God forbid people fix their machines, but if a foreign power who has gathered all historic data of the American heartlands fields/crops wanted to launch a ransom attack

I haven’t followed up to hear if the vulnerabilities were corrected but they sure seemed to not give a shit when it was presented to them over the past 2 years.

First and foremost thing; currently at those time you are discussing allegations. The facts are not publicly available, and what is available is incomplete.

Second you are talking about entertainment media. The show is nothing but artistic storytelling for consumption of adult, mature audiences.

I’d wager you are very much projecting insecurities into the media that’s a reflection of yourself.

Stories that contain depictions of taboo behavior do not make deviants in & of themselves. Rick & Morty tells a superfluous & improsperous tale of a broken, dangerous, self depreciating family. Their story is not one of overwhelming success & happiness. They’ve destroyed their own lives, killed their family & friends; destroyed their home, neighborhood, town, world, solar system, galaxy multiple times over. It’s a story of sadness, loss, self depreciation, self harm, addiction, substance abuse, poor impulse control, moral failings & consequence. The inter-dimensional theme only acts a plot device to reset the stage whenever the characters ruin their lives yet again, but reinforces the concept that their behaviors are neither healthy or good. That their behaviors always lead to destruction, conflict & turmoil. It’s told with humor, as sugar helps a bitterant more tolerable.

Is Rick & Morty an idealistic show with healthy normative themes fit for the consumption of anyone? NO! But it’s certainly unfair to equate its production staff & fanbase as being sick in the head. Just because some media makes you uncomfortable doesn’t mean it’s promoting and glorifying unhealthy themes. If Rick & Morty seems to be influential, I think many themes are being missed.

In January 2020 anyone trading in stories of people being welded into their apartments, windows being forcibly boarded up and doors chained in China were called liars.

Then the deadly Urumqi Apartment Fire that sparked the ZERO Covid riots 3 weeks ago was so bad because….people where “forcibly quarantined” and unable to escape or be reached by emergency services (whatever does that turn of phrase mean?) Chinese media tried to downplay it internationally as Fire Trucks had a hard time getting access to good vantage points to combat the blaze because “cars with dead batteries blockaded the street”.

But yeah sure, another perfectly logical Chinese news piece to take exactly at face value.

#1 thing to damage records in use are shit Stylus. Also I personally don’t trust anything without a full platter, the potential for wobble just invites a stylus to interact poorly with your media surface.

Edit: apparently I’ve never once typed a hashtag symbol in Reddit mobile? Didn’t realize it was for doing the text LOUDS.

Roughly speaking, because of the curvature of the earth standing at ground level, with perfect viewing conditions the average person can see the horizon as just about 3 miles.

Adding some height to your vantage point, 20 feet is about 6 miles. 70 feet is 11 miles. 400 feet is 26 miles. So being on a mountain that’s about 3000ft tall gives a sightline of 72 miles.

Boston is about 75 miles from the mountain so you can’t see any ground structures at all. The height of the taller buildings probably somewhere after the 6-8 floor or so is what’s being seen.

As a small edit: after driving into work today through downtown; I’d say the skyline we see this picture is more like building over 12 floors tall & up.