Pies are nice and all; but have you considered a dildo to the face?

It has a certain style after all.

The whole point of the book, is Ender wrestling with the fact that he was being trained to commit a genocide on the largest scale; then the bombshell, oh BTW that last 'training' was the real thing, "yay we won!!!!".

The next book is Ender coming to grips with and trying to find some recourse for his crime.

The movie glosses over all of the nuance and complexity.

I would watch this. It sounds exactly like what it should have been!

This is exactly the point.

They live in a controlled information environment; much like the Russian people who think Ukraine is full to the brim with Nazis.

They have been force fed hate and bigotry for decades at this point. They are not blameless, but also they don't deserve all the hate that is projected at them.

As pointed out, the education system is gutted, thus they are not curious and checking their biases; it is normalized for them to be hateful toward "others"; their whole world is small and full of fear.

I pity them their small pathetic lives, and dislike them for their shitty views. The only thing I hate is that the stupid bigotry seems to be spreading around the world.

Taught my boy to play connect 4. Had to start paying attention to by the time he was 7, by now (10) he is a challenge to beat, often just draw.

I have to try to win chess now also. It is great.

My 11yo nephew is a challenge to beat in chess, I think I'll probably not win next time we play.

My 7yo can read music, I can't.... It is the way of the world.

The Enders Game movie. Just WTF, every part of it was worse than the book.

Except possibly Harrison Ford. He is great as a gruff arsehole, past his prime, but still awesome.

Just looked it up on IMDb, how can it possibly have a 6.6?

It seems that the math, maths quite well here.

Hospital stays are a big expense.

For context, 3 out of 5 of my family got the flu this year. One ended up in hospital for 2 nights.

Preventing 1000 hospital nights had to be worth quite a lot also.

I wonder how much it would cost to offer the flu vaccine for free; every year?

Would it be cheaper than the loss from a bad flu? Probably.

So nothing at all then; all food processors are shit?

“It is all throughout the social sciences curriculum, and we’ll just signal it now and signpost where that is. But it is it is definitely there. I’ve had a look.”

It maybe "in there"; but climate change is not a social science, this is atmospheric physics, thermodynamics and chemistry.

Trying to reframe it as a social science is terrible.

This along with the tobacco, asbestos, glyphosate and a few others; where corporate interests subverted scientific evidence to influence policy to ensure that their business interests are favored.

Absolute idiots.

You cut it, now want to uncut it.

Gigadeath was knocking on the door there.

Indeed; opioids are not really much of an issue here in NZ. Our government is not as captured by the pharma industry.

Superhot.

I guess I'm made of red glass polygons. But time stops if I stop moving.

Narrative Causality

Ludwig lorry Beethkiln

You could have also used "lorry"

NZ has a exercise caution advisory for USA......

I personally have a "don't risk it" advisory; especially if you are anything other than white.

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