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I don’t disagree with that; my point was that the Nazis were able to leverage a second-place result and 36% of the vote in 1932 to destroy the multi-party system. Most Germans didn’t vote for Hitler when there was a choice, then choice itself was removed.
And if they try to hurt your feelings anyway, you are allowed to go a little fashy. That’ll show them.
I think that it’s more intended to be about how the Nazis, despite initially lacking broad public support, dismantled democracy and the systems of government that existed pre-1931, coercively recreating the state, civil life, and society in their image. This doesn’t absolve the people who gave in.
Only exception was my kid’s first grade teacher, but then she got divorced and I think she has a new last name now
Shin Godzilla is fantastic, but you need to expect it to be a critique of government bureaucracy more than anything else. You probably need some familiarity with Ultraman before watching Shin Ultraman. It's very hit or miss with fans. Haven't seen Shin Kamen Rider yet, but Riders aren't my area.
Oriental Cinema was how, back at age 11 in 1995, I learned about the first several Heisei Godzilla movies. There are a few turns of phrases that will always stick with me ("I love this movie so much it makes me want to break into a dentist's office and turn the saliva vacuum in reverse")
Dibs on the name for my easy-listening Carcass cover band.
A little more seriously, the traditionally depicted ophanim, cherubim, and seraphim would be. The cherubim as described in Ezekiel are at least partially, given their four-aspect presentation. The eyeball monster praise choir in Revelation could be, if you classify them as angels.
Nah, man, they’re just Erica
I hear you. My 13 year old is writing/has started dozens of stories of impenetrable Undertale alternate universe fan fiction stories. And also the Afton family, which is apparently in Five Nights at Freddie’s but not the part with the murder robots.
(without intending to exclude any genders or sexualties) Dicks is totally an emotion.
This thread makes me think of red states that are smaller, less ethnically diverse, rely on money funneled from the feds, and are trying to use their (ill-gotten) Republican supermajorities to rewrite their state constitution de jure and de facto.
This would work better as an audio clip, but: Diplodocus ➡️ “dip-uh-luh-DOE-cus” Velociraptor ➡️ “ve-luh-si-RAP-TOR” (say the first three syllables with no emphasis and as fast as possible) Parasaurolophus ➡️ “pa-RA-sore-RA-LO-FUS” It’s mostly emphasis and admittedly pre-Jurassic Park.
My mom gave me so much guff when she heard me pronounce “wanton” the same as “won-ton.” Of course, considering the the…idiosyncratic takes on dinosaur names she raised me with, I don’t think she had much room to talk.
Keep thinking it’s a shortening of “poltroon” and then remembering with a wave of second-hand embarrassment/derision for the people trying to sincerely use it
In Newsom’s case, at best it feels like the Daily Show 20 years ago — it makes some mainstream liberals think the satire itself is accomplishing something. Unless it energizes Dems into action, it achieves nothing, because Republican politicians are immune to satire.
Kennedy said that in an interview earlier this year. Awful, but not a surprise.
Great, now my brain is gonna be wrestling between this one and the version from Nanowar’s “Valhalleljulah” (“Shema Yggdrasil, Odinai eloheynu, Odinai echad”) next time we’re at Shabbat
I mean, I’ve known parents who needed to take this to heart viz their kids…
Why I wasn’t allowed in the room when my wife watched The Good Wife.
As a (Protestant-raised) atheist who regularly attends temple for my Reform wife and kids, this is a concept that I logically understand but still feels like someone’s petting my brain the wrong way. This is not meant to be a criticism but an agreement and observation.
He said it during the campaign, even. Such a weird and racist thing to be hyper focus on.
When I was in high school in Texas — barely post Columbine! — after the first day of deer season, the morning announcements included a reminder to not leave your hunting guns in the back of your truck in the parking lot after too many students did. That seems so unreal now.
And apparently no less aggravating, which I understand is why Jamie Loftus ate Infinite Jest.
Still furious they keep bugging me to sign in when I play solitaire now, and they choke it with ads. It’s solitaire!
Shades of “Imma plant me a dumbass tree!” (Complimentary)
Yank here. I've never heard someone pronounce the place name the same way as the the lunch meat. That being said, I live in a state with Russia ("Roo-shy"), Versailles ("Ver-sales"), and Gallipolis (not like the place in Turkey, "gall-ih-PO-LEES")
I will admit some amount of shame that, as an American, the similarity of these names never occurred to me until I was 20 something and my Icelandic teacher was complaining about it. I've got a half-formed theory that sometimes wordplay and patters are more obvious to second language speakers.
Our district gets a week off in September for the county fair and buggy race
Turn it a little, and if I get jump scared by a menacing figure in a space suit with an opaque visor, I not only have to worry about them, my mind is racing to figure out if they are human, if they are from a sinister Elsewhere, and if I also need to be protected from an unknown environmental hazard
“Unexpected dudes in space suits are scary” — me to my wife during an unexpected dude in a space suit jump scare in Agents of SHIELD (while also thinking back to Six-String Samurai)
I do not understand in the slightest why burning the flag is repellant; however, even if it somehow were, the circumstances of today certainly justify, if not demand, it.
