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[-] TheSecurityNinja@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

This is the problem with all modern media. It’s all profit based. It’s all a manipulation scheme to get you to fork over money.

Freedom of the press has evolved into press for sale. It is ironic that we live in a world that is more interconnected than ever before, with anyone able to speak their mind to people across the globe, yet the rich still control the flow of information.

[-] TheSecurityNinja@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think a lot of people got a bad taste in their mouth with episode 1 and they couldn’t look past it. I saw all three in the theater and I enjoyed them all, but the whole Gungan / Jar Jar thing makes episode 1 the weakest for me by far. The whole tone of the movie feels like it was aimed at a much younger audience, even compared to episodes 2 and 3.

Which is bizarre to me, since you have to imagine the core audience for those movies were middle aged people who saw the originals as kids.

Still, nothing is worse to me than episode IX. I’d watch a Jar Jar spinoff before I’d watch that again.

[-] TheSecurityNinja@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Lol, wasn’t trying to advocate for the government at all. And don’t really care if it’s believed. Just saying I met the dude and he seemed like a pretty good guy to me.

At the time I was a low level USAF officer (Captain) assigned to be the US liaison at Central Command for the US embassy in Turkmenistan. It was a temporary, normally very sleepy assignment, since we don’t normally do squat with Turkmenistan, but at that particular moment in time the US decided to do a diplomatic engagement, and I got to travel with the team. It was a fun and somewhat surreal experience. I even got to meet the US ambassador.

[-] TheSecurityNinja@sh.itjust.works 70 points 11 months ago

I traveled with General Brown as part of a diplomatic engagement while I was stationed at central command in Tampa Florida back in 2017. I even got to sit in on a meeting with him and a foreign minister of defense.

I found him to be level headed, calm and very intelligent. He handled himself well and was everything you would want a general to be. I’m glad to see he’s risen to the position of chief of staff

[-] TheSecurityNinja@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago

VS code is pretty amazing though

[-] TheSecurityNinja@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago

You would definitely feel the bass

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