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Sometimes. Sometimes it’s a 40 minute exegesis on the verse “Jesus wept.”

Varies church to church and pastor to pastor.

But what if I need to know everything about the genitals of the people around me before I take a satisfying shit?

When will we have a party who makes that their core message?

I live in Tennessee, so my opinion of Dolly is definitely biased. She was and is a treasure. I think she understood something most people in positions of power and prestige do not: what you say matters little, what you do matters lots.

Could she have showed up on political stages? Sure. Could she wear a #I’mWithHer shirt? Yeah. Is she the kind of person who’s going to play moral trolley problem lesser of two evil games? Absolutely not.

Dolly came from a place where nobody gave a damn about her or anyone else, and they still don’t. So she decided she would. She decided to cut through it all to let kids know that someone cares about them and that kindness always wins.

I’ve played HoI4. This is puppeting Canada. Are we taking their navy as well?

They brought back beef tallow for fries.

Mission accomplished?

It’s not real science, because the fire is not as harmful as the pollution or gasses, but you have to remember that most conservatives are so self involved they forget about other people and the scale of the problem

How many teenie tiny fires would it take to make the world a bit warmer?

A million? A billion? Maybe a trillion little fires.

There are 1.699B cars on the road. By conservative estimates, average time of the road per day is ~30 minutes. If we pretend that they’re all 4 cylinder engines, and average 1500RPM, both low estimates, that engine fires 3000 times per minute. For 30 minutes a day. For 1.669B cars.

Over the course of a year that’s 55,810,000,000,000 fires. 55.81 quadrillion. In one year.

And that’s just cars. Not planes. Not trains. Not boats. Not power plants. Not even cow farts.

They know that there is some number that’s too much. They know we’ve passed it.

They would say none, because Einstein made it out of the patent office and if you’re still stuck in the patent office, you aren’t Einstein. Brilliance must always rise to the top. Bezos is at the top, so in his mind he’s brilliant. In his mind, there’s no world where he isn’t who he is today.

Remember there’s no empathy or understanding.

It would be an interesting stat. What percentage of the world’s population got drunk celebrating your death? Hitler probably tops the leaderboard still.

Yeah, the deities of the world sing together, not just creating the world, but all of history as well, then they go and live it out what they sang.

Twas the night before Mitchmas

And all through the house

Not a creature was stirring,

Especially Mitch.

Only now?

Because building a tool that can do anything is easier than building a tool that can’t do evil.

It’s the gun argument, where they absolve themselves and pass all responsibility to the end user.

Nah, just some indigenous workers who are under their emerald quota for the day. Dalmatians are so blasé.

2 AI, 1 cup.

Lego: The Hobbit

I give this answer in every one of these threads to raise awareness. My wife and I used to get a little drunk and play Lego games. It’s a lot of fun, and a decent couch co-op.

We get into the Mountain, start screwing around with Smaug, and he flies off to burn Laketown. Roll credits. Game over. The 3rd movie flopped so hard they never finished the game. They don’t say it’s 2/3 of the story, and at that point it’s way too late to return it.

Fun game, terrible experience.

Yes and no. Correlation is not causation. Movies cost so much that consumers have to be picky. As a cost/benefit are you more likely to get your money’s worth from the Odyssey or Moana 2? If Moana 2 had more practical effects would it be a better movie?

A theater trip for a family of 4 can be ~$100. It is for my family where we live. That’s 1/3 the cost of a 55 inch TV, or a 65 inch TV at Black Friday, plus a big box of microwave popcorn.

If you want people to see the poorly written, phone-it-in, low effort remakes these studios are intent on putting out, you have to price it accordingly, or everyone walking out of the theater says the same thing: “Wow. That wasn’t worth it.”

People are still very willing to see well crafted, thought out, intentional pieces from direrectors or studios they trust to do a good job. It’s worth it.

One of the things I see a lot on Lemmy is people saying it reminds them of the old internet, and it does for me too, but alongside that comes a hefty dose of communism or anarchism, depending on the echo chamber.

Lemmy is a bit communist overall, but not the Marx and Trotsky kind. It’s very authoritarian friendly. I am not sure why, but it is a little annoying.

The Holodomor is real, and it wasn’t an accident.

Hey, hey, they fight term limits too.

That bartender’s name? Anheuser-Busch InBev.

If this system is what I think it is, it’s the wastewater monitoring, which was a tool that helped with monitoring Covid. Remember, if we don’t test, the rates drop.