I know there are slightly different edits of the same movie available, just watch whichever one you want, they are all basically the same film. If Star Wars peeps want to discuss the differences, go for it in the non-comments.
opened at a midnight showing in provincetown, mass. i was seven months preg with my first. at the first hyperjump, the crowd went beserk, and i dam' near delivered.
My dad took all the kids to see it, even though my little sister was only 2. We were getting out of the house so my mom could study for finals, and my dad had wanted to see it anyway.
For reasons that I don't remember, we got in late. The place was packed. There might have been a seat available for my sis, but if there was, we couldn't see it b/c it was late and the movie was already playing. She sat on dad's lap instead. When the movie was over, my dad wanted to stay and watch the opening of the movie just up until the part we came in. In the confusion and press of bodies, we managed to get ignored and stayed. But when we got to the place where we had come in, my dad was like, "Just 5 more min" or whatever. He kept doing that. We stayed through the end of the 2nd showing even though we'd only missed the first 15-20 minutes of the showing we paid for.
My dad thought it was awesome. My older sister thought it was awesome. My little sister thought it was loud and fell asleep. I didn't really know what to make of it, but I was far too young to notice how the aliens and the special effects were much better done than any movie before it. I just knew it looked pretty realistic to my kid's eye.
We went home, my dad buzzed, my older sister buzzed, my little sister zonked, and me just kinda bewildered, wondering what I had seen.
My apologies for what I'm about to say, then. I was in college when it came out, and that's when I saw it. I do not remember whether I saw it at school or at home. What I do remember is thinking that I'd seen it now, it was okay, and I never had to see it again. Several years later, my husband and I were visiting friends in San Francisco, and he noticed that it was playing somewhere. He had never seen it and wanted to. I had no interest (see two sentences ago), but he talked me into it. I was right in my original assessment, and I very much did not enjoy the experience.
If saying I didn't much like a movie is offensive or insulting, without more, then it's clear I'm in the wrong place. Somehow I think I fit in fine.
People like what they like. And some of us are, for whatever reason, not bowled over by some other people's sacred cows. It doesn't make either one of us a bad person.
For a whole lot of reasons, I suppose, including "I love hearing the stories of people's first viewing of this movie. It seems to bring up good memories." It felt like an invitation. I have enjoyed all your other choices that I watched, and I notice that other people have expressed low opinions of various of them without getting all jumped on.
There is a postscript. I've been involved with the North Cambridge Family Opera for twenty years. It was formed because of an operatic setting of this movie by one of the founders at least partly for the benefit of his son, who has perfect pitch and a lovely voice but is, as they say now, on the spectrum and so was not a candidate for an organization like the Boston Children's Opera. I like that version a whole lot better, with this particular show (www.familyopera.org/drupal/Space_Opera_2011#Video-Start-7) being my favorite because I'm closely related to the Oscar statue character.
I wasn't jumping on you. I say the same thing to anyone who says they don't like whatever is being shown. It is not an insult to say it's okay that we like different things and I had hoped you would read it understanding my intent. I want people to know there are options. I want people to find something to enjoy on movie night. I think people know me well enough to understand that I am not a person who jumps on anyone. The whole mood of movie night is positive and I want everyone who participates to get something good out of it. ETA: I cannot control what other people write.
Hmmmph. I saw Star Wars on the day I passed the driver's test and got my DL. In a theatre. It was the only time in my memory when my dad sat in a theatre for a movie.
I remember seeing it when I was a kid, with my dad, when it first came out but we had to wait a day before we could get in as it was selling out and there were lines around the block.
I am watching/listening to a documentary about the Ravensbuck concentration camp, the camp built immediately after Auschwitz intended for female prisoners. The horror and suffering that occurred there makes my blood run cold.
It also make me extremely angry and aggressively resentful regarding too many filthy fucking Nazis goose-stepping arrogantly and threateningly among us right now.
Something else that's haunting me at the moment is something my mother did when I was about 14 or 15 years old when I began studying the history of the camps and learning the details of the nightmares deliberately instigated within.
One afternoon my mother looked over my shoulder curiously where I was curled up on the couching intently studying one of the LIFE WWII hardcover history books I'd taken down to read from our big bookcase in the family room. After perusing the page headers and pictures of Ravensbruck in front of me my mother patted me on the shoulder and said, "That's where the Nazis would have sent YOU".
I don't know why, but that has always bothered me.
