I was stuck in a theater with relatives for the 3rd movie. It was painful only helped by high grade production work. The end of the movie was like a children's movie with me anxiously waiting to see if they actually asked the audience to lend them their support in defeating the bad guy! That would have somehow made it all worth it and enjoyable... icing on the cake made of shit that shows their disrespect of us mindless consumers who will eat anything if you market it well... and avoid viral online trolls.

We could solve the drug problem and the sex problems. But so many people NEED those problems to exist! Way too many fighting the cures and the majority being average and below average can't solve a mildly complex problem with a few % working hard against it.

Epstein was an Israeli asset. Extremely likely. It's been kept out of discussion but 2 women fingered a former Israeli PM aside from the strong ties the man and his partner had. You blackmail a PM of the most powerful spy operation on earth (including their special access to USA) and there is almost zero chance they wouldn't FLIP the table. Epstein would become their bitch the second they caught wind of even one of his deeds... they literally kill to get far less influence!

The billionaires see this as the end game; anybody who has seriously thought about survival situations, especially the realistic ones where the public finally realizes all their modern problems are a result of wage theft that has made 1000s billionaires possible. It all ends up with their personal army being cult-like in their devotion which never was reliable even for god-approved kings. The 99% protests must have had them really thinking...

Trump is a Vindictive Narcissist. One of the worst things in the book... and some discuss adding something worse because of him! Professors used to use him as a famous example in class before he ran for office! Not many people are so textbook they inspire discussion for a more cartoonish level 12 addition.

This also makes him a terrorist by his psychology; aligned with mobsters too. Anthropic is his over-the-top reaction public vengeance to terrorize everybody involved. He's constantly practicing terrorism. Now he's killing foreigners and their leaders if they don't meet his demands. He WANTS his employees acting just like him too. It's not a philosophical or practical or tactical terrorism like is most often used; this is actual EVIL vindictive narcissism where the only limits are what society places upon them and now those limits are almost gone too. Almost nobody comes even close to this man; who's desire to be famous and "respected" forever, is limiting how much more he'd already be doing. He has redefined popular to suit his illness long ago; this stuff was predictable.

You just watch him destroy JFK's memorial. He can't stand idols to false gods. He can't even talk well of Lincoln etc. It's mental illness! He's leaving the outside shell of the building; for now... He wants a pyramid nobody will plunder or destroy and co-opting JFK (who got a usable "living" memorial not a statue etc.) and what is being allowed to be done is the SAME as replacing Lincoln from his chair.

What leftward march? I've not seen much as I watch very little... The bit I see does look rather in-your-face identity BS; like blatant propaganda which I am to assume is so normal for young people that they can't even spot what is going on. Some of this is just generational change with old people having the context to spot it - this is a historic norm. Some is intentional and much of it is just CHANGE and an old person not realizing they are standing still. As far as it being too intentional... maybe. Righteous causes seem to be something young people today CRAVE -- civil rights was rammed into people's faces during the boomer's entry into adulthood. Many people were pissed it was rubbed into their faces. all old. and their indoctrinated... "culture" or "tradition" which the real conservatives continue to this day. It's normal to become more conservative with age because new norms are established with the ignorant youth. This is good and bad. Today's righteous issues are socially engineered distraction from the billionaires robbing everybody blind. You are being played. They exploited race issues with the boomers to set the groundwork for the corrupt society we have today. Not that race wasn't a real issue; much better to use a huge problem. Today it's tiny issues of less importance. All the wages are being stolen and there is not enough money to sustain a large middle class. You suckers ARE being robbed. Class warfare is as old as human civilization and it never stops. You've just stopped since the 1950s while the wealthy never gave up the fight.

MOSTLY what I see in human slop content-- is over-production of slop. junk food. It's mostly shit; quantity not quality. Production quality is extremely good and formulaic. Anybody can write a well written book today! But does it have anything worth saying? very little. AI will help give more shallow empty content creators the ability to put lipstick very well on a pig. Way more slop / junk food; it was already a huge problem.

TODAYS content is shallow childish BS; slop. Emotive dreams... almost like everything is a dream sequence that makes little sense. The reality is, you are going for an emotional roller coaster ride which is all system 1 level stuff; being hypnotized to pass time for some brain chemical rewards. It's ok in moderation but we are not. You can have similar enjoyment playing a game which involves some thinking; literally off the rails with agency and conscious thought. but that takes effort. sadly we have useless proxies for that in video games... again, in moderation.
With AI, the stuff left over is going to involve all the kinds of thinking the machine can't do. and the manual labor it can't cheaply do. until it's routine enough that it learns to do it; since you'll be training it as you go. already it's making work hard because the relaxing low thinking is fading and you can't think hard for long periods; which will lead to people wanting even LESS thought outside work. more easy to manipulate. far more cognitive dissonance will happen.

Delusional thinking is bad enough in the USA today. it will get worse. Trump is just a symptom. Even not being smart enough to realize; they push boundaries and discover what works. Trump has shown the landscape to be far worse than anybody imagined... nobody dared try or had so low disdain for the public to push for new lows.

You've figured it out; but how do you get slower people to realize?

This is likely going to destroy WB- it's a leveraged buyout that vulture capitalists use to destroy capitalism. It's not real cash. Nobody should be able to borrow way beyond a corporation's value to buy out another company; even a bigger company, simply because they can get a big loan and then sit the victim with the debt of their own buyout. WB was setup for this; if the CEO fails it's their way to a big profit if they don't set out from the start to pump and dump (that is, if pumping short term fails to work out you just dump the mess you created. It's like MBAs only learn how to do this...)

