AfricanExpansionist

You asked if I was alive. Yes, I was.

Was I on Usenet? Nope, but my family were very early adopters of computer and internet technology 🤷🏻‍♀️

Cyber official... Is this 1996?

Eh, I'd argue that the format is somewhat obsolete. When you have to travel to a cinema and pay an entry fee, the content needs to justify that effort

Now that most content is consumed at home, feature films don't necessarily need to exist as they have. The TV show format has adapted to the British model of a few short seasons, maybe just one.

For certain types of feature film, I'd much rather see a miniseries that allows even more content to get screen time and tells a more developed story (documentaries have moved in this direction).

(Yes there are great feature films still being made and I never said there aren't... But the vast majority are not worth the time they demand that I give them)

I prefer podcasts over all other media

I also enjoy video games.

I don't think that feature-length films make sense in this environment. They're long, formulaic, and somewhat predictable because of that

OK but these rich are morons. They seem not to realize that they are dependent on systems that support them. They want to bring about the state of nature and then expect to hide behind their money?

Yes, I said "amon the worst"

I've never been to India or driven there but I'm sure it's worse even than some Chinese cities.

When I was in Shanghai a few years ago, there was a company using autonomous driving vending machines for lunch meals. The vehicles were pitiable to watch. They were programmed for safety but Chinese moped drivers are programmed for everything but!

The poor little vending van was constantly starting and stopping, sometimes after going just a few centimeters.

I want it to grow but I am fine with an idiot filter

I was born before the Reagan administration

"I don't use social media"

Just find a different instance, right? Not that hard...

Eternal September is the goal?

Chinese traffic is among the worst scenarios I can imagine for driverless cars...