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This thread is a sort of extension to that, eh? Hacker News knowing the truth of a matter while observing Reddit down the barrel of a nose.
Right, because you see the situation so much better than them ;)
Oh gee, here he comes. Another person prepared to admit that what he knows is that he knows nothing.
I can't take this seriously - blaming Trump but not Joe Biden, though latter had obvious symptoms of cognitive decline AND many "smart" people claimed otherwise. If you are literally tricked to doubt your own eyes, your natural judgements and being constantly gaslighted to think otherwise - then this should be called out as well. If this does not fullfil the criteria for "Idiocracy", then nothing does.
The thing about Biden was that the bureaucracy was still intact, so most government functionality carried on just fine regardless what Biden himself was doing. Trump gutted the bureaucracy in favor of autocracy, replacing the domain experts with sycophantic yes-men. So when Biden got a terrible idea that would unquestionably harm the country, the response would have been something like "We'll look into that" or even…
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I know one guy who can't watch Silicon Valley because it triggers him. He had a tech startup himself in the valley back in the day.
Krazam is starting to have this effect on me.
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I feel Idiocracy is irresistible bait for 'not like the other girls'-types. Everytime this movie comes up, droves of people mention how they get it, while others don't. It's becoming a trope in itself.
I like money
(For anyone that has not seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHCVyllnck)
Not quite sure "Ow My Balls / Jackass" argument should count, the Jackass franchise is older than Idiocracy and was most likely an inspiration for that bit.
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it was a dumb action movie, with a bit of satire and some non-trivial nudity. the book is a political science treatise about the role of the citizen in government and draws heavily from Thomas Hobbes and Max Weber, basically invented the "space marine" concept that we see in 40k or Starcraft or Doom, and touched on things like haptic feedback and non-traditional UI and how it could be C2.
It's primarily a movie about fascism and propaganda. The fact that most viewers missed it is actually concerning.
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Krazam is starting to have this effect on me.
Kai Lentit on YouTube has been doing these mock interviews and some of them hit too close to home for me. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/@programmersarealsohuman5909
I attended an audience testing screener for Idiocracy before the film's final edit. I could not believe my eyes and ears, I loved it unlike anything I'd seen before, it was the hardest US culture satire I'd seen up to that point. Then the lights came up and the audience started giving their reviews, in an open mike fashion. They all identified with the "idiots" and were indignant insulted, and angry. I remember makin…
Have they edited stuff out because of the audience reaction? Do you own an unedited copy?