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hard scrabble, yet privileged, NJ flotsam. “pedantic plonker”. GenX hegemonist [email protected] if you need to find me elsewhere
Joined May 2008
Please do not take this thread to seriously. I’m mostly engaging in idle bullshitting out of boredom and a desire for engagement.
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It’s always kind of interesting to me that conservatives are very upset at the idea that they are judged for the things they do.
DOGE: Harvard student who dropped out to join the DOGE team admits he’s lost friends and is a pariah on campus now.
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What I love about this picture is that Yao Ming’s wife is 6’3”
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I love this because unlike all the futuristic stuff posted on social media, this shows what the actual aesthetics of day to day life of Chongqing are.
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Do not rewrite legacy code . I cannot stress to you how much you do not want to rewrite legacy code. Only a 25 year old would think this was a good idea.
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
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It wasn’t until I moved to NYC and lived here for a few years that I realized the reason other people seemed to be living better than me was because they were just really really bad with money.
Another bit of audacity from the wedding groups today
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I cannot stress enough how your children are depending on you to not be weird. Seriously, you are a dad. Every morning you should be looking yourself in the mirror and saying to yourself: “I need to not be weird, for my children”.
My seven year old is about to turn eight. He asked me yesterday why he still has to have a car seat booster. I said it is because he lives in a society run by women and weak men who themselves are dominated by women. That women are predisposed toward safety and that their.
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“Oh you sweet summer child” being entirely the invention of Game of Thrones is another one of those things.
finding out the term “Debbie downer” was coined on SNL is one of those real facts that do not seem congruent with the world.
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It’s amazing how consistently that trads mistake movies and advertisements for real life. Media standards of the day considered sharing beds too suggestive. No one ACTUALLY lived like that.
A Husband and Wife should sleep in separate beds while keeping physical contact at a minimum.
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Wow, I can’t imagine why *DRESDEN, GERMANY* got rid of its beautiful traditional architecture….
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This is the kind of mistake that, if a 22 year old analyst at Goldman did, would result in a semi-violent meltdown by the managing director. The DOGE kids are simply sloppy and don’t understand their own job.
DOGE claimed $8 billion in savings by cutting a program that cost…$8 million. just…wow.
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Biggest pension scam I've seen: a guy worked in govt for 42 years and retired with a job that paid about 90k. For all those years, he gets a 80%-90% pension. But his last year he cashed in 100s of thousands of $$ of "unused leave", making THAT his salary to base the pension on.
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I love that this man was the single greatest force for delivering on republican priorities this century and he will die being hated by his own party and the Republican president.
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I am telling you right now, any college students who are listening— if you become a doctor or nurse, no one you interview with will ask you if you have any surgical or anaesthesiological passion projects you’re doing at home to prove if you really want the job.
met a young guy who just graduated with a cs degree & can't find a job at all & I asked if he did any side passion projects or leetcode or had a strong opinion on rust or python or javascript & it was a no to all & dude if you can't even fool me, maybe it's not this job market.
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People have discovered that the data scientists at the dating apps calculated that their customers finding relationships was bad for business.
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Anyone who got married and otherwise in a committed relationship a few years ago got the last chopper out of ‘Nam.
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I read about how Dalmatians have a genetic defect of high uric acid which causes blockages. 50 years ago, a guy crossed a pointer with a Dalmatian to eliminate that defect and bred Dalmatians to carry this gene. The breeders went BANANAS about how this was illegitimate.
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Ozempic has essentially revealed this to be false.
Most of the fat people I know are living off 1200-1500 kcal a day and doing their absolute best—at least 80% of them. Little do they know it’s all for nothing, because being fat is a metabolic issue, not a matter of weak will or laziness. They’re fat because they’re sick, not the.
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Honestly, kind of funny that if you become interested in knitting, baking, sewing, and gardening because you’re “trad,” then all your friends end up liberal. There’s a lesson there to be considered.
All of my hobbies lead to liberal friends. I’m okay with not having the same opinions, why can’t they? . Or like maybe we just collect the mushrooms & not talk about it.
