This is the attitude that causes people to die. Americans deal with hotter temperatures every summer. Texas gets over 40 C in the summer every day. Install AC and be done with the problem. No one needs to die from overheating!

European windows don't work well for portable ACs. One, they don't usually come with screens which are typical in the US to keep bugs out. Two, they open from a hinge on the side. So, you basically need a way to cover the whole window space if you open it at all.

Last time I checked, we don't live in 1850. Slavery is a distant memory. It was outlawed 160 years ago. Jim Crow and redlining have been illegal for over half a century. Any systemic racism going on today revolves around DEI, which damn near all corporate America follows.

I already told you I'm a progressive Dem. I'm not going to defend Trump and his administration's bullshit. The Dems were around long before DEI. Not all of us agree with that philosophy. Plenty of us disagree. Equality should never have been replaced with equity.

Today, the only systemic abuse of power that's done by organizations across the economy are ones using DEI to promote minorities over straight, white men.

And no, you're making the assumption that I'm a right-winger. I've been a solid blue Dem for over 20 years. I hate Trump and the Republicans far more than DEI. That said, I can't stand the woke far-left either. I'm hardly the lone Democrat who can't stand the woke leftists.

No, ensuring "people aren't hired over others just because they're white men" is called equality. That's the opposite of equity, which attempts to provide equal outcomes instead of equal opportunity. In practice, equity is implemented through preferential treatment of minorities over white people in areas such as hiring and promotion, especially over straight, white men. (BTW, that preferential hiring is illegal, but employers following DEI practices still do it.)

Sorry, no. DEI is systematic racism that blindly promotes minorities at the expense of white people, especially straight, white men.

If there's any fault in the death of Arday, it belongs with the people who promoted him unquestioningly despite his self-promotional claims that were increasingly ridiculous and factually dubious.

I say that as a progressive Democrat based in the US who long believed in MLK's dream that people "not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." DEI reverses that and judges people on the color of their skin, promoting minorities ahead of anyone else. DEI propelled Arday to such academic heights were he completely didn't belong due to his lack of academic merit.

The woke pushed DEI. That's a separate and distinct group from liberals and progressives, who never fully bought the DEI claims.

NO, Japan holds all the cards. To the point Trump just propped their money up by over 200 billion of tax payer money; because Japan holds the most US debt and would have caused more harm cashing in to fix their problem so the USA just took it up the ass to prevent Japan from having to do that. They could push him further but risk a senile moment where he forgets how weak he is and forces them to blow over the house of cards.

There is no taking the moral high ground in the USA anymore. The pigs only understand mud wrestling and they are made for it so it won't be easy.

They did have garbage avalanches!

As much as that movie predicted the future; it was optimistic and things are already worse today!

They had honest innocent retards hoping for solutions; even the leaders just wanted somebody smart to fix problems: they didn't have half the people corrupted to the point they would insist truth was FAKE and reality is just a narrative.

Plants crave electrolytes and NOT water despite ANY proof otherwise and forget about trusting experts to try! Stubborn to the point of death, including forcing others to die too. CORRUPTED by a religious like tribalism where "winning" is all that matters; drink the koolaid!

COVID was a hoax even when it was killing you, the world is flat even from space, Trump secretly was president in 2020, Biden was senile and even the less retarded forgot why a VP candidate exists. Trump could die and be replaced with a cartoon powered by AI and half would go for it... it would have less hallucinations too.

Swamp them with offensive counter memes which can be 100% correct characterizations of the idiot as well as portraying Americans as being like their dear leader, who they supported despite knowing he was scum.

Villains in most those shows are not as evil as our dictator, it's harming even them. I suggest using American "IP" for the counter measures because we have a wealth of fat, ugly, idiotic, evil characters to borrow from that might even be understood by the dictator as offensive. (Just do not pick strong bad-guys like Thanos or it will be seen as a complement.)

It used to be cliche for the scientists to be warning/screaming about pending problems or solutions until the crisis forced people to listen to them and finally solve the crisis. Far too often, with the scientists aiding the meat-head protagonist with the fruits of their labor to safe the day as the promoted hero and if they are lucky they live to the ending and get to make an appearance at the conclusion. Too realistically, the protagonist is a maverick who breaks the norms by listening to the scientists; both being held back by politics in addition to the problem needing solving.

The liberal biases are not intentional, it's just that conservatives are usually irrationally, in the way because by definition, they cling to the status quo. Reality does not align itself to our tiny minds which is why it appears to have a liberal bias as we adapt to it.

Sci-Fi today means anything in the future, involving space, time, etc. it used to involve science or at least scientists. If it is just a MacGuffin does that make it Sci-Fi? Are Indiana Jones 4-5 Sci-Fi films?

If most people like the slop then why stop them from getting any?

I'd pay to see this version of the Odyssey, and Musk is in it a little: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Book conversions are almost always WORSE. Some books simply can't convert properly let alone being just "ok" conversions. This is a book that I can't imagine being done well even if the best people tackle it; it's simply not a book that converts. Many have begun at trying to adapt this book and it always failed to materialize or they settled for inspiration and did something else more feasible.

Also, because of the timing it's not the same now as it was back then and that you can't recreate at the same level even if you read the same book today for the first time. Not that it can't work but it's not possibly the same.

He wins so much pressuring them and the legal system doesn't apply to him except that ($5 million he just lost but hopes to get back with more threats to his SCrOTUS) he feels that the EU will tear up legal cases to avoid economic and political pressure.

He did manage to get that pathetic woman a Nobel Peace Prize which was totally due to his threats. It was a half measure which was not enough for him but enjoyable in that the person he supported stole the prize away from him and he couldn't exactly criticize but... it didn't work even when she physically gave the gold to him. She'll never get his support now (despite Rubio and a big donor heavily promoting their puppet) because she took his award from him. It also helped that the smart VP knew all too well how to navigate narcissist run governments for decades; she also is an expert on oil and trying to restart the industry Trump actually killed (but the senile old fool forgot he's the reason their oil industry died and will take billions and years to rebuild. Hence the reason Exon dismissed the wasted effort...so stupid that they made the mistake of openly speaking and triggering Explosion of Don-arrhea.)

I expect him to demand the Nobel Peace Prize again; he seems distracted this year; probably next year if he can ever escape the Iran war enough in his broken mind. Bring it up and I bet at least he whines about not getting it during questions about Iran!