Me personally, if I read literally any question about the balance of powers between the three branches of government, my eyes glaze over.
“Can the President override this Congressional action? Can the judiciary override that override?”
I gotta be honest with you man, I’ve got no fuckin clue.
Just interested in other’s thoughts on this. Do you think they’re living creatures?
Certain themes of the film relate them to the idea of being more like “furniture”.
The Backrooms don’t know what humans are, but it knows they’re there, and loosely knows what humans are supposed to “do”. So the Rooms render them like it would furniture, with only a baseline level of animate-ness to vaguely replicate a human.
The Still Lifes are made of something that seems to be fundamentally biological matter (you can eat them), and they do seem to emote in some capacity (the woman and wheelchair man were both “afraid” of Cap’n Clark)
But idk, does that mean they’re actually living creatures? I can make a marionette move around and emote as well. Doesn’t mean it’s any more alive than my sofa. Like, these things are obviously less sapient than even an AI chatbot. They can’t really “think”.
Maybe you could even draw a line somehow. Maybe Cap’n Clark is “alive” like an animal, but the striped shirt guy is more like a fleshy statue.
I’m trapped in the city right now. I was thinking of taking the PATH to Newark and then from there getting on a train to Rahway. But I’m having a really hard time parsing anything on the app.
It says trains to Trenton will be operating locally. I don’t know what that means. There’s an announcement specifically for the Raritan Valley Line that says trains are originating in Newark today. But what of the other lines?
Does everyone just try and hold it til a break or something?
I’m on such a strict biological clock. I go at like 11am almost every day. How does anyone else tackle this pressing issue?
First slide is one of my ferrets when she was just shy of 2 years old, and second slide is her again, now 5 and some change.
Her mask is now much less distinct, and the sandy blonde fur from the top of her head has progressively marched down to connect with her mask.