Flashing back to Red Planet.

Somebody call Tom Selleck!

They have a series on Gates too.

The answer to OPs question is that these people they admired were just as bad, just better at PR. Unless you think that social media has had some kind of positive effect in outing these newer bastards. Being young and naive may also have been a factor (which I can personally attest to since I was a fan of MS back in the 90s before I learned about them).

Ah yes, the ol’ “promoted to the level of their incompetence”. SOP. Or SNAFU, take your pick.

Assuming they don’t own them already as a sort of pressure valve. Yeah I’m getting that cynical.

I hadn’t even noticed. Wow, has it been that long already?

Oh I get it from an artistic perspective, just seems funny from a logical one, like lots of art. It’s why I mentioned Corey Hart. :)

In fact, one could even read into it artistically, that the contrast is deliberate. Something about optimism, or fashion, maybe just tradition, etc.

A parasol is an interesting choice for rain, or night (maybe like a Corey Hart thing?).

A1 cleverly disguised as “A2”.

You might want to check out Technocracy, it was designed specifically to deal with this issue.

You should probably check out Technocracy, it was designed specifically to deal with job loss due to automation.

Is Seth playing Chuck Norris?

One result of The Brain’s endgame.

The answer to your question is in the title of the post.

It’s nice to have a picture subject that automatically justifies any AI weirdness. 😉

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I see from this that Ron now has Harry’s glasses, and Veronica has joined Hogwart’s. And Harry turns blond. This is crying for some fan fiction now!

“Are you Princess Leia?”

Chaaaaarrrrrrlieeeeeee…

Large tournaments were often set up that way.