Idea for a SNL skit. Trump, played by Alec Baldwin, sits behind the desk in the Oval Office. Aides around him. He cracks self-deprecating jokes. Praises Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Calls Melania and tells her he loves her. Fires his children. Signs resignation letter.
@aud you were always destined to have some lingering doubt over whether or not you could have or could not have done anything different in a moment where only one thing ever happened
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place big fan of the last one! the other ones, well... I guess in a sense it doesn't matter if I'm part of the deterministic free will fanclub or not, does it.
@aeva @lritter It does not. (Source: I grew up in Germany which only enacted a smoking ban in public closed spaces mid-2008.) And our 90s were just as neon-infused as yours
@kevingranade @eniko (without loss of generality) my guess is some find it hurts less if they can convince themselves they're not being swindled by the status quo