This reminds me of something…gaining favor of the ruler is key to your advancement.

I hear those checks and balances are starting to look a little unreliable.

Ok, fair enough.

I’m not from the US so my understanding of your system is surface level.

Could he give himself the power to do this?

What is to stop Biden from cancelling the upcoming election?

Being now his powers are effectively unchecked, couldn’t he just call off the election as an official act. Rather than stupid shit like ordering assassination or deploying the military, just say “I’m cancelling the election until such time this ruling is overturned and a constitutional amendment is enacted that states that the president is not immune from criminal prosecution”

The guy seems fine after treatment… Not a great experience though.

Great!

The early over the top hacker aesthetic, the ridiculous adversarial hacker battle, the complete misunderstanding of what hacking actually involved (the world has changed). It is all awesome.

Some of the stuff they got right is also cool, the social engineering is still a thing.

Also because of my age when it came out (1995)…I would have seen it in 96/97, I was in my late teens.

Yes.

It is a really cool take on time travel, really mind bending on the first watch. Once you have seen it a few times and understand the way things work, it kind of loses some of the entertainment value.

Primer

Cube

The matrix

Hackers

To kill a mockingbird

So many…

As a friend of mine said some years ago “VLC will play a slice of cucumber” that pretty much sums it up.

The lucky 10000

New Zealand

We use this one also

We like it that way

And I walk with my human legs. Nothing to see here.

Statistically 2.1 births/woman is required to replace the current population.

As for the economic argument, your friend is somewhat correct, except that economies don’t just grow or shrink based on population (it is a major driver). There are too many factors at play to make such a statement.

The finite earth argument is interesting, whilst we are the biggest danger to the biosphere in the short run, we are also the biggest hope. In the long run the biosphere will sort itself out after we are out of the picture.
Taking this argument a little further, we may be the only hope for an intelligent civilisation from this planet. We have taken all of the easy energy resources; which take millions of years to regenerate; so any intelligent civilisation that follows after us will not have the luxury of cheap abundant energy.
So we either sort our shit out, become space faring, and move on with the next phase of the human experiment, or the likelihood of intelligence leaving earth is quite low.

We could, reduce ourselves content to “save” the earth and exist here in perpetuity, but I don’t really see that happening. There will always be those that dream and strive, if humans still exist in 10,000 years they will be spacefaring.

Not quite pseudoscience, there was an effect that they thought they measured. Later more rigorous experiments showed that there was no such effect.

This is exactly what science is supposed to do.

Seems like a generalized comment.

Probably less than 100 years, I live in New Zealand…

Whatever you do, don’t talk to the kid if you are not in the room. Two way monitor is a bug not a feature.

Made that mistake once, kid was crying I thought it would be comforting to hear me… Nope, disembodied voice freaked the fuck out of the poor little dude.

The extra 30-40s of crying while I walk up stairs is way better than the hour of hugs to get him back to sleep.

1987: Amiga 500, and it had the extra 1MB RAM module to plug in the side.
1997: built my first PC, Pentium 150, also had a voodoo 2 graphics accelerator and a 2.1GB quantum fireball HDD.
1997: got my first cell phone, Alcatel one touch easy.
2003: first laptop, had a pentium 3 800?