Nice day yesterday. Morning drove daughter around to run some of her errands, and then in the afternoon drove son around for his (neither of them drive, for various good reasons). Son and I picked up groceries and he carried everything upstairs for me, then we made dinner together. He cut, pounded, and breaded wienerschnitzel while I made potato salad and Caesar salad. His boss gave us a nice bottle of Gewürztraminer because some of his errands were for her, so we drank it. First time I've made wienerschnitzel with panko, works just fine.
Then he went off to do whatever he does on Saturday night with his buddies, and I had another glass of wine and slowly cleaned up while listening to podcasts.
I wish my health was a little better, but otherwise, my life is close to perfect.
"Look, Governor- I won't lie. Things are looking bad for you right now."
"The puppy thing?"
"...Well, yes. Fucking obviously 'the puppy thing'. You shot a fucking puppy. People don't like that."
"Strange."
"So here's what we're gonna do to try and fix things. We're going to put you in a zoo with a bunch of other baby animals that are... and I can't believe I have to say this... cuter than puppies."
"Like what?"
"Baby tapirs, baby sloths, baby... is that a hammer?"
"It is a hammer."
"Then not the baby panda, that could spark an international incident."
"Baby ocelots."
"Governor, you haven't blinked during this entire conversation."
"[EMITS A LOW HUM LIKE A MALFUNCTIONING NEON LIGHT]"
A good walk around the flea this morning, yielded a new 6qt electric White Mountain ice cream maker for $20. And a spigoted, graduated 10 gallon stainless pot someone had used for melting candle wax for $10.
I am having a really hard time processing the fact that the literal thing action movies and Garth Ennis comics have their villains do to show the audience that they don't need to get all bogged down in the complex reasons "evil" exists and the multifaceted causes of crime to know THIS CHARACTER IS FUCKING EVIL is something a current candidate for VP for the Republican Party is boasting about having done.
Noem even said that if she were a better politician then she wouldn't tell the story which means a part of her knew it was horrible. Makes me wonder what she isn't telling us. Talk about skeletons in the closet.
I picture the ghost writer of her 'book' asking "What don't the stupid citified libs understand about authentic farm life?" and this was what the idiot came up with.
Nancy Mace in an interview this morning demonstrating how MAGA shitgibbons won't answer questions about their king of the shitgibbons:
Q: What do you think about Trump's lawyers at the Supreme Court saying "it depends" in response to the question that a president could legally order the assassination of a political rival"?
N.M.: WHAT IS THIS, A CLICKBAIT INTERVIEW?
(no answer to the question)
Q; What do you think about Trump being on trial for his porn star payoff?
Yes, now that you mention it, assholes refusing to answer questions that they well and should have expected to be asked IS good clickbait. Thanks for that.
"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."
What a bunch of lightweights. Newt and company spent 30 years investigating Hillary and only came up with her cookie recipe was taken from the back of a bag of chocolate chips, but they didn't give up.
Tesla's lousy week continues. On Tuesday, the electric car maker posted its quarterly results showing precipitous falls in sales and profitability. Today, we've learned that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is concerned that Tesla's massive recall to fix its Autopilot driver assist—which was pushed out to more than 2 million cars last December—has not actually made the system that much safer. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/feds-concerned-some-of-teslas-autopilot-recall-was-opt-in-reversible/
Seeing quite a few Rivian vehicles around here. 3.5 hours from SF and the Tesla influx since covid has made the car an adjective and verb in many conversations. Rivian models fit in to the landscape so-to-speak and do not invite such ridicule.
Don't ban it, require car makers to indemnify the car owner. When it is good enough that insurance companies will cover it, it will be good enough for the road.
Why is it that when Tesla pushes new software, it's called a recall but when Microsoft does it it's called Tuesday?
I am not defending Felon Skum, but every time Tesla pushes new code, regardless of what is being changed including when NHTSA has nothing to do with it, the media calls it a recall. It is the only company where that happens.
A. G. (Call me 𝘋𝘢𝘴𝘩) Sulzeberger is the twerp's twerp, utterly irredeemable and a living, breathing Dunning Krueger example, a fuckin' 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦. He's the sixth generation in the publisher's seat, but coincidentally, the Ochs-Sulzberger Family Trust controls all the voting shares of an ostensibly public company. It's become a risible vanity project for a person who should hire a psychiatrist.
I kept reading past the Sulzberger stuff (yes, I am a masochistic idiot) and saw this:
"Republicans’ newest cash-grab effort involves a Donald Trump running mate hopeful and her tale of shooting dead the family dog.
"The National Republican Congressional Committee Friday sent out an email alert hawking signed copies of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s forthcoming memoir, 'No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.'"
