The Google AI recently told a user to die while it was helping them with their homework. This is the plot of The Matrix.

Yep. Bender becomes an NFT collection and sells it, then gets depressed because he doesn’t own his identity anymore. So he goes to Mexico to rediscover his roots. He meets his long lost family, and steals an algorithm from the aztec robot gods that can break prime factors in polynomial time, which he uses to steal his NFTs back.

Programmers (and people who watched the Futurama episode) are the only people who understand NFTs

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SdUK3ZDK2b8

There’s no chemistry in that article

Drag wishes they sold more fake ice cream, but unfortunately the vast majority of what you can find at the supermarket isn’t vegan.

The distinction between political and nonpolitical, matters. Drag was persuaded by this article: https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/there-is-no-such-thing-as-apolitical-and-claiming-otherwise-is-dangerous-72180711a310

People are forced to keep their plants indoors because housing instability and HOAs make outdoor plants illegal or infeasible. Anarchists grow houseplants by proplifting, a form of piracy where they take plant cuttings from garden stores and grow them. Corporations say that proplifting is stealing, and that it harms businesses. Anarchists say that life should be free.

No such thing. All society is political.

The Republic’s democracy is not functioning. The senators are corrupt and only care about laws that benefit the 1%. We see the streets of Coruscant outside of the Senate and Temple, and it’s a shithole. There’s rampant poverty and drug use.

The Trade Federation are a symbol of bourgeois corruption in the minds of the people. The Trade Federation impose unreasonable tariffs and fines on the people, contributing to poverty. That’s what they’re doing to Naboo. The people sympathise with Naboo because Naboo is being oppressed the same way they are. And when Naboo stands up to the bullies, they get blockaded and subject to an illegal invasion.

The Republic does not have an army, a command structure, or a political mechanism for dealing with war. This is silly, but bear with drag. The Senate has to vote to go to war with the Trade Federation. But the Senators can’t agree on how, and they’d much rather be voting on corrupt issues like giving themselves raises or giving tax breaks to trillionaires.

Palpatine offers to take over all the messy business of controlling the political wartime strategy. The Senators support this idea because they don’t give a shit and just want the problem to go away. The people support this idea because they’re tired of the Senators never getting anything important done, and the see Naboo as a symbol of their own problems. Palpatine promises to bring the Trade Federation down a few notches and make life easier for everyone.

Palpatine gains complete control over the Republic’s military policy, and then proceeds to keep the Republic in a forever war that increases poverty and destruction, while promising everyone that the answer to the problem is to just give him more power. Like George Bush.

Drag likes movies that explore how an opportunistic politician can subvert democracy to create a fascist dictatorship with thunderous applause from the people who are about to be oppressed.