Humans didn’t develop the technology for Terminators, it was given them from the spare parts left over from the crushed Terminator. Thus Skynet couldn’t go too far back or no one would be in position to understand and use that technology. The first movie is an origin story both for Skynet and for John Connor, forming…

The robot uprising will have to wait a while until AI is coherent enough to formulate a strategy.

“you have to be an actual humane person to get one.“

You mean NZ won’t like refugees from shithole countries?

As long as she focuses on real issues later on it’s a fun introduction to make everyone take notice and remember her name.

They are starting to practice:

You may be thinking of “The mouse that roared”.

If you start with a stable, uncorrupt society and then find oil you can do fine. Do it in the reverse order and you are stuck with a small currupt elite stealing the revenue from the oil, not caring about the rest of the people.

US Navy has already perfected this method with their sonar causing mass strandings of whales.

As long as the opposition to Tories is split between several parties Johnson can win due to UK having an even more undemocratic system than USA.

Or maybe just a counter in the upper right corner for number of casualties this year.

He liked technology, the art of controlling nature, not science, the art of understanding it. Lots of people who claim to love science are like that. As soon as science says “this is impossible” or “this will have bad side effects” they don’t like it any more.

Let him be reincarnated as a polar bear.

Did you miss that Israel had race riots this summer? Ethiopian Jews do not feel welcome.

“Trump is one step away from saying we need to send all Jewish people back to Israel. “

I don’t remember the name, but there is a novel in which a US president believes himself to be Jesus reborn and it ends with him figuring out that this time he would have to crucify himself so he manages to find some timber and rope.

Can’t he walk off the roof of the White House instead, convinced he can fly?

Not the first time.

Supposedly there will be five people flying over to sail the boat back to Europe again, so Greta´s trip will not really have a low carbon footprint. On the other hand, it isn’t her boat, she was just offered the chance to sail over the Atlantic to avoid flying, and I’m don’t think you can hold her reponsible for what…

Can I use it to pop popcorn from a distance, ‘Real Genius’ style?