It’s classic fascist propaganda. They seek to control the words. Ever notice how the republicans call the Democratic Party the “democrat party”. It’s subtle, but they seek to disconnect the party’s actual name from the idea of democracy or a democratic system. They took the term “Woke” which was used to indicate…

Sanctions?  Probably wouldn’t need to get an exemption if trump didn’t fuck up the Iran deal.  The damage trump did to this country just keeps “giving” doesn’t it…

Meh, the last John wick was a disappointment.  I don’t think adding magic like some kind of mystical cousin Oliver is going to save that franchise from its dwindling returns.  Wick has probably jumped the shark at this point.

Exactly.  No one wants that again.  Also, as someone who actually worked on the original, if only briefly, I would support the casting of  Matt Ryan long before Keanu.  And I love and support Keanu… not for his acting abilities, but because he is a wonderful human being.  I do go see his films, even the bad ones,…

Keanu is a national treasure.  Truly a great human being… but a sub par actor. Also, the actor who has been portraying Constantine for the last few years is absolutely brilliant in the role.  It would be like replacing Robert Downey Jr. as Tony stark with Tom Hanks because Hanks puts butts in seats.  He didn’t even…

Isn’t there a much better version of Constantine out there in the arrowverse and the dc animated universe.  Why go back to the flop version?

No.  The g-men are currently at trumps house gathering evidence.  Man that news made my day. 🙂  As for your assumptions that you are going to be bombarded with ads anyway… that is incorrect.  I rarely see ads at all since I took a few simple steps to get away from them… and it has been glorious!  If I decide I need…

I do use an ad blocker, but that just blocks the ads after the fact. A pi-hole is a great way to see what smart home devices and basically everything on your network is doing. It’s cheap, easy to set up, and mostly automatic.

You are correct, but you are funny if you think there isn’t simple steps you can take to minimize how much they can gather and not even change you browsing experience all that much.  Sure google isn’t the only one, but I know that and can block the others.  I have block lists that update automatically that block…

I know it is.  It’s cute that you think in absolutes and there aren’t steps that one can take to minimize how much data they can gather.

No.  You can’t read Facebook posts unless you have a FB account.

Not paranoid, realistic. They take your data and use it to manipulate you. Right now they use that data mostly to sell you crap you don’t need, but they can just as easily use it to influence elections and political movements. They have even been caught doing that exact thing in years past. And I don’t miss any of…

“Large swaths of U.S. internet users last night briefly experienced the dark, frustrating realities of a world devoid of Google services.”

That’s pretty much what I do except for the eurail pass. Tickets are pretty cheap anyway and if you have a pass you may feel you need to use it to make it worth the expense, instead of taking a tangent to some other place that would require some other mode of travel.

I know a few people who cruise and I’ve watched some you tube videos of people who love them and say tons of nice things about them, but I gotta tell you, every nice thing they say about them makes me want to cruise less and less.  They are completely unappealing to me, and the more I learn about them, the less I want…

This is just another reason Tesla workers need to unionize. Union workers are better paid, have better safety records, better benefits, better channels for addressing grievances like this and their products are typically higher quality. Tesla’s poor record with their fit and finish is just an end result of workers…

Point is kinda moot when you can’t even buy one unless you reserved it more than 7 months ago. I reserved mine in Dec 2021 and can’t even purchase it until October! 10 months waiting is nuts. At this point I’m not even sure if I’m going to want it when I can get it.

You forgot the best one:

You should check out the Swedish show it’s based on. Slightly lower production values but far better in my opinion. Not sure where you might find it though. When I watched it, Humans hadn’t been produced yet and “Real Humans” was only in Swedish and not released outside of Sweden. At the time I had to find sketchy…