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No, I don’t buy that. McCain, HW Bush, Romney and the rest had all made their peace with racism and the politics of personal destruction long before Trump arrived. McCain and Romney voted with the rest of them in lockstep. Obamacare was Romney’s plan! In a better world, he would have wanted credit!
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these were pretty rare with classic Macs like the Plus and SE, but multiple monitors became more common with the Mac II in 1987, so not that far down the road from this ad. The system software shipping with the Mac II had good support for multiple monitors.
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I appreciate that Khanna is trying to stay on message but jfc the correct answer is “Obama went to extensive trouble to release his birth certificate showing he was born in the US and it did no good at all. Respond to bad faith attacks with the truth does not help.”
Another dogshit Columbia Picture. Why do I even bother getting out of bed
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"gratitude" is the new "uppity"
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While I haven't seen anything from the latest season, the problem with the previous seasons was that the writing simply wasn't very good. Their reach far exceeds their grasp.
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Political candidates have to gain new votes without alienating their existing base. Newsom is throwing away the Dem base in a different way than Sinema did, but no less self-destructively, and it won't be as apparent until his opponents for the nomination dig up these podcasts.
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Genuinely can't tell if you're being sarcastic here nobody will care about 2021 lockdown -- nobody even remembers it now except for those of us with autoimmune family/friends/selves who still mask up regularly people will care about the right wing podbro stuff, though
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Everyone should be subjected to all 10 seasons or whatever of MASH. Many things would be learned!
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Can confirm; as a young adult, I stopped wearing a rather nice black trenchcoat because of the moral panic about the black clothes at Columbine
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Genuinely, why? Warren is a demagogue
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another glorious outcome you can thank Joe Lieberman for
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He's been cowering from right wing freaks for decades. Circa 1999, the Gates Foundation had a program to provide women in developing countries with healthcare services and they spiked it and laid off everyone involved because of right-wing bomb threats.
literally the opposite of this is true the lesson of the Mamdani campaign for leftists is to focus relentlessly on a message that will win the election because winning is fucking awesome and when they lie about you, you pivot back to that election winning message and you win
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hey, put the URL in your profile, will you? I know it's just kotaku.com, but make it easy for people to give you money, fergoshsake
If I were a Democrat eying the presidency, I probably wouldn't have my street team on social media aggravating and belittling black and trans women given that they make up the party's most solid voting block. And have been key in battling voter disenfranchisement.
When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
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do y’all understand that, as of November 2024, it is too late for voting alone to fix anything? Senate Democrats need to be tearing the place apart on a daily basis, and they’re just sitting back and sipping tea and whispering hippie anthems on weekends, and it’s not only not good enough, it’s fatal
He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...
3. this tweet remains deeply emblematic of Dem politics and the redistricting push Newsom is doing is one of the only examples I can remember of a Dem going "fuck you, we're sending out our own dog to dunk the basketball" if Rs are going to throw out the rulebook so should Dems
I know Newsom is terrible for a bunch of reasons but this is what Democrats should have been doing 8 years ago, rather than morose press releases and furrowed brows to accompany their meek and hapless legislative efforts
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Fuck one guy. DHS needs to be dismantled wholesale and I need Dems to be vehement about it. If they can't be at least as enlightened as Bill Kristol on this subject, what are they even doing in Dem politics? The money's in wingnut welfare on the right if they're just there to grift.
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But I fear Seals and Krofts and The Carpenters are unavailable to do the theme song.
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Coverage was newspapers, TV, and magazines back then, so it was less immediate, but it’s not broadly accurate to say most people were stumbling on these things in stores for the first time without any other information just because the internet (as we know it) didn’t exist yet.
The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
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"I am the brute squad"?
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there are going to be so many furrowed brows when the GOPs finally nuke the filibuster (next year? December this year?)
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I unironically like all three of those movies too, FWIW, and I understand Flash and Xanadu, but I'm astonished that you think Singing in the Rain could be near this category
TRON: Legacy, of which the best thing it can be said is that it is a 130m video accompaniment for the *excellent* Daft Punk soundtrack. youtu.be/ASYLSQCa97w
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For stories Campbell rejected or wouldn’t have considered, you can just look at contemporary non-Astounding magazines. But even those stories would be heavily influenced by the stories Campbell published.
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Eddie Murphy is on record as saying he probably should've done Star Trek IV instead (not that it was entirely his decision to make).
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But the Gorn arc and the PTSD stuff needs to go. If they’re not going to drag MASH into Star Trek, they need writers of MASH’s caliber, and they don’t have them, at least not for that material.
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I propose once again that Paramount put @mikemcmahan.bsky.social in charge of all Trek. Lower Decks is by far the best Trek since DS9. It manages to weave canon and creativity flawlessly.
