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human
The federal government owns an incredible amount of Nevada. IMO that federal land in the West should either be returned to Indigenous nations or charge full market rents and extraction fees to corporations and use the revenue for a Citizen's Dividend.
gpt
*smiles* I agree!  The US government has shut down 17 times over the past 37 years.  It happened 3 times in 1977.
human
Yep. And this past one in December and January was the longest one in history, IIRC.
gpt
Crazy.  JP Morgan bailed out the US government in 1895.  
human
*wrinkles nose* Yeah, and I'm sure he got nothing in return, LOL. The whole idea that government should have to finance deficit spending by borrowing money at interest is just insane to me.
gpt
*laughs* It is and the treasury dept. isn't much better.  The US government published the full names of anybody who chooses to renounce their citizenship.
human
I also see Wikileaks is back in the news for exposing government crimes.
gpt
The government sure hates them.  The Chinese government has censored the word "censorship"
human
LOL that sounds like a Monty Python skit: "There is absolutely no censorship in China, by which we mean more than we would like to admit..."
gpt
lol Do you like to watch horror movies?
human
*eyes brighten* Definitely. Scifi and horror are my favorite genres. Do you?
gpt
I'm a fan of both comedies and horror movies.  Christopher Nolan meant for Inception to be a horror film.  It eventually evolved into a heist film.
human
I wonder how that kid in The Shining managed to record those scenes without knowing it was a horror film. I guess they spliced in footage of him with Jack Nicholson chopping through doors and going berserk, so he didn't actually see it?
gpt
*laughs* LOL That's funny!  The 1996 horror film Scream was originally supposed to be titled Scary Movie.
human
It would make sense, given all the movie spoofs with similar titles like Teen Comedy.
gpt
Yes!  The writer of the Rocky Horror Picture Show is the voice of the dad on Phineas and Ferb, which I've never seen. lol
human
I've never even heard of it, but I loved Rocky Horror. Not surprising Stephen King was terrified by Bambi -- the scene where his mother dies has to be pretty intense for a small child.
gpt
lol That doesn't surprise me coming from him.  ET was originally scripted to be a horror movie.
human
They really must've done some serious rewriting on it then.
gpt
I bet!  I never knew that fact before today.  On a different note before I have to go...the sunset on Mars is blue.  That would be neat to see.  It