Expect massive layoffs and extraction of whatever IP they can; and destruction of any good IP. HBO will likely no longer be shielded, if they want their jobs they will abide the new master's dictates and try to sneak in some subversion before being discovered and canceled.

Sure people can migrate to the low-pay chaos that is the internet. Access controlled by algorithms being refined by many of the same evil pricks.

TicToc will get young people siding with Israel like the rest of the media did; WB already did next to nothing on that front; except a few things at HBO that let reality seep out... and a rare CNN leak following social media trends (which TicToc / X / facebook will control better.)

New Trek all sucks. bigtime. I started letting go with Deep Space 9. Voyager I eventually suffered seeing in it's entirety. Big waste of time. The Orville was the most Trek like show I've seen in a long time even with the rocky start.

Americans have to learn to let go and move on. It's a human problem but worse in a spoiled society. Trek is over and died decades ago. Let. It. Go. Allegories can continue without obsessing with the metaphors to the point they completely lose the allegory. Trek is ironically, an inner human exploration thru outer space (literally, and not exactly genius from a writer perspective; but what made it unique was how it fought hard to keep it's core formula.)

Don't waste your time having your nostalgia being exploited for profit and robbing your life. We have the most entertainment / distractions of any society in the history of mankind. The bred and circuses that helped end Democracy 2k in the past have grown beyond imagination. It has serious thinkers wondering if democracy is possible anymore (that is outside being of a brand name, like in Russia; soon to be USA too. If it placates the 20% at the bottom of the bell curve from violent revolution, it'll remain as an empty symbol...a MaGuffen in the sad but realistic plot that is life. )

I've been forced to see some new Trek. Almost all I've seen is offensive to my intelligence if I don't switch off... something I find a desire to do more of these days. We're all being dumbed down and it seems like a plot; better for control and consumption, when we think it's only allowed for work the AI can't do - and somehow we need STEM people but ones who can't think outside narrow confines. A refinement of thinking to prevent the risk of unpredictability that threatens the status quo. A good premise for a good story... except I think over the heads of most of today's viewers and if they follow, will they see the allegory?? It's like some of us are living in STNG's Darmok episode as a Tamarian.

To be fair, it's a very high bar to aim for-- but then we don't actually need any more content! we need less slop; not infinite slop. This was a big human problem before AI... before junk food... We are outsmarting our very nature to our detriment if you really think of the bleak reality of our future. Do you want to be part of the march to Idiotocracy? It'll taste great even though you'll often feel like shit.

Fascism is corporatism. The dictator is the national CEO who sticks his nose into businesses as he sees fit and they comply like a subsidiary. Dictators rarely have absolute power; it just makes it easier for simpletons to spot them the more extreme they get-- that is if they are even thinking at all and not just parroting ad-hom attacks.

Technically, everything is politics unless you are a hermit...and prolonged extreme isolation tends to promote insanity - you could end up being political with multiple-versions of yourself!

Anybody you can exploit is an asset. Trump is the greatest asset in the US government, possibly of all time. Huuuge!

They shutdown cyber operations against Russia, the extra protections/monitoring, fired everybody related to investigating Russian agents; at a time when they already lacked enough agents to even keep up with the flood of known agents in the USA that has been going on for 2 decades! He couldn't be doing more for Russia than he has been doing without patriots on his own side taking shots at him...

The ONLY thing better this time is delusions of grandeur combined with dementia and speed (Adderall; which accelerates dementia; but makes you act like exactly what you saw at a recent 2 hour speech...he has a reported long history with Adderall... which was actually smarter than doing cocaine) has him upsetting Putin on occasion. Except Putin is an adult and plays the long game; knowing he's winning, bigly (his pride IS costing him.)

This is an instant IQ test for people who ask that question.

We ought to have 1 simple question every election that if you fail you can't vote. People can fight over it ahead of time. Even with it leaking out, without a phone around, I bet 20% fail to answer it correctly despite debates and news coverage of it. I'm of course referring to Americans.

The movie Demolition Man has a couple good moments and one of them is the word policing. Fiction becomes reality. but not in a comic relief moment.

82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

technology just lets you add a URL.

Also foreign students pay much higher tuition rates plus they rent housing; causing many schools to have major budget problems where 1/3 of their revenue is gone. Enrollment is down as well. A few more years in the red and you can expect to hear about closings. Staff layoffs and hiring freezes are already in effect.

No, Obama's 50% blackness was the over-reach.

Notice the swing backwards 50 years and the repealing of parts of the civil rights act? (they are about to gut it; likely this year.) But they did try hard to destroy the healthcare "system" and go back to near anarchy again. Hell, we're swinging back towards anarchy as well. Rich people love to exploit the masses who are unable to organize.

Lot of good it'll do as the terminators kill us all...
They should have renamed themselves Skynet; maybe then Drump wouldn't have added to the problem.

(PS I don't think it's going to be intelligent. but that doesn't mean it can't follow the plotline of all those sci-fi books which nearly all say to kill humans.)

I've said for decades now, it was DESIGNED to ruin public education by the GOP I know an insider who told me so! Education was too popular so it had to be ruined so then it can be "reformed" in the way they want. We are so great and super we can wreck a few generations and somehow become #1 anyway; their beliefs will make us even greater, blah blah blah. It's a cult and their baseless plans are a faith. It all began with Nixon. The current plan however began with Bush Jr. It had enough to appease democrats and the idea was to try to use them against themselves. Screwing up good ideas which help sell the thing and keep it going... Similar to how mega corp disasters end up in regulations designed to slightly curb them but mostly harm smaller competition if not directly strengthen the criminals.