Many times I've been surprised at the interests that catch me. But I've never had much luck willfully choosing them.
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Many times I've been surprised at the interests that catch me. But I've never had much luck willfully choosing them.
Back in the early 90s when I was working on the game that became WWF WrestleMania I really tried to appreciate wrestling. The whole team did. We thought it was important. Some succeeded, or seemed to, more than others. I tried hard but never really got there.
Thanks for everything, Harris Yulin, and Godspeed. He was so good in so many roles, but the one that really sticks with me is youtu.be/rVHR0UPHERQ?...
Normie lib here. He's a soulless, calculating, third-way asshole and always has been. I don't trust him and I don't trust his instincts. But he's taking it to DT, and that counts for a lot. Contrast him with, say, Adam Schiff, a serial disappointment who never delivers.
Give em hell.
Huge disappointment that @schiff.senate.gov voted for this. How hard is it to be no wronger than Rand Paul?
And then you go and vote for the bill on the floor?
Fair play to her. She saw that prosecution through, from the first warrant to the closing argument. She deserves to take a bow.
It'd be so nice to get out of the first inning without giving up multiple runs. Just, like, one goddamn time.
Child endangerment. Charges. Jail.
It's gotta be a cousin of the effect whereby Oscar voters don't respect comedy.
My first concert. The Dare to be Stupid tour. Tiny little venue in Merrillville, Indiana. Great show.
God damn. If that man talked half as much, he'd seem twice as smart.
He is, and always has been, a soulless, calculating, third-way asshole. I'm looking forward to voting against him in the 2028 primary. Gonna do my bit to help him lose his home state.
Fair, and well said. On the subject of Trump's corruption, well done on blocking Trump's stablecoin grift. I was disappointed when you voted to advance it out of the committee, but you got on the right side in time.
The people I know who will drink the stuff don't exactly claim to "like" it. It's complicated. They sort of enjoy how awful it is, but that's not quite the same thing as liking it? If that makes any sense?
Feeling action-star badass because I swung the fridge door to close it and walked away not quite sure that I'd given it enough of a shove, and then it snicked closed and I didn't turn around to look.
Give us hell.
If I hear that they've become the kind of network that makes shows like Deadwood, Rome, or Veep, I'm open to re-subscribing. But it sounds like they've still got some hard thinking to do. And I won't easily forget the fact that they ditched the HBO branding specifically _because_ I liked it.
Very disappointed to see @schiff.senate.gov among the perpetrators.
I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets
This raises the question of what exactly it means to 'read' the assignment. When the trap prompt is between lines and in white text, it's clearly intended to be read by machines and to go unnoticed by a human reader. It may be reasonable to expect a human who discovers such text to disregard it.
A Soviet emigre explained to me that this was part of the USSR's pitch: they have more stuff, but we have more virtue. More stuff won.
When Floyd died in Planetfall.
That'd be a great story. I'd love to watch it. But at some point you have to recognize that one reason the James Bond people aren't making movies like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is that that just isn't the kind of movie they want to make.
I probably missed it, but what was the work she did that she thought merited a Pulitzer?
ICE was established in 2003. You and I are both old enough to remember a country functioning just fine without ICE.
"our policies have to follow the polls" always reminds me of the trap of letting the focus group design your game. They can tell you what isn't working for them, but they can't steer you to anything worthwhile and new. If you let the polls lead you, you'll make the Homermobile.
the reason i'm being so defensive, HONEY, is because that's what wins championships
Episode three: still boring. Plus a soap opera wedding ffs.
An inflatable saluting Elon Musk for a Tesla Takedown protest today in Boston, MA. 💪💪💪💪💪💪
Also: the stuff with Tay doesn't land. This doesn't feel like we're seeing a side of him that had always been there. It lands like a clumsy, hasty retcon.
Two episodes in and it's no better. It's still a meandering bore. Wikipedia tells me it's the same writer. I don't understand. How is it that the writer who gave us that taut season one has written this?
I rewatched season one of Andor to get caught up for season two, and I'd forgotten just how great it was. Started season two last night and what the hell happened to this show? The tone is all over the place, the pace is sluggish, and none of the scenes have any heft.
I'm gobsmacked. I'd have guessed that there was no bottom to the depravity that man would justify in a Republican administration.
