>You never want a vocal minority of idiots steering the ship.

In this case, the "vocal minority" is literally 90% of star wars fans. There is NOBODY saying the new movies are better than the previous ones.

You don't let "fans" steer the ship but you still LISTEN to them as a potential source of information. Even George Lucas listened when Jar Jar Binks was universally hated. The second and third films he turned into a cameo and he wasn't jumping around anymore. He was quiet and reserved.

I love the new, big bad death star, the "star killer" planet. It's big, super nazi special power was...

being able to blow up 5 planets at once.

wow. so new. so creative.

as opposed to the normal death star which could kill 5 planets, it just took about 30 minutes instead of 30 seconds.

COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

Also, the scientist in me died when i heard the empire had the resources to fill AN ENTIRE GODDAMN PLANET with technology. As if a moon sized object wasn't practically beyond all human ability at that tech level, now they're like "nah, we can fill a planet. Because at Disney we don't even know how much bigger a planet is than a moon."

Meanwhile, we've got "gravity" in space bombers that somehow need to drop physical unguided bombs... that don't even have shields to protect them from their entire military purpose. A vehicle that can only attack up close but doesn't have any protections to get it close. NICE!

And goddamn Leia Mary Poppins floating in space like superman.

I possess to many surviving braincells to suspend my disbelief at such a crappy set of movies. NOTE: They paid BILLIONS for the franchise and spend a BILLION making them and you telling me THESE are the BEST writers they could buy? REALLLLYY? The answer is clear. They didn't want talented writers, they wanted "yes-men" to push specific ideas and then everything else was just filler. "Okay, start the movie with some shitty space battle so we can show the super-talented pilot Poe Dameron is actually a retard. Also, somehow Ray flies ships better than the lifelong decorated pilot... and the guy who owned the millennium falcon... she can also fix it better than the actual owner too. because... force.... probably."

I love robot rights. That's what star wars needs more of. blue haired robots.

Who the hell would ever think that DISNEY gives two shits about old fans, legacy or memories? It's a BUSINESS first and foremost. Anyone who thinks of Disney as "caring" hasn't paid attention to the news over the last hundred years.

I love how progressive the new Star Wars is. Because it adds a black guy, but his entire purpose is to be a token laughing. So woke! So progressive! Can you think of one line in the entire two movies that Finn said where people took him seriously, as a real person with agency? Nope, I can't either. Apparently black people are supposed to dance for us and then shut up, in the Kennedy universe.

Remember when everyone "obviously" knew better and said "Don't let television raise your kids."

It's amazing how many life lessons can be forgotten over the course of a single generation.

Twitter's entire platform is about moderated, censored content.

Who the heck would create a decentralized platform... that also censors content? Does that even make sense? It's even in the announcement!

> For instance, centralized enforcement of global policy to address abuse and __misleading information__

"We can route around censorship... but also censor!"

What's next, a private e-mail protocol that lets anyone view your e-mails?

Anti-depressants don't prevent suicides. In fact, many increase it. Because they don't stop the REASONS for feeling suicidal, they stop the FEELINGS that would have WARNED YOU to try to correct your life.

Source: 7+ years on anti-depressants and chronic pain.

Alternative Source: Any intelligent doctor.

"That's horrible! Is all the work done by children?!"
"Not the whipping!"

"FIND THE SHINY, KIDS!"

I was driving, I got a text that said "Hey man I'm in town wanna hang out."

I called my friend, who lived 5 states away and said "Hell yeah lets hang out."

He replied "What... how... how'd you know I'm back?"

"You sent me a text message saying [original text]".

"I sent that LAST. YEAR." [when he came into town].

Somehow their phone system held a text message for an entire year and only delivered it when he came back into town.

Are they hiding a penis?

>555

They don't call it a 787 for nothin'!

To be clear, imagine being "okay" with a "whistleblower" working for the OPPOSING CANDIDATE for LEADER OF THE UNITED STATES.

Even if you support Biden (ugggghhh). Even if you support his politics. This is a huge conflict of interest that should have been laughed out of congress if they weren't all political hacks.

Imagine if McCain or some other GOP candidate had a "hidden whistleblower" that nobody is allowed to know about, with closed door meetings, saying that Obama did "some evil traitorous shit". Would you be okay this whistleblowers complete anonymity? Would you be okay if the GOP impeached Obama using a guy we never even knew his name?

Which is a hilarious contrast to the Trump whistleblower that everyone in the media and congress are intentionally hiding his name so people can't fact-check him or his credentials.

(And no, I'm not defending Trump. This has larger implications for the future of the country.)

The guy they're saying they believe it is? Turns out he directly worked with Biden, and his lawyer even tweeted "We're going to get him [Trump]". Looks like they've tried to adapt from the last "smoking gun" FBI accusers who they found tweets for... saying basically the same thing. A complete lack of impartiality at their job.

How anyone can put these people, and REAL whistleblowers like Thomas Drake, in the same bucket is beyond me. Oh wait, I know, I'm not a partisan hack.

at no point did it explain how any additional damage comes from rebooting. "It will attempt to keep going" ... yeah... just like it does when it's normally running.