Looks like the lion kingdom's last Blue Thunder screening was lost to time.  There were a few stills which were never uploaded.  That was the ultimate man-machine story.  Don't think any recent man machine story did it as well.  The iron man suit, Dune suit, Avatar copters were more visual than functional characters.  The Avatar clone would have been the machine star, but it was more human than machine.  The marvel movies were always only about the human's super powers.

 It could be when machines got cheaper to film, they didn't have to earn back their cost so they became dumb visuals.

IMDB says the stars did some of their own flying but didn't name any specific scenes.    The copter was a mane character, complete with its own quirks, features, super powers.

 


 The watch was a real Casio A201 but it never had the countdown animation pictured.  It had a double layer LCD with all possible watch hands on 1 layer & digital readouts on another layer.  The movie showed some kind of clock setting mode.  Young lion always thought the watch & countdown mode were fake.  It would be trivial to make a phone app or smart watch replicate the Casio A201 now, including a real countdown mode.  The problem is the phone gets too hot to use as a stopwatch.

 

 

 

 

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 Crossing into nosebleed overbought territory, we're definitely being optimistic about the rate cut cycle.  Lions believe the stonk market expects 0% overnight & there's a panic exodus from cash feeding it.  They're going to cut, but probably not to 0 for a longer time than investors think.  S&P is almost up to its 10% year over year average which would be the low 6 handles.

 1 more peculiar headline is despite BRK being heavily into cash, called super conservative by the media, he's up 17% this year.  Lions still expect his bonds to go to infinity after the rate cut.

 Lions have pondered the chances of inflation targeting getting abandoned & how they would do it.  Clearly, it's leading to imbalances.  1 thing can't forever rise while everything else falls.  Something else has to take housing's place or it'll be the only store of value while no-one buys anything else because everything else is deflating.  There's a nonzero chance they'll end up surrendering the fight against deflation & let it happen.  Inflation targeting requires animals to not game the system by putting all their money in the 1 thing that's rising.

 

 

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