RoidingOldMan
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- Comment on AI 2027 6 hours ago:
It also suggests that by 2029 we could have “an incredibly luxurious universal basic income.” Which seems… idk pretty absurd here in 2026.
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- Comment on What's your favorite Steve Wood role? 1 day ago:
The Reservoir of the Dogs
- Comment on The Chicken of Hormuz 5 days ago:
“It will be an easy Military Operation for them”
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 6 days ago:
Another example of the ‘gone native’ plot line in the wake of Dances With Wolves. Pocahontas had the advantage of Dances With Wolves coming out first. So it smoothed some of those edges. s/ Maybe it’s more based on Pocahontas than the Best Picture winner /s.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 6 days ago:
But in Vietnam.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 6 days ago:
There was a YouTube trend of making Avatar trailers with the audio but then using the graphics for movies like Fern Gully and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001).
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 6 days ago:
Ad Astra (2019) is Apocalypse Now (1979) but in space.
Avatar (2009) is Dances with Wolves (1990) but in space.
- Comment on Could my daughter, who is a lawyer, defend my son’s girlfriend, who killed my cousin’s family in a DUI accident? 1 week ago:
Is there any chance the daughter would be on the witness list or be deposed? Because I think that’s the line where it would stop making any sense. A judge isn’t gonna want one of the lawyers on the witness list, because then do they cross examine themselves? It would require a 2nd lawyer for at least those parts.
- Comment on How do Superheroes or villians get their suits on is there like a magical zipper or something? Or how do they do it? 1 week ago:
The Flash keeps his suit inside his ring. Clark Kent wears the Superman outfit underneath. Batman is night time only. Wonder Woman has an invisible airplane to change in if she needs to, but mostly she just dresses like that.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 1 week ago:
There is a conflict still. First, you want unfiltered confession meaning no moderation. But then you don’t want it to become a safe space for criminals, which would require moderating. If you don’t moderate the content, it’ll quickly take on a life of its own and that won’t be the helpful thing you’re imagining.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 1 week ago:
There are so many ways for this to become incredibly toxic and unhelpful, my first thought is it could become a support group for all types criminals/abusers to share tips and tricks anonymously.
At least the Catholics and therapists have someone there trying to steer things in a helpful direction. Like maybe you could tweak this idea to anonymous therapy rather than anonymous confession, and then people could view people going through therapy online and maybe find helpful tips for their own lives.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 1 week ago:
If a room becomes toxic, people simply stop entering it.
How would this have stopped 4chan? People still go to those toxic message boards.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 1 week ago:
What would stop it from becoming 4chan?
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 1 week ago:
The Catholics have had that for thousands of years. So maybe there is something to it.
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 1 week ago:
We were never gonna get the carbon thing under control.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not disagreeing with any of that. But I feel like the hard line for me is if he’s officially running for a 3rd term. That would be the only line left to cross.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 2 weeks ago:
The last several wars didn’t have a draft.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There’s always a chance someone screenshots the page before you delete or edit, but seems like doing both steps improves the chances of it being fully inaccessible later.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not sure if it really deletes it more completely, but first edit your post and replace it with a period and THEN delete.
- Comment on Subtitling a video, what is this sound called? 2 weeks ago:
It’s something played backwards.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Right now, and for the last 10 years or so, seems like Russia is in control of much of the political narrative. Since the internet unified the world, I definitely feel more of the Russian influence than before.
- Comment on Barack Obama is the youngest living former or active president 2 weeks ago:
He died in 2024.
- Comment on Barack Obama is the youngest living former or active president 2 weeks ago:
That’s like 4 people.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 3 weeks ago:
Here are images of the moon’s surface where you can make out details like rover tracks.
- Comment on What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it? 3 weeks ago:
Some families are much more connected to their home country than others. Americans 3rd gen and beyond often have very little connection. The issue is where Irish culture is distinctly different from Irish-American culture, Italian different than Italian-American. You can’t go “back” to the home country and fit in. It’s not the same.
- Comment on An old excuse 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 3 weeks ago:
Without cars there would be A LOT more people on the sidewalk. In the past, before cars, there were so many more people on the street it’s not even funny.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 3 weeks ago:
So why was NOW the time? What’s the USA really gaining here with these strikes?