Fun fact: the original version of the game, before Parker Bros commodified it (and spent decades fighting in courts over the company’s false claim of ownership — hint: they stole the IP), was actually meant to show the problems with capitalism as an economic system, because it goes hand in hand with monopolies.…

The original face of Max Payne says things, and....I’m sorry, but I just can’t unsee his mug as the guns-akimbo, time-slowing excop with nothing to lose. “You are in a computer game, Max.”

And yet, those same parents and their believer children firmly believe that *OTHER* people are the ones doing ‘indoctrinating.’

Apple’s ‘secure’ systems are cracked and hacked ALL THE TIME. When you have unlimited physical access to the hardware, none of its data is secure. Not the user data. Not the cryptographic system. None of it. The FBI routinely accesses the ‘secured’ storage of iPhones they’ve seized, without any help from Apple. It…

So you’re a strong proponent of ‘security through obscurity.’ Good luck with that. It has such a strong track record, after all.

No matter where you move, when things get bad, some rich asshole will send an army in to take it from you once they decide they want it. And the only way to stop them is to be a richer asshole with a bigger army. Anyone who has truly studied history and the patterns that it follows should be on edge. Humanity is…

....the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

How would someone get your face data? You mean...using the tech that will generate the private key from your biometric data in the first place, aka your phone? Yeah, that’s how! So, that part isn’t particularly secure. In fact, it sounds like your ‘biometric data’ is public and easily accessible. Oh, but then it gets…

First: they’re legally adults. They can vote. Millie’s married. They’re not ‘teenagers’ anymore. Second: That’s part of my point: we never saw Natalia, Joe, or Charlie as children. They were already adults. There’s no mental basis for comparison. But Finn, Millie, Gaten, and Caleb? We watched them grow up and through…

None of them are teenagers anymore. They’re all adults now. And part of the issue is that the Stranger Things audience has seen them grow up from literal children all the way to adulthood. There’s only so much you can blur those lines with that kind of context.

There’s only so much ‘hair and makeup’ can do...and the cast was already pushing the limits of believable teenagers. It may be necessary to scrap whatever story you were hoping to tell and adapt to an older cast. Heck, at this rate, Millie could be pregnant or a mother by the time this last season gets to filming. How…

Indeed. Consolidations are almost never a sign of a strong, competitive, and healthy industry. They are, in fact, signs of an industry on the verge of spiraling into total collapse. It’s a sign that businesses have grown large enough to gobble up their respective markets and sit on them, blocking any new entrants or…

It may be illegal, but it’s not anti-capitalism. It’s actually representative of the force that drives capitalism — private ownership and control of capital, and what happens when private parties own all the capital. It demonstrates the end goal of capitalism and why the system is so fundamentally broken — it’s inheren…

And can’t be changed when it inevitably gets hacked or compromised.

The best example I can think of regarding the fundamentally broken nature of capitalism is the humble lightbulb. If we could make a lightbulb that lasted a 1000x times longer, under capitalism, there’s no value in it. You can’t ‘run’ a business selling a product that you can only sell to a customer once. You’ll run…

Last week, Netflix acknowledged the dual strikes “have been challenging”; last night, CEO Ted Sarandos noted the strikes (or rather, studios) “caused families, billions of dollars and communities billions of dollars. [...] We need to get a deal done that respects all sides as soon as we possibly can.”

They also need to take steps to curb the ballooning costs of living in the major filming areas. And even reverse them. They’re a big part of the problem with what the industry pays its workers. At the very least, they need to pressure local politicians into zoning for more high-density housing and take steps to remove…

They’re not here to serve and protect society. That’s mostly smoke and mirrors to placate the public. They’re part of a system that exists solely to serve, protect, and project capitalists interests, both foreign and domestic. That’s why law-enforcement and military budgets just keep going up, even while the rest of…

The cynic in me immediately asked, “Ease for *whom* exactly?”

The streaming-service revenue model was operating at a loss almost universally across the entire industry. It’s simply not sustainable. Something has to give somewhere.