"Did all the creative people die off or something ?"

It cost far more money to:
* setup a new universe rather than reuse existing stories
* make up new film scenario rather than touch up/change existing one
* market new film rather than ride pre-existing marketing film
* trying to make new trend on film subject is more expansive than just follow existing trend
* etc....


Basically for a long time Hollywood flirted both being a "art" (filming) and an industry (need profit). But IMO since the 70ies roughly, onward to today, the industry part (make a profit) overtook the art part , decades by decades. Don't get me wrong, there is still film done for the sake of the art, and even in pure commercial one the directors try to put their touch, and even in decades pre-70ies commercial profit was important, but my feeling is that nowadays it took ver so much that the art is secondary.

Firstly parents are never 100% of the time watching their kids over. It would be utterly sick and not good for the kid as they age anyway as they have to learn step by step to mature , and learn to handle stuff alone. This is not a cliff from 0-17.9999 "100% surveillance" and then 18+ "0%". As kid age you give them more or less responsibility and freedom. So the kip on "parents not watching their kid and get rewarded" is stupid shit.

Furthermore when kid leave the parents watching , and internet is one point of that, any kid worth their salt can tell you how to get surfing without parent watching, parent have to expect porn/alcohol/drug outfit to NOT SELL to minor. You tried to buy porn, alcohol with under 18/21 in a street shop ? Without a fake ID good luck to that - at least for the responsible shops. Physical shop always HAD to verify age for some type of goods. Online shop simply were up to now utterly lax into that verification, dragging feet and having a laughable pop up "I am 18" : imagine alcohol selling joint , or porn cinema having just a "pinky swear you are an adult" policy... No, the reality is that online outfit simply flaunted the law on age verification - because they don't want the expanse.

Ivermectin is used to traet parsytose , namely the two you cited, both Onchocerciasis and filariasis are parasitic infections. Ivermectin in those case is an uncontested treatment. But OP is most probably from the US and where Ivermectin was told by politician that it would help with COVID. It dsoes not. AFAIR the initial paper on that was retracted, and subsequent paper showed it is useless for COVID. As such , OP is right, from region like the US where there were talk about using it for COVID, and people went into emergency room for tooking too much of horse dewormer, people still holding to invermectin as treatment for COVID are most likely politically motivated idiot.

Obviously MCAS showed that "Boeing believes that the pilot knows best" isn't true at all.

1) bar are requested to check ID and refuse alcohol for minor
2) porn store and porn selling/renting out fit have to check for ID and refuse sale/renting to minor

All that is a precedence case that the government can and do restrict sales of certain material to minor and thus can enforce ID checks.

read my post better : "claims, claim all over the place, and zero evidence. Same as the lazar guy and many other, they are all cooks." Emphasis mine. I know of Bob Lazar and a few other with their "building sized UFO in plain sight" shit : they are all claims and bluster , zero evidence.

look at the gimbal stuff or the other vids : they show exactly the same maneuverability and speed as our current airplane or drone are able to. Sure people TELL they saw it doing super incredible maneuver impossible for current plane, but we have only their word, because coincidentally it is never shown on cam.

And the conspiracy that the US gov hide stuff, make zero sense. That suppose that 1) UFO only lands/crashs in the US, and no other country OR 2) everybody including US's enemy agree to not pipe a word (feel free to add a 3rd scenario not that I fall into false dichotomy fallacy) , either of those scenario make no sense, and would involve way too many people. And then the retired people having seen any of those alien/NHI/whatever never speak up ? Snowden blowed the lid on NSA spying , and alien/NHI get people seriously clam up ? No way.

And before you bring up Grusch : he had a LOT of claims from third party reporting him having seen stuff. Under oath he precised he never saw anything himself. Sooooo again, claims, claim all over the place, and zero evidence. Same as the lazar guy and many other, they are all cooks.

TL;DR prize shows only a few select books a small number of people liked. Amazon review with the cheer numbers of people reading allows to see a raw picture on public opinion on a book.


