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It was supposed to be a movie with no substance.
It was supposed to be a movie with no substance.
I would guess not. Any authentication scheme would just be another risk point to not be able to talk to the thing from earth.
But I’m just guessing.
I would doubt they would have encrypted anything on the probe back in 1977 when it launched.
Humankind could have been living in blissful peace for centuries.
Nah. This is a unique moment in history - access to objective truth has never been so widespread. In theory, it’s a lot easier to lead people to war if you can convince them that their neighbors’ customs and culture are causing your crops to fail or some shit.
But it turns out that people simply prefer to reject objective truth. So they’ll blame gays for hurricanes and tell people that homelessness is punishment for sin.
Everything is definitely shittier now.
100 years ago there were more things that just happened to us that we couldn’t do anything about. It’s hard to eradicate a virus when you don’t even know what a virus is.
Nowadays we are plagued with completely solvable problems. We could eliminate measles, but dumbasses are afraid of vaccines. We could feed everyone, but we got billionaires to maintain. We could stop destroying the earth, but then who will burn all this oil? We could cooperate on a global scale, but then we might have to talk to brown people, ew. We could stop bombing each other, but then how would we prove to our gods that we’re good people?
So yeah “things” are shittier, because nowadays we have the ability to live in a nearly post-scarcity society but we just don’t wanna.
I remember that fucking bronco car chase interrupted my cartoons and I was like, “get this car off the screen, I want to watch Batman the animated series.”
So people who want to just play a game casually will get their asses handed to them by people who are artificially enhanced. Cool.
Comical Ali!
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That’s really the extent of how far I’m willing to go to bat for fuckin Unfrosted my dude. Of all the movies ever made, Unfrosted ranks pretty high on the scale of “I really don’t care about it (or what anyone thinks about it) one way or another.”