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RustyCrab, to random
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passing my media literacy test after watching Starship Troopers.

IF the humans started the conflict then it's pretty much an Israel/Palestine situation.

The movie really doesn't make it clear who's the aggressor and maybe that's on purpose. The only thing the audience sees is the bugs hurling rocks at earth trying to kill everybody. In hindsight, the only reason they could even know to do that is because a brain bug figured it out where earth was as a result of an invasion.

I think a small amount of dialogue about human expansion into the galaxy would have made that more clear. If you don't put that together it's just a big dumb movie about killing bugs.

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@RustyCrab Grade: D-
Comments: didn't understand the material, the book is actually about why fascism is good. The bugs are communists, communist rules can't work with humans (or: communism is dehumanizing) so in the logic of the author, humans need fascism.

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@RustyCrab that's not my real analysis that's just what pozzed people who hate heinlein for no good reason say

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@RustyCrab oh lol I forgot that was a thing for a second... The thing about super anti-war people like in hollywood is they don't NEED the war to be unjustified to decry it as horrible. The have this intuition that fighting is inherently bad, always unjustified, even in self-defense. What you're supposed to do when someone actually just wants to kill you is just never considered (unless it's a WWII movie, but WWII is easier for people like this to psychologically parse, the fighting on our side is remembered as "unselfish" because we were fighting for the "oppressed"-- the jews). I think that intuition is why Verhoven unirionically said the book was fascist propaganda and didn't even finish reading it.

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@RustyCrab In the book it's never made clear who started the war because it's not meant to pass judgement or assign blame for the conflict, heinlein seems to interpret war as inevitable, and the book is more concerned with contrasing the different societies in the conflict.

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@RustyCrab Also your actual grade for your initial post (and considering it's about the movie) is A- I was just being a jerk.

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@splitshockvirus @RustyCrab Yeah I had that feeling as well when I watched the movie. In the book the bugs are basically like the Zerg, their technology is biological, they advance by selective breeding or controlled evolution or something. It was never a surprise to the humans in the books that the bugs weren't just bugs.

I think they actually had some peaceful relations with the bugs historically, and another human-like alien race, the skinnies, are actually allied with the bugs. They have a lot of different plausible ways they could have found out.

IIRC the conflict started because the humans and bugs tried to colonize the same planet. I have vague memories to that effect.

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@roboneko @RustyCrab @splitshockvirus Yeah I'm more interested in the socio(don't know the rest of this word) theories behind the narrative which is what the author was most interested in. The hwole bug meteor attack would make at least a little more sense if they sent bugs to launch an asteroid that was already in the solar system at earth but that's a minor gripe in the log run.

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@roboneko @RustyCrab @splitshockvirus Also it's hinted slightly in the movie (so slightly I wonder if it's just an illusion I projected on it) the ruling party needed a way to bleed off some excess population so they just sent them into the meat grinder.

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@RustyCrab @rosey @splitshockvirus In any story where you have FTL travel at all you already have to do a lot of handwaving

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@RustyCrab @splitshockvirus for the most part, yes. The movie didn't even include the most influential concept that the book introduced to all science fiction: power armor.

In the book, ALL the soldiers are equipped with like 12 foot tall power armor that has kiloton nukes as a handheld weapon.

This is gundam level shit almost.

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@RustyCrab @splitshockvirus Verhoven probably didn't include that because it would make the human soldiers too cool

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@RustyCrab @splitshockvirus Both the movie and the book are awesome don't get me wrong but they're just like... two VERY different artists' commentary on the same basic material.

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@RustyCrab @splitshockvirus probably. It's a little dry, but not impenetrable.

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@RustyCrab @mischievoustomato Now that you mention it I remember that as well

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@roboneko @RustyCrab @rosey @splitshockvirus I remember something about that being how they spread, I don't remember if it was from the book or the movie but the main way they colonize new planets is exactly that way.

RustyCrab, to random
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this has a much darker interpretation now

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@RustyCrab jesus

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@RustyCrab when I realized what it was lol

theropologist, to random
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Remember in Blues Brothers when they end up at the Nazi rally and the point isn't even that Jake really hates Nazis, it's that Nazis are about the biggest losers that anyone could imagine. They are portrayed as completely pathetic dead-ender assholes.

Or in the Rocketeer when the mobsters find our the Sinclair guy is a Nazi and join forces with the FBI to stop them because Nazis are clearly the worst thing.

Or when Christopher Plummer rips the Nazi flag in two in Sound of Music.

None of these films were making bold political statements. The Nazis were the bad guys because that was something that everyone in the audience could agree one. Dunking on Nazis was a guaranteed crowd pleaser.

When the hell did we stop agreeing on something so simple and self-evident as Nazis Are Fucking Losers?

