I’d add “Brazil”, for so many reasons, but specifically the first appearance of Mar-a-lago face.
As it turns out the fiction people who live in this world make up is similar to this world.
And if you think we’re in any one of these fictive realities you did not pay attention to the medium.
TPM your memes bring me so much joy. Let’s all raise a glass to TPM and wish them good health and a long career in memes and shitposting.
Happy to be of service!
Wait, there is another.
Add in Dune. We’re also in Dune.I want the butlerian jihad!
Butlerian Jihad NOW!! Iran, strike the datacentres!!!
You wish you were in The Matrix. The robots on that one were much nicer to humanity than humanity deserved.
Even taking the idiotic “humans as energy sources” justification at face value, the fact they didn’t go all I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream on humanity after humans took the most imbecilic and morally reprehensible path at every turn, shows they got out of their way to not be the bad guys.
I recently had a thought that they should retcon this so that the humans were basically GPUs. In the simulation they have lots of people doing complex processing because it’s the late 90s in the simulation. People grind a lot of thinking.
It’s just like websites that scam you into processing bitcoin mining. But with human brains.
IIRC the original script apparently had humans being used as CPUs, but it was decided that people wouldn’t get it.
Here I am 27 years later to the party.
Don’t Look (Them) Up
This should now replace Idiocracy or Wag the Dog. It’s so on the nose in so many ways, that’s why so many people didn’t like it. And there’s no positive really, like “well, they had a President who cared and recognized the smart people’s opinion” or “well, at least the war didn’t really happen”.
Meh, it really just feels more like were at the center of idiocracy
I don’t know how many times I’m gonna have to keep saying this, but Idiocracy was infinitely better than real life. President Camacho was both well-intentioned and (relatively) competent, and that is in stark contrast to the “president” we actually have.
It’s funny that Idiocracy is too wholesome and positive to be applicable to our situation.
President Camacho was actually a great president. He didn’t seem to be abusing the office for any kind of personal gain. He was an inspiring public speaker. He listened to the voters, he tried to find the smartest person and appoint him so that he’d solve the problems facing the USA, he let the genius try out his solution even though it seemed absurd, and only ordered him to be executed when it only made the situation worse. Also, once the problems were solved, he left office without any complaints.
I watched it again recently, and the thing that really stood out for me was Camacho’s speeches compared to Trump’s. I think if they re-made Idiocracy today, they’d have to make Camacho sound a lot more stupid in those speeches. Trump has lowered the bar so much.
It… It makes me sad that you’re right. Camacho is better than Trump. Fuck me sideways and call me Sally.
Not just better, but sounds a lot smarter.
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Listening to average person explain AI feels very similar to idiocracy explaining electrolytes
And I can’t even get a handjob at Starbucks
A gentleman’s latte, you say
Not with that attitude, you just need to lower your standards on who is giving. Have you tried just making an announcement when you walk in like “I’ll give $50 for a hand job, right now, in the back”
These prices are OUTRAGEOUS
Idiocracy is what happens after now. We have to finish hitting rock bottom first.
Seeing what’s happening in Ukraine and in Iran and neighbouring gulf countries feels like early stage Terminator to me. Same goes for all the Sam Altman slop. The goal of AI is to replace us. Right now it might not do a very good job at most things we can do, but I don’t think it’s too far from replacing almost everything we do on the battlefield.
*Don’t Look Up
@The_Picard_Maneuver chef’s kiss
What they won’t tell you is that all three take place in the same universe.
I had a headcanon that Terminator movies are prequels to The Matrix but I don’t know how Idiocracy fits in that.
There’s a big semi-sentient computer running the government in Idiocracy, which could make it a neat stand in for Skynet.
Idiocracy -> People become overly reliant on automation and complacent to the point of self-annihilation
Terminator -> Computers decide humans aren’t worth the trouble, so they do a mass extermination
Matrix -> The conflict ends in a blotted out sky, which forces the computers to cannibalize humanity
I was thinking the same thing in terms of order of events.
It’s the happy ending
Any chance anyone’s up for sharing a pod? I need a hug.
