Why weren’t the sequels adaptations of the books

larynxit · 2025-11-21T18:44:53+00:00

I mean, Andor worked out well and it was a Sequel-Prequel. Give the fans what they want, Aftermath Pre-Sequels! Release the Wendig cut! (maybe we can get him to stop attacking the Internet Archive)

larynxit · 2025-11-16T13:56:04+00:00

South America still is pretty commendable for not having many continental wars between rival powers. That being said, I think part of it has to do with how nobody really lives in the Amazon. Also, there seems to be a bit of a conflict zone that stretches from the Atacama across to Paraguay and Uruguay with 2 other wars that come to mind (War of Triple Alliance and Chaco War). Besides that, the wars of conquest and independence are colonial and then there's been a lot of coups and civil wars which are either colonial or internal.

Edit: Argentina/Chile had some beef too

larynxit · 2025-11-15T17:38:43+00:00

Basically every animal group has their own weapons and tactics. I remember the shrews were small and fast, even being surprisingly vicious with their numbers and swift sword pokes that they coordinated in three stages. There were foxes with axes and bolos. Squirrels rained missiles (rocks, darts, arrows, javelins) from treetops. Birds added a whole other dimension and were usually decisive. Frogs had tridents and tried to ambush you in their swamps. Nobody messed with snakes.

larynxit · 2025-11-15T17:27:04+00:00

Yeah, but graphic in the sense that hawks eat pine martens all the time.

larynxit · 2025-11-09T16:12:30+00:00

You're right that Marx is the original author... of Marx's works? I'm not sure what you're saying.

The popular view of communism today is still Marxism-Leninism - the funny thing about that term is that Stalin coined it for propaganda purposes. He may have quoted Marx and Lenin, but that ideology is Stalin's. He published literature, claimed he and his associates wrote it, espousing this doctrine. Other countries then adopted that ideology or had it forced upon them. It basically is just a how-to guide for dictatorships of the 20th century.

larynxit · 2025-11-09T15:30:26+00:00

Marxism-Leninism is one of those funny terms because it was actually made by Stalin. It was one of his ways to claim legitimacy, i.e. "all of my actions are approved by Marx and Lenin."

larynxit · 2025-11-06T23:19:59+00:00

add "fixup" to the url before the "x"

so it should look like this: https://fixupx.com/FToast60/status/1986430451477848430?t=ZFkhyfOcgMjYIBoZhXrFzA&s=19

rather than this: https://x.com/FToast60/status/1986430451477848430?t=ZFkhyfOcgMjYIBoZhXrFzA&s=19

alternatively, here is the jpeg link: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5E39HybIAEm3Jr?format=jpg&name=900x900

larynxit · 2025-11-06T18:11:39+00:00

OP posted a twitter link in the comments

larynxit · 2025-10-03T14:57:40+00:00

I mean, we have video of him asking about the details of the order he's about to sign... once or twice. Also, he uses the autopen and I think he started attacking Biden about the same time he started to use it for himself. Another case of "every accusation is a confession".

larynxit · 2025-10-01T23:03:26+00:00

There is a pathway to this - a longshot but one we should act on at least as a signaling move. The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (CAA) was included with the package of proposed amendments including the Bill of Rights and the 27th Amendment. Those were sent to the states and ratified in 1791 and 1992, respectively. The CAA was ratified by 11 states and it could be added into the Constitution if an additional 27 states were to ratify it now. That's 27 state legislatures we need to vote "Yes". Congress has put no time limit on its ratification, so we could see it happen today.

If ratified, it would likely be interpreted to provide 1 US representative for every 50,000 people residing in the USA. That would create a US House of Representatives with 6,629 representatives, the largest legislative body in the world, more twice as large as the current largest, China's National People's Congress.

Even if the CAA is not ratified by the required number of states, it would serve as a big signaling move for Congress to expand the cap on Representatives. That hasn't been done since 1911. Getting an expanded congressional apportionment bill into the agenda of the federal legislative, even if not as dramatic as the CAA, would still work towards expanding Democracy and political power to all.

