I have definitely worked jobs where I know more than the IT department, and that’s scary.

• Lord of the Rings trilogy
• The Matrix
• Dodgeball
• South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
• Best in Show
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Pride and Prejudice (2005)
• Jennifer’s Body
• Die Hard
• The Cabin in the Woods

Same here. Lemmy at this stage feels a lot like Reddit did when I joined back in the early 2000s.

I’m glad I made the switch, because things are just generally nicer in a smaller community.

They already have 6 kids, so their genes are highly likely to carry on.

Seconded. Really, I thought all of the casting was really well done.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first season. Part of the fun was the mystery, which is why I don’t think the second season was as good. The show tried too hard to explain and it got a little bit too mired down in its own metaphysics for my taste.

I’m not sure I’ll watch any more of it.

Never forget.

Seriously, that might have been the best guerilla marketing campaign ever. So many people were utterly clueless (and needlessly terrified), but fans of the show knew immediately what they were.

So … wait for the EU to outlaw this practice as price gouging, then use a VPN to appear to be buying from the EU?

In some places in the US (I’ve never lived in NY, so I’m not sure if it applies there) when you file as an independent candidate, you have to produce a petition with a certain number of signatures with your paperwork.

This generally limits the number of crazy uncles who can appear on the ballot.

You jest, but I can assure you that alligator is delicious.

My cousin got acupuncture treatments for alpha gal a couple of months ago. She went out for a steak after her last session and wound up in the hospital.

I was raised in the Assemblies of God, and I’m fairly sure that I knew an age-appropriate definition of adultery by kindergarten. Something along the lines of “breaking your marriage vows by being in a romantic relationship with another person.”

I definitely knew the actual definition of abortion by kindergarten because my church had fucked-up priorities.

This is exactly as reasonable as any recipe review I’ve ever read. Which is why I stopped reading recipe reviews.

Yet

Which honestly seems to be an overwhelming majority of people.

Tech companies took a pretty good predictive text mechanism and called it “intelligent” when it obviously isn’t. People believed the hype, so greedy capitalists went all in on a cheaper alternative to their human workers. They deserve to lose business over their stupid mistakes.

Actual journalists tend to avoid anything that appears partisan. Their job is to report the news, not to deliver commentary.

And a 20-year campaign by Republicans against mainstream journalists has left them in a position where even straight factual reporting is considered biased by 50% of voters.

I agree that someone should follow up with these people and get them to really consider how their politics are affecting their own daily lives. But that really needs to be dealt with by pundits and talk-show hosts instead of reporters.

That, and the fact that there just aren’t as many undocumented immigrants in the US as Trump and his advisors have claimed. So to stoke fear they need to keep the numbers up. Any innocent, law-abiding, legal residents caught up in their net are acceptable collateral damage (in their view).

One can only hope that in 50 years, Trumpism and mass deportations will be a short-lived historical anomaly like McCarthyism and the Red Scare.

President Lyndon B. Johnson was correct when he said:

If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

That was 60 years ago. It hasn’t changed. The rich and the political elite like it this way.

Elon Musk has been a US citizen for more than 20 years, and they were talking about deporting him after he questioned Dear Leader and some of the Project 2025 agenda. And he’s not even a person of color.

They definitely don’t care about the law. They only care about homogeneity in both thought and appearance.

The real problem is that the MAGA movement doesn’t really believe Trump’s literal words. Because the man lies so often, they seem to just go on vibes. But then when Trump actually does something he said he’d do, the voters are suddenly all surprised Pikachu when Trump’s actions don’t match their personal interpretation of what they thought he meant.