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You know, I don't ask for much. I knew neither of my teams (Seattle and Minnesota) were going to make a deep run. I just wanted *one* thing. Just one fucking thing. Not even shooting for the moon or nuthin', I just wanted Tom Brady to not be in the super bowl. AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH

Annual Karen New Year celebration will be available virtually I feel bad for laughing. San Diego is home to roughly 2,000 Karen refugees, according to the Karen Organization of San Diego By Kate MorrisseyJan. 12, 202112:39 PM The annual Karen New Year celebration in San Diego is a time for the Kare...

Fucking Embarrassing!.gif As one of the original co-founders of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi knows a little something about keeping controversial services online. Kolmisoppi and his colleagues spent decades battling a global coalition of corporations, governments, and law enforcement agenc...

D.A. Ridgely wrote: ↑26 Dec 2020, 00:17 Speaking of which, I was really disappointed by Wonder Woman 1984.

We made the mistake of watching this last night.

Addendum by Jacob Siegel, one of my favorite people writing about 2020. I was going to quote but just wanted to quote it all: https://unherd.com/2020/12/why-americas-elites-keep-on-winning/ Cuomo handled Covid-19 the same way Bush handled 9/11, and wound up with pretty much the same type of fandom....

you have to keep squinting to find any message other than the stupid one. This might be the case since this year but for the years 2015-2019 it was easily google-able, no squinting required. I pointed this out multiple times in Reason comments and people always acted surprised. People didn't know b...

Re: Mandalorian It's campy and fun. We just finished binging the whole thing. Agree with your take. Loved the guest stars, who were well used. Loved the McQuarrie-esque art. Of course there were massive idiocies but that would be beside the point. My kids love it. ...but the appeal to kids was the o...

2020 killed any hope I had that the country could come together in a crisis. That patriotism here could ever be redirected in a positive direction.

thoreau wrote: ↑28 Dec 2020, 23:39
Post your own combo of 5 hits and 1 did.

Got to talking with a guy about movies/tv shows, said he liked science fiction, anything with spaceships in it etc. Asked if he watched The Expanse, and he said he started it for a bit but was turned off by the poor acting. Ok I get it, it's a fair knock, but I'm guessing he doesn't watch much if he...

I'm finding I quite enjoy a beverage of grape juice and coke. Mixture needs to lean towards coke about 2:1.

The Great Enverbening continues apace.

The Secret History of the First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me The "and Me" portion turns me off, I don't know why she feels it's necessary to insert herself into the story, but an otherwise inspiring tale of an unimpressive student finally hitting his stride and making an impressive contribution...

dhex wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020, 12:50 in lieu of the hated bird.

Hey, mother-in-law can be quite tender if marinated long enough.

(ba-dump-tish, I keed I keed. I know that plenty of MIL relationships don't fit the stereotype, including ours)

Disgusting. Seriously, there needs to be some actual constraints put into place to prevent this kind of abuse of the privilege. Set aside the fact that the people in a position to write such restraints have no means of enforcing them and may themselves be in need of an executive pardon one day. Is ...

Disgusting. Seriously, there needs to be some actual constraints put into place to prevent this kind of abuse of the privilege.

To try to make HBOMax look less like a giant failure. I've been trying to figure out why they're failing. I suppose maybe they don't have new original TV content of the caliber and cultural ubiquity to which people have become accustomed*, but we went back to them for the season 2 of His Dark Mater...

OFFS: The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony Providing relief via direct assistance and loans to struggling individuals and businesses hit hard by COVID-19 has been a priority for federal lawmakers this past month. But a gigantic spending bill has also become the opportunit...

If we're going there in terms of who "deserves" the vaccine, I'd have absolutely no problem with a commission to comb through social media and anyone who wasn't taking it seriously is at the very back end of the line. I'd add "or at all ever" but we need the herd protection thing (which is why the o...

I really want to like Better Things because I love Pamela Adlon but I'm not sure my blood pressure can take it because damn I want to just murder her shitty-ass brat 2 older daughters.

Apparently it made it to the pilot stage where it died a merciful death. Richard Ayoade Regrets Doing the U.S. Pilot for 'The IT Crowd Oh god I forgot about that. The problem was casting. If they'd had some US nerd-chic chick like Felicia Day or someone take Roy's role and had McHale as the tech-ig...

Apparently it made it to the pilot stage where it died a merciful death.

Richard Ayoade Regrets Doing the U.S. Pilot for 'The IT Crowd

Not surprising. What I found surprising was that the recent big supposedly Russian hack didn't originate with him or his close circle. Volodiya would never involve them in anything that requires competence. Or I figured there was some kind of code among hackers that Trump and his White House was to...

Well I generally considered Criterion Collection to be something of a seal of quality but seeing they've added Armageddon I guess that's right out.