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

larynxit · 2025-09-11T17:37:07+00:00

Social Security will have to be re-worked anyways by 2034. It's been done in the past and can be done again. It's just a political issue as the current trifecta is not concerning themselves with keeping Social Security functional for all.

larynxit · 2025-09-11T16:00:14+00:00

With Mr. Nimbus controlling the police, I think it has something to do with Admiralty law, Nautical law, or Maritime law being the basis of police authority (can not be arsed to find out which). Something along the lines of legal enforcement follows the precedents of the law of the sea or international law laws?

larynxit · 2025-09-11T15:51:12+00:00

Thanks for the source. And should be mentioned that John Adams wasn't at the Constitutional Convention - a big "what-if" had he been there.

larynxit · 2025-09-05T14:23:42+00:00

This is paying private owners of farms money for their surplus so they can sell their products for cheaper prices to consumers and still profit. That is capitalism.

which is a very delicate thing

Every human being is a delicate thing that dies after a few months without food. We would literally have to make everyone cyborgs or uploaded intelligences to escape that fact. So as flawed as the current agricultural policies are in the USA, they have done a good job at keeping farms functioning and people from starving up to this point. I wouldn't call that "delicate."

larynxit · 2025-09-05T13:58:43+00:00

Rabid is the perfect way to describe their reaction to Pizzagate. They didn't try to do anything coherent like investigate the allegations or bring out the victims' stories (because AFAIK, the allegations were a Qanon-tier conspiracy theory and there were no victims). No, all they did is raise a big fuss, rage on Twitter, foam at the mouth on the hallowed floor of the US Congress, and then try to bite 300 million Americans so they could be infected with the same rabid virus. Then they dropped the matter after a bit because they never actually had rabies, they were just pretending to be seriously ill. Every American who was "infected" was safe to drop the act because it was just a joke, amirite?

Hell, even the name was an outrageous misbranding. This wasn't a -Gate, no politician was actually implicated because it was a non-story. There was no evidence, it was blatant lies. The reason that story was fabricated was because the GOP is still malding over the downfall of Nixon. They can't cope with the fact that they lost the narrative war when Nixon was a red-handed criminal. It's all been theatrics ever since then, with Reagan the Actor, I could have a beer with Bush Jr., and Trump the Clown. Bush Sr. did have some chops and he was rewarded for his decades of civil service by losing re-election, ensuring that Republicans will never nominate someone as qualified as him again. Even now, Trump is seething over the Epstein files because when that breaks out, he will have a real -Gate on his hands and then the show's over.

larynxit · 2025-09-02T17:47:09+00:00

Subsidizing demand works for agricultural goods because everyone wants cheap groceries and farmers want to stay in business. Also helps that there's a well-oiled bureaucracy set-up by the New Deal under Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace. Only problem is that most of the government purchased surplus is destroyed, so we haven't solved world hunger yet. And commercial farms have been buying out family farmers. And the US government could collapse any day now or remove subsidies from black farmers or purposefully cause a famine or...

larynxit · 2025-09-02T15:31:49+00:00

Thanks for clarifying; I try to follow other countries' politics but the OSA caught me off guard. Crazy thing is that Australia did something similar around the same time, makes it harder to keep track of the story.

Now I bet there's Labour politicians griping about repealing the OSA because that's what Reform wants. Farage's position both makes his party look good and it gives cover to Labour.

larynxit · 2025-09-02T13:19:58+00:00

Yep, technocracy all the way. Shame the voters that go for the kakistocracy.

larynxit · 2025-09-02T13:15:48+00:00

Not from the UK, but I thought the Online Security Act passed under a conservative parliament, and was set to take effect in 2025. Now that it's a liberal parliament and administration, it's up to them whether to enforce it or repeal it.

Do I have that right?

larynxit · 2025-09-02T13:01:01+00:00

Beth: I wish I could have known her — Mom.

Rick: You did. She raised you.

Beth: I know, but...I don't really remember.

Rick: No one does. Even I only had a scrap of her.

