Americans will never take the action necessary to remove bad politicians who are destroying their lives. Never. The politicians will allow them to vote, only because they can manipulate the narrative during elections using excessive campaign contributions, making the public blame their neighbors instead of the corruption at the top.
Put backdoors in government systems for Musk corporations and foreign adversaries to exploit. Provide Musk with a cache of any government data he wants, including the personal financial records for every US taxpayer.
Calling it violence is weird and kind of stupid. A better word might be mayhem.
It's not violence against people. It's morons engaging in the annual new year tradition of exploding a fuckton of fireworks by amateurs, in very dense cities. The Netherlands has banned them nationwide, so hopefully it will chill next year.
That's such an obvious deflection, though. My last car was a GM vehicle, with built-in OnStar right there in the box behind the rearview mirror. Built into the price I paid was hardware I didn't want, didn't pay a subscription for, yet was collecting my driving data and selling it.
Building a functionally useful infotainment system to replace Android Auto, with all of the bells and whistles needed to complete, is going to cost them the same or more. The difference is the rent seeking behavior, the demand for subscriptions, and getting more opportunities to spy on their customers for profit.
It did, so I left America. Now I live somewhere that prioritizes human-scale design, pedestrian safety, bike infrastructure, and public transit. Most days, I walk anywhere I need to go (supermarket, pharmacy, restaurants, shopping).
They will always show up for Trump. The leader, whose power is based on factionalism and grievance, is the only uniting force between the factions at his command.
I feel like short seasons leads to insufficient time to know the characters, and causes writers to pack in so much plot and melodrama that it's exhausting to watch. Every second is packed too tightly , always trying to be EPIC. Miss 3 seconds in the episode? Sorry, that plot point was critical and either you go back and find it, or give up on the show. And heavy serialization also requires more of this obsessive watching and a requirement to not forget minor details between seasons. The higher production values result in 2-3 years between seasons, deepening all of the problems above: it MUST be considered epic, it MUST be tightly serialized to every minor detail, and when people don't live to watch the TV, well, they might as well cancel it.
Writers also seem like movie writers have come to TV - think up a premise, write a story arc, and then have no idea where it goes after that. The drop off after S1 is usually pretty stark, and then S2 is when it gets cancelled.
TV having 20+ episodes (almost half of the year with weekly releases) means the characters were around long enough that they can actually build meaningful on-screen relationships. Every episode didn't have to be a high stakes drama, plot, or writing. Lower budgets per episode means that writing quality, dialog, and character building takes precedence over flash, action, location, and epic camera shots.
Give me more Star Trek Deep Space 9 and less Marvel-like Star Trek Discovery.
It also deepens genre-ization. With only 10 episodes, a comedy is a COMEDY. A drama is a DRAMA. We don't have time to be experimental or weave something more complex.
I just finished Star Trek: Resurgence on Nintendo Switch. Don't sleep on this game if you want a well-written classic 90s Trek feeling adventure game! Very Tell Tale like.
The graphics aren't amazing and quicktime events are occasionally awkward, but the story and choice opportunities make it a lot of fun for some casual playtime!
Yes. I was allowed in under a highly skilled migrant visa to work a tech job.