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The second trilogy also leaned in to the kid stuff to a painful degree. I imagine because leaning in to kids was a good idea from a commercial standpoint, which helps pay for the massive unconstrained budget.

I think also, that with the first trilogy, he had a lot of other people around him contributing and building with him, he had some genuine inspiration and interesting ideas, but that team being on equal footing with him allowed the that all to be executed properly.

There is a cultural issue where people tend to ascribe success of projects to lone individuals who lead projects, even while acknowledging the contributions of others, there is still this underlying assumption that a director is responsible for the sum of the parts. That the director is the one slotting the contributions together in a way that makes it work.

I think much of the same inspiration and ideas that he brought to the table in the first trilogy were still there in the later films, but the team around him was less empowered to contribute and shape the final product. How much of that was him having developed an ego, and how much of that was a result of the projects being conceptualized as belonging to him, and thus everyone else just working to fulfill his vision, rather than constructing a collective vision. And how much of that ego was foisted upon him due to how the culture at large conceptualizes the role of the director as singular author.

Spiral dough.

With a building that large, with so many people intended to work/visit it, what good does 27 additional parking spaces really do? The vast majority of people driving there will likely have to park somewhere else anyways so isn’t a surface lot really just wasting expensive real estate, and creating an unnecessary heat-island/eyesore at that point?

The marginal utility of 27 people being able to drive there seems to be far outweighed the cost of the real estate spent on it alone.

On the one hand, this could be heavily abused by an authoritarian government to censor online discourse

On the other hand, there needs to be more serious consequences and incentives for these platforms to proactively manage this stuff.

On the third hand sprouting out my chest and flipping off the first hand; all these platforms are already willingly and eagerly censoring and shaping online discourse to favor authoritarian governments, largely by way of refusing to be proactive about such things and allowing them and their goons to go without any real oversight. This is probably going to do more to stop authoritarian demagogues from coming to power than it could ever be abused by them once in power.

It’s so funny to see people who have never lived in a place, and openly do not like visiting a place, bemoaning the choice leadership of the people who actually live in a place, insisting that they should not be able to make that choice. That somehow, someone totally alienated from that community knows better who should run it.

I’ve got a 2012 Mac book pro with arch Linux running great on it, other than some jiggery with the WiFi driver.

If it’s intel, it is totally a non issue that it’s a Mac, other than the ones from around 2012 need a couple of extra commands to get WiFi connected in the instillation image boot , and an extra package needs to be specified for instal to make sure it will be able to connect afterwards. Ethernet works without any jiggery or pokery.

That would be for Apple silicon, not intel.

It really do be like that.

People really out here thinking they have the authority to decide who we are. Like, sometimes it’s just a slip, like, it’s not what they’re expecting and they have to remind them selves, but, like, sometimes, it feels like they’re trying negotiate, walk us back.

“Oh you haven’t earned that. You haven’t put enough effort in to claim that. You’re not really that because I don’t feel like it.”

sometimes it’s absolutely intentional, and it hurts, like, I’m not asking you for anything, I’m telling you who I feel like I am, I’m trying my best to preform with what I have, and you’re rejecting that because apparently my feelings don’t matter, but you hang ups do.

early on, one of the big tenants of colonialism was that any land being used by some other group was free to be taken so long as those using it weren’t using it “properly” ie “improving it” (maximizing profit). The most notable argument for this comes from John Locke.

This defined a lot of the English and later UK interactions with the highland Scott’s, the Irish plantations, and the settler colonialism of the US and Canada.

You’re not using this resource and labor to serve, pursue, and create more capital, so you are using it wrong, and thus we who will use it properly are entitled to take it. The fact that you can’t stop us from doing so only proves this, since if you were using it properly, you could afford to fight us off.

This feels a lot like that. Like, colonialism but targeted not at resources and land, but at leisure and creativity. You’re not monetizing this, so we, the business idiots who own the data centers, are justified in taking it to monetize, the fact that you can’t stop this proves you should have monetized it to pay for ways to stop us.

Trump realizing he’s been played, and is terrified of his greatest fear, gas prices going up.

Motorcycle is a broad category, most e-bikes fit under it. The defining characteristics is a motor vehicle steered by handlebar from a saddle style seat.

They don’t have to be loud, but many drivers intentionally choose to make them loud. This comes down to a cultural issue, more about that later. Arguably most sports cars are much more obnoxious.

The accident rate and danger tends to come down more to cars than to motorcycles them selves. Most deadly motorcycle accidents are collisions with cars, and most of those are deemed the fault of the car driver. They’re also unreasonably fast for the form factor, again, because they have to mingle with cars, particularly on the highway.

Motorcycles are held to the same emission standards as cars, unless it’s not a road legal vehicle like a dirt bike, or not fast/powerful enough to require a license, like a moped. And they’re generally way more fuel efficient than cars due to being physically smaller, most getting between 70 to 90 MPG. Even Harley’s, intentionally outdated and inefficient designs, get 45MPG better than most cars.

Most can fit 2 people, which is more than most cars tend to have in them at any given time, and with pannier bags they can carry more than most cars will carry on a day to day basis, with most people never carrying cargo in their car beyond a few grocery bags.

They’re statistically much less dangerous to pedestrians than cars. I have no idea where you got the idea they’re more dangerous to pedestrians from.

They’re generally actually much easier to maintain than a car being smaller and less mechanically complex. The reason that so many motorcyclists tend to spend a lot of time maintain them is because they’re doing more of it them selves rather than taking it to a dealership or a mechanic.

There is absolutely a cultural issue among motorcyclists, but much of that comes down to how often they’re nearly killed by inattentive drivers. Constantly being put in danger by car drivers not paying attention tends to make people a bit hostile to car drivers. Much of the rest comes down to the fact that such a risky activity tends to attract people who are in to it to seem “cool”, which will attract some shitty people.