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The goal of Taylorism and Scientific management is to use as little labor as possible. The goal of a union is to advocate for the amount of labor they believe they need. Why we assume the management side has the right number is beyond me.
*X task requires 3 workers*. Union: “it will now require 5 workers”
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Trump is an extremely weird guy who is almost sociopathic, but EVERY SO OFTEN he has these glimmers of humanity that leak through, like here where he berates his son for trophy hunting or when he mused philosophically about how he’d have an issue with his kids playing football.
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Trump is going to be like the confederacy— something that lasted for 4 years that its supporters were never able to get over over for generations afterwards.
UPDATED: House GOP bills about Trump. -Orders US Mint print $500 bills w/ Trump portrait.-Rename Dulles Airport for Trump.-Rename US coastal waters for Trump.-Expunge his impeachments.-Formally declare he didn't engage in insurrection.-Declare Trump was polticially persecuted.
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A leftist posted an astute tweet that being a revolutionary means you need to cultivate athleticism to be prepared for community aid and defense. Half leftist twitter is decrying this as ableism and the other is arguing that discipline and mastery over your body is fascism.
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It's really weird how pedigree dog breeders are essentially superstitious. So it becomes impossible to fix genetic problems in a breed because they don't really believe in genetics.
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The “real men” are losing so badly to the TikTok army that here is an international protest movement to beg the TikTok army to stop beating them up.
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Casablanca is like this. You’re sitting there watching a bunch of cliches you’ve heard 1000 times before being exchanged between characters, and then at the end you realize you’ve just watched the best movie ever made.
Paintings that it's cringe and cliché to like but which are also actually legitimate bangers
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The best thing the U.S. does, which specifically benefits you and the rest of the world on a daily basis, is have a huge navy that protects shipping lanes so that cargo can travel safely.
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When DC mandated that grocery stores charge $0.05 per plastic bag, plastic bag use fell by 90%.
I'm a pretty market-based solutions person but I am just flabbergasted how few cars are on the road for charging a few bucks this is like the surface of mars. What were all these other people lollygagging around in a car doing before.
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This is interesting! Families who owned motels saw a fall in revenue during the 70s oil crisis which meant fewer people were traveling. Kids of owners didn’t want to run motels. They sold to Indian families willing to live in the motels they worked at & do the cleaning themselves.
I think Americans should own the gas stations and motels in America.
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London Muslims: we must defeat the kuffar and purge our society of this haram western music and behavior. We must take up arms and purge this degenerate society of shirk. Texas Muslims:.
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My guess is that Zelenskyy understood the humiliation dynamic Trump wanted— Zelenskyy would come begging and Trump would demand one last final humiliation out of him, so he realized there was no point. Instead he had to show Europe that the USA was outright hostile to Ukraine.
Vance comes across terribly, even worse than Trump. Pointing his finger at Zelenskyy, belligerently demanding that he grovel on his knees. While Zelenskyy, keeping his voice low, displays admirable fortitude and self control.
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University of Chicago has suffered badly from this. It used to be it was a school for people who would do stuff like stay up for 3 days straight reading Heidegger without showering, & now it’s just another place for people with high grades and SAT scores who didn’t get into Yale.
Re: NYU every elite college is the same now. Competition so high that all the kids apply to 20 schools and just go to the one they get into. So every student body is just mostly just randomly distributed upper middle class kids. There’s no ‘school character’ anymore.
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These are both done by government contractors.
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So a guy who has a 90k/yr job has a $400k/yr pension. This is in California, which gives an idea of why the state has such high expenses.
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Airbus is staffed by Europeans for whom being an engineer at airbus is one of the best jobs you can get. Boeing is staffed by Americans for whom working at Boeing is something you do because you can’t get a better paying job with a tech company.
Absolutely brutal Boeing story.@nytimes. "What used to be a duopoly has become two-thirds Airbus, one-third Boeing. A lot of people are looking at Airbus and seeing a company run by competent people. The contrast with Boeing is fairly profound.”
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The big issue here in government with something like social security is that there is probably not a lot of added value. You could spend a lot of money “rewriting the code”, but then what would be the benefit? Would it run faster? Would it make SS need fewer employees? What?.
