Not every war is caused by the USA. Pakistan and Afghanistan have had low level conflicts since Pakistani independence.

I feel like it’s a continuation of what we’ve already seen with digital animation. You can do traditional ink animation, but no one does it any more because digital is so much cheaper.

Mexico still has less risk of cops shooting players and patrons.

Yeah. You have a large number of attractive and poor people trying to get prestigious roles and a few gatekeepers who know they can get what they want from at least some of them.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a human was cloned. The issue right now seems to be resolving the ethical issues over the technical ones.

Stargate SG1

Her birthday is close enough.

I kind of dread people celebrating me, usually in part because the times around that celebration are busy and stressful for me so I can do the performative gratitude that people expect when it happens.

Then it devolves into conversations of what is wrong with you (why are you broken) or what is wrong with this (why do you hate me).

Oh, I try keeping my friends away from her.

But he’s the one to stop the genocide!

Likely, Lemmy will be illegal in those countries. However, given the federated nature, I expect a more whack-a-mole approach to banning.

Yeah. They likely equate LLM with all AI and a company with software which is more than just a chat bot gets lumped in with everyone else.

It is the reason why I keep my hands on the steering wheel and only go to move after I tell the cop what I’m doing.

There can be also cases where the de jure rules are that everyone is equal while there is a de facto understanding on the split in power.

It would likely be that the clothes have to be sold as is. What will then happen is that the clothes get sold for essentially scrap to a country that will shred the clothes. Either that, or these clothes will be sold next to shirts celebrating the 2026 New England Patriots for winning the Super Bowl.

DS9 also makes it clear why the populace accepts martial law so cleanly and that part of it comes from a people who live in paradise and aren’t used to threats in their security.

That this episode was made 5 years before 9/11 is astounding in what it gets right about the populace of a democratic system filled with comfortable people accept a loss of liberty due to a perceived external threat.

The Maquis Episode 1.

Technically it is paradise, but it feels equivalent enough.

It technically goes back to Roddenberry.

First, Roddenberry still wrote the Federation as having some faults. A major plot point in Star Trek VI is that Starfleet is attempting a coup of the Federation to keep the cold war going. In early TNG, the Federation is seen as entertaining ending Data’s rights and allows a Federation colony to deteriorate to the level of drug wars.

Roddenberry had also written a treatment for a post-Federation time where a Federation ship goes into the future and rebuilds the Federation from scratch. That show became Andromeda, but the concept ended up being used in Discovery and Starfleet Academy.

By DS9, it was bluntly stated that Earth was a utopia.

Regarding the NJ election, it became obvious that the former Lieutenant Governor bent the knee to AIPAC, both to get money to support her campaign and also to fund a smear campaign against former representative Tom Malinowski since Tom wanted some conditions on aid to Israel.

Looks like AIPAC got Tom out, but Analilia Mejia is likely going to be far worse for them