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Think long and hard about your answer, my precious sibling in the capsule of love and strength, and/or you pathetic smoking pile of ash!

May the 'balls surround you, friend, as they surround me!

Torvalds of Film vibes.

The world's best troll will be when this project gains a critical mass of publicity and Obama himself agrees to play the role of trump. Then several voice coaches would volunteer to help Obama perfectly reproduce Trump's slurred speeches and memorable lines.

Or maybe it goes in the opposite direction, where he emphasizes his own trademark mannerisms in order to erase any similarity to Trump. He'd be wearing a tan suit, a blue tie, and be all "Look. Uhhh... Nothing bad... can happen! It uh, it can only good happen. But with Tylenol, don’t take it. Don’t take it!”

I think the answer to the question she asks is that an unholy alliance of focus groups, market analysts, and accountants have calculated that the Path to Most Money (tm) goes over in the opposite direction, away from the fun stuff.

I'm sure there's usually good low budget feature-length stuff out there being made, but in today's media landscape it's up to the viewer to find interesting and unique content. It isn't going to be blasted into the faces of all the passive viewers like Avengers 37 will be.

I still can't get over the amount of open public support he gets from people in the US. It's like we are so fucking lazy that we just absorb whatever propaganda is blinking in front of us at the time.

Or maybe that's what I'm hoping is the case for most people rather than being well-informed true believers.

I think his internal answer is "it doesn't matter" but the narcissism gives him just enough energy to continue to gaslight, obstruct, and project to keep the attention flowing.

I think we would flip it around, like:

Oh no, the BEST code ever written is the stuff that's never written.

Well, maybe that's second best only to deleting code. Why stop at zero when your amount written can go negative?

Eh, unless you disqualify the latter because it's actual work making the project or product better. I leave that up to the reader.

I had to go find that onion post. Most of it is funny stuff about wanting prices to be higher for no particular reason, but this got me at the end:

"I figure anyone who sells oil knows better than I do what to do with my money. As my grandmother used to say, the higher the gas price, the closer to God.”

The absurdity is still there, yeah, but it's just too close to reality. I'm an old white guy born in the Trumpian Farmlands of Pennsyltucky, and it shook me a bit. That first line especially... They wouldn't say it out loud because they have to maintain the iamverybadass facade, but they live to be a cog in the machine, to serve the higher life form that will be their salvation. It's almost like their god, their cult leader, and their president can be the same person. And that's before we address the part where they chose one of the worst humans possible.

Unfortunately if there is any difference between these two takes it's that the real-life person says the quiet part out loud.

Another insightful behind-the-scenes USA perspective from me:

1980s: Please do not use drugs. They seem great at first but you don't want to get hooked.

2020s: Please DO use the AIs. They seem like shit at first, but you DO want to get hooked because we have about a trillion dollars in new mortgages to keep up with.