Richard Adam’s:*makes a daringly dark story about the environment survival and fighting for justice that has a happy ending using bunnies*

Yeah…growing up under the shadow of the Hays code and Puritanism tends to leave one not only ignorant about the not-so light-hearted parts of life, but also with few if any healthy outlets for all the horrors their guardians forced them to grow up under and gaslit them to see as normal and “godly”

Insert a movie into another movie:

How the Die Hard Grinch stole Christmas

I only wish the who’s and the set color design of this movie were at least half as good

When I hear claims that the US government pays more money policing who gets support for being disabled that it spends on actually supporting disabled people …

I 100% see how that is possible.

Birb catching fish

As an Oregonian this news of a cool lake my Nextdoor WA neighbors have been holding out from me is pleasing

Now can we all move on to watching Joyeux Noel for the 111th time?

Or conversing with the ghost of Christmas present’s 2020+ brothers?

He’s so precious…I wanna make sure he has a doe and also to benevolent dom him and his adorable rump

This was my job in the US Air Force and this story was retold often as a cautionary tale. Our (designed in the 90s) system would auto detect “launches” but three humans checked it before a decision was made on the legitimacy.

Someone who has the supervisor elsewhere, knowing they may have to explain or pay a price later

isn't dealing with that in the moment, in the moment is the bad decision

No lab coat guy in the room telling them they must go on, a lot of people ain't pressing that button.

If someone is standing over you, ordering you...people give up any actual authority most of the time

A guy in a white coat saying 'the experiment must continue' was enough for people to feel pressured to give what they thought were electric shocks to people screaming in agony or in medical distress

HUMANS DO JUST THAT.

Except, they kinda don't.

The key difference here and there, and with that terrible shock experiment is thusly

Is the decision yours to make.

and choosing to be the weak link that stopped the progression into the world's greatest shitshow of destruction

saved humanity from ourselves.

And the movie WAR GAMES is about that weak link, about how humans can't be trusted ... to blindly follow orders.

The weird thing is, most of the time?

The error was later discovered to have been caused by the sun bouncing off the top of clouds and radar mistaking that heat signature for...nukes.

Common fucking sense, compassion, and a desire not to be a part of the human chain that killed the world, distrusting the common sense of those above

There's an old 'joke' that's not a joke and I don't recall who came up with it

but it was said that anyone who decided they must launch weapons of mass destruction, like nuclear weapons

should be required to knife to death the person with the codes to get those codes, because it's that serious.

who were not paid to think.

He felt sure it must be an error, despite it having gone through '30 layers of verification'.

He held off. He was sure it HAD TO BE a mistake...but that was human gut instinct.

He was right. And so the world did not end in 1983.

He knew if he was wrong, that would be his death. Absolute treason.

But ... why would the US only launch five missiles?

He also didn't trust the new system. The other officers who held his shift would've simply called it in, he later said repeatedly. They were 'good soldiers' ...

I’m also amazed the bog standard 4-4-0 American +1-2 old times coaches +1 caboose is still the default load out for model train sets like this.

And with bog standard commercial Christmas colors with little adjustment for what’s supposed to go on a working train.