In the UK and Australia, yes

Fox News wasn’t founded until 1996 so the internet actually predates “reactionaries shoveling Murdoch bullshit”

Shawshank Redemption was a book. The Godfather was a book. Lord of the Rings, Forrest Gump, Fight Club, Goodfellas, Silence of the Lambs… That’s just from the first 25 of IMDB’S top 250.

The Thing is a remake. The Fly was a remake. Scarface, The Departed, The Mummy… all remakes.

The problem isn’t remakes or adaptations, the problem is they’re shit remakes and adaptations. Nobody cares that The Batman was the 75th adaptation of Batman, because it was good.

The fines start small, it’s the same in the EU. Then they get bigger until you’re being threatened with 40% of worldwide revenue.

For the conservatives, this is 2900 Abrams tanks or 362 1/2 F-35A fighters.

Tourists in Edinburgh be like

It’s a shame the LK-99 hype has lead to LK-99 backlash because influencers couldn’t make it in their backyard.

LK-99 isn’t “the one” but most signs show it’s on the right track and if we can work out the manufacturing technique for this class of materials it will change everything.

Dude has ruined multiple generations

Yeah I’m surprised I have anyone following me, this is creepy

So instead we allow known, unelected bad actors like Musk free reign, to protect us from hypothetical elected future bad actors?

Uh, the last time we heard this it was the Russians in Ukraine and the ICC finds those claims credible enough to investigate.

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We tried not censoring the internet and it hasn’t worked

If it makes you feel better, think of it as Europe defederating from Twitter

“Hey Israel called and they asked about when we’re going to delete all the posts celebrating dead Israelis? Sorry Linda are you still there? You’ve gone silent. Linda???”

Only 2 people were killed in Arrival, I don’t want to get all Stalin but is that a huge number?

Wait, there’s a University for Rice?

Why does Mr. Vader not just simply login to the droids to find the rebels?

It wouldn’t have gotten nearly as much visibility if gamers didn’t know who the dude was

Which is what a malevolent AI capable of mass misinformation operations would say

The problem is we’re not treating it like an emergency.

During COVID world governments provided basically infinite resources to promising vaccine candidates. We developed brand new types of vaccines for a novel virus in a third of the time it takes us to make existing vaccines for well known viruses. We are not doing the same for promising battery technologies.

We could also be regulating the market for smarter use of the lithium we have. Lithium batteries for stationary mass storage (“big batteries”) are completely pointless, except maybe as part of virtual power networks. Subsidising and incentivising recycling and recovery of lithium from waste is another low hanging fruit we seem to not be bothering with.

Absolutely it’s true for a global emergency threatening to destroy the global ecosystem, a local ecosystem and cultural site is a sensible sacrifice (not withstanding that we shouldn’t be in this scenario in the first place.)

But we have barely scratched the surface in terms of alternative options and it’s fair to be frustrated when you’re the one expected to sacrifice when other options have not really been tried.