Leave it to the GOP to turn sociopath Kristi Noem's bid to become the most demented Marry/Fuck/Kill player of all time into yet another rube-fleece.
There was a very well written, and excellently performed, sitcom in the UK called Yes, Minister.
It was a satire on politics, which largely boiled down to the inefficiency and control of the unelected bureaucracy that is the Civil Service- with some satire also directed at the vanity of the titular minister (later Prime Minister).
It is excellent, in the manner of classic set up and payoff gag sitcoms, and, again, the cast was note-perfect throughout.
It was also quoted by politicians including Margaret Thatcher, and cited as one of their favourite programmes.
There is another sitcom, beautifully written and terrifyingly well performed, called The Thick of It.
It mocked the culture of New Labour and the spin doctors who drove its policy.
It was savage, brutal and delivered some of the greatest insults ever shown on television.
Politicians started to say they liked it. Ed Miliband quoted it in the House of Commons.
The writers ended it.
If you are satirising politicians and they start quoting you and joining in, you are no longer effective. You aren't their critic, you are their joster. Jester. Sorry.
The wife and I watched Yes Minister about a decade ago and even though it took place in the UK way to much of it spoke to what we both encountered during our regular government civil service jobs.
Our next movie is 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐈𝐕 (𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟕) 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮!
https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-may-4-star-wars?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I know there are slightly different edits of the same movie available, just watch whichever one you want, they are all basically the same film. If Star Wars peeps want to discuss the differences, go for it in the non-comments.
My mom and dad took me to see it when it came out--so I would have been 4.
The stormtroopers and the sand people terrified me. Like, very much freaked me out.
Hell, I'm still a little scared of them!
Now they seem a bit goofier than when I was younger. The goofs are funny. https://youtu.be/dBQaLuqwtl8?si=rAi4D3f51VG1R_3o
opened at a midnight showing in provincetown, mass. i was seven months preg with my first. at the first hyperjump, the crowd went beserk, and i dam' near delivered.
Lol!
My dad took all the kids to see it, even though my little sister was only 2. We were getting out of the house so my mom could study for finals, and my dad had wanted to see it anyway.
For reasons that I don't remember, we got in late. The place was packed. There might have been a seat available for my sis, but if there was, we couldn't see it b/c it was late and the movie was already playing. She sat on dad's lap instead. When the movie was over, my dad wanted to stay and watch the opening of the movie just up until the part we came in. In the confusion and press of bodies, we managed to get ignored and stayed. But when we got to the place where we had come in, my dad was like, "Just 5 more min" or whatever. He kept doing that. We stayed through the end of the 2nd showing even though we'd only missed the first 15-20 minutes of the showing we paid for.
My dad thought it was awesome. My older sister thought it was awesome. My little sister thought it was loud and fell asleep. I didn't really know what to make of it, but I was far too young to notice how the aliens and the special effects were much better done than any movie before it. I just knew it looked pretty realistic to my kid's eye.
We went home, my dad buzzed, my older sister buzzed, my little sister zonked, and me just kinda bewildered, wondering what I had seen.
I love hearing the stories of people's first viewing of this movie. It seems to bring up good memories.
My apologies for what I'm about to say, then. I was in college when it came out, and that's when I saw it. I do not remember whether I saw it at school or at home. What I do remember is thinking that I'd seen it now, it was okay, and I never had to see it again. Several years later, my husband and I were visiting friends in San Francisco, and he noticed that it was playing somewhere. He had never seen it and wanted to. I had no interest (see two sentences ago), but he talked me into it. I was right in my original assessment, and I very much did not enjoy the experience.
Out of curiosity, why did you feel the need to post this?
Obviously, the movie was enjoyed and has people who enjoy it to this day.
And why are you apologizing? These are your beliefs. You knew your comment may offend/sadden/insult others, so why post it all?
If saying I didn't much like a movie is offensive or insulting, without more, then it's clear I'm in the wrong place. Somehow I think I fit in fine.
People like what they like. And some of us are, for whatever reason, not bowled over by some other people's sacred cows. It doesn't make either one of us a bad person.
Ok, so you didn't like it. Not everyone enjoys the same stuff. Every week we have a different movie with a huge variety of genres so everyone can find something that is their type of flick. I recommend checking the calendar for something you do like. https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-may-2024?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
For a whole lot of reasons, I suppose, including "I love hearing the stories of people's first viewing of this movie. It seems to bring up good memories." It felt like an invitation. I have enjoyed all your other choices that I watched, and I notice that other people have expressed low opinions of various of them without getting all jumped on.
