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  • The movie point blank says the bugs attacked first and that it's a colonization species that just hurls meteor filled bugs randomly into space in order to try and find new planets to colonize.

    Also, when the "main" character in the movie (Rico) is in basic training and about to quit the military, a bug meteor impacts the earth, taking out an entire city, and killing his parents, so the bugs were most definitely attacking humanity, and earth directly.

    The movie also ends on a high note, making it seem like they learned some very important information by capturing one of the until then unknown bugs that was able to think and direct all the mindless bugs. So while the war will go on, it leaves the viewer to think that humanity was making progress towards a victory. The movie also marked the first time that humanity actually went to the bug home planet and "took the war to them".


  • The main arguments for it being a pro military and pro war movie is that the Bugs ARE attacking and that if humanity wants to survive, they will have to fight. Then, while most people do die, the movie ends with a major victory that looks like it may help save humanity.

    I don't really think you can argue those points away to claim its an anti military/war movie. The movie would have needed for humanity to have attacked the bugs first, starting the war; or at the least having had most everyone die for no reason, without making a shred of progress in the war effort.

    I mean, they were fighting to save our entire species, and the two most vocal people in the entire movie (Ricos parents) that were against the military machine were some of the first people to die in the movie.




  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.detoMemes@lemmy.mlwater...
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    3 months ago

    I took it as Fry is drinking non American beer, because American beer tastes like water.

    But really, outside of a couple large national beer chains that sell their low cost "bud, coors, Busch, natty" America has a shit ton of small breweries that make a large variety of beers that aren't that way. There's literally over 9,000 operating breweries in the US.


  • Test a screw that goes into the hole he was supposed to use and make sure he didn't do it because that hole was just stripped out. I'd imagine you may be able to replace that board for pretty cheap, instead of just the port.

    You can also buy a little box of various laptop screws for like $10 on amazon.



  • I got ya. It's usually not hard to do. A lot of manufacturers have a plastic housing that's part of the frame of the case to help reinforce the power port. I've seen the power cord break away on these before it messes up the laptop jack. Obviously, not every laptop is so diligent.

    After repairing it, if there's room you can cover the area in hot glue and it will help. Hot glue is nice because while it gives a pretty good bit of reinforcement, it's still fairly easy to remove if you have to repair things yet again.







  • For real. Fuck samsung so hard. I can't even get an oem replacement battery for my N20 Ultra. (I bought it used in early 2021). Managed to find one (battery) that appeared new and genuine from ebay about 2 years ago, but im going to need another in the next year or so, because there's no replacement phone with a pen and a micro sd card slot beyond this one. Almost no phones with just the SD card slot.