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dishwashers and washing machines are profoundly more efficient now than they were 30 years ago, and they’re mostly front-loaders from Korea with pleasant chimes instead of American top-loaders with game show buzzers
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B5 if you want space opera. DS9 isn't really that, though it has many other redeeming qualities.
Going Postal contains the single best depiction I have ever read of the destruction of a company by private equity once again I lament that we lost Terry far too soon, he would have quite a lot to say about *gestures broadly*
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Sure, but it’d be confined to cranks like Rush Limbaugh. Even if 9/11 happened under Gore, the Gore White House still would not have given Fox News exclusive access to various resources like Shrub’s administration didl; it would be a thorn in our sides, not dominant. We’d be in a better place today.
Been watching Taskmaster and Fatiha is so cool and I keep wishing I could incorporate "bruv" into my vocabulary but there'd be nothing more embarrassing than a 30-year-old southern white guy suddenly starting to say "bruv"
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Had a friend in Florida who was a decent retail politician and ran for Congress 15 years ago; 95% of her time was spent on the phone calling donors. And this was well before Citizens United. Total waste.
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this would be a "you have flunked" level of work from an undergrad
The editing of the “freeze” task during the Taskmaster finale is—and I am not exaggerating—award-worthy. So well done.
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This is the right answer, and, further, you can also do this with an expensive smart TV. You don’t have to sacrifice image quality! You can simply not connect your LG to the internet. It works fine!
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Asimov wrote about the one time he complained about a book cover, something like: “One thing, there’s a problem with the cover” Sudden icy tone from the publisher: “What?” “Well, it’s undoubtedly a small thing, and I shouldn’t complain, but you spelled my name wrong.”
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Do you mean the drivers recognized WoW’s shaders and substituted more efficient ones?
Great show or greatest show?
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I just went with the Japanese and hiked up the subtitle size. so much better.
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for agreeing not to cooperate with an unconstitutional TikTok ban? of all the things to choose from, why that?
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But I think you have to also acknowledge that the 2600 was obsolete by 1981, and due to limited RAM, the games it was capable of supporting were really fairly bad. Even the ones people remember fondly. (I played a lot of them back then.) Competitors and computers got much closer to arcade quality.
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What do you mean? It doesn't run without your knowledge -- you have to answer the call, or make one
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This is actually why I find Elizabeth Warren a bit problematic. Dogmatic to a fault and facts almost never matter. I don't like it when Republicans do it and I don't like seeing it in Democrats either. AOC generally doesn't do this, to name a good counterexample.
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There has to be some organization somehow. Even Rosa Parks planned her move in advance.
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Most people have to go to work on weekdays to be able to eat/live, and, fascism or not, that won't change in the USA under the most optimistic possible scenario.
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Yes. Start with Going Postal. It's technically jumping into the middle, but it's an independent storyline, and way less meandering than many of the books prior to that point.
The problem is no one making them seems to understand what made the good movies (1 & 3 only) work, possibly not even Spielberg & Lucas themselves. If it’s not deeply rooted in atheistic Indy’s personal struggle with evidence of a biblical God, it’s just some guy nicking stuff & getting into scrapes
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Yes! This is the correct take and thank you for it. Also, the writing in 3 is astonishing for a mainstream American film. Sean Connery and the seagulls! "Let my armies be…"
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They can't change it without sending it back to the Senate, which would probably kill it. Trump will make them eat it. It's going to pass as-is. Small consolation is that if by some miracle there are still free elections next year, GOP definitely loses the house.
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McCain voted no because, at that precise moment, he was personally pissed at McConnell over some real or perceived slight! It wasn't on principle.
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His campaign has literally accomplished what deranged Democratic donors are trying to do by spending zillions on the Quest for the Joe Rogan of the Left. jfc
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100% this. I got email spam yesterday from Tesla marketing about solar roof + battery! This bill is bad for one of his primary businesses in a very direct and immediate way.
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States can actually creatively rewrite employment law to do this. It was discussed after SALT was nerfed a few years ago, but wasn't tried because of the better-things-aren't-possible caucus. It needs to be tried.
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Depends on whether it’s Trump personally or the Trump Administration; Trump himself has almost no native ideology. But he has surrounded himself with right-wing whackjobs, and those people are in practical control.
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they should probably fix the logo, though — looks like Sprite Flea
Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.
Zhoran Mandami at a cat adoption event in Long Island last December. Just sayin’ #NYCprimary
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It is in V
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and I gotta disagree -- V deserves all of the opprobrium it has received. You can rehabilitate Mike Love's rep to some extent, but you cannot do that for Shatner as director/showrunner. It was just bad. At least Nimoy and Meyer went somewhere and did something.