There is a postscript. I've been involved with the North Cambridge Family Opera for twenty years. It was formed because of an operatic setting of this movie by one of the founders at least partly for the benefit of his son, who has perfect pitch and a lovely voice but is, as they say now, on the spectrum and so was not a candidate for an organization like the Boston Children's Opera. I like that version a whole lot better, with this particular show (www.familyopera.org/drupal/Space_Opera_2011#Video-Start-7) being my favorite because I'm closely related to the Oscar statue character.
I wasn't jumping on you. I say the same thing to anyone who says they don't like whatever is being shown. It is not an insult to say it's okay that we like different things and I had hoped you would read it understanding my intent. I want people to know there are options. I want people to find something to enjoy on movie night. I think people know me well enough to understand that I am not a person who jumps on anyone. The whole mood of movie night is positive and I want everyone who participates to get something good out of it. ETA: I cannot control what other people write.
Hmmmph. I saw Star Wars on the day I passed the driver's test and got my DL. In a theatre. It was the only time in my memory when my dad sat in a theatre for a movie.
B/c you were the driver? :)
I don't remember such details.
🤔..😐
I remember seeing it when I was a kid, with my dad, when it first came out but we had to wait a day before we could get in as it was selling out and there were lines around the block.
Another one to remember 'round these parts: I saw last night somewhere that Lizzo's b'day is 4/27. So there's that.
I am watching/listening to a documentary about the Ravensbuck concentration camp, the camp built immediately after Auschwitz intended for female prisoners. The horror and suffering that occurred there makes my blood run cold.
It also make me extremely angry and aggressively resentful regarding too many filthy fucking Nazis goose-stepping arrogantly and threateningly among us right now.
Something else that's haunting me at the moment is something my mother did when I was about 14 or 15 years old when I began studying the history of the camps and learning the details of the nightmares deliberately instigated within.
One afternoon my mother looked over my shoulder curiously where I was curled up on the couching intently studying one of the LIFE WWII hardcover history books I'd taken down to read from our big bookcase in the family room. After perusing the page headers and pictures of Ravensbruck in front of me my mother patted me on the shoulder and said, "That's where the Nazis would have sent YOU".
I don't know why, but that has always bothered me.
I can think of at least five reasons why. Sorry you have that memory.
Nice day yesterday. Morning drove daughter around to run some of her errands, and then in the afternoon drove son around for his (neither of them drive, for various good reasons). Son and I picked up groceries and he carried everything upstairs for me, then we made dinner together. He cut, pounded, and breaded wienerschnitzel while I made potato salad and Caesar salad. His boss gave us a nice bottle of Gewürztraminer because some of his errands were for her, so we drank it. First time I've made wienerschnitzel with panko, works just fine.
Then he went off to do whatever he does on Saturday night with his buddies, and I had another glass of wine and slowly cleaned up while listening to podcasts.
I wish my health was a little better, but otherwise, my life is close to perfect.
I just LOVE a good Gewrurtz! I am even more delighted that you enjoyed such a pleasant day yesterday, agony.
Doing favours for the owner of a liquor store is always a correct choice.
"Look, Governor- I won't lie. Things are looking bad for you right now."
"The puppy thing?"
"...Well, yes. Fucking obviously 'the puppy thing'. You shot a fucking puppy. People don't like that."
"Strange."
"So here's what we're gonna do to try and fix things. We're going to put you in a zoo with a bunch of other baby animals that are... and I can't believe I have to say this... cuter than puppies."
"Like what?"
"Baby tapirs, baby sloths, baby... is that a hammer?"
"It is a hammer."
"Then not the baby panda, that could spark an international incident."
"Baby ocelots."
"Governor, you haven't blinked during this entire conversation."
"[EMITS A LOW HUM LIKE A MALFUNCTIONING NEON LIGHT]"
"Oh. You're having one of your moments."
Good lord, don't let her get near the baby elephants!
[rusty chainsaw noise]
!!
Do NOT give that woman any ideas...
A good walk around the flea this morning, yielded a new 6qt electric White Mountain ice cream maker for $20. And a spigoted, graduated 10 gallon stainless pot someone had used for melting candle wax for $10.
SCORE!
Well damned done, indeed!
Ah, Sunday mornings my degenerate friends and I would often wander around the flea market in Daytona, higher as fuck. So many cheap socks!
I think most of my socks are from there.
Easy, easy like Sunday morning.
