really feel like I’m getting any continuity.

The Peripheral is one of the better ones with some good characters, but IMO some of his other books don’t flow so well.

Book was written like it was a wannabe movie script. Predictable and kinda shallow, IMO. Not bad, but not really great either.

I’ll give that one a so-so rating IMO. It took forever to reach the inevitable catastrophe, it really felt dragged out. However, I found the post-event culture, technology, and societal groups fascinating…and as soon as things got interesting he ended the story. I’d gladly read a series about those cultures, there was tons of room for worldbuilding.

(Sorry about the indirect wording, I don’t want to give up any spoilers)

I’m sure men pay attention to her. Just not the men she wants, how she wants.

That means stupid people would have to run the State and make those rules.

Well, shit…

The colonists fleeing Europe to the American colonies for the apocryphal “freedom of religion” weren’t fleeing to make a place that everyone could practice religion freely, it was so they could practice their religion freely.

So she’s pretty much echoing that early attitude that her version of religion is the only right version. Same as the taliban and all the rest of the theofascists out there.

Seedlings take years to grow into large fruiting trees. Best tine to have bought them would have been under trump’s first presidency.

It’s like he doesn’t understand markets, trade, geopolitics, or just basic business.

Not like we didn’t know that about him before he got elected. The first time.

That’s easily over $50 in brand name travel size toothpaste retail. They’re usually over $1 each.

That is the standard plot for any good story.

The most basic version is: normal person gets pushed out of their comfort zone, undergoes turmoil, comes out of this turmoil changed.

Unfortunately popular movies tend to make them all “tough guy gets pushed into violence, destruction ensues, he gets the girl and/or revenge” or “uptight person gets put in absurdly contrived cringy situations that are supposed to be funny, then comes out of the situation not uptight and gets the girl.”