Wandering Adventure Party

@TechConnectify seeing all the "haven't watched it all yet but pretty great so far" comments...

Hrrrrrnnnnnghhhh...WATCH TO THE END!

@jgivoni respectfully, you must accept that the rot within the US runs far deeper than "Trump and his fascist pack" from our point of view.

Understand that we don't hate the American PEOPLE (well, not the two thirds of them that are not fascists at least), we feel sorry for them...watching their country as they have known it disintegrate is unimaginable! But also understand this: the US has suffered a broad, systemic sociopolitical breakdown, and "voting the bums out" will not be the end of the problems, it is merely the first step in a healing process that could take many years, decades even, to fully sort out.

@randahl

@randahl I think it is a lot for Americans to process, especially the significant majority of them who are not engaged in global affairs. Canadians very much relate to and sympathise with what Denmark is going through right now. The feelings of betrayal and anger and frustration and loss of trust are with respect to the USA are PROFOUND.

I don't think many Americans, regardless of their political leanings, really do understand gow we, and increasingly the rest of the world, perceive their country.

NOT THE PEOPLE...but their country. We mostly feel sorry for the people of the USA.

But they MUST know this: clobbering the GOP in the midterms will not make it better. Electing a new president will not make it better. Y'all elected a FASCIST regime that is rapidly descending into totalitarianism.

Carney is right. This world order is over, and it will take decades for relations with the USA to find a new normal and it will NEVER be the old normal again. Voting won't be enough to fix this it's only a start.

@Taweret They should switch things up and let the dog wag the tail for a change. Like, make up a story about invading and occupying Greenland and get it produced professional like a TV show but just for the President to see, but then don't actually do it.

It shouldn't be that difficult to pull off the President is so demented that it wouldn't even have to be that authentic even mediocre genAI video footage would fool him at this point.

@stux eeeewwwwtube

@atomicpoet can't really say it's such a hot take...it is basically fact (even if some Commodore fans don't like to hear it

Like, the original Amiga corp. was founded by the team that designed the Atari 8 bit platform, the architecture design is basically a modernised 16-bit version of the XL computers etc.

But my hot take would be that the Atari ST is NOT the spiritual successor to the C64, but rather the PET/CBM/B-series machines. Although Shiraz Shivji was involved in the C64 design, it seems to me that he leveraged his work on (or took inspiration from) the actual intended CBM successor, the C900, in order to complete the Atari ST so quickly.

From a technical standpoint, I would actually say the spiritual successor to the C64 is the Apple IIGS, owing to the fact that Bob Yannes designed the sound chips in both machines, among other things. How's THAT for a hot take?