After a week of ceding momentum and trying to get the Republicans to invoke the 25th amendment, time during which Trump (and the threat of his supporters) got the party back in line. I remember, it was agonizing and disheartening in real time.
Republican control of the Supreme Court and rules that make legislating during a Democratic presidency a nightmarish gridlock and during a Republican one not that bad. Stunted Obama and Biden. Yeah, he got most of what he wanted, even if he probably would have rather given it to Romney than Trump.
Something something Khwarezmian governor something something
Ah, I will tell my 10 and 13 year old to just walk the 12 miles from their school back home (this school district’s geography is stupid)
Thinking Atum takes that one, if it’s a competition, since he wanked the other gods into existence. Oh, and maybe his devotees had a festival that involved jorking it into the Nile, but that’s not 100% established.
Huh, let’s see…overreliance on Slayer and albums where a band got famous but that aren’t necessarily their best work…questionable genre decisions…no “Mabool” or “The Mantle”…misspelled “Heartwork”…all Top Whatever lists are bad, I give this one a C. Could have still been much worse.
Shitposting is a tool. If it activates the base and gets them to do something, it’s doing its job. It just can’t be the only tool we use and we really can’t end up with Newsom as the candidate in 2028.
Man, screw normalcy bias
Uneven playing fields. Literally. Sure does suck those quarters when the offense has to run uphill.
People would probably be unsettled by how much googling goes into the practice of law as well.
As a fan I have to say that it’s wryly humorous that the movie paid tribute to the comics by making the Eternals interesting and complex, with massive backstory potential, and then only giving them an abortive prestige vehicle that really isn’t integrated into the rest of the universe.
I recall a big Twitter dust up about a year ago where the racist wing of the right said they were going to stop all immigration and the tech wing said “but not the skilled worker visas , right?” and the racism response was basically “What part of ALL do you not understand, you brown lovers!?”
Because everyone accepts that Republicans are the Fiscally Responsible Party™ - ie, they’ll cut taxes, fight unions, and reduce regulations. That line gets a lot of people who aren’t themselves bigots or theocrats to excuse the bigots and the theocrats.
Hell yeah.
Tulsi Gabbard
It’s like the Almighty held up a mirror to our greatest flaws and sins and instead of repenting, we voted for the Beast twice. Now He has closed up His realm and grace and glory to us. What right have we to complain? We abandoned Him first. (Annoying atheist here, but man is it on the nose)
Buncha frogs literally, one frog metaphorically—I see the Plagues as at least partly literary devices for Hashem defeating the Egyptian gods. In this case it’s Heqet, goddess of childbirth (foreshadowing the slaying of the first born). “Mi Chamocha” and all that.
Reminds me that Primghar, Iowa, is the only Primghar in the world. It’s named from the first letter in the surnames of eight founding families.
Additionally, our government has effectively offloaded a distressing amount of regulatory enforcement, workplace safety, product safety, etc to private litigation compared to much more robust and proactive government action seen in other countries.
Because he unified the kingdom of Denmark and Bluetooth (the product) unifies devices. As to how much he was king of Norway, I think Hákon Sigurðarson would seek to split some hairs there.
In Old Norse, people we would today refer to as Black were called blámenn (“blue men”). There is definitely a cultural component to how we perceive colors.
The most easterly part of Brazil is closer to Africa than it is to the most westerly part of Brazil. The most northerly part of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the most southerly part of Brazil. That’s a big country.
Hostis humani generis
It feels like art a kindly bigot would make to say that things are just better for everyone if the outsider is gone/dead, even for the outsider. Even if not intentional, Return of Ultraman 33 is a powerful and haunting retort.
My wife had to deal with this recently. Met a microbio undergrad and when she mentioned her degree (PHD biomedical science) he started quizzing her on oncogenetics (challenging, not connecting). “I already defended my dissertation once, I’m not going to do it again for some rando.”
To my kids, while waiting for the bus: “Hey look, it’s rosy-fingered Dawn.”
If officers are justified in using lethal force during nearly any interaction if they fear you have a firearm, the 2A is already fairly meaningless.
At my family’s otherwise very progressive and inclusive synagogue, the kids are given the fantastical vision and the adults mostly talk in abstracts and platitudes to avoid reckoning with the real world consequences of their shibboleths. It can be frustrating.
Still don’t know who this guy is, but fuck ‘im.
No, there are cots. This is significantly nicer.
Corollary: Gun owners are disproportionately more likely to be Trump supporters or at least anti-anti-Trump types
I remember working in a video store in 2000 and there being a small but dedicated group of fans who would buy the DVDs as they came out.
I only knew this one from the toys. Nice.
