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  • Doctor Who has a bunch of them!

    One of the big recent ones was the Timeless Child plotline. For people unfamiliar with the show, the basic premise is that the main character, the Doctor, is an alien who’s species can regenerate themselves when they’re about to die which saves them but they become a physically different person. This was invented back in the 60s so they could change out the lead actor, William Hartnell, when he got too old to continue in the role and it’s become a core part of the show. We’re now on about the 15-16th Doctor, although that number is a bit contentious too for reasons I won’t go into here because that’s a whole other thing.

    A few years back there was a plotline where it was revealed that the Doctor isn’t just a regular alien, they’re something called the Timeless Child that just appeared in our universe from somewhere unknown, and was the one that gave their whole species the ability to regenerate themselves. This was widely hated, as it not only changed the Doctor from a sort of wandering hobo into a Super Special Chosen One, but it also directly showed that William Hartnell wasn’t the first Doctor, there had been probably dozens of other ones before him that had just never been mentioned until now.

    The internal debates that I’ve seen usually aren’t people debating whether this was a good idea or not, they’re mostly about the best way to retcon it away and never speak of it again lol.




  • GrapheneOS user here! Not sure about websites but there are certain apps that don’t work properly without Google Play Services, but Graphene’s app store has a sandboxed version of it, so I just installed that and revoked all it’s permissions. Then if an app needs it, I just turn on the relevant permission, do the thing and then turn permissions off again. It’s a bit of a pain at first but I’m used to it now.








  • We had a little pirate movie ring going in college - this was in the UK in the 90s and there were certain films that were banned that you couldn’t get, like Clockwork Orange, The Exorcist, Reservoir Dogs etc. Someone somehow had access to Swedish satellite TV and so had shitty VHS copies of them with Swedish subtitles, so we had a counterfeit ring going that passed around 3rd-generation VHS copies of all these banned films.

    Then DVD arrived and all these movies were just released on regular DVD so it destroyed our whole operation lol. The Exorcist was the first movie I bought on DVD.




  • Also a Brit, I agree. Plus, even if the Democrats get their shit together (which they won’t) and the impeachment goes ahead and doesn’t go the exact same way as the other impeachments and even if he is somehow actually removed from the presidency (which is incredibly unlikely IMO), then what? He certainly won’t go to jail or face any other consequences and even if he did, it still doesn’t fix any of the massive, fundamental problems in the US political system that led to this situation in the first place. Russia will still be meddling with the system, Project 2025 will keep chugging forward, Fox News will still keep spewing bullshit from every available media source and someone else will just fill the vacuum.

    Even if the unthinkable happened and the US somehow managed to purge every Mitch McConnell/Lindsay Graham/Ted Cruz/Peter Thiel/Elon Musk type of character out of the system (and those are just a few names off the top of my head, there are probably hundreds that would need to be removed from power/sent to prison realistically) I still don’t know if that would be enough. I can’t really think of many empires in history that reached this depth of corruption and decline and managed to rise back out of it.

    And that’s just me talking about the legal ways. By which I mean, they could impeach Trump for years, finally remove him and the MAGA base could very well just be like “fuck it” and storm the capital again or something and put him back in. Nothing would surprise me at this point TBH.