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Yeah, I keep seeing fewer “liberal tears” tweets and a helluva lot of “liberals are mean for not wanting to speak to us”tweets. Even conservatives hate being stuck being around other conservatives. The conservative craves liberal approval.
Kinda thought there would be a lot more drinking liberal tears and a lot less pitifully begging friends not to leave.
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So recently I learned that my tailor got into an argument with menswearguy on the fashion forums many years ago and are not on speaking terms.
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@The_Bird_Lawyer I get why they exist— you want consistent attributes for a dog to serve specific purposes. But they believe more in “purity” than genetics. the power is in the hands of people who believe in phrenology. You’d never see this attitude in agriculture.
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Housewives used to have total control of all home issues and was the one who coordinated all the help and managed the bills and shopping. People who claim to believe in “separate spheres” for men and women don’t know what that means. It means the woman controls the “home sphere”.
@sacrelicio @VKlker She isn't allowed to know our bills.
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It’s kind of like this
I want to hear stories of people going from shy, cold, introverted, disconnected, to warm, social, curious, open, playful, connection-oriented. If this happened to you plz tell me about it.
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A small diamond means you got married young when just starting out, and I think that’s beautiful.
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Why are there Hezbollah supporters in the USA? . I don’t even mean this as a “why haven’t they been deported yet?” thing. Like literally why would you come to the ISA and live here if you are a Hezbollah loyalist? It’s a totally separate belief system from living in the U.S.
NYC: A mob has flooded the streets of NYC, waving Hezbollah and Hamxs flags. A new generation has been born.
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If Trump wins it means that ground game doesn’t matter and policy doesn’t matter and candidates and presidents need to completely rethink how to appeal to voters.
We’re watching, closely, for signs of the GOP’s ground game. The signals are sparse. It certainly *looks* like there’s no serious statewide coordinated campaign on the Republican side.
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Yes, I 100% that Nancy Mace got a permanent vaccine injury in 2021 but didn't talk about it until now. She's very reticent and media shy so it makes sense that she'd be quiet about it until the end of 2024.
@VetBruce No, I thought I was doing my civil duty, however, was vaccine injured after the second shot. Never again.
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This account is and always will be a supporter of the Melania Trump “Dark Cold Winter of the Old Gods” Christmas decorations aesthetic.
Silence. That woman's stupendous gift for Evil Christmas aesthetics was the one good thing Trump brought to the White House.
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Kristi Noem essentially does not understand that the “pro-rural voter” is “guy who lives in an exurb with 1/2 acre lots, drives a pickup, & works as an account manager for a corporation that supplies products occasionally used by ag companies,” not “farmers who shoot dogs”.
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Someone in my protected replies makes the astute point that this guy clearly lost an argument with his wife about the booster seat and is mad about it.
@DPearsonPHL A lot of misogynistic generalities men state about women are almost always complaints they have about their wives.
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Honestly, your kids and grandchildren don’t need to inherit your trauma of a lost war. Have your child become a dentist, make sure he makes a good living, and then buy a nice big home on lots of land. Stop pining for your grandparents’ olive farm.
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Wow. It’s bleak out there for some people. What happened to these guys?
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The excuse making here is obscene. If you are bringing people back for a 7th time (ie, 7 interviews in a day, which is fine), and you’re rejecting someone, your hiring process has essentially failed everyone… the team and the candidate, and wasted everyone’s time.
Very sincere question for the crowd. If you're called in for Interview #7, do you think that's just a formality and you already have the job in the bag?. I'm sort of confused as to why anyone would be completely shocked of this outcome.
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So many conservative tweets are essentially, “I support Trump but he just needs to be a person who isn’t Trump and a person who will do things that Trump will not do”
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Columbia is definitely running a mass business selling dozens of random master’s degrees at exorbitant prices using their relatively small undergraduate program for branding purposes to market those income-generating degrees.
Rashid Khalidi is retiring from @Columbia. “I have been both disgusted and horrified by the way higher education has developed into a cash register… a money-making, MBA, lawyer-run, hedge fund-cum-real estate operation, with a minor sideline in education”.
