We took a personification of disease, and made him Health Secretary. Dafuq did we expect would happen?

Shitting ourselves is far from the worst case scenario here.

• AI

• Increasing Productivity

Pick one.

Or if we are, at least enable the whole “hard work pays off” myth. Money makes the world go round, but we’ve made a system that’ll just grind you down if you really dedicate yourself to it.

Can’t imagine why that isn’t working out.

Definitely adjacent. The distinction as I understand it basically boils down whether or not there’s magic.

Like Star Wars has a lot of sci fi elements, but then space wizards who use ‘the force’ which is just space magic. Fantasy.

Dune I’m less familiar with - never read the books. Saw the first movie but was kinda distracted and never have it my full attention. Main character definitely showed some magic super power stuff, but idr much outside of that.

Most of them kinda toggle back and forth, like Interstellar is mostly sci-fi with a sprinkling of fantasy up until the black hole scene, then it’s mostly fantasy with a sprinkling of science.

Or there’s Star Trek, which of mostly grounded in actual science and theory, but it’s got a sprinkle of space magic here and there too.

Not many purebreds.

Wormholes always kinda rubbed me wrong in sci-fi. They’re always depicted in a way that screams fantasy, not science, with only one exception that comes to mind, which was Interstellar’s depiction of a wormhole as a sphere, even taking the time to explain why it looks that way.

The only got it half right though, since as soon as they enter the sphere it’s straight back to the fantasy BS with the blue tunnel. That scene could have been a really cool transition of entering the one ‘side’ of the sphere while exiting the other simultaneously. Cut from the crew’s perspective seeing lens-like distortion of the stars, to an external view of the ship moving into the sphere.

I kinda feel like that’s how they intended to do that scene, with the whole buildup about the sphere, but decided to throw a nod to oldschool science fantasy for some reason.

Oh well. They got it half right, and that half was pretty fucking sick - it was the first presentation of a wormhole that didn’t instantly yoink me out of suspension of disbelief. Until the blue tunnel ofc, at which point, yoink.

To answer OP’s question, I guess for me it’s less a specific concept as it is presenting something possible only in theory in a believable way. The whole lens-distortion style transition would have been way less flashy, but less can be more.

Oh fuck no. There are a handful of people from highschool I wouldn’t mind catching up with, but the vast majority of them I either never met well enough to form an opinion, or actively disliked.

…and as long as it’s been, every single one of us is a completely different person now. It’d basically be like meeting a few hundred complete strangers. And at that point, I can just go to a bar or something and meet complete strangers right here - why travel to reunion for that?

Excellent! *champagne*

Can we still celebrate the sudden reduction in evil secondary to his death?

Yeah the whole ‘moral high ground’ shit of not wishing death on anyone only serves to protect evil people from vigilante justice.

The best response to a tumor is excision.

…what happens if he gets cut in half, perfectly midline/saggital and the two halves are separated so they can’t just heal back into eachother?

Does each side heal into a separate whole Wolverine?

You could pin his left side down onto some kind of reciprocating base that moves adjacent to a razor or saw, and just time the back and forth motion to correlate with his regeneration.

Basically a deli meat cutter, but used to print an army of Logans. Or a literal deli meat slicer depending on how you plan on using the Logans.

Have the comics/movies tackled this yet?

Absolutely. That dude was likely personally responsible for a good handful of these policies. Nowadays I’d be willing to bet that he’s either in jail or actively flirting with it.

Or dead.

I mean, is there some other major threat to the US at this time?

Political messaging analyst here. It says they’re going to save the US.

There’s nuance here. If it’s ‘bad’ as in like the meat is still raw, or there’s a lump of the chef’s hair wadded up in it, then yeah it’s refund time.

If it’s ‘bad’ as in they made it properly but you didn’t like it, just suck it up and don’t order it next time. It’s good to try new things, but you can’t expect all of them to be a banger. The number of people I’ve seen punish the restaurant for giving them exactly what they asked for is kinda bonkers.

Some of them went over the top the try to ‘make it right’. Dude I went to highschool with did this shit almost like it was a hobby. He’d call the customer support line and complain about whatever bullshit he could come up with - gummy lump in his drink, hard flake in his bag of chips that 'might have been a fingernail!… they’d take his number and address, and that was usually the end of it.

Then occasionally a box would randomly show up at his front door with like 50 bottles of soda or candy bars or w/e, and a letter apologizing for the trouble lol.

Manipulative little shit. And that was when we were like 14 years old… dude’s probably running his own organized crime ring nowadays. xD

Medical professional here!

…can it wait till I finish my coffee?