I did say acid trip, and I wasn’t being facetious. It’s the Ron Hubbard signature

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Battlefield Earth (2000).

What started as a scientology passion project for John Travolta turned into the best comedy since blazing saddles imo. I feel like it’s a timey wimey sequel to Idiocracy in spirit. The Travolta cyclo trying to bribe man animals with their favorite food (raw rat), thousand year old military equipment working flawlessly with no maintainence, thinking standard gold ingots and gold ore are basically the same, it’s a whole acid trip condensed into whatever the runtime happens to be. It’s a fuckin riot as long as you go into the experience expecting a comedy.

Six months at home vacation and then six months curfew. For trying to kill a man.

Hang the cop, crucify his lawyer, and set the judge on fire.

I’ve been running my own garden for three years now on a community plot. I don’t ask anyone to work for me, and I don’t pay anyone. I pick what I want and everyone else does the same. Sometimes they help, sometimes they don’t. It doesn’t change anything for me.

I can’t fix your busted local economy for you. I do know that paying $30/hr will get a lot of people out doing something they don’t necessarily like, even if they have to drive for it. Even in a place with ridiculous cost of living like California.

I knew guys who left their house at 1 in the morning to be 120 miles away for the start of work at 4. I asked one of them why they did it. They said “Where we live, you either go out and get a real job, or you work in the fields”. It’s not even about the money. It’s mostly about the benefits. How many farmers offer medical, paid holiday, or sick pay?

These guys worked 10s and 12s every day. They work hard, and they want that work to mean more for them than someone else’s profit. That’s ALL you are offering.

Art deco.

Use LotR to tell the difference. If it looks like it was made by the elves, it’s art nouveau. It if looks like the dwarves cranked it out, it’s art deco.

Squares are a dead give away for dwarves. Knife ears don’t like square corners.

You’re not gaslighting anyone into thinking $17 an hour is worth much of anything. What the fuck does “some farmers have tried raising the pay to attract more workers, it rarely works” mean?? Oh no, farms are paying more, better not work there. Are you retarded? You don’t see rednecks passing up oilfield work because it’s out in the middle of nowhere. Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the six figure paychecks those jobs have. Nope. Hell, I bet if you dropped their pay to $17 an hour, every roughneck in the field would sprint as fast as they could over to thank you personally. What a fuckin genius idea.

So senate bill 34? What kind of teeth does that have?

“The bill would, in addition to any other sanctions, penalties, or remedies provided by law, authorize an individual who has been harmed by a violation of these provisions to bring a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction against a person who knowingly caused the harm.”

Oh, so none whatsoever. The penalty for violating this law is NOTHING unless someone goes through years and years of legal process to maybe, possibly get a law enforcement agency to the settlement table where they will get off Scott free once they wave around enough tax dollars to make the problem go away.

This is what I keep talking about. The laws for us have definite, immediate consequences. The laws for oligarchs and their thugs are VERY different. The entire legal system needs to be burned to the ground, the ashes pissed on, and a new system needs to be built somewhere far away. With blackjack. And hookers.

Which one is the involuntary celibate?

In America, you can be charged with murder if the piggly wiggly arresting you works too hard and has a heart attack.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/charges-dropped-guatemalan-farmworker-death-sheriffs-officer-arrest-rcna141681

So shooting anything at a cop is most likely summary execution at the scene.

Other commenter said NMS, I confused it with this one thinking they were talking about the same thing.

Outer Wilds is much more user friendly imo. Also the fact that some planets/comets are so small you can basically run and jump at orbital speeds really helps you to conceptualize the interaction of forces.

I spent a whole cycle jumping from north pole to south pole with just my jetpack on this neat binary planet system. The gravity on them is so low you can jump off one planet, boost straight up, and fall all the way to the other planet without your ship. It’s really fun.

No, all space is expanding. The space up in space just happens to look like it’s expanding faster because there’s more of it.

Nothing “overcomes” expansion. Not even the speed of light. There is a hard limit on how far telescopes can see into the cosmos because after a certain distance, the light emitted by stars will never reach the earth. This happens because the space between that star and our telescopes is expanding faster than the speed of light.

Now when you go to the other extreme, like subatomic particles, the same thing is happening, just much more slowly. You’ll need something like ten billion trillion years to actually see any hard effects from that expansion, but it’s still there. After long enough, even the space between atoms will expand faster than the speed of light. Fun fact: gravity also works at the speed of light. That’s the heat death of the universe.

Expansion effects space, and since everything exists in space, expansion effects everything. The problem i think you’re running into is a mistake of scale. The expansion were talking about is TINY. As good as humanity can find to fit the definition of “infintesimal”. However, the universe is very, very big, and all that space adds up to compounding expansion the space in between.

In fact, once you get far enough away, all that expansion adds up to more than the speed of light. That’s why we can only ever see so far into the universe, and why that limit is always growing smaller. The light emitted from stars far enough away from us will never actually make it to earth because the space in-between that star and us is expanding, right now, faster than the light can travel.

Now take all this infinitely expanding space and multiply it by a bazillion years and eventually you will expand subatomic particles so far from each other that the strong and weak nuclear forces no longer interact. Space beats energy thanks to inverse square law, so eventually space wins the universe. Everything freezes and goes dark. That’s how the universe ends.

Agreed. $40? Id think about it and probably wait for a sale anyways. $80 is just laughable and completely removes any temptation i had to check it out.

No man’s sky is not anywhere near the greatest game ever made. Id honestly take outer wilds over either game being discussed. Outer wilds has a charm that’s impossible for a AAA studio to match, and it’s a solid gravity sandbox besides that.

The NMS game loop is just trying to make number go up as efficiently as possible for nanites and credits. It’s not fun. It is and always has been a grind.

I’ve been seeing a huge uptick in AI generated shorts and videos on YT lately. I try to avoid them as much as possible but at some point on the doomscroll they become inevitable

Hana mean what mana mean and gana mean that too.

Turns out you just have to take a picture.

Outer wilds fam reporting in

Well Jimmy was talking about a northern CA hippie with a weed growing operation so yeah I’d say odds of being a vegan were pretty high. Would all that fiber make more or less shit?

Sandman slim taught me that you can shit on a tarp for a year, dry it in the sun, and all that shit will fit in a shoebox at the end of the year.