Wyrd Sisters is my problematic fave. The voices and designs have permanently altered how I imagine the characters. Unfortunately, like most Discworld adaptations, the pacing is ludicrous and the dialog is too faithful to the book, to the point where you can't actually follow what's going on unless you already know the story.

the only Discworld adaptation I like is Going Postal, fite me

death looks weird in this one

Arsenic is natural to

too bad for him Piersy boy is all about those television rattingz, baby! (i assume)

If this happened under Trump, we'd have never heard the end of it.

Fuck, it's still weird that it hasn't been the main story (pre-:luigi-dance:, of course). If this happened 10 years ago, FOX News would have had a great big ticker under every segment that said WEEKS:DAYS:HOURS:MIN:SEC that OBAMNA has left Our astronauts STRANDED!!!

Hey, there's always China. Are they perfect? No, nobody is. But they were good enough Fidel thought the strategy could work

Imagine going into a store where there are two kinds of shirts. One is created by slave labor and the other is not. Would you accept someone saying, well I’m used to the kind of t-shirt created by slaves and these are already made anyway so why would I bother choosing the other? My point is of course if your medication contains animal product no animal liberation militant or vegan will berate you for using it, but when the alternative is literally 5 feet away in the same grocery store or a few blocks away then the arguments stops working.

You can draw a parallel to what Lenin says about compromises in "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder. A striker compromising with their oppressor because their strike fund is empty is not the same as a strike-breaker "compromising" with the oppressor. Some compromise are justifiable, others are not. Here you are "compromising" with your morals because you’re used to meat.

That's a fair assessment. I have been justifying it to myself by thinking, If I were to go out and hunt a dear or catch a fish, it would be disrespectful to take something's life AND be wasteful with it... but that's not really the same thing. It's a hunter-gatherer framing that doesn't translate to this situation.

yeah, but it was anti-communist in a weirdly liberal way. Like, it established that, yes, the equalist's have real greivences against benders and a political system that makes them second class citizens. But! Their leader was a Hypocrite (the worst thing you can be), and so everyone went home and did something else with their lives. Like, what? You're just leaving it there? They didn't even finish the story they wrote!

for a guy who prides himself on his Machiavellian big-brain-ed-ness, agreeing to this interview was really dumb

like, surely he realizes putting himself in the spotlight is a mistake? I thought his whole thing was being influential from the shadows. His elitist politics doesn't really hold up to direct UV radiation.

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season 3 was good and I liked the flashback episodes in season 2

1 didn't understand it's own politics and 4 was abysmally bad

Do you have any resources or examples that might clearly demonstrate what idealism is and isn't?

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Leauge of Nations? That's practically the UN. And we all know the UN is a Globalist plot for the Big Corps to install Cultural Marxist FEMA camps in our Wall Marts

anecdotal, but I knew a guy who knew a guy who did contract work analyzing soil for companies

Combination of pesticides and fertilizer get you stuck in a loop of constantly buying more of each to combat the long-term effects of last year's fertilizer and pesticides. Also, apparently cannabis growers are the most egregious of these industrial agriculture producers. Being in a weird space with federal regulations, there isn't much oversight in regard to the sort of fertilizer and pesticides they use, so it ends up being the very worst sorts available.

The Soviet supply chain was a disaster, and many of its machines barely worked.

this "disaster supply chain" lasted beyond the collapse of the government and was delivering US astronauts to the ISS long after NASA lost that capacity

you mean the one that should have gotten Bashier's medical license revoked?

I liked Ancestral Night and The Machine by Elizabeth Bear, though these are far-future space stories

I get why people latch on to Tuvix as a demonstration of Janeway at her worst, but honestly that's nothing. Like, she helped the Borg in assimilating another species just to shave a few years off the journey home.

to be fair, animation has a much higher production cost than live-action actors mostly re-using the same sets and costuming week after week