Lol, it sounds pretty good at .75 speed.

“I wish I could tell you that Andy fought the good fight…but it turns out he just liked butt stuff.”

We really are living in a cyberpunk dystopia.

Sorry, obviously the public awareness of the people making these decisions is dangerous information.

DAMN YOU ANTHROPOMORPHIZED COMPANY RUN BY NOBODY WHO THEREFORE CAN MAKE SHITTY DECISIONS HIDING BEHIND CAPITALISM!!!

Thank your glorious mods for protecting our corporate overlords.

Of course not. But do people really get to make shitty decisions that impact other people while hiding behind the veil of corporate structure without being directly named and shamed for their decisions?

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Live by silly rules, die by silly rules.

Cheap client not willing to pay for proper materials and a good carpenter who didn’t care enough to argue with them about it would be my guess.

The outside made me a bit uncomfortable, but with all that fresh drywall inside I can see now that it is a well maintained property with no underlying/hidden issues.

For any hockey fans he reminded me so much of a young Sidney Crosby. Incredibly talented, but just a real whiney bitch about it. It was actually a solid performance in that regard.

Christensen and McGregor had more experience with lightsaber fighting, which has absolutely always included making lightsaber noises.

“It’s all fun and games until the trees start speaking Finnish.”

You listed a lot of things that were foreshadowed largely in the books. I felt that the dialogue just about immediately fell off as soon as they ran out of book. Everyone felt very much on their own “tracks” and did not veer past that starting immediately with how they dealt with Jon just…coming back at the start of the season. Characters started teleporting wherever they needed to be, and episodes started feeling a lot more like a poor combination of big budget action scenes and desperate attempts to connect those by having two characters talk at each other alone in a room.

I feel like Jaime’s failed redemption arc was missing something (maybe a couple books worth of further development and foreshadowing?) and the whole Bran debacle felt like it was really supposed to be something and they just “kind of forgot” to ever actually set it up.

I think there are some good reasons GRRM has had such trouble finishing the series and the show runners just never even noticed and steamrolled straight to the end.

He did, and his poll numbers didn’t drop.

“We came tantalizingly close to preventing your house from burning down!”

I think there were two choices: stay out of Russia and be dodging Putin assassination attempts the rest of his life, or return to Russia and hope his arrest and treatment spark real change/protest/revolt in Russia.

He gambled on the latter and it did not work out in his favor.

Terrible…but due to the “Eddie Murphy Rule”, you have to be careful how you use such information.

Interesting, but I only really trade in frozen concentrated orange juice futures.

Two cases of leaders selectively choosing not to believe credible intelligence of a threat to innocent lives when it’s politically convenient to do so?

I’d say more than that. I don’t think anyone is that close to AGI…yet