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@binkle @theropologist you're thinking like an individual though, not like a mob. Mobs dgaf about historical relevance, they just like to have an easily identifiable enemy. Nazis are good for that because they have a lot of bold, sinister iconography. It sticks in your head, especially when you're a kid watching say, Indiana Jones and the one where he had to fight Nazis (wasn't that most of them? I don't remember)

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@binkle @theropologist It's also why you absolutely can't convince a lot of people that every single jew isn't involved in some conspiracy to exterminate the white man.

a7, to random

i think i should move to a new city or the middle of nowhere

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@RustyCrab @a7 do you have any friends who are really big in real estate? See if you can get someone to tell you about a neighborhood that's gonna gentrify, but nobody really knows about yet. That's what a real estate agent who's a friend of my family did for me.

It's kind of a risk but it worked out amazingly for me. My house is worth more than double what I paid for it now. I still need to do a lot of work on it even some 4 years in, but that's cool with me.

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@RustyCrab @a7 sry I mesread that I thought you said you WANTED to be anchored and not have to move.

a7, to random

sharing too much and thinking about death too much

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@RustyCrab @Nudhul @Griffith @a7 I think uni's the one who's gonna win out in the end

RustyCrab, to random
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Foot asleep I am going to die

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@RustyCrab need someone to "put you down clean"?

binkle, to random
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???

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@binkle break action pistol?

binkle, to random
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QUICK I NEED THE MITCH MCCONNELL TRAIL CAM PIC STAT

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@binkle I'm growing some shrooms lemme know how it goes

binkle, to random
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cassidy can play tuba right

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@cassidyclown @Inginsub @Morghur @binkle @eidolon did you know? bone is a type of rock

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@cassidyclown @Inginsub @Morghur @binkle @eidolon no I'm cyanobacteria don't got bones

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@binkle @eidolon PEOPLE ARE USELESS TUBES

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@cassidyclown @Inginsub @Morghur @binkle @eidolon I can play the theremin

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@Inginsub @eidolon @Morghur @binkle @cassidyclown yeah that's why they do the same thing over and over again

RustyCrab, to random
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It really pisses me off when I have 64 gigs of ram and programs still insist on grinding my disk to shreds with temp files instead of making use of that. Nobody's running terabytes of compressed data through a raspberry pi you stupid nigger

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@RustyCrab @zero could it be an ancient algorithm from back when ram efficiency was THAT important?

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@RustyCrab @zero algorithms the wrong word I think "implementation" is probably better but I think you got my drift

Forestofenchantment, to random
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@creamqueen am I gay for liking EVs more than traditional cars? Their sleekness and silence win me over.

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@creamqueen @bot @Forestofenchantment from an engineering standpoint, it seems like it should be easier to make an electric car that lasts 100 years (except the batteries) than a gasoline powered one. But the companies making cars now seem to be turning to an enshittified model of locking it down so you can't repair it outfitting it with ridiculous one-off parts etc and building it to break down so you buy a new one.

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@creamqueen @Forestofenchantment @bot Well the companies making EVERYTHING are doing this

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@bot @Forestofenchantment @creamqueen I literally said that batteries are the obvious exception to building an extremely durable electric car. Are you just replying with the first aggro thing that pops into your head without even reading the rest of the post?

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@bot @Forestofenchantment @creamqueen fake as in the manufacturers created the problem, not fake as in EV owners don't get screwed by it

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@Forestofenchantment @PurpCat @bot @creamqueen All electronic systems on devices like that should have mechanical fallbacks.

RustyCrab, to random
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Making some drastic life changes next few weeks to try and knock some brain worms loose :marseybangfast:

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@RustyCrab @bot @a7 I blame public schooling for why so many people don't do as well with remote work. You're trained from childhood for working an assembly line. Which we don't even do anymore in america so school is mostly pointless.

binkle, to random
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fedi boxing tournament:

soy magnus vs jonny fever
pernia vs bajax
binkle vs meso
jeff cliff vs diamond mind
alex gleason vs eugen rochko

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moon vs graf
bot vs marine
peachy summer vs mushroom soup

ajax,
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@binkle hmm we could do a tournament

ajax, to random
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@binkle is it pronounced bink-luh?

ajax,
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@binkle or german germans do that too

ajax,
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@binkle look bro you just said I'd never guess the pronounciation and I took a guess and ok FINE YOU WERE PROVEN RIGHT THIS TIME

binkle, to random
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:fat1::kot2::fat3:
:kot4::fat5::kot6:
:fat7::kot8::fat9:

ajax,
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@binkle @RustyCrab @MMS21 @pernia you created a half breed he is going to have so many identity crises

RustyCrab, to random
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I am doing almost nothing at work for the past few weeks. However, a few months ago I had a big spree where I got so much done it was unbeliveavle. I never actually committed it and just had it on my own local branch. I'm currently cherry picking over a few commits per day and pushing them upstream so it looks like I'm working. This is real niggabigbrain shit.

ajax,
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@RustyCrab how can you justify stealing your poor employer's money like that? don't you know how hard they work to bring you that investor capital how can you be so ungrateful?

RustyCrab, to random
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ladies do yo u do this

ajax,
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@RustyCrab rofl is this giantrobo?

ajax,
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@RustyCrab no that's not the character I thought it was but a very similar aesthetic

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@RustyCrab I was thinking it was Ginrei

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