Maybe you should actually read my comments in this thread before jumping on the reply button to give your hot takes about things that aren’t even happening.

Have they also ran a campaign asking to be nominated as the political representative of others? I doubt it, but these politicians have, so maybe they should act like it.

Caught in for, you mean?

Almost there 😆

I didn’t use AI to make my argument for me. I used AI to make their argument since nobody was willing to actually make an argument outside of saying the movie is a “deconstruction” three separate times without stating what they mean or how it isn’t just a blatant ripoff of the older films.

I’m really curious what they claim would be evidence of genocide.

It gives the facade of public input but the prosecutor is who controls the show and writes the narrative. The opposite example of this is all the cops who are never held accountable for their crimes because prosecutors decide to only show evidence exhonerating them, the grand jury comes back deciding not to indict, and these sleazeballs then point to the process and say “justice in action!”

I used to use it to sync my watch history between Plex and Emby but stopped years ago when I dropped Emby. I can’t imagine what they’re offering that people would want to pay for though.

Honestly with such a reliable car I don’t think you need much and the skid plate was just a fluke. Oil and coolant are probably not needed unless either are leaking. I drive a similarly reliable vehicle, a Camry that just crossed 210k miles, and just carry jumper cables, gloves, a flashlight, and a tow rope that I had laying around. Anything big is going to be too much to repair on the side of the road, so a flat tire or dead battery is about all I’m concerned with.

In your tool list, I didn’t see you mention a ratchet/breaker bar and socket for the lug nuts. The ones that come with the vehicle are usually lacking, so you may consider adding those.

Well, I mean nobody has actually made any defense for the movie here other than repeating the word “deconstruction” without elaborating any further, and I’m not going to do a deep dive and write out a counter argument to my own position, so the machine will have to do. For all we know this is the same machine that Disney used to recycle these old plot points for TLJ 😆

That seems like a distinction without a difference.

Just for the fun of it, I took a screenshot of Google AIs take on the “deconstruction” argument:

“Challenging the Chosen One narrative”

Rey’s parents were “nobody” yet so were Luke Skywalker’s parents. The final film is titled “The Rise of Skywalker” on her path to becoming the chosen one.

“Revisiting Luke’s Heroism”

Rehashes the same failures Obi Wan felt for not preventing Anakin from going to the dark side.

“Undermining Jedi Ideals”

Irrelevant point that could just as easily signify the film’s creator’s not being familiar with the intricacies of the source material.

“Exploration of Failure and Complexity”

Throughout all the films, the rebels are constantly facing failures. They get attacked, captured, fail to prevent events from occurring, etc.

“Subverting Expectations”

An expression ripped straight from the final season of GoT and widely mocked. This film didn’t subvert any of my expectations as it all plays out quite predictably in Disney fashion where the “good guys” come out on top in the end. The fact that this argument is even made illustrates the similarity to the previous films which set an expectation for how things are going to play out. I don’t see how they really differed in any meaningful way as it all plays out the same in the end.

TLJ takes a bunch of the exact same elements from the original trilogy including the young jedi training in a remote location, the empire/first order finding the secret rebel base with the main characters escaping at the last moment, the protagonist being captured by their rival and being brought before the sith leader where they wind up battling, the protagonist finding out that they’re related to their rival, the hermit jedi master sacrificing themselves etc, etc, etc. The last trilogy is just a recycling of the original to the point that they had to add stupid dialog like “it’s salt” in a vain attempt to convince people that they aren’t just copy and pasting major plot points from the original

gotcha arguments in bad faith.

Pretty much sums up all of hexbear here.

I did come across someone’s explanation that they think Putin isn’t a bad guy just because he invaded Ukraine but that argument doesn’t really hold any water with me. I suppose the last hexbear users that i interacted with who wished death upon me for once again pointing out their lies and disinformation were also extremely empathetic? They’ve been defederated from most of lemmy because they’re super empathetic people too? Do you think people actually believe this stuff?

with a fan base that wants to be stuck in the past reliving the hero’s journey ad nauseam

This seems counter to most complaints I’ve seen about the movie that they just rehashed the original trilogy.

If they’re deeply empathetic people, then why do so many of them support the Ukraine invasion and want them to roll over and give their country away to Putin?

Harbor Freight has come quite a long way and has multiple tiers of product quality now, including stuff that can be compared to SnapOn, Matco, etc (the Icon line). Some of it is really good without requiring you to pay insanely inflated tool truck pricing and the rest of the market outside of tool truck brands is also built in China now so it’s fairly slim pickings if you don’t want to pay outrageous prices. If you use your tools for a living, there’s a good argument to use mainstream brands like SnapOn for their convenience, but for hobbyists and the like HF will suit you well. For power tools I mostly use DeWalt mainly because they’re better quality and because of the battery lock-in, but I do have a few Bauer power tools and they work great and cost half as much along with batteries being half the cost. DeWalt wants you to pay $100 for four 18650 batteries which is insane. For stuff like griding disks, cutoff wheels, or other consumables, I do tend to go with name brand since they’re all universal and the cost difference isn’t that much.

I do agree to be careful with stuff like jackstands, but I always double them up keep the jack under the car, put a tire under the car, and avoid being completely underneath them when possible. I actually bought a set of ramps just to avoid having to use them when I don’t need the wheels off.

The DVD drive should have a SATA connector already.

OP you can do this, I 3D printed a couple adapters to fit 3.5" drives into my old server case’s 5.25" slots while migrating everything to a new server. My only real concern with the whole thing is that there’s no rubber isolators on them which could cause issues longterm.

You knew it would derail very quickly because that was your intention with your previous comment trying to paint these people as if they’re a bunch of innocent victims being marginalized for being ‘leftist’. They’re not victims, and they’re not leftist. They’re the same people you would have seen hanging out in /r/The_Donald or 4Chan ten years ago, who only leave their cave to stir up crap, spread disinformation, and brigade others, only now they’re cosplaying as leftists on a new platform.

I’m not surprised that you’re pleased with Trump as him, Putin, and Xi are all birds of a feather who want to control all the power and wealth of the world. These sure don’t seem like the type of icons communists would flock toward if you ask me.

This is blasphemy. Harbor Freight is a saint compared to Temu.

What a crock. They’re “leftists” in the same way that MAGA people are just “free thinkers.” I can’t say I’ve ever even see a hexbear user make any leftist comments or points of view. From what I’ve seen, they mostly push Chinese and Russian government propaganda under with the facade of being ‘communist’ (again never have I seen any mentions of actual communist economic philosophy from any of their users just anti-western, pro Russian/Chinese government talking points).

And Goldmember! Same actor who dubbed Shrek in english.