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The background painting is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Death by Pieter Bruegel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Djem

This really is the future. And for once I think it might be a good development in warfare: have the machines fight it out instead of people. Long wars becoming a battle between industries instead of birth rates.

It was at least partially a deleted scene actually? I’m not sure anymore either… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaYADHcpdng

Back To The Future, where Marty McFly calls himself Darth Vader in front of his terrified father, while pretending to be an alien.

What you’ll find is that rug will suddenly be pulled from under you and you’ll realize the assumption you made was erroneous.

Joke’s on you if I’m too dense for you to pull the rug out from under me.

But seriously, saying “cruise line” did not do enough to contradict the SF frame for me. Should have been something like “passenger ferry boat company”, out something.

That’s Ohio! It has always been Ohio! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQs7d8NgG9c

You did not see concrete!

“Potrvnik” means “enemy”. It’s a strange name to give to your own equipment… “There are three Enemy radars deployed on our front line” sounds confusing.

Once “artificial gravity” was mentioned, I immediately placed this scene in a science fiction setting and I couldn’t see what the joke was. The joke was that it’s not a science fiction setting. It needs more clues to clarify that swap.

Not great, not terrible…

It’s ok to call the namecaller-in-chief names.

Yes, it’s guaranteed!

Oh, you said “not”…

Yer a lizard, Harry.

“Avoiding failure so hard that you fail by not trying” is such an underrated concept to be aware of. Probably the biggest recurring mistake in my life.

“Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding”?

TIL it was a initially freedom slogan from the Palestinians that was mocked and turned into an apartheid slogan by Israeli far-right politicians. So it’s complicated now and depends on context.

Flicks light switch off.

As of 2022 I use a Thinkpad x200 computer, which has a free initialization program (called Libreboot when it was installed, but now called GNU Boot) and a free operating system (Trisquel GNU/Linux). It was not sold that way by Lenovo, however; small businesses buy them used, recondition them, and install the free software. This is one of the computers endorsed by the FSF. I’ve used other Thinkpad models that similarly respect users’ freedom since the early 2010s.

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