The name is slipping my mind at the moment, but this was like Power Rangers and Beetleborgs, taking the SFX from a Japanese tokusatsu show and using American actors for the human stuff. In this case, the original show was Metalder. I think they borrowed from another Metal hero too.
Never heard of this place until I started working in southern Ohio. Definitely still around.
The infuriating thing is that we’ve been saying this, in one form or another, since January 7, 2021 and they just keep finding more and more ways to let us down.
The left-ear audio of Queen II and “Great King Rat.” It was a revelation when I first heard both channels.
Not a medical professional, but barometric pressure or changes thereto can be a migraine trigger, including for my wife. It can make her pretty miserable. Not 100% the same thing, but it’s an extrinsic force affecting brain processes, so maybe a different manifestation of the same mechanism.
I thought it was because we had to pay doctors, nurses, caregivers, etc for their labor. If the position is that the government should pay for most of these, sure, but in both cases we are asking for others to labor for us, so they should be compensated.
Shout out to the Belgians.
Ultraman Tiga (1996) is probably the best entry point, since it’s very good and resets continuity. Ultraseven (1967) if you want to start Showa era cold turkey. Orb (2016) if you want contemporary storytelling. Mebius (2006) is the best toku series overall IMHO, but benefits from Showa familiarity
I had this realization when my kids first got into it years ago. When I saw it was a Toei coproduction, it all made sense
Yes, my kid loves Ultraman Geed.
Oh hey, one of my 13-year-old verbal ticks. Just gonna be doing that all day now.
Problem: Highly politicized school boards left over from 2021 anti-masking and CRT panics who have installed client administrators. The loudest, most powerful members of our board are more or less pro bullying and are still punishing teachers because their homophobia made international news.
Same here. Keep reassuring myself that at least I’m several inches taller than him, but then the kids have been rewatching and my 7-year-old made the connection….she’s savage…
Hmmm. Needs more Bal-Sagoth.
Like a beaver crushed by a tree.
But how else would we learn who owns an exploded whale carcass in the 1800s? Still mad that Property 1 and 2 required us to learn the meaning of “ferrae naturae” and not “mortgage.”
Yeah, I’m a SCOTUS detractor too, but originalism never comes up on the majority of most lawyers’ practice. Even if you’re a transactional real estate attorney, still gotta learn how to read a case.
From my experience — sitting down and trying to read the Restatement (2nd) of Contracts with no context between classes your first day will not help you prepare for Contracts.
This is ableist against those of us who wake up from every nap somehow more groggy and cranky for the rest of the day
Well, now I am
As a midwestern middle aged dad and nigh-obligate metalhead … 2. Because of memes that are each over a decade old.
I feel like casuals are more familiar with the ol’ mad monk than Svengali, don’t know why they’d think that’s a clarifying reference.
And a couple naughty ones Callipygian Bathykolpian Houghmagandy Cataglotism Ecdysiast Tarse Gormagon Jouissance
Apanthropinization Cosmogyral Defedate Vetanda Acoria Acroamatic Ordure Adamitism Adelphogamy Acatalepsy Acherontic Bdelygmia Surmisal Haruspex Baraguin Ziphodon Biblia abiblia Breedbate Woold
Agreed. 1 is the strongest ensemble piece, but doesn't have the same emotional punch of 2 or 3. Rocket's story in 3 is fantastic, but everything else is bland. 2 felt best in the theater, but there's a poison message at the core ("accept your abuser if/because there's a worse one out there!")
Great, now I’m going to be stuck trying to figure out how to rank the GOTGs all day today. Just gonna have some chunk of mental ram working in the background arguing about parts vs wholes.
Convergent development - intellectual eugenicists are fine with disease eliminating the undesirable, while the true woo believers think that any negative outcomes are the result of the patient’s personal lifestyle failings. Same means, same end, different philosophy.
This makes me feel nausaged.
It's a small thing, but one endpoint on the map is labeled "San Antonio", which he apparently reads as "Houston." Disingenuous, vacuous, AND a dumbass on top of it?
Fletcher Hanks’s heroes weren’t so kind.
The Monsterverse MG design should have been shot into the sun with the same trebuchet they should have used for the Monsterverse Mothra design.
A post has made the rounds a few times recently of a teacher who is giving their students the assignment to have a gen AI produce an essay on a topic, then review and double check the essay. It shows them how unreliable gen AI is. Same task, different purpose, different ethical quality I believe
There are a tremendous number of R voters who don’t like the hatred or identify with the bigotry, they are just too tied up in political identity or a single issue (taxes, abortion, etc) to let it sway them, or they’re oblivious. Despite possible lack of animus, the outcome is the same.
The professional-class types I know who are perfectly adequate on social issues and immigration but crave those tax cuts.
My 13-y/o, autistic daughter was bemoaning not having any peers who share her interests, so I told her about when I was a 13-y/o who found a usenet community around my interests that helped me blossom. Makes me wish I had kept in contact with them and that she’ll be in a trustworthy place soon.