CitizenKong

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Also social media sequestering people in cozy filter bubbles that distort reality.

Social media, or more precisely, algorithms designed to create ever growing engagement by feeding into confirmation bias and only showing you stuff you like, have destroyed the ability of critical thinking in a majority of people.

This doesn't only apply to the right spectrum either, as evidenced by all the "hopium" articles here and on r/politics that were trying to construct a blue win or even a blue wave when all polls pointed to a Trump advantage. I had fallen into that trap myself. And everybody was also smugly making fun of the articles in r/conservative predicting the same thing for Trump. Well, turns out they were right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Doom in the comics is more like movie Thanos than comic Thanos. Comic Thanos is legitimately mad and killed half the universe just to impress Mistress Death (she was not impressed).

He's basically Stark, Strange and Black Panther rolled into one, with the arrogance of Strange and Stark dialed to eleven.

He's completely capable of doing very evil shit to reach his goals but also has moral principles. He has tried to kill the Fantastic Four countless times and is still the godfather of the daughter of Reed and Sue. Her first word was "Doom".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Well, he never says he's evil but is certainly seen as a villian: Dr. Victor van Doom. He's actually glimpsed all possible timelines of humanity and only the one where he reigns is not ending in destruction. https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-4d9668819558c73a8fda43cd4bc0ef0a-lq He is also loved by the people of the country he does rule. And when he had indeed managed to rule the world, it was a time of peace. I mean, mind control peace (he amplified the power of Kilgrave the Purple Man) but still.

If you're asking yourself why Kilgrave didn't simply control him, Doom is one of the few people with so much natural willpower that Kilgrave's powers don't work on him: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/e8/c8/d5e8c8ee71120993b8616128b08a6a22.jpg

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

CITIZEN! DO NOT BE ALARMED! YOU WILL FEEL A SMALL TICKLING SENSATION AND THEN DEATH!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (5 children)

He'll probably write something more like: "HEY, Mr. Chat! Make me, TRUMP, the GREATEST health car PLAN ever, better than that of LAME and corrupt OBOMA!!!!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Weird Al: good weird Trump: bad weird

It's not rocket science.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Yep, and it was actually made over a long time, whenever the actors were between projects and a few days of shooting playing something different sounded nice. Also, each famous actor was used to goad the next. (Specifically, the Hugh Jackman-Kate Winslet segment which was shot first.) And the segments themselves were also directed by stars like Bob Odenkirk or Elizabeth Banks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's what I've been saying for years. "Superheroes" is a flavour, not a genre. Just like "cops" or "soldiers". You can do any sort of movie genre with those flavours. The problem is that too often movie studios go with the safe option of "action comedy".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In Germanic folklore, kobolds just look like small people that are often also depicted as being green and having large ears. They are spirits of the home and sometimes benevolent and sometimes mischievous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Well yeah, it's articifical intelligence, not idiocy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I, for one, welcome our inevitable AI overlords.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well, the UX Design Team has to justify their existence somehow. And if there's one thing they're good at, it's wowing management with snazzy presentations.

Making a snazzy presentation about the necessary overhaul of the data structure of the ingest system architecture is also just generally harder then just showing a flashy, colorful click dummy of the new homepage.

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