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The rental car situation is so annoying. I might reserve a sedan like a Camry and maybe hope that I get an upgrade to some kind of nicer car. Then I get there and the guy will be like, “sir, good news! I’m giving you a free upgrade to an entry level SUV!”. That is not an upgrade.
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@InlandCaGuy I love how the arbitrator can decide that he should be reinstated based on the acceptable level of joke quality.
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The funny thing is that Trump DID do this, and cars are still much more expensive. Because cars are expensive for actual reasons outside of “it’s the government’s fault”.
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So many dumb lefty ideas are “what if we turned this public resource designed to serve everyday people into the first point of entry for serving the homeless?”.
Zohran Mamdani wants to use empty subway retail to help homeless New Yorkers .
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Every problem with NYC can be traced to the fact that it was the most advanced city in the world in 1930 and then pretty much stayed at that point.
My one issue with New York (and some of the communities here) is that it feels distinctly like a 20th century city. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue and started (mis-)humming ‘20th Century Girl’ —. We gotta do something about this!.
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We just experimented with that, and wages skyrocketed for low wage workers, and Americans hated it.
Reminder: a labor shortage is great for workers and small businesses. I want a permanent labor shortage.
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Tim Walz has a wife and kids and hobbies and is well integrated into his community . GenZers are single, don’t leave their room, and have hobbies like “gaming” and “discord”. Of course they found him alienating.
Tim Walz: "I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck doing that. I was the permission structure to say 'look you can do this and vote for this.'"
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It’s not an uncommon belief among a certain crowd that within every white guy lurks a genius who is just being kept down by “the man” and whose lack of success is because his genius isn’t recognized and appreciated because all the other people are favored over him.
There's a 20 year old American kid working at Dunkin' Donuts high everyday who is smarter than every South Asian admitted to the country in the last four years who was blocked out of college in the name of diversity.
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There’s a bizarre form of planner brain that thinks people will be happy with infrequent transit that leaves once an hour as long as that interval is “reliable” . People want the knowledge that the instant they show up, they know a train/bus will come in 5 mins.
Existing transit riders do not all care about speed. Existing transit riders (and non-Transit riders for that matter) care more about Availability + Reliability of the service, because that it was what makes it useful for them. Speed, convenience and comfort play second fiddle.
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A lot of the CCP Junior Kids’ League on Twitter seem very offended by the banal observation that run down buildings and barren concrete doesn’t look very futuristic and appealing.
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I don’t like the idea that if you win the lottery 30 years ago you are bound to a place for life and unable to move, get married, switch jobs, or have children.
I know that's right!. If I snagged a rent-stabilized apt 30 yrs ago for $250 and was then able to live my dream as a writer and photographer because I'm paying affordable rent, I'd be standing tall in front page news too. I don't know her but I'm cheering her on.
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This is a thread about how Rhodesian settlers, who were mostly farmers and middle class merchants, tried to LARP as idle refined aristocrats and that if they maintained their white supremacist state they supposedly would’ve gone on to do great things. Instead they had to get jobs.
Rhodesia was the last attempt at a rebirth of philosophy. An aristocratic, militaristic, pastoral peoples installed themselves on the local farming population outside the confines of the industrial global NWO. Intelligent, cruel, astute, born to command, refined, courageous.
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We really need to teach people that just because you suck up to republicans that you don’t have a constitutional right to be respected. Your choices will cause a lot of people to look down on you, even if you think being rich or being around rich people makes you “respectable”.
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At some point we need to look into how “activism” became a professional outlet for people with poor impulse control who wanted to lash out at people.
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We are supposed to be mad at this guy, but he’s just an ambitious but not especially bright guy with a dream who wants to work and make money who paid $7000 to sneak in here. I like him . We could’ve simply charged him $7000 for a work visa and kept the money for ourselves.
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This was the first time in generations we had an explicitly pro union president and the unions are deciding to tell the president to get fucked. I guess their hope is that if Trump wins they can beg him not to dismantle the NLRB.
