@gpork@a_g_haubner because no one gives a fuck about FIBA. the olympics has always been the premier international tournament for bball and no amount of FIBA trying to make the bball world cup a thing will displace that
@pvyarty@Borednboring55 yes let's make the terrorist character palestinian. i think him being a victim of the holocaust and using that as reasoning/justification for his actions is more compelling and certainly better fits into an anti-zionist narrative.
@Choppedworld there is this idea that "prequel fans" hate Andor and it's really dumb. I love the prequels and Andor, and think Andor is better than anything prequel related other than maybe the ROTS novelisation. Star Wars Theory and his ilk are hardly representative.
@arakkosuperstar it's all because bisexual became the common term. If the common term did not implicitly indicate attraction to two sexes this wouldn't happen. too late now ofc
@nath_ri_@writerofscratch they use mentats (human computers) to actually fly the thing, and you don't necessarily need a computer to build a spaceship. I'm not sure the propulsion method but just imagine a real life rocket where instead of computers it's just a guy doing all the calculations.
@43344434frf@writerofscratch electronic devices yes, computers no. From God Emperor of Dune: "The Tleilaxu had assured him that the Great Convention remained in force and that mechanical computers were still anathema."
All thinking machines, including calculators, computers and ai were banned.
@buffalochickman@AjDuxche You're an idiot. The dude that sucker punched him is lucky that he doesn't have to deal with the guilt of accidentally killing him. Punching someone like that is incredibly dangerous.
@2layzy this is so far from why the left failed online. i don't even necessarily disagree with your other points (though i'm not tapped in enough to know). It failed because most people don't give a shit about what doesn't affect them. They don't care about anti-blackness unfortunately