The first Shazam was the best movie of that continuity. The second one should have featured Black Adam, instead of giving him his own movie.

This build uses older DDR4, which is still ridiculously overpriced, but isn’t fluctuating quite as much as DDR5.

Not allowed to murder them, either. They don’t seem to be constrained by any laws.

I dunno, this feels like the cars that require subscriptions or the TVs that show people ads over whatever they are watching. On the one hand, I just would never buy anything with those restrictions.

On the other hand, I don’t expect everyone to become an expert on anti-features and technology, especially when capitalists are constantly seeking new and creative ways to profit from deception.

Consumer protections exist because there is no limit to greed, and no threshold too terrible that someone won’t cross it for profit. Locking phones is a small inconvenience that pales in comparison to the bullshit cell service providers try to get away with, but it is also anti-competitive and monopolistic, not to mention deceptive marketing when common sense (not to mention experience) dictates that any phone ought to work with other carriers as long as they operate on the same frequencies.

I think, since future Bill and Ted appear to the earlier Bill and Ted, and Rufus directly assists in creating his future, I think we have to assume that all of those historical figures always experienced those things, and then returned to their timelines with knowledge of the future. Napoleon rode the waterloops before Waterloo. Socrates played catch with Billy the Kid. Those are historical events, as much as Rufus and Future Bill and Ted helping present Bill and Ted pass their classes.

Yeah, it’s also survivorship bias. All the successful psychopaths would make you think that a) you need to be a psychopath to succeed, and b) all psychopaths will succeed. It’s wrong on both counts, but we can conclude that c) being a psychopath does not preclude success. It might even be easier to succeed, since capitalism abhors a principle, but I don’t have the statistics to support that.

With one linear timeline, you basically have Back to the Future rules. You can go back and change things, even if it rewrites you out of existence. Of course, there are some logical paradoxes that arise from that theory of time, so most versions rely on some delayed repair mechanism, like how the photo of Marty slowly disappears, or how The Ancient One explains the Time Stone to Professor Hulk. Time Cop, Butterfly Effect, and Looper do the same, with changes going into immediate effect like old injuries becoming later scars in real time, but erasing yourself really ought to be devastating to spacetime itself. I liked the concept in Butterfly Effect where the time traveler experiences all the memories of their new life in the altered timeline with every new change, but then they abandon the hard sci-fi aspect to get cute with stigmata. Donnie Darko probably handles it the best, where time travel itself creates a universe-ending paradox that requires the destruction of the time traveler.

Essentially, you jump from now back to another location in spacetime where you didn’t exist the first time around. If you overlap with yourself, you’re either going to gain a new retroactive memory, or there’s some magical maguffin that erased the memory (like the Tardis does for the Doctor), or some universal force reconciles the timestream and eliminates the paradox.

It depends on how you imagine time travel and causality. Is it a stable time loop? Or do you visit another version of reality with different outcomes? When you travel, are you unraveling the course of history to be redone? Or are you visiting an unyielding etching of the timespace continuum? If time is a set of dimensions, as all modern physics supports, then theoretically it wouls be possible to move through those dimensions in all directions. Special relativity confirms that movement affects how you move through time, but if you go backwards in time, you are still moving forward from your own reference point. That’s the only way to retain your memories.

Oh I see. And that’s a fair observation. Especially online, it’s become edgy and cool to take the side of a CEO assassin, while it’s still touchy to vocally defend the Castro regime. But you will find people, notably Cubans who fled to America, who were directly affected by Castro and the Cuban government. I don’t know any health insurance CEOs, so that might be a factor in the discourse you hear.

But again, it’s not like these are the same people. Support for the Cuban government isn’t a cause celebre because Fidel Castro has been dead for almost a decade, and few Americans could even tell you who the current President is. Luigi is a source of engagement, the currency of social media. Some Americans only recently learned about Venezuela because we’re about to invade their country.

Support them? Like how, with money? Votes? Attending rallies? Because no, I don’t actively support any of those countries. I do think each country has the sovereign right of self-determination, and I oppose my country’s efforts to overthrow or undermine those governments.

I also oppose authoritarian dictatorships like the DPRK and the Trump administration.

As far as Luigi is concerned, I do not condone murder, but I also don’t think he’s guilty of murder. I think the oligarchy needed to find the killer, even if they didn’t find the actual killer, and planted all the evidence against Luigi.

I’m a Western leftist, and neither of these positions represent me. I do know people who are represented by one or the other, but I don’t know anyone who is both. Are you sure you’re not just conflating the loudest voices as being from the same people?

Based on what? Twitter? Polling? And what do you mean “support Luigi”? Because while I don’t condone murder, I am not convinced he murdered anyone. I think the oligarchy is trying to make an example of him and unintentionally made him a martyr.

Sleve McDichael lets you know right away what you’re in for.

Sometimes you don’t even need to learn Japanese. Dragonball characters are like 75% English transliterations.

I’m not sure why you’d assume that these are the same person.

Steve could have at least rewritten the part where he talks about himself in the third person to, at a minimum, establish some pretense that this wasn’t given to him to say.

I have been trying to do all my Christmas shopping at small businesses, and I’ve found it’s nearly impossible. Mom and pop shops simply don’t exist anymore. Even when I was trying to buy direct online from small businesses, they send me to their Amazon shop.

Big box stores and corporate chains have cannibalized the international economy. The value they have stolen in the form of monopolies, exploited global laborers, anti-competitive practices, and wage theft more than justifies whatever you can fit in your pockets. Capitalists are stealing from you, so turnabout is fair play.

The mask is off.

Of course! You’ve hit the nail on the head, in that anyone can get used to anything if you grow up with it. Your brain wraps itself around your environment, and the language and descriptions you grow up with are the framework for your understanding of things.

It’s like naming colors of the rainbow. The number of discrete colors you see depends on the number of discrete names your language has for those colors. Roy G Biv is just one method of delineation. Some languages don’t separate blue and green, or red and orange. We actually see millions of colors, but our brain structures categories based on the words we have to describe them.

We use base 10 numbering, because we have five fingers on each hand. Imaging what the metric system would look like if 360 million years ago, some polydactyl mutant managed to win the evolutionary tournament of reproduction, and we all had an extra thumb on the opposite side of our hands. Baseball gloves would look super weird, and we would have a duodecimal metric system where 100 cm could be evenly divided by three or six, but not five, and a foot would be 10 inches without changing either length.

It’s my go-to controversial opinion when I want to practice arguing against a consensus. Most people who have an opinion on the matter think that they are being rational about it, but in my experience people have strong emotional responses to feet and inches because of the psychological trauma of math tests in primary school.

You think about feet and miles, and you probably think of a worksheet with word problems, with Henry and Jessica travelling on two trains going in different directions. Or maybe your mind goes to a detailed chart you have on a refrigerator magnet for how many pints of milk you need to buy for 16 guests if 60% of them put two tablespoons in their coffee every day for a three day weekend. You’re probably angry just reading that sentence, and I know it raised my blood pressure writing it. You don’t actually need to do that math, you just buy a gallon of milk and run to the store if you need more. It’s not even really easier if it’s liters of milk and 35 mL per coffee.

And that’s for people who live in the USA. I’ve also found that people outside of the US resent Americans for using such an objectively inferior system. It reinforces the perception of an arrogant, impetuous, lazy and selfish nation of obliviously uneducated consumers forcing the rest of the world to accommodate our obstinate fat-ass ignorance.

So either way, people who have an opinion probably have strong emotional reactions to that opinion being challenged.