Unfortunately now Google is ChatGPT. It provides its own shitty AI answers, and its search results have been corrupted by an ocean of slop.

I see it like this. Books are the work of a single individual. That one person will have broad authority to write their story however they please. So range of book quality is very large. There are great books and there are truly awful books. And in fact, the vast majority of books are total rubbish. But the dregs get forgotten and the good stuff rises to the top.

Movies are made by committee. This reduces the spread of quality. Many hands tends to move things towards the average. So you have a much lower portion of total crap, but you also don’t have as many true masterpieces. The quality of most movies tends to be pretty mid.

But because books don’t go through as much of an averaging out of quality through being created by many hands, when they go well. They go WELL. Sometimes a master author will sit down, truly be in their element, and create their greatest work. And their vision will carry through and arrive to the reader undiluted. But movies? You can be the greatest director or screen writer on the planet; you’re still not going to be able to make a movie without the help of hundreds of other people. You could write the world’s greatest movie, but your vision will inevitably be worn down quite a bit before it reaches the audiences in theaters.

Or, expressed graphically:

Oh, your hard drive has the whole movie series on it? Well I got the whole series right here!

TIL trans men and trans masc top surgery were a thing in the ancient Roman empire.

The beauty of this is approach is that even the American Service Member’s Protection Act is irrelevant here. The process I outlined would occur at the direction of a future administration. That law you cited only gives the president the option of interfering with the ICC. The president is still perfectly capable of allowing prosecutions at the ICC. It’s purely voluntary.

Skyscrapers and large office spaces are on paper horrible investments and have an awful time filling enough vacancies to offset their upkeep. The only thing that makes them a “safe” investment is that every company uses them as a way to bank equity. If those same companies pulled the rug from under themselves they would all lose that safe equity piggy bank.

This is just the sunk cost fallacy though. You can inflate the paper value of assets by playing games like this, but the bill always comes due in the end. Yes, companies that do this can juice their books a bit in the short term, but they’re harming themselves in the long term. They retain a bit higher book value for their real estate, but they make whatever goods or services they provide noncompetitive in the marketplace. They have competitors who aren’t bogged down by past bad real estate decisions. Those competitors can outcompete them on price and can attract better talent. Meanwhile, they’re stuck in their ways, fruitlessly trying to inflate their real estate holdings, all while their revenue is plummeting because they can’t attract good people and have to charge higher for their services than their competitors.

It’s just the sunk cost fallacy. You could inflate the book value of real estate by doing all sorts of foolish things. You could create a subsidiary and have that company rent out some of your floor space for absurdly high rates. But you’re ultimately just robbing Peter to pay Paul. Those commercial real estate properties have already lost their value. The value was lost the minute it was proven that work from home was a superior work model.

These companies are going to go bankrupt at a mass scale when the next recession rolls around.

Fuck, these companies might actually be violating the law. Deliberately choosing unproductive business practices just to cook your real estate books is something Enron would do.

Not my version of gay marriage. If they’re going to take away gay marriage, I propose we institute mandatory gay marriage. Anyone registered as a Republican will be eligible for mandatory forced gay marriage. If a gay person wants to marry you, you’re getting married! Also, that will have interesting interactions if the Republicans ever try to repeal the spousal rape laws…

Think you want to be bred now? Wait until you have SRS, if that’s your cup of tea. T_T

Oh, the CEO should also be caned…rectally.

When this is over, we will need to find ways to hold admin officials and ICE agents accountable. Trump will issue a blanket pardon at the end of his term, and SCOTUS is no longer a legitimate institution. So we need to look for other routes to bring these criminals to justice.

I’m sorry, but if you’re working at a concentration camp, you are committing crimes against humanity. So, who assuming the US justice system can’t hold them to account, who can? Well this is where ICE agents are boned. Operating these concentration camps, they’re going to be responsible for the deaths of scores of citizens from dozens of foreign countries. And those countries don’t give a shit about US pardons. We need to ship ICE agents off to Venezuela and other countries whose citizens they have killed. Rendition them there, and they can put them on trial for the deaths of their citizens. ICE loves shipping people off to random countries. Let’s ship ICE agents off to countries where they can be held accountable for their crimes.

I like the idea of the transition happening slowly over several decades. Basically you found a company, and you’ll be able to maintain majority control over it until you reach your retirement. You can have a vision and carry it through. You just can’t create a multi generational empire that makes your children and grandchildren into newly minted aristocrats.

Anything related to food it is!

The next version of Firefox should be shipped exclusively in a large collection of several dozen 3.5" floppy disks.

I mean, obsess over performative semantics if you want. I just want to see the bastards hang.

Why would I listen to the words of criminals?

At this point, I support just dissolving the US completely. The Constitution you learned about in school is dead and buried, and John Roberts killed it. Every four years we now hold an election for national dictator. This nation just isn’t worth saving. It had a good run, but frankly, we can do better. We can write far better constitutions than what the Founding Fathers managed. We have a lot more experience and a lot more examples to draw from.

I support granting all 50 states independence. Then they can come back together into whatever new nation or nations they want to form. The US as a functioning democracy no longer exists. We’re just playing pretend that we still live in the same nation.

Sorry, I already had to flee a southern state when you rat bastards decided to take my civil rights away. You’re on your own. At this point I’m in favor of just dissolving the US completely, granting all 50 states full independence, and letting them come together in whatever new nation or nations they wish to form.

You are no longer my countrymen.

Nah. SCOTUS will never let that happen. Rendition him and his ICE goons to countries like Venezuela. He and his ICE gestapo will have caused the deaths of countless Venezuelan citizens. They’re fully within their legal rights to charge him and his agents with crimes against humanity. If Trump can rendition innocent people to third party countries, we sure as hell can extradite the guilty to face trial. Don’t even try to use the US justice system, not while SCOTUS is so openly corrupt. Just ship all these bastards off to the home countries of their victims. Let them do with them as they please.

We need to rendition Trump to Venezuela or other applicable country. They can then try him for all the deaths of their citizens he’s caused in his numerous concentration camps. SCOTUS can take its presidential immunity ruling and boof it up Kavanaugh’s ass. If we can’t try him and all his ICE goons here, then we can send them all somewhere where they can be tried. Trump is sending innocent people to random countries. No reason we can’t do the same with mass murderers.

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