I recognized the tug part right off. That’s a lot of custom bodywork. These days they just CG stuff like that. Back then they actually had to make props. Sometimes they did a pretty poor job, but that one is high end. I’m actually old enough to have seen that show, but I don’t remember ever watching it.

Aside from any moral or political views, it amuses me when people do criminal acts and fail to realize police can inspect personal data like text messages, email, and social media. I think people smart enough to realize that are smart enough to avoid committing a crime in the first place. Though there are smart criminals that get away with it, you just don’t hear about them because they don’t get caught. In any case I tend to think being stupid is prerequisite to being a criminal.

This is how the tried and true agenda goes using Meta’s threads.net and the Fediverse as an example.

• Meta’s site gets wildly popular because of corporate backing
• Meta’s site does something on purpose to cause poor operability with the rest of the Fediverse
• People not on Meta’s site can no longer properly communicate with people on Meta’s site, they go to Meta’s site
• The Fediverse gets fractured and nobody cares because everyone is on Meta’s site
• Meta’s site is the sole survivor and the rest of the platform dies.
• Meta enshitifies their site as corporations typically do (think Twitter)

So yeah, ban the shit out of them. The proper term is defederate them, but do it with extreme prejudice.

So Meta is up and running now on threads.net, news to me. Hell yeah, ban the crap out of them.

Haha man, as the wise philosopher Pauly Shore once said, “dude, you’re harshing my mellow.” So yeah we don’t want those guys doing that to us.