Kathryn Bigelow’s most under-rated film is almost upon us…just 30 years later than we thought.

Also…if you haven’t seen that movie…go watch it. It’s low-key one of her best.

A pocket protector for the modern age.

I forgot about Continuum. I’d definitely recommend it. Though I wouldn’t put it high on my list or anything.

Main actress was good, but not great. And the rest of the cast was a who’s who of Vancouver working actors who jumped in via the Stargate.

It was enjoyable shlock, but I wouldn’t put it up there with the other mid-2000’s/2010’s stuff coming from Vancouver like the Stargate series of shows, or the CW shows that were all filming there at the time (Flash, Arrow, etc…). Vancouver was a hub of mid-budget sci-fi back then. Might still be, I don’t know. I don’t know anyone in the industry there anymore since breaking up with my ex.

• BSG remake is a must watch for anyone, even those who don’t like “sci fi”

• Band of Brothers is a must watch, even for those who don’t like “war”

• Black Sails started amazing, dragged a bit in the middle, but well worth it for the final speech by Flint at the end.

• The Americans is a show that has tragically never gotten the love that it deserves and is well worth your time.

• Angel is better than Buffy in every conceivable way basically beginning in the second season and I’ll always point it out to people who won’t give it a chance because they don’t like Buffy. (I don’t like Buffy…but Angel was darker, more mature, less teeny bopper. And frankly funnier)

Edited to add:

• Boardwalk Empire, the forgotten red-headed stepchild of HBO’s prestige lineup. I loved it but for some reason it’s completely dismissed and barely remembered.

• 12 Monkeys. Someone else mentioned it below and reminded me that I need to do a rewatch. I loved it. But in the later seasons was to distracted by other stuff to finish it.

And I’d be willing to bet it’s the same damn people.

That header photo brings back memories.

Exactly. Dell did it for years with some of their laptop models offering Linux.

It’s not like a company can’t do both on some devices so long as the sales support it.

If you have your 1 brain cell left after all those lobotomies, here’s the actual article

You realize that it’s possible to disagree with someone without being a dick about it, right?

I mean, I’ve certainly had my share of verbal dust-ups on Lemmy, but they always start off cordial instead of coming out swinging with the needless insults.

Executive Orders in the U.S. political system

I’m Canada we have the “Notwithstanding clause” which can serve a similar function; allowing a premier to unilaterally decide something without the approval of parliament.

Neither should be allowed to exist.

Also remove the entire idea of some countries having “veto” power in NATO and UN matters.

In Belle and Sebastian’s "Me and the Major’ my brain will simply not hear anything except

“Me and the midget don’t see eye to eye”

Which I find funny on a couple of different levels.

Voting requires citizenship. But citizenship itself should require more than just existing.

If we look back to Greek and Roman democracy, it was true that every citizen got a vote. But the people who were citizens was much more stringent.

The basic idea of the ars liberalis or Liberal Arts translates literally as “The work of freedom”. Exercising your right to partake in a democracy required that a person be knowledgable about history, civics, rhetoric, politics, philosophy. Without that knowledge, you were not allowed a vote in how things are run.

Essentially, you had to know what you were voting on.

Unfortunately, that meant that in essence only the rich landowners could be citizens because they were the only ones with the time and money to get educated while the underclasses were too busy working to suvive.

But in the modern age, where public schooling is a thing, we should be able to figure out a way to make such a thing work. Nowadays, the only thing keeping people ignorant is choice. And if you make the choice to be ignorant, you should forfeit your right to have a say in the governing of your nation.

I mean…I wouldn’t go that far.

I’d limit it at least to people who don’t hug the curb when making a right hand turn thus keeping anyone who’s going straight through from being able to fit in beside them at the stop light.

Eugenics isn’t survival of the fittest though. It’s one group arbitrarily deciding whether another group deserves a chance to live.

I get what you’re trying to say about “suvival of the fittest” but you’re butchering the most basic understanding of that phrase. Survival of the fittest isn’t a choice made by someone or a group of people.

The Habsburgs have entered the chat…

• Some people absolutely need to be killed for the greater good of society.

My last few phones have been Motorolas and I’ve been very very happy with them.

My only issue was that back then, I wasn’t really paying attention to alternative OSs like Graphene, Lineage or e/os and was therefore not really too concerned with ROM support/chip set. When I switched over to e/os, two of my Motorola’s (including the one I WANT to use with it) has no ROM support because it’s running a Mediatek chipset. So I’m using my second to last one while my nice new one collects dust.

Moving forward I’ll be paying more attention to Qualcomm vs Mediatek.

Not a corporation. They’re not “incorporated” and are not publically traded (afaik).

They’re a private company who are still able to do these kinds of things because they’re not beholden to stockholders.

To me, companies like them aren’t the problem. Corporations with stockholders are the problem.

Or any of the other isms for that matter

I quote John Lennon, “I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.” Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I’d still have to bum rides off people.”

Humans are not inherently good. Quite the opposite. Civilization is just a convenient lie we tell ourselves and its far more fragile than people like to admit.

If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

This quote from LBJ centres me. Its been the conservative tactic for literally decades, from African Americans, to lgbtq+, to immigrants; it’s always been the same grift:

• Choose your marginalised group-du-jour.
• Convince a whole lot of stupid people that that group is the cause of all their problems.
• Profit.

Its honestly astonishing how blatant it really is.