Good points. I enjoyed this discussion. Very interesting things to think about.

“The services offered by these companies are aimed at extracting private information for the sake of a single goal... maximizing profits.”

You’re getting dangerously close to some conspiracy paranoia there, though. As far as we know, information is collected by Google, Amazon, Et. Al. in order to serve you more relevant ads for first or third party products and services most closely related to your interests, habits and whereabouts.

That’s not entirely true. While Alexa is always listening for “her” wake word, it only records and sends to the cloud those snippets that it thinks contain the wake word.

I remember playing these games back when you could see polygons. I tried a modern take on my friend’s ps4, and it was genuinely disturbing to play given how realistic the graphics are. I was all about the rediculousness of Unreal Tournament and Quake III back in the day, but I feel like this sub genre of…

If those million people want to make a point that’ll actually make a difference, they should just cancel their HBO subscription.

“A Times Square Billboard Went Up in Flames and Somehow Continued to Display Ads”

Automated site and database backups are easy and cheap. Really no excuse not to have them running, unless he wasn’t that concerned about the site. Probably more likely that he didn’t want to continue hosting it.

I wouldn’t mind seeing a Palpatine origin story.

I still don’t like how that scene in endgame played out. Literally the only part of the movie I didn’t like. You’re supposed to have to sacrifice something you love to get the stone, but he didn’t sacrifice her. She kicked off the wall so he lost his grip. His intention was to save her, so there was no sacrifice for…

Don’t really have to worry about programming, since my daughter spends most of her screen time playing fortnite, minecraft or roblox :/

Pikachu uses drown!

Are they not planning on any future monster movies after the new Godzilla? I mean, where do you go from there from a purely giant monster on monster distructo fest?

I suppose it has something to do with the ridiculous amount of money NASA had back in the space race, compared to now. Modern tests are still necessary. We can’t rely on data from the 70s for flights coming up now.

The Dust YouTube channel is fantastic if you’re into sci-fi shorts. There are some real gems on there. Highly recommended.

Considering that there’s a lot on the subject I’m not aware of, then yes, I’m naive when it comes to corruption in law enforcement. However, what you’re saying could apply to so many different institutions. There’s corruption everywhere - drugs, housing, police, courts. There’s bad EVERYWHERE. But we all still live…

Hey, points taken. You seem really angry at me. All I was doing was expressing a point of view - my own point of view, from my own experiences.

OK, I yield ;)

OK, I yield ;)

It sounds like you’re trying to make this into a racial issue, which I was not. If you want to argue that black people get treated unfairly by police and this is why she reacted that way, then I can’t/won’t start down that road - I just don’t have all the facts. However, since you asked...