Brave Little Hitachi Wand

Yeah… My kid’s going to have such a bizarre sense of humour. I feel like I’m enriching comedic plutonium over here.

Can I be lazy and not write it all out?

Not all of it is for my kid, not all of it is even very good, but it’s a good bit of variety.

It lets me cut out any unnecessary credits or repetitive intros, and I have a little fun with commercial breaks sometimes. Once I put the Heinz automato robot video into the commercial break of a Mega Man cartoon. That got a big laugh.

It’s the highlight of my week. It’s great to have culture in common with my kid and to get each others references. I also like to cook big breakfasts that day, lots of waffles, bellinis, fancy stuff, fresh fruits. Real bougie with it.

I thought I might be playing it loose applying it to the case of private equity in the creative arts, but it feels right

All the best to those who counsel prudence here, all I have is an anecdote. I had a major falling out with my mom at that age, moved out with no plan. Luckily my girlfriend’s parents took me in.

It was difficult for them, and awkward, and at that age I was in hindsight a pain in the ass, but I got to spend time with a family that has real values, rituals, culture, and bonds. I got to spend time learning a little more about what kind of person I want to become.

I didn’t stay with the girl, but I owe at least bit of everything I’ve achieved in the decades since to the kindness her parents showed me. I still email them, twenty years later. I’d be a runt if I ever tried to talk anyone out of that kindness.

I curate about 90 cartoons and almost as many indie animation channels to create a weekly block of Saturday morning cartoon programming for my wife and kid.

I edit it together in kdenlive from files on my media server, and we stream it to my mini projector each weekend. Been going over a year now, only missing weeks when we’re traveling. I would love to be able to share it with a wider audience, but I’m still not sure how, given it’s all pirated.

When I find out a thing I like is the preferred option of someone whose niche fixation is that type of thing, it gives me life.

All I really want from the internet is to have a council of difficult nerds telling me what all the best shit is so I can become the perfect being.

I’m never leaving Lemmy lmao

Bad money chases out good, they say.

There’s nothing more dangerous than closeted dudes istg

It takes two to tango, they say. Corporations have a lot more wallet to vote with, as it were - but we are not powerless or blameless when we support them out of complacency.

When a cat and I both pretend to be too cool to notice each other but also walk in the same direction for a while. Happened ages ago, still riding that high.

You got me. Sonofabitch.

I think I see. To your knowledge, does any nuclear power operate in this way? I’m only slightly familiar with the US system, and I just checked the UK and from what I’m reading, both countries pretty much have the president/PM as having ultimate authority.

While checking, I also read that the UK’s submarine deterrents don’t need launch codes from the PM at all, and rely solely on military discipline to prevent an illicit launch. Not entirely germane to this talk, but it’s an interesting difference - and it’s certainly less bound up with executive power.

I will say, I got my current impression from Hardcore History. The logical insanity episode - I’m open to the idea that it’s wrong, but I’m not just going to switch views because it’s being called cold war propaganda. Can you throw me a bone here?

Many laughs

This is fake, right?

…I thought we were just having a friendly chat up until now. I know this is a touchy subject, but Lemmy is too small to mistreat one another over differences of opinion.

I’m only pointing out that nukes are fundamentally a threat to the rule of law. We can’t invent a world without them just yet, but we should at least think of them as a systemic threat to the world we’re trying to create

Back in colonial times it was very feasible to keep the executive in check. Nowadays it is a technological fact that the executive needs nuclear authority just to be in a position to make a timely counterstrike effort.

At least, this was the dogma last I checked, maybe there is enough interdiction capability now to change this dynamic. I would be delighted to learn otherwise, but given the necessity of secrecy in these things any evidence must be compelling.

That said - Until the logic of MAD ceases to prevail, there is an insane sort of game theory rationale for an executive with extensive powers, regrettably. It’s hard to see how to get past the eventual nuclear war scenario without a one world government. With nukes we are walking a tightrope, but we cannot reasonably expect to do so indefinitely.