I am having a really hard time processing the fact that the literal thing action movies and Garth Ennis comics have their villains do to show the audience that they don't need to get all bogged down in the complex reasons "evil" exists and the multifaceted causes of crime to know THIS CHARACTER IS FUCKING EVIL is something a current candidate for VP for the Republican Party is boasting about having done.
She had to bring something new to the table --- prancing around in the light of day with neo-Nazis is *so* 2023.
You know who also killed his dog?
GOP 2024: Composite Hitler Party
Your own
Personalized
Hitler
Someone to give you a reich
That you would like
"Listen, Governor, I really think most people watching that movie thought 'hold on a minute, John Wick is definitely over reacting'."
Noem even said that if she were a better politician then she wouldn't tell the story which means a part of her knew it was horrible. Makes me wonder what she isn't telling us. Talk about skeletons in the closet.
I picture the ghost writer of her 'book' asking "What don't the stupid citified libs understand about authentic farm life?" and this was what the idiot came up with.
What it tells me is that she's pulling the "I'm not a politician" shtick that all politicians pull.
Or all those television shows and movies twenty years ago justifying torture with "I have to do it to protect my family!"
See, a career politician would have had the sense to claim that the dog was terminally ill and showing signs that it was time to go.
Or had become a significant danger to all the baby lambs.
Even then, rehoming would be the expected remedy.
Nancy Mace in an interview this morning demonstrating how MAGA shitgibbons won't answer questions about their king of the shitgibbons:
Q: What do you think about Trump's lawyers at the Supreme Court saying "it depends" in response to the question that a president could legally order the assassination of a political rival"?
N.M.: WHAT IS THIS, A CLICKBAIT INTERVIEW?
(no answer to the question)
Q; What do you think about Trump being on trial for his porn star payoff?
N.M.: DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO BILL CLINTON WAS?
(no answer to the question)
N.M.: WHAT IS THIS, A CLICKBAIT INTERVIEW?
Well it wasn't, but it is now. Thank you for doing that.
janx!
<<N.M.: WHAT IS THIS, A CLICKBAIT INTERVIEW?>>
Yes, now that you mention it, assholes refusing to answer questions that they well and should have expected to be asked IS good clickbait. Thanks for that.
After all this time, The Clenis still has power.
tfg is on trial for fraudently obscuring where the money was coming from and going to, as he corruptly attempted to influence an election.
"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."
~ Elwood P. Dowd
I thought the answer was "pretty."
I love that quote.
ME. TOO.
Simba taking a break from his astrophysics lessons.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2F67556eb8-30d8-4f8c-9df5-a6ed31c40571%2Fb2e31e4a-6375-4070-a76f-d39952227426.jpeg
Sifting x-ray data for evidence of superheavies will recommence after the fizzy water break.
It's sparkling heavy water.
Skol!
Simba!! Looks real ummm ummm ummm interested? in astrophysics.
Plus Simba!! for the win.
Wait 'til he starts studying the Cat's Eye Nebula!
Do you know that I love you?
Well, I do.
I don't have anythere for you.
But, I do love you.
Even you.
Good the night, loved ones.
Wishing you a most restful repose and the sweetest possible dreams. [kisses your forehead softly/tucks the ben linens more snuggly around you]
Gunite.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗲 '𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗚𝗢𝗣’𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲'
https://www.rawstory.com/comer-biden-impeachment-2667929762/
I love that this was their best effort.
"I tried making chocolate mousse, and this is my best effort."
"Is that dogshit in a little plastic cup?"
"No."
"It looks... and smells... like dogshit in a little plastic cup."
"No, it's not."
"What is it then?"
"MOSTLY in a little plastic cup."
Nail. Hammer. Hit.
What a bunch of lightweights. Newt and company spent 30 years investigating Hillary and only came up with her cookie recipe was taken from the back of a bag of chocolate chips, but they didn't give up.
And how many millions of OUR tax dollar$ were wasted on this performative GOP bullshit?
It was also the worst efforts of the GOP's best people.
"The impeachment effort may be over, but the damage is irreparable."
~ NYT, probably
[thumbs nose indignantly and delivers enthusiastic Bronx cheer]
Beavis and Butthead will have to go back to working at the burger joint.
Or attending AI talks.
Oh good lord.
The hed is the TL,DR, but there's a good photo of a Tesla that auto parked itself under a firetruck...
