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The guy who founded IKEA loved Swedish taxes so much, he renounced his citizenship and moved to Switzerland.


Abba loved them so much they wore crazy clothes so they could be write-offs.

Do we even have any real evidence that there was a specific "plot" in the sense of "we are planning to invade Congress and kill/take hostages/whatever", as opposed to a bunch of red state yahoos whipping each other up? It's a fine line between the two, but I'd say there's more than enough evidence ...

Trying my best to not give anything away, but it’s not gimmicky. (But you do have to get thru the entire series to see why)

One thing I am noticing is how several of the rioters have been tracked through their phones and social media. I wonder how many of those buy into the 'Corona vaccine is a ploy to implant rfid devices' conspiracy. I read somewhere that since the Capitol is an ancient stone building and thus essenti...

dhex wrote: ↑08 Jan 2021, 21:16 Tides are turning against moorish science temple honkies!

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Fight for fifteen, but suck for twenty.

For well over thirty years, I’ve thought the Bolsheviks morally wrong for what they did to the Romanov family in the end.

I no longer think that.

Edward Snowden is a treasonous bastard and an enemy of the United States of America. https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1347224002671108098?s=19 Facebook officially silences the President of the United States. For better or worse, this will be remembered as a turning point in the battle for control ...

the -ito thing is common enough in Spanish grammar, but making it an appellation (i.e nickname or term of address), instead of just a adjective, is a bit slangy & casual.

So I say to myself, I got to unplug from the news & Twitter this afternoon. I know, Let me just watch an old Star Trek episode on Netflix.

Ok, where did Ieave off? Ah - DS9, Season 2, episode 2.

“The Circle”

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/Circle/ ... _(episode)

Well, shit.

Somewhere in either that Twitter thread or a blogpost talking about that Twitter thread said the last person getting survivor benefits (who was a kid of vet(?)*) did pass away a couple of years ago. *or maybe a just a kid of a widow. Not sure how the qualification worked back then. Though some of th...

“Cantonic System, more like Catatonic System amirite?”

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/ In Jacob Siegel’s telling, Trump gets absolutely no blame. So Jacob Siegel can absolutely go fuck himself. I ...

Lol Washington is in the playoffs.

I mean, sometimes you drunk dial your ex, but at least this time the regret is instant.

Warren wrote: ↑01 Jan 2021, 14:29

Kolohe wrote: ↑01 Jan 2021, 13:46 I never saw Fences...

I did. What did I think of it?
Huh, I think I liked it.

It’s possible that Ma Rainey is Viola Davis being even more her Viola Davisest

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. I never saw Fences, the other movie production(so far) based on this series of plays (called ‘the century cycle’), so I can’t compare, but, while very good, you can see the ‘adaptation from a play’ bones on this very clearly, to the point it became a bit distracting for me....

nicole wrote: ↑31 Dec 2020, 07:57 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 ... n-winning/

In Jacob Siegel’s telling, Trump gets absolutely no blame.

So Jacob Siegel can absolutely go fuck himself.

I say with complete seriousness that this is in the Mt Rushmore of war movie scenes.

Louisiana congressman-elect dies of Covid Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.) has died from the coronavirus, multiple sources confirmed Tuesday evening. He was 41. I am curious what position he took on facemasks and what rallies he attended. EDIT: Color me not surprised: Luke Letlow’s maskless campaign ...

That’s a good point. It’s like “taxes? Bah, this piece of property is worth nothing, nada, zilch.”

but “a loan? this piece of property is super duper valuable”

Subtitles are also getting better at not giving away spoilers through identification of the speaker of the dialog.

Fair enough, but I’d say most modern subtitles are a bit better than that (higher screen resolutions and sparser dialog help) But that’s also why I’m a ‘subtitle is better than dub’ person for foreign language stuff, so I can can hear the rhythm and emotion in the original actor’s voices, even if I ...

Soul, the new Pixar flick is another solid outing from them. I do agree with one reviewer in that I think it stops a little bit short of fulling fleshing out its own premises and underlying tension so the resolution, while satisfying and earned, is a bit pat.

There are definitely moves among some sectors of society that subtitles should be on everything everywhere because accessibility. "It helps people with hearing issues! And there's no downside!" And this bugs me because I fucking hate subtitles and they tend to really damage the experience of watchi...