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Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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Post by nephihaha »

NooneAtAll3 wrote: post #177
nephihaha wrote: post #106

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One of the messages has changed of course. Nowadays it tends to be "stay fearful and do not reproduce".

I think you're several years late with this(?) no reproduction was indeed part of general transhumanism left (individuality doesn't work with parenthood obligations) but now with Europe and US economies on slowdown and with possibility of war looming, "your life for the country, your labor for the economy" starts to get steered/pushed towards by the elites (edit: pun not intended)

With automation, the masses will have no jobs and the rich will need to stay on top. It is not beneficial for them to have a large angry underclass.

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Post by HerbManic »

nraynaud wrote: post #75
HerbManic wrote: post #12

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What I find funny (only not really) is the wildly different interpretations of this film people have, for many they seem to be primed by other things to see in it what they want. Basically skeptical of common forms in modernity, that is very clearly the intention. However, I have also seen that in extreme far-right communities this film represents how Jewish people control the world... somehow I don't think that is w…

I have not clicked, but recently I was suggested a video whose title was more or less: “everybody thinks 1984 agrees with them”.

I do recommend that one. Jacob Geller could talk for 3 hours about impressionist paintings and I guarantee it would be fascinating.

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Post by matheusmoreira »

PhilipRoman wrote: post #155
matheusmoreira wrote: post #143

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Just open a new tab and paste the link in.

It also sets a HN=1 cookie, so you may need to clear that or use incognito

I see. I'm using Firefox's containers feature and that prevented the cookie from carrying over.

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

nephihaha wrote: post #163
vel0city wrote: post #147

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Given the government trying incredibly hard to ban abortion and the Supreme Court musing they should overturn Griswold I don't their ideas are "do not reproduce".

I don't live in the USA.

Now I'm curious where you are that you are being told not to reproduce.

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Post by the_af »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #179
the_af wrote: post #118

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> Starship Troopers movie This movie is so misunderstood. It's basically disliked by Heinlein fans who took offense, and by people unfamiliar with both Heinlein and Verhoeven who thought it was actually Beverly Hills + Space Fascism without irony. I like it for what it does, but I'm more of a fan of Robocop.

Heinlein meant the book literally and not as a farse or satire.

Yes, that's what I'm meant, I just worded it ambiguously. Let me make it more explicit:

The movie was disliked by:

- Fans of Heinlein, who took offense at what they thought was a mocking and misunderstanding of the source material.

- People unfamiliar with Heinlein, and also with Verhoeven, who failed to understand the movie was satirical and thought it was actually endorsing a weird mix of Beverly Hills 9210 and fascism.

In case you wonder, I have read Heinlein (not just Starship Troopers) and know what he meant. I also appreciate Verhoeven!

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Post by the_af »

PaulHoule wrote: post #152
the_af wrote: post #118

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> Starship Troopers movie This movie is so misunderstood. It's basically disliked by Heinlein fans who took offense, and by people unfamiliar with both Heinlein and Verhoeven who thought it was actually Beverly Hills + Space Fascism without irony. I like it for what it does, but I'm more of a fan of Robocop.

Unfortunately most Heinlein classics like Door into Summer or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress can't be adapted visually for various reasons.

I admit to my shame I've never read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (I know, I know) but I have read Door into Summer and I think it could be easily adapted. I mean, they adapted All You Zombies and that was truly a challenge visually (for reasons I won't spoil here). In comparison, Door is a more straightforward time-loop + betrayal story of the kind that can be adapted to the big screen...

Edit: unless you're referring to an icky age-related situation, but that could be fixed in the movie adaptation to make it less icky.

Edit 2: wow, and it was made into a movie... by the Japanese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Door_into_Summer_(film)

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Post by arm32 »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #188
arm32 wrote: post #182

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Hey Evan, get ready: https://web.archive.org/web/20001019032519/http://www.chicke...

That's the ones! Great find. I remember "Bannertown" but "chickenhead.com" slipped my mind. As soon as I saw your URL it came flooding back. Thanks!

It was a huge nostalgia bomb for me too, nearly knocked me off my seat. Thanks for reminding me of it.

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Post by iririririr »

autoexec wrote: post #69
iririririr wrote: post #21

on the same line, but less pop meme replacements https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/artificial-cl... it replaces terms used to exalt Artificial Intelligence to what they really mean, and some tongue in cheek jokes against things that are used to pass billionaires/tech as friendly (e.g. replacing bill gates with his actual name)

"Automated Incompetence" is probably better than "Artificial Incompetence" since the incompetence is 100% real.

send a patch :)
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