In blow to Biden, Teamsters consider no endorsement in 2024 race. WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is on the brink of failing to win a key labor endorsement as leaders of the 1.3 million-member Teamsters union consider backing no candidate at all in the U.S.
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“Your 401k will never pay off. Instead you should do something more sustainable to be able to retire, like inheriting your mom’s farm”.
For me that meant joining my mom’s farm full time in order to build it up into a business that could sustain both of us while things were still relatively stable, and that could obviously provide a lot of utility when shit hits the fan.
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BUT IT LITERALLY HAS RESULTED IN A SLIPPERY SLOPE OF WIDENING ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA EVER PLACE IT HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED.
Allowing terminally ill people to end their lives would not lead to a "slippery slope" of widening eligibility criteria, an MP pushing for the law has insisted. 🔗 Full story.
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We need to open up the borders with the UK. Any UK citizen with a higher education should be able to move to the US, purely on humanitarian grounds so they don’t have to suffer like this.
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@DreMiclea What’s the problem with the SS codebase, and what is the monetary benefit of rewriting it?.
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@MattZeitlin college basketball is much less enjoyable to watch because you can *see* how much less talented they are. But the lower level of talent is an advantage in football because there are more unexpected outcomes and more high-variance risk taking.
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People who work one-on-one with celebrities say this a lot. They might be nice people, but many of them simply aren’t very bright. Which makes sense—any got their start performing while doing high school part time & skipping college. They don’t succeed for being big thinkers.
my take on chappell roan's political opinions is that she's stupid. it's not a complicated metapolitical display of conservative morality. she's just dumb and uninformed and talks without thinking. many such cases among good artists, in fact.
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The Princess Bride is the perfect Christian movie: no nudity, no graphic violence, no cursing. Heck, only one person dies. You evangelicals should ASPIRE to be men whose favorite movie is The Princess Bride.
I saw here on X a Christian guy posted what his favorite movie was. Are you ready? .“The Princess Bride.” Say what? Seriously? A bit limp wristed don't you think? I mean, this is a guy we're talking about… . Recover your manhood and watch some movies for men to day:.
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Serious villains and psychotic murderers, plus Skylar White for impeding Walter’s plot progress in becoming a meth kingpin.
According to Ranker, Joffrey Baratheon is the most hated TV character of all time with 178 thousand votes. #GameofThrones . 2nd: Ramsay Bolton .7th: Cersei Lannister
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A couple amazing things here:. - I had no idea people try to beat the train at railroad crossings. Never in my life did I imagine people would do this. - unlike most every other post about traffic safety, no one is defending the driver. Kind of shocking, actually.
For your safety and ours, never drive around lowered gates. These safety measures are in place to protect everyone, and ignoring them can lead to serious consequences. Stay alert, follow the law, and help keep our communities safe.
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@emanabdelhadi This is a triumph. You have shown how much you are willing to suffer in order to punish Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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Minus a few exceptions, I have always dated liberals. But even my liberal doctor ex girlfriend was infuriated by people wallowing in their idleness… she’d point out at a CNA program at the local community college had a nominal fee and quickly gave you a guaranteed hostile job.
I want to make this very clear:. Young men have nothing. Literally, we have nothing, no future prospects, most don't have skills, most don't have partners, all for reasons outside of our control. All we had was our hobbies, and we couldn't even be left alone to have that
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Firefly is a grand lesson that many screenwriters are not literary thinkers in the way you would expect. “What are the implications if I make a space western where the heroes are veterans of the losing side of a recent civil war?” is something that never crossed Whedon’s mind.
Is Firefly left or right coded?.
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I don’t know what kind of middle class people you grew up talking to but the salt of the earth middle class types are always talking about being as practical as possible. Or they were at the very least talking about getting as low a payment and interest rate as possible.
If you grow up normal and middle class there’s nobody in your life who will tell you to buy a cheap car you can afford in cash. Literally not one person.
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Building elevators in nyc subway stations is estimated to cost $80 million PER STATION. This is not sustainable. We have to take cutting materials and labor costs seriously.
A consequence of fewer children is less empathy for those who have them.
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