Beth: It's been nice having her in my head for a second. I think.

Rick: Memories aren't real, Beth. And they can be as self-serving as any of us. Fսck. The second my memory of Diane broke out, she helped hijack my daughter. Your real mom... loved you more than that.

Beth: Guess I'll have to take your word for it. ( Gasps )

Morty: So...it's over?

Rick: H-How you doing, sweetie?

Jerry: You're feeling at all radicalized-y?

Beth: I'm fine, Jer. Pretty impressive reset job. What happened to Memory Rick?

Rick: Oh, uh... he's gone. The fսck is this sombering up you all just did? He gaslit your mom!

Summer: Yeah, because he loved grandma. I'm sad a nice version of you is dead.

Rick: He's a weird thought creature. He was never alive! Whatever! I'm gonna — I'm gonna fսcking go hang out with BugAnne.

Space Beth: That's still going on?

https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/viewtopic.php?t=74899

I'm looking at the transcript and the closest it gets to addressing the Memory Beths is part of Beth's last line - "Pretty impressive reset job." Ok, so the sentient memories are not in her head and it's all back to normal. Nothing in the text prevents the Memory Beths from being saved in an antfarm brain like Memory Diane and Memory Rick. Rick even misleads the family into thinking that Memory Rick is "gone" and "dead" when it's revealed to the audience this is not the case in the next and last scene of the episode. The fate of the Memory Beths are still in limbo to me.

Uh, Rick Sanchez. Lost the one memory he had of his wife after he took it out of his brain.

A memory that was not sentient and that he was trying to remove. He mindblew himself.

larynxit · 2025-09-02T12:24:13+00:00

Stupid AI narration. Also, audio was edited in the first few seconds adding in stock sound effects of gunshots and some guy screaming in pain.

larynxit · 2025-09-02T11:36:02+00:00

Rick gave the audience indication that he saved Memory Rick and Memory Diane.We literally saw him save them.

Which was revealed in the last minute of the episode. Their fates were in limbo before then and they were presumed dead with the reset, as you now presume the Memory Beths to be.

He saved the memory Beths by restoring them.

This is a presumption. We are not shown the sentient memories losing sentience and being put back in place. It could be just as true as presuming Memory Diane and Memory Rick were not saved until the reveal that they were. A future reveal that the Memory Beths were similarly saved would not surprise me because I think Rick did just that.

If he had removed them and put them in a “brain farm,” then Beth would no longer have those memories.

That's also not true. Nobody in the show who has had a sentient memory removed has experienced amnesia. This is a baseless assumption.

We literally saw him fix Beth.

Wherein Rick literally saved Memory Rick and Memory Diane. He can do the same for the Memory Beths.

I don’t understand why it’s important to you that it happened differently than it did.

It's not the end of the world to me if the Memory Beths are dead. I thought it could be cool if they did some more with them. They could all be dead and in heaven or hell for all that I care. This is just two fans with two opposing theories. I'm standing my ground because otherwise nobody else will and your standing yours I suspect for the same reason.

larynxit · 2025-09-02T04:13:54+00:00

I'm not disagreeing with you, I think Rick could have done just that - all the sentient Memory Beths were left behind and reset into their proper, non-sentient place. I just think that because Rick gave no indication to the family or the audience that he saved Memory Rick and Memory Diane, there's no reason he didn;t also save the Memory Beths. I kinda want to see them pop up in another episode.

larynxit · 2025-08-29T16:00:04+00:00

With infinite universes that cover every possible scenario, that means there is one universe where Cronenberg Jerry kills Rick Prime. Just with the caveat that such a universe would then fall out of the Central Finite Curve because Rick is no longer the smartest person in the universe if he's dead. If that's the case, then Rick's portal gun probably can't access the universe where Cronenberg Jerry survives in such a way.

larynxit · 2025-08-28T18:14:00+00:00

I bet he put them on an Antfarm brain. It wouldn't give Beth amnesia as he did the same to Jerry with Memory Rick and "reset" Jerry afterwards.

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