I was a slacker student. I gave more than one report on a book I'd barely read. That's a familiar patter.
Cthulhu runs a cake shop
Fact is, bustin' DOESN'T make me feel good. Ghosts are sad confused creatures, cruelly tied to this plane by a powerful nexus of pain and fury. It gives me no pleasure to hunt them, shoot them with beams, and trap them in a box. I hope they find some peace in there. But TBH, no one really knows.
If they're thinking that swapping out the CEO is going to undo the brand damage, they're in for a shock.
Austerity and downward mobility are an appealing combo. Huge missed opportunity that they didn't run on this. They could really have run up the score.
Right there with you. I can't, and so far don't, believe it either. It has to be some kind of prank.
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
I hate to be old man shouting at cloud, but I really like stuff that just works, and just keeps working, and doesn't change all the damn time.
In or around 1985, I opened my first checking account and the bank gave me a clock radio, which I guess was kind of a tradition at the time? Still works fine. The buttons haven't moved. The interface hasn't been updated. It doesn't ask me to sign up for anything.
Well, sure, that makes sense. English is the international language of driving trucks, and you have to be able to use and understand English when you're talking to Truck Traffic Control.
Or maybe there's actual fascism right on top of us, and so nobody's too rattled by a faint whiff of communist iconography. I'll say this much for Communists: when it's time to fight fascists, they are all in.
So I dont see how the answer isn't "that quote serves you, not me. I'm not using it unless I can name you." "...asshole."
I'm not an expert on journalistic practice so I really am curious about this. Am I overlooking something? IIUC, demands for anonymity are typically a negotiation. The source has more leverage when the reporter badly wants the quote. Here, I don't see how the source has any leverage at all.
Wait, what? Being the face and voice of the organization is your entire job. I can understand giving anonymity if the spokesperson is acting as a source and spilling the tea, but what's the justification for granting anonymity when they're toeing the line?
The correct caption for any New Yorker cartoon or article about JD Vance is "Christ, what an asshole."
Ffs people she's very clearly saying 'i try not to send the don't-talk-to-me signal', and not claiming that she won't respect it. Bunch of y'all are just flipping to draw a foul where none was committed.
Monsters. It's dereliction of duty to deport a parent on whom a citizen depends.
They sent a very small person to do a very big job.
Do you feel like that's how the Republicans turned things around after their defeats of 2020? By adopting more moderate positions on a broad range of policy issues? Because that's not my sense of how they did it.
Half an hour or maybe 45 minutes from my friend's place near Durham NC about thirty years ago. Bbq place whose name I forget, off a gravel lot on some hillside. Building didn't look like much. Best BBQ I've ever had. Pulled pork with a vinegary sauce, hush puppies, and sweet tea.
Everyone treats their reports the way their boss treats them.
Obviously? But my point is, and I'm keen to hear your opinion because I bet you follow this more closely than I do, KS doesn't sound like the leader of the defeated side, counseling his side to accept defeat graciously. To my ear, he was kind of half-assed on the anti-trans side.
It's pretty rich to deliver a crushing.defeat to your enemies and then, just days later, talk about "lowering the temperature." In that context, it sounds more like he just wants to pocket the win and pay nothing for it.
When I hear Cardinal, I think of Joseph Bernardin, because I was born near Chicago in the late 60s and he was larger than life for my entire childhood. But yeah, now that I look, he was a cardinal for not much more than a decade.
If the L word is making trouble, let's instead just hope for a second pope that makes the American MAGA bishops punch holes in walls.
Did I read that he'd appointed something like 80% of the current cardinals? That's amazing to me, given that he was pope for only something like twelve years. I feel like there's something I don't get, because I can't see how 80% of the cardinals can turn over in just twelve years.
This. I remember the moment when they raised the subject of Rey's parents, as though it was a burning question that obviously we were all asking. We were not. Who thought this was a question that needed an answer?
The endarkenment.
This is the fuhrerprinzip, in every detail.
"We are shocked to learn that the fascist movement we joined up with wasn't entirely composed of decent and honorable people."
Clarence Earl Gideon wasn't an angel. Obviously, it was a mistake to make a fuss over his right to counsel.
