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#627 - Fully-Automated Luxury Partner (Patreon)

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romancekiller

Ad Astra kinda ruled imo; not a lot of mainstream movies contemplating the psychological effects of living in a world (or a universe) that's given up on progress. ...and perhaps not surprisingly, audiences stayed away in droves!

Akira Honda

And Kubrick put a Howard Johnson’s on the moon in 1968! Gotta hand it to blade runner 2049 in that the AI girlfriend is purely insidious and a tool of the evil megacorporation. Chewing on that ‘relationship’ in the intervening years I believe has proven it to quite sharp and disturbing imo

Jason Cimon (sigh-min)

The points you guys made actually made me like the film more. I had only liked it as a corny romance because I’m a sucker for em (but they’re the Eloi).

Arid

There are bright spots in how VR is actually enjoyed. One of the longest-running and most popular VR games is VR Chat, with user-generated servers where the main appeal is talking to other actual people. Something about that is really nice actually.

Mid-Sized SeDan

Not listening to this until I see the movie but it's funny that this gets posted at the same time a guy goes viral on the subway bc someone took a picture of his phone, clearly showing him talking to ChatGPT like it's a partner.

Eric Cline

I can't pay no doctor bills but White Castle's on the Moon.

Matt Stanislawski

Logging on to the Patreon app to correct the record that the one where the crew goes to Sherwood Forest is a Q episode, not a Holodeck episode. It’s very important that I do this.

Eric

Nailed predicting that mustache coming back tho

Paul Brewer

Not-quite-ardent monarchist here, of the British rather than Canadian variety, although I spent seven years in the Waterloo region — overlapping with Will's time in Elmira — in an attempt to become Canadian. I found both Luke's Substack piece and the comments in this episode rooted in a view of monarchy that focused too much on the flummery and not enough to the actual place of the monarch in the state. I'd rather pledge allegiance to a real human being than some sanctified piece of cloth. It's often dismissed too readily but this person has a symbolic role that does create an alternative pole of power that ultimately keeps politicians in their place. When the ghastly Mrs Thatcher started looking like Margaret I, she was not long for Downing Street. Maybe the state pays too much for what it gets, but that's a different matter. As far as the supposed incongruity of the mundane domestic programme being described by the sovereign, this is the same thing one heard each year during the Opening of Parliament in London — including the neoliberal Thatcherite characteristics during the 1980s. It seems to me we're once again caught up in obsessing over flummery, than recognising the workaday nature of a constitutional monarchy. I was also deeply vexed the by the taunt of 'king of England'. It's quite possible to sustain a collection of countries that have something of a shared identity even though they are in different places and largely look after their own internal business without interference from the others. We know that because it was sort of working from 1919 through to the start of the 1960s, when suddenly Britain decided its future was in Europe and cut its cousins loose. (Canada, however, after 1945 wasn't helping except when Diefenbaker was in charge.) In retrospect the post-Suez European manoeuvre was a serious mistake. (Also, the pre-1707/1801 Acts of Union distinct kingdoms worked along similar lines.) Moving to another hot take, there's a steady refrain in this podcast about how provincial Canada is, but becoming a republic is not going to fix this. (NB, I don't agree with this idea of Canadian provinciality, but that's a different topic.) Did kicking the hereditary peers out of the House of Lords change much in Britain? I don't think so. Removing the Canadian monarchy isn't the panacea you seem to think. What would help is if you stopped looking over the fence and measuring yourself against the United States. Maybe we need more Tony & Us (Bliar or Benn).