If you think Alien 3 is a worse film than Prometheus, I think your opinion on Alien films is invalid.

Like the others so far have said, if government is to justify its continued existence it needs to be for the good of all the people, not just those with capital.

It still implies a level of hierarchy and control, which isn’t good and will tend to lead to centralisation and corruption because power tends towards collecting more power.

But if it could be making life on the ground better for all the people, (food, shelter, education, preventing the environmental destruction that private ownership has bought) not at the expense of people within or without it’s borders (even that one child in the secret basement), them it’d be a damn sight better.

I think you may have found one of the constructive stereotypes that OP wanted.

Good job.
I hope more folks can appreciate how great Sikhs often are.

I think it’s that we don’t really call them stereotypes when they’re not applied to people.

At that point it’s just a hueristic.

I rate both JohntheDuncan and Andrewism highly as not overly wanky Left politics channels.

(No, you don’t need to pad the video out with 50 minutes of intercut “plot line” where you fight with a mirror world version of you, who’s wrecking havok on the lives of your guest stars who can only be sent back by a tangentially related metaphor to the main topic of the video.)

I don’t think a stereotype can ever really be constructive, even if “positive” since it limits the space for people that don’t fit it.

A clear example of this would be that Asian people are good at Maths. Not true, and does a lot of harm to the many Asians who are not exceptionally good at Maths. (For instance that Asian University candidates are often penalised for only having average Maths grades, or just the bullying and social pressure of feeling you’re not living up to a birthright.)

I accidentally beat the Mantis Triplets far earlier than I needed to because I couldn’t find the path into the ruined capital city I was meant to take.

Long route back to fighting the optional boss to enter a far too difficult zone for me. Only after beating them and discovering that that was not where I was meant to go did I backtrack and find the turning I’d missed to actually progress. (I rather liked Hollow Knight despite this, but you don’t and that’s fine. I just think it would be funny (, and a sign of poor map design if you made the same map reading error I did).)

Vietnam, the country allied with the US against Chinese expansion?

I wouldn’t want to be in a South China Sea nation when things get hotter.

UK has outsourced prisons to for profit companies, too.

As a country we spend too much time looking at the US and deciding we want to be more like that. It’s infuriating.

You’re right, the bribery talk is the logical extrapolation of the ruling that is laid out in the dissenting opinion. (and also in a minor dissent from one of the 6 judges who made the ruling.)

Edit: and unfortunately I live in a place where the US supreme Court website does not allow access so I can’t read the conveniently shared link. I have tried to find it online and read as much of it as I can. I would like to read the full thing, maybe you could share the image on a Lemmy instance and link to that? You could do the same with the dissenting opinion, too, for completion’s sake.

What I can find from the reports and snippets I can find is that the ruling that Roberts wrote talks about not only immunity for official acts, but not using official acts as evidence for prosecuting a US president. This then becomes the talk of bribery as making an appointment is very much an official act, and where that one conservative justice breaks line with the other five, as she maintains that official acts should be eligible as evidence when prosecuting unofficial acts.

Doesn’t the ruling say that if the president takes a bribe to give someone an official appointment, that the person was appointed is not admissable as evidence in court?

That’s both new, and stupid. But what Roberts wrote in the majority ruling.

Edit: It also states that Trump putting pressure on Pence to change the election results may or may not be an official act, and whether it can be prosecuted is unclear (and whether it can be discussed in law needs an investigation and a ruling, rather than deciding it in a court of law).

Edit II: Romer below said it all far better than me. https://lemmy.autism.place/comment/224475

“The Democrats have fielded the only candidate who could lose against Trump, and the Republicans have the only candidate who could lose to Biden.”

Enjoy the 4 specials, I’ve got the last of the Ncuti Gatwa series to go.

He is back now, and it’s fine.

Much better than Chibnall since RTD actually understands Who.

That’s a list of Eurovision hits right there.

Moldova had a good run for a few years. Don’t think they’ve made the finals over the last few though.

Tudi-Voice, Taiwan - Taiwanese modern folk stuff.

Florent Vollant, Canada - interesting indigenous culture based music.

Mulatu Astatke, Ethiopia - Jazz from the 60s and 70s.

Altın Gün, Türkiye/The Netherlands - modern Anatolian psych sounds.

Gwenno, Wales - Gaelic folktronica.

Twinnings is my usual. Pukka, mostly for herbies, and various supermarket ownbrands (not each of them’s cheapest ownbrand mind you). Yorkshire is decent, PG tips OK but I never buy the latter myself.

Guizhou Mao Jian (毛尖) of various brands is decent too, if you can find it. More commonly I love an English Breakfast, Earl and Lady Grey, Rooibos, and various herbal concoctions.

Edit: nicest brand of tea I had was TWG, and they were amazing. Too expensive for me to ever buy for myself, though.

TV shows:
Babylon Berlin - nearing the end of the first series. It’s been very good so far. Heartily recommend.

Atlanta - Working my way through series 4. Don’t think it has hit the highs of S3 so far, but still enjoying it a lot. Well worth watching all the same.

Films: Cam - ultimately underwhelming psychological horror that didn’t do enough with the premise I think. Not bad, but just perhaps not ambitious or exploratory enough with its comceit.

El Conte - another great premise, but ultimately underwhelming film. Went in wanting to love it and it started well, but botched the landing. Maybe if I was a leftist chilanos it’d have resonated with me more, but the whole “it’s all corrupt and they all knew” thing just fell flat. I wanted it to go beyond that. Some good moments and nicely shot scenes though.

FFX-2 has a great battle system, and job based FFs were always the most rewarding to play.

XIII was the point I just decided I didn’t care any more. (Also, there’s no way that XIII gets to count as retro already, right?)

An actual rush is a very all in strategy, just don’t fall too far behind on making combat units and you’ll be fine.

Its as true in AoE2 as it is in Starcraft(pick one).

Great fun games, tickle me in a different way to slower, absolutely no rush, 4X games.