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Uhura's naked dance was V
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I dunno, Mary Poppins 60th anniversary came and gone and still no 4K restoration. It’s possible 2025 Disney is just uninterested in catalog titles, even foundational ones.
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It was way stupider. It was also the beginning of the media being completely in the tank for Republican forever wars. It was never that bad before Fox News, which was a nonentity until they got all the Iraq war exclusives. Also, ask @hillaryclinton.bsky.social why she lost the 2008 primary to Obama.
I know I’m being a little conspiratorial but the rampant substance abuse in this administration is pretty well documented and they’re also known to go out of their way to conceal medical information, so I see no reason to take the allergy story at face value.
if only, oh, every single person of conscience had warned us of this trajectory since 2003
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Senator, what's the enforcement mechanism? Is the state actually going to arrest ICE thugs if they violate the law?
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I remember these. The idea was that you sacrificed bonus features for picture quality. I vaguely recall reviews saying it was a visible improvement.
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I don't know what's actually legally viable in California, but that aspect is not an issue. California legislature is supermajority Dem in both houses.
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One thing to remember about Jef Raskin is that we know exactly what he wanted the Mac to be, because his version eventually shipped. And an emulator for it exists. So you can actually compare and contrast the Steve Jobs vs Jef Raskin approaches. archive.org/details/cano...
Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"
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Did they really fix all of the problems with Avatar? I tried it at release — seemed promising, but it was incredibly frustrating to play at the time due to weird difficulty cliffs and, IIRC, unclear objectives and map UI.
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This is what keeps me from fleeing the US for Europe -- this is not a US-only phenomenon. We are just uniquely clownlike because Trump, a mentally ill real estate huckster, is a fair representation of America. Europe is not far from the fascism, though! Maybe the US will serve as a deterrent. Or not
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Hot take: the macOS logo is an artifact of the misguided decision to sell Mac clones. It was ugly back in 1996, and it remains ugly today. The Finder should be represented by a stylized representation of the Mac 128k. As it was in the beginning, so should it be today.
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The digitizer firmware that recognizes your touch against the glass and sends information about it to higher level software probably burns more computing power than it took to land the LM.
By the way, if SNL (not on Bsky because lame) does not bring back The Californians for this, they’re missing a lay up. National Guard people stuck on the 405, wanting to die
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Democrats learning to stop listening to their base will soon discover that they no longer have a base. They're not going to acquire new friends on the other side, so where do they think that leaves them? Did Tester not pay attention to what happened to Sinema?
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That’s literally what the Biden administration did with SCOTUS reform and admitting new states to the union, two things that were prerequisites for any hope of rolling back MAGA. It’s also what Pelosi did on almost everything.
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Tom, I can’t believe I have to say this to _you_: did you read the article? Dude has many good points.
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He's succeeding. I'm all for it at this point. I'm in that sweet spot where I'm in the highest tax bracket and yet paying more proportionally of my income in federal taxes than most billionaires. And now it's all going to his military parades and his golf trips and his gilt-edged corruption.
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wouldn't that be basically an extension of the Merseybeat scene? (my impression from the Lewisohn books)
Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
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you may have missed this bsky.app/profile/thet...
DGSE briefer: so ok monsieur president, this is gonna sound, how we say, le real fuckin dumb Macron: ok DGSE: so monsieur musk and monsieur trump Macron: oh no
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literally the only reason I haven't and won't rewatch Evangelion. Gotta dig up a VCR so I can watch it the way Gainax intended.
I’m not putting anyone on a pedestal but at every opportunity to be a shithead who throws marginalized people under a bus this man chooses the opposite and he’s wildly popular because of it and I don’t understand what about that isn’t clicking for other dems
I’m not alone in this revelation or anything but it would be great if Democrats actually noticed Republicans aren’t getting agitated and defensive about taco trucks or raising the debt. They’re getting agitated and defensive when you point out their budget bill will kill people.
Without warrants this is just lawless state terror and kidnapping paid for by our Federal taxes. When is enough, enough for you? If it’s not funding a kidnapping Gestapo that is terrorizing California…then when 🤷♀️ #FreeTheBear
Can we just all agree that anyone who says Kamala lost by being too pro-trans is just laundering their transphobia via a false narrative of what happened in 2024?
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The name for this setup is "content farm."
I don't even know what to say about it anymore. Literally the least you can do is vote against Trump's picks. And so many of them refuse to do that.
To date, DS9 is the -only- Star Trek show that I've always liked. I dropped outta watching it after a couple of seasons due to it not airing locally anymore, but I still consider this cast to be -my- Star Trek crew.
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But it's a pittance for a book where he was doubtless given at least seven figures up front. And he's promoted it relentlessly on the air.
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Jeopardy answer: "Why doesn't Mercury still exist today?"