Meh, I thought is a railway crossing two oceans.
ExLisper
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Yeah, I'm going to remove those from my walls now...
Now say it in Spanish.
People already are stupid. Youtube and facebook made sure of that.
I meant "today" in SF sense, like current century vs some time 1000 years from now :) Of course your right, the battle scenes were inspired by WW2 movies.
My favorite SF warfare descriptions come from Banks. Battleships firing at each other from light years away or hiding inside suns, everything controlled by AI, microsecond long battles. Absolutely not adaptable to screen.
Deal. Let's setup dead man's switches that will DM our passwords to one another if we fail to log in for a week.
I mostly agree but not completely. Yes, Sanchez is a very much just a masterful liar but him clinging to power for so long instead of handing it to PP/Vox is really a remarkable achievement. PSOE is basically a center-left party and you can't expect much from them. They are not going to implement radical reforms. And yes, Sumar does focus on empty gestures a lot but I wouldn't say they achieved nothing. They have pretty good track record in consumer protection (multiple lawsuits and fines for corporations, new laws protecting consumers) and labor reform (Spain had the fastest growing GDP out of developed countries last year). They are also the only government showing some spine when it comes to Israel. Overall, I would give them a decent 6/10. Not great but moving in the right directions. There are really few governments out there that pass this mark.
Who wants to inherit my lemmy comments?
Star Wars is a nice movie but it's a pretty mediocre SF. They mix very low and very high technology in mostly absurd ways. You have FTL and lasers but robots are mostly shit, AI is very basic and its use weirdly limited, warfare looks pretty much like today, only in space. I know they did it like this because of cinematography but as a SF it's just not that good. So I really wouldn't bother trying to rationalize the tech. It's mostly like this because "it looked nice".
12 parsecs?! Wow! And then what happened?
I think it's because Spain has one of the few truly left leaning governments. After losing local elections to right wing parties they called early parliamentary elections and run hard left in the campaign. Most governments lean right in those situations to attract some right wing voters but Spanish PM really showed were he stands and won. The minor coalition partner in the government is even more progressive so together they are not afraid to speak out. Other countries still feel endangered by the right and don't want to fight.
I bought 4 Teslas in March but only 2 in April so sounds about right.
I'm doing my part!