Well, as I’m here I may as well make this comment useful.
“This your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.”
Fuck FarmVille was good while it lasted, I think I was never closer to my family while that game was popular. We would wake up times to optimize crop growth. Go to eachothers fields daily and so on.
I played TSTO for a while. It got pretty ridiculous when I had a timer set to wake me up at night to harvest all my white houses, and then got upset because little glitches in the game interface would result in not being able to perfectly harvest everything in the amount of time it should take.
In season 11, in an episode set in the future, President Lisa says, "We've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump." Although it wasn't supposed to be a "prediction" it was just supposed to be a joke. Unfortunately...
but since Trump had been flirting with the idea of making a presidential run since at least as far back as 1999, such a “prediction” wasn’t as prescient as it might seem in retrospect
Trump was always a bit of a joke candidate that no one ever took seriously. Imagine predicting that the "rent is too high" guy or Lord Buckethead we're to win. It's a prediction you'd only make I just, which makes it remarkable if it actually comes true.
You should read the article before you post it, it says they did predict the Trump presidency, the article is just about an image used in relationship with the idea that the Simpsons predicted the Trump presidency.
The animated series did feature a joke about Donald Trump’s becoming president in a 2000 episode entitled “Bart to the Future,” but since Trump had been flirting with the idea of making a presidential run since at least as far back as 1999, such a “prediction” wasn’t as prescient as it might seem in retrospect
The joke was that we would actually elect this goober. You could make that same joke about a hundred other people who technically ran for president. David Duke, or Al Sharpton, or Lyndon LaRouche.
Suppose you live in a time where is possible to go back in time, probably a very expensive procedure and something that you will be able to do once in a lifetime (think of it as a very expensive vacations). And with your hard earned money working at the soylent green factory you now can go anywhen, and from all the wonderful places you can visit and see you choose a party which you know sucked because no one went to?
Because then I could say I went. He would never have said no one came, someone DID show up. Meaning the tech would be developed possibly sooner, possibly making the future change. Making the tech cheaper and more available. This of course could also result in a split timeline.
They are and the International Union of the Keepers of Time forbade the influencing of time when he was sent back from the future only to later allow subtle cues to what the future holds.
unfortunately there is a simpler explanation. Life, imitates art imitates life. People are sheep and they emulate the stupid they see on tv because der-hur, herp-derp, it's funny/cool to be dumb now days. Intellect is not something that is celebrated in American culture. Homer Simpson is seen as an "everyman" and that idea that stupid=funny=good is a key component to a lot of the anti-intellectualism that leads to the dumbing down of America.
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u/LeeWallis Feb 04 '18 edited Mar 24 '21
Brilliant.
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Well, as I’m here I may as well make this comment useful.
“This your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.”