We dodged a bullet there.

Damn, sold.

<morganfreemanvoice>And you know what? They did steal our pile of rocks</morganfreemanvoice>

I don’t think they liked it.

Is it wrong that this kinda makes me want to watch it more?

There aren’t many remakes where you think “well that is overdue”.

The only ones I am looking forward to are Edgar Wright’s Running Man and Barbarella but they are technically re-adaptations.

Well that didn’t take long.

“You’ve thrilled to Axe/Wolf/Scanner/Samurai/Cyborg Cop, you’ve been revolted by Fist of Jesus, you are looking forward to Jesus Cop. Now brace yourself for Lethal Christ.”

That’s the porn parody.

Personal opinion, neither? 🤷‍♂️😄

Personal opinion, both!

Lethal Passion!

He died and came back, as a loose cannon Messiah! The Romans had better watch out!!

Elon Musk buys a pub

Gottle of Keir

I saw the trailer for that and it looked weird and exploitative, apparently because it is.

To make it clear we’re talking about this dystopia we’re living in now.

As opposed to dattopia, I presume.

Not modern prices.

Especially as it has happened already:

Tommy Sheppard, MP for Edinburgh East is involved and has written to the government asking them to take urgent action to extend energy price caps for these residents whose homes are heated through district heating – which are now being charged at commercial rates.

Residents in Edinburgh East who receive their heat and hot water from district heating have experienced eye-watering energy bill increases on unit charges when the UK Government’s Energy Bills Discount Scheme concluded at the end of March.

Residents in one 2019 newbuild development in Greendykes, built by Places for People, have said bills having skyrocketed with some experiencing overnight price increases well in excess of £1,200 a year for heat and hot water alone.

In the US, we’re still good elsewhere. Might be a week or two before I can slot that in but I am going.

That’s it, their main problem is their messaging and the story they are trying to tell is dreadful.

It should have been about spreading the load, everyone doing their bit according to their means - so tax winter fuel payments so you get most of it back from wealthy pensioners but also take a big chunk off millionaires and companies not laying their bit. Then invest that in growth, a Green New Deal helping insulated poorer housing stock which would help boost the green energy industry bringing prices down for everyone while generating more skilled jobs.

At the moment they seem to think that, if they cause the pain now, people will forget about by the time of the election if we are out of the current economic dire straits. Which is foolish as the Tory press will just store this kind of thing up to use as sticks to beat them with later and people just don’t forgive or forget easily (especially if there is a cold snap and the papers fill with stories of pensioners dying because they can’t afford to turn the heating on).

Bankside Yards is using a “fifth-generation” combined heating and cooling network that can balance energy within each building and then between buildings by collecting unwanted heat, say from a refrigerator in a restaurant or a piece of office equipment that needs to be cooled, and carrying that heat to somewhere that needs hot water or domestic heating.

Electric-powered heat pumps on building rooftops and in each apartment or commercial space then adjust the temperature of the water by withdrawing or injecting heat into the pipes to provide the heating, cooling and hot water needed in each place.

Makes sense, especially when you have a mixed use complex - a shop may run a large refrigerator and you could use the extracted heat in homes.

A friend installed air conditioning at an air force base to cool down the supercomputers running the fighter jets and I presume that heat was just vented out, where you could make use of it to heat barracks and offices.

I had a dream, of family.

“online choice architecture”

“dark pattern tactics”

It all feels very dystopian.