If this was anywhere close to the truth, an actual anticapitalist film like I Love Boosters would be pushed everywhere rather than having to practically be a word-of-mouth campaign. Cultural marxism scaremongering is just "cultural bolshevism" scaremongering all over again

Is this some sort of parody of bad AC takes? If not, could have fooled me

I recommend Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, with a central theme (if memory serves correctly) of Soviet gulag development of a voice encoder with cryptography. I had not been aware of SIGSALY before I ran into an article in a stack of old IEEE publications donated to a company library.

one-shot, duh auto co-wrecked

Multivibrator was an older term for astable circuits (oscillators), monostable circuits ("one-shit" timers), and bistable circuits (latches and flip-flops). Someone doing historical research from original documents would see this nomenclature. Today's searches would probably conflate early digital circuit design with OniyFans acts.

When I was in school, this song was popular. Today it would result in a SWAT call. "Glory glory hallelujah, teacher hit me with a ruler. Met her at the door with a loaded .44, teacher is no more."

We used to keep a demo program around the IBM 1401 that played tunes on the 1403 printer. Photo of a collection with far more tunes than our shop had: Music Decks

Euthanize the music industry garbage neologism "drop" meaning "release". "Drop" is for eggs, tools, courses in education, and Little Bobby Tables.

This was my first thought as well

The attempt to forge a religion out of it is I think not accidental. The huckster Dr. Stephen Greer's not-really-a-documentary Sirius, which was advertised as another "this is it" disclosure moment that in retrospect was yet another in a series of letdowns, was front-loaded with alien telepathy and drum circles. That really helps people decide not take the topic seriously just in the case that they were maybe going to.

"Who cares if he believes it, just like who cares if people believe in their religion"

Ufology is not a religion. and I resent attempts to contrive one out of it. This encapsulates how Hollywood has been a marginalizing force against ufology, and still is today even while taking the appearance of embracing it. This isn't just the realm of dreams, there have been real conspiracies around deliberate fabrications (majestic 12 for example), and this film willy likely attempt to rewrite some of it.

Anyone who is actually curious on the topic should read Jaques Valee's "Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception" rather than letting spielberg fill your head up with something new.

belt + suspenders > body bag

If the chinese PC industry caught up? Good then, give our manufacturers and hardware makers some fucking competition! But our legislators' owners can't suffer competition, so they would have to legislate it away for the Nth time.

I admit to laughing at seeing "The Grauniad" in various posts here.

Merriam-Webster says chiefly British usage, dating from 1879. One of the UK written series of auto repair books (probably Haynes) had an appendix titled something like "The Common Language that Divides Us", translating bonnet, boot, quarter light, wrest/gudgeon pin, spanner, etc.