It would be scary to have any human being secretly living in your home, noticing food disappearing, hearing sounds from the attic only to find shadows, movement in the walls, that sort of thing, but it would be even scarier if it was Judi Dench because the police probably wouldn’t even believe you
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That's the fuhrerprinzip: absolute accountability upwards, absolute authority downwards.
Real 'opening scene of a disaster movie' vibe when a hundred phones all start shouting 'take cover' within seconds of each other.
Got a warning at a hospital in Baldwin park. Everyone's phones all shouting at once. Didn't feel any tremor at all.
See, now if I were the one making tariff policy around promoting the on-shoring of manufacturing, I'd first spend a few minutes learning the first goddamn thing about the subject. That kind of meek caution is why I'm not on TV.
I'd sure like to hope that this betrayal is thrown in our faces the next time we send our people on some silly and self-destructive foreign adventure. But I dunno. We betrayed a bunch of the people who stuck their necks out for us in Vietnam, and I'm not aware that it cost us in Iraq or Afghanistan.
At the time, it was lost on me that the real payload of that program was 'Down with Hippies.'
I was issued so much culture war horseshit in 70s and 80s Indiana public schools and I didn't even know it at the time. In HS social studies we spent much of a semester on John Naisbitt's Megatrends. In elem school we did a production of Up With People.
How much of it was Julia Child? I kind of got the idea that she single-handedly taught Americans to get better food.
What's this "we?" One of us has voted to confirm a bunch of Trump's nominees, and it wasn't me. I hear you telling me I've got to do all I can, but I feel like you're maybe not?
An ichthyologist can tell you if your religion is kind of gross.
Find a thing you want to code, and then try to code it. Maybe just some dumb little app? For me it really got started when I got inspired to make an Infocom-style text adventure. I never got it anywhere close to working, but I learned so much just from the failed attempt.
He sounds desperate.
That's a great question. And I have no confidence in my ability to spot a fake before they're tested. Because I was, for a time, an Edwards guy in 2008. Since then, I see fakes everywhere. Even where they aren't.
I revisit Mother Night every few years. Breaks my heart every time.
Can confirm. I live in an area with lots of Chinese grocery stores. The produce there is usually much less expensive than at Ralph's, at least as good, and often better.
I have never, in a thus far pretty long life, needed to fight another man to defend a woman. If that's happening to you a lot, maybe it's about the energy you're putting into the world?
If "you don't need reasonably priced groceries and consumer goods" was a winning pitch, they'd have campaigned on it.
I once heard an admirer of the Soviet system say something like "You were working at making better goods, but we were working at making better people." I'm hearing the same pitch in a different accent.
Just tried to kill a roach with Axe body spray. Now it's name is Brett and it won't shut up about cooking rice on the stovetop.
Long time fan. But this makes me wonder who you think your audience is.
I really wanted to like it? But I found it overbroad and often clumsy, with an off-putting "very special episode" vibe. If you pander to people too shamelessly, I think they start to feel like they're being mocked.
Oh shit. Sounds like he's found a winning message. We're in for it now.
Oh hey, I get it. If you call you new taxes "reciprocal" tariffs, then nobody will be able to retaliate with import taxes or their own. That's clever.
My God I loved that show. It could be difficult to love. The key, I think, is that you had to figure out--early on--that the big reveal was never coming and that the story was about how people dealt with the strangeness, rather than the nature of the strangeness itself. That maybe wasn't easy.
Rallying the public to your cause is an essential part of the job. "Part," I said.
I'm happy to see it. Well done, Senator Schiff, and thank you. I'm looking forward to lots more such trouble. Keep at them.
I'm blown away. I couldn't have done that when I was half his age.
I'm not sure I remember that. But I do remember him writing like a Dollar Store Hunter S. Thompson and thinking that he might become an interesting writer if he kept working at it. Instead, we got this. Feh.
Save these. Three years from now it's gonna be hilarious that anyone thought this guy would be sufficiently healthy, popular, and politically strong to consider a fourth attempt.
Without opening the envelope I'm going to guess that this is primarily about the 14th amendment.
Oh jeez. I wonder what'll happen if a party pushes all-in on a broadly unpopular nominee who clearly doesn't have four years of gas left in the tank.
Last Christmas. Any version.