I would rather trust amazon review comapred to Hugo or similar prizes. Why ? Because of the mass of opinion. One Amazon review ? Ridiculous to trust. But as you add review numbers, assuming no ballot stuffing, then you get a regression toward the mean. And contrary to prize, they cover hundreds of book per year. With prizes like the Hugo, you only get a *few* books per year. I have no clue how many you read, but unless you *crawl* all over *ALL* the prize ion the world, they ain't that many books. Amazon review OTOH cover far FAR more, even genres not covered by prize. Want to concentrate on litrpg ? You can. Want to consider only american gothic lesbian fantasy novel ? There are even Amazon list for that. There isn't a prize for it though , there is rarely. And if you like the type of books, I call them popcorn books, that the type of "jury prize" does not like 'cause they are popular and not brainy or not covering current social trend,you are SOL.

... If Prince Charles was not a proponent of "alternative" medicine (read: quackery). So color me not-so-surprised that he is using normal medicine and not part of the quackery he helped support.

FFS externality as a concept, is probably 100 year old at that point, was defined back in the early 1900 by economists. That you jump up and go angry by the concept and decry it being done by "leftist" ... Is telling.

"At least in the US..the govt is NOT there to tell us how to live or what to do"

WTF do you think laws *ARE* ? They are the government setting order among chaos by setting rules. And yes those rule sometimes tells you how to live or what to do, that is what it means to live in a society.

You really looks like you should take a breath of air.

The thing is the ADAC which made the comparison only compared *accidents* not datality per billion KM driven. What happens is on autobahn without tempo limit there are the same or even less number of accidents, but they are far more often fatal - leading in total to more fatality overall. Personally I would rather take a slightly higher probability of accident , for far less chance of death.

https://correctiv.org/faktench...

Die Recherche kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass es auf Autobahnen ohne Tempolimit zwar weniger UnfÃlle gibt â" sie aber hÃufiger tÃdlich enden. âzWÃhrend mit Tempolimit 0,95 tÃdliche UnfÃlle pro Milliarde Kilometer passieren, liegt dieser Wert in Abschnitten ohne Tempolimit bei 1,67, also rund 75 Prozent hÃherâoe, heiÃYt es in dem Artikel. JÃhrlich lieÃYen sich durch ein allgemeines Tempolimit demnach 140 Todesopfer vermeiden.

Translation : The article research show the result : on the motorway without tempo limit was there less accident but they are far more often deadly. 0.95 accident with death on motorway with tempo limit per billion kilometer driven, 1.67 accidents on motorway without tempo limit for billion kilometer driven.So per year having a tempo limit would stop 140 death".

I get 1-2 calls a *a week* in EU about rooftop solar panel... And I am in a fucking high rise building.

or trademarked. What can be copyrighted or trademarked is representation, e.g. pikachu the creature picture/model, or "pikachu" the name. If palworld used model from pokemon (which would be terminaly stupid) they would have a ground to sue for copyright infringement. If they had called in any place their pal "pokemon" same with trademark. But if they did neither , then they are 100% safe. This was not the first pokemon-like Indy game e.g. temtem.

To see anotehr example of this : look at DnD 3.5 and Paizo/Pathfinder. Pathfinder has nearly identical mechanic to DnD but they were safe agaisnt trademark/copyright , why ? Because while the game mechanic are not protected the IP like beholder or illithid is. So pathfinder could make a commercial game with near identical mechanic to DnD - some folk pretend the OGL is what allow them, but factually even without the OGL they could have done it, the OGL only add a few things you can reuse in your DnD game - again because you can do whatever with game mechanics , they are not coyprightable/trademarkable.

Human see something, memorize it, then use those memory , to make their own manual (error filled) copy, or warp it deform it intentionally, or even make something completely new in the same style or a different style. You CANNOT feed AI all the realist current, and get at the end cubist painting. AI cannot do what human do. The best analogy would be that picture AI is mostly using *tracing* to copy part of something adhoc, and then apply a few mathematical geometrical operation to copy/paste the traced blocks. Chat AI only do major correlation between words and do string words based on a probabilistic way. It cannot on its own come up with something new. It cannot *comprehend* what it write , it is just copy/pasting based on giant correlation matrix and mathematical operation.

Human creating a painting , EVEN one based on inspiration, function fundamentally differently on HOW they get the result.

The brain consume for the average adult 0.3 kWh per day (https://bond.edu.au/news/how-much-energy-do-we-expend-using-our-brains) or about 0.3 kCal not 3 (

And itâ(TM)s equivalent to 260 calories or 1,088 kilojoules (kJ) a day

) as a fun comparison , that correspond to the energy in about about 65g of sugar. But your point still stand.