I’ve seen this movie.

“The only way to keep things from crashing is to plug Skynet Grok in.”

Not only doesn’t understand what a tariff is, he thinks it’s some magic word to make anything change and him get credit for it.

If he didn’t have full blown dementia I’d say he’s an idiot. The ones around him going along with it, they ARE idiots.

(about 2:00 in)

It doesn’t have a basement?

Given that “interesting” is how the Chinese curse goes, we’re in interesting rimes now. So more of the same as far as how humans behave. Climate far worse because again, we aren’t going to change. More dystopian, corporate rule (the cyberpunk novels had that spot on), AI better/worse depending on your perspective (more advanced, used everywhere). Internet far different than it has been, with familiar niches holding out here and there. Possibly recovering from some major disaster, maybe large scale even.

It’s safer to expect pessimistic results and be surprised. I don’t doubt there will be some good things to happen too, great advancements and maybe even big societal changes that help people. They’re harder to predict though.

“Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.”

A good lesson is to look back on predictions made for the future 50 or 100 years ago. Often times the technology is the guessed the closest right, but how it is used, and how it affects the social structure of society is totally wrong.

How many nukes going off does it take to ruin everyone’s day? One. Modern rationalization is “maybe if we make it small enough”, no, it’s still one. Not only because it’s an environmental disaster even if small, but it crosses a line and once crossed, lines move around a lot. The last thing needed is a nuclear detonation and the world’s countries analyze it and determine, “well, it was terrible, but not THAT terrible. Maybe two is the limit.”

What do you call someone who sits at the table with a fascist? Even if they verbally disagree with them.

It’s so out of character. If only we had decades of history to judge how a person is.

Well, two that get reunited. The rest though, tragic.

Wow, I’ve been busy with a lot of stuff. That I haven’t done. The glory of VPN (that doesn’t keep logs) is you’re behind the noise of anyone else. Sometimes it’s better to not be hidden, but be in the crowded plain sight.

Given the period, there is an unwritten sigh at the beginning. With maybe a presumed pointing at their name that Brian either missed, or doesn’t know.

“Why doesn’t anyone want to trade with us anymore?” - Trump

I don’t know, man. Can’t be anything you did, right?

The stock market is not the same thing as it was at the start, different players, different motives, and lots of failsafes. That time it was a signal that things were bad, this time we could continue to get worse and you’d never know it looking at the DOW.

Or species.

That’s not what happened. He went fast enough to go back in time. The Earth rotated backwards because time was going backwards for him. And importantly, unlike so many time travel stories where the person goes to exactly when the event happens, he went back further, so he had time to stop both missiles. Cause he’s super smart.

Forgot the call to dilate_pupils.exe

I was lucky, my dad had a top line Radio Shack system with full control and tape counter, so finding that perfect spot, doing fade outs, etc. was easy. The hard part was guessing when the radio DJ would stop talking and cut to the music.

Also, fake picture, as the typical reason for this there would be mangled tape pulled out of the cassette body.

You had to hold it at a bit of an angle. Sure beat using your fingertip for an inch at a time.

Good thing we can do more than a single thing at a time.