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magic9mushroom
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1d ago
(Comparison: in the OT, the heroes never mock the villains. I think the closest it comes is Han referring to the Imperials as slugs. But Tarkin, Vader, or the Emperor are always treated with deathly seriousness.)
No. Leia sassed Tarkin in the original film:
LEIA: Governor Tarkin. I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash; I recognised your foul stench when I was brought on board.
TARKIN: Charming, to the last. You don't know how hard I found it, signing the order to terminate your life.
LEIA: I'm surprised you had the courage to take the responsibility yourself.
In ESB Luke sasses Vader at the beginning of their fight (though, of course, this is specifically him being a headstrong idiot):
VADER: You have learned much, young one.
LUKE: You'll find that I'm full of surprises.
And in RotJ Han sasses Jabba on a couple of occasions (though, of course, Jabba is not an Imperial):
THREEPIO: His High Exaltedness, the great Jabba the Hutt, has decreed that you are to be terminated immediately.
HAN: Good. I hate long waits.
[...]
THREEPIO: Victims of the almighty Sarlacc, His Excellency hopes that you will die honorably. But should any of you wish to beg for mercy, the great Jabba the Hutt will now listen to your pleas.
JABBA: Jedi!
HAN: Threepio! You tell that slimy piece of worm-ridden filth, he'll get no such pleasure from us!
There's not a lot of it, not remotely to the degree seen in your clip, and RotJ goes very hard on having Luke be courteous even to his foes. But there is a little.
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1d ago
Speeding has substantial benefits alongside the risks - you waste significantly less of your life travelling and thus get more done.
What are the benefits of not wearing a seatbelt while you're sitting in a car anyway? I might disagree with punishing people for failing to wear a seatbelt since the risk is almost entirely to themselves, but seriously, this one is a good cost-benefit. Having agency for yourself does not mean doing the opposite of everything They tell you to do - that is still refusing to make decisions for yourself, insofar as your actions are still 100% predictable from Their edicts. Reversed stupidity is not intelligence; the goal is not to invert the system, but to ignore it.
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1d ago
"All shall love me and despair" sounds much more like the findom end than the GFD end, and sensibly given how much of a rat bastard the One Ring actually is. I didn't bring up OnlyFans - practically a Tartarean pit of suffering - on a whim.
Arguably, "elf dommy mommy" is what Galadriel already is without the One.
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2d ago
The only thing they did not have were the launch codes
Not launch codes; PAL codes.
Permissive Action Links (and their Russian equivalents) are designed for paranoia against literally this scenario - someone with physical control of the weapon activating it. The weapon is designed in such a way that it is impossible to remove or bypass the PAL without rendering the weapon useless (basically, other stuff breaks first).
To turn a PAL-protected nuke into a working nuke (without the code), you have to disassemble it and remanufacture the physics package. This is easier than somebody acquiring nukes ex nihilo, because you can at least recover the weapons-grade plutonium* and as such you can skip the actinide acquisition, nuclear reactor and reprocessing plant. But it's not trivial; you still need the actual bomb-manufacturing plant.
*This is somewhat more complicated if the PAL fired one of the lenses, because then the core will have been pulverised by the (conventional) explosion. My limited understanding, though, is that they aren't generally rigged to do that on tamper; it's more a deliberately-triggered self-destruct.
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2d ago
@erwgv3g34 @FistfullOfCrows @sarker
Guy A used guillemets. Guy B said Guy A sounded like a Nazi. Guy C said:
Nazis do (((this)))
But « thiis » [sic] is just a different type of quotation mark used in French, German, Russian and so on.
Guy C got whacked; other two did not. Hence, it's SoulFire that was correct to begin with.
Probably a Third World sweatshop worker or bot solely working on "does post contain naughty thing".
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2d ago
Why do they continue to do it?
Because most of them are based in the San Francisco Bay Area and most of their relevant employees live there. That means they have to worry about Californian regulations and jawboning, and it means their employees are potentially the sort to desert them for being too far right (this seems to be a big chunk of what's wrong with xAI).
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3d ago
People who like AI, in my experience, are a small, extremely non-representative sample of tech-obsessed weirdos
I'd describe them more as "midwit highly-online alt-rightists" (in the broad sense of alt-right, not the racial sense - highly-non-traditional rightists). The main points pushing them into that camp are 1) inceldom -> wanting AI waifus and 2) schadenfreude over various kinds of artists (whom they despise due to the whole "tainting all their franchises with SJ" thing) becoming technologically unemployed, with a side of reversed stupidity over the various SJ whines about the latter.
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4d ago
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the subtly named Tarquin, no relation to that one [Tarkin],
The name "Tarquin" as a metonym for tyrants is literally thousands of years older than Star Wars. I won't say the name's entirely separate from Tarkin given the extreme number of Star Wars references in that arc of Order of the Stick, but they're at least to a fair degree just referencing the same thing - and certainly it's "Tarkin" that's the variant spelling.
Obviously, this only emphasises how unsubtle the name is.
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5d ago
We know what happens then. It's in LotR itself, because Frodo offers it to her.
‘And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!’
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illumined her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful.
I feel compelled to note that OnlyFans is practically an ongoing mass LARP of this.
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5d ago
but I also remain confused as to why this whole weird part of the discourse cropped up, mushroom-like, seemingly overnight.
Wasn't it 2021-22? A.k.a. when Substack and then MuskTwitter broke SJ's lock on the public square? Doesn't seem surprising that things would show up "out of nowhere" if they were being suppressed prior, and SJ generally considers birth rate worries a dogwhistle for racism.
I said "travelling", not "commuting". I was thinking of going to visit family or going on a holiday, which (unlike commuting) often involves driving through long stretches of nothing (my general feeling is that the speed limits in built-up areas are generally about right, but those on highways are frequently far too low; many of the high-end divided roads and outback highways in Australia, for instance, could support far more than their speed limit of 110 km/h).
Also, here in Australia, there are certain highways where you're not just saving days, but potentially saving the need for a bloody caravan because the towns are over a day's drive (at the speed limit) apart.
I mean, the Royal Flying Doctor Service here in Oz has 500 km/h and even 800 km/h ambulances, which are in fact very handy. That particular solution doesn't work so well for random people travelling, though, because lol piloting is hard.
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