𝗠𝗔𝗬𝗕𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗡 𝗜𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗗 —
𝗧𝗲𝘀𝗹𝗮’𝘀 𝟮 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗿 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆
Tesla's lousy week continues. On Tuesday, the electric car maker posted its quarterly results showing precipitous falls in sales and profitability. Today, we've learned that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is concerned that Tesla's massive recall to fix its Autopilot driver assist—which was pushed out to more than 2 million cars last December—has not actually made the system that much safer. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/feds-concerned-some-of-teslas-autopilot-recall-was-opt-in-reversible/
Seeing quite a few Rivian vehicles around here. 3.5 hours from SF and the Tesla influx since covid has made the car an adjective and verb in many conversations. Rivian models fit in to the landscape so-to-speak and do not invite such ridicule.
Don't ban it, require car makers to indemnify the car owner. When it is good enough that insurance companies will cover it, it will be good enough for the road.
Why is it that when Tesla pushes new software, it's called a recall but when Microsoft does it it's called Tuesday?
Maybe Tesla should test their software more before they field it, if they want to be that dependent on software.
Totally agree on indemnification. There could be no clearer signal that it's ready.
When the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is involved, it's a recall
https://www.tesladeaths.com/#dttable
I am not defending Felon Skum, but every time Tesla pushes new code, regardless of what is being changed including when NHTSA has nothing to do with it, the media calls it a recall. It is the only company where that happens.
Of all the autonomous vehicles companies, only one is practicing bad faith on the scale of Tesla
You all are something Something.
.
Can't you all be kind?
Kind of sort of?
Yup, pretty much.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝘂𝗽 𝗮 𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲
𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘎 𝘚𝘶𝘭𝘻𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳-𝘮𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳-𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺.
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/the-new-york-times-can-piss-up-a?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Daddy Daddy'sbucks can go fuck himself.
Sometimes, it's the old standards that are best
A. G. (Call me 𝘋𝘢𝘴𝘩) Sulzeberger is the twerp's twerp, utterly irredeemable and a living, breathing Dunning Krueger example, a fuckin' 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦. He's the sixth generation in the publisher's seat, but coincidentally, the Ochs-Sulzberger Family Trust controls all the voting shares of an ostensibly public company. It's become a risible vanity project for a person who should hire a psychiatrist.
"Dash"? Srsly??? LOL
Flinstones for the win! (Dash Riprock)
where I live...
why, just yesterday I exchanged greetings with a grown woman called 'Bitsy' and a recognizable surname
I guess 𝘚𝘬𝘪𝘱 was taken.
What a tool.
I kept reading past the Sulzberger stuff (yes, I am a masochistic idiot) and saw this:
"Republicans’ newest cash-grab effort involves a Donald Trump running mate hopeful and her tale of shooting dead the family dog.
"The National Republican Congressional Committee Friday sent out an email alert hawking signed copies of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s forthcoming memoir, 'No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.'"
Leave it to the GOP to turn sociopath Kristi Noem's bid to become the most demented Marry/Fuck/Kill player of all time into yet another rube-fleece.
They're consistent, ya gotta admit.
They absolutely don't have ANYTHING likable.
All they have is fear, conspiracy "theories", and threats.
The GOP has truly sunk to the bottom.
*Putin laughing gif*
I read that as confirmation rather than an instruction.
That's exactly how it translates in reality.
There was a very well written, and excellently performed, sitcom in the UK called Yes, Minister.
It was a satire on politics, which largely boiled down to the inefficiency and control of the unelected bureaucracy that is the Civil Service- with some satire also directed at the vanity of the titular minister (later Prime Minister).
It is excellent, in the manner of classic set up and payoff gag sitcoms, and, again, the cast was note-perfect throughout.
It was also quoted by politicians including Margaret Thatcher, and cited as one of their favourite programmes.
There is another sitcom, beautifully written and terrifyingly well performed, called The Thick of It.
It mocked the culture of New Labour and the spin doctors who drove its policy.
It was savage, brutal and delivered some of the greatest insults ever shown on television.
Politicians started to say they liked it. Ed Miliband quoted it in the House of Commons.
The writers ended it.
If you are satirising politicians and they start quoting you and joining in, you are no longer effective. You aren't their critic, you are their joster. Jester. Sorry.
(Malcolm Tucker is my spirit animal)
The wife and I watched Yes Minister about a decade ago and even though it took place in the UK way to much of it spoke to what we both encountered during our regular government civil service jobs.
Jesus, remember Ed Miliband?
They picked the wrong Miliband.
Thank you very much. I'd forgotten the little twerp's leadership and even his "I'm actually a normal bloke" chat show rehabilitation tour.
A brilliant series!