You ever find yourself acting out a fucked up allegorical image in real life as part of your day job?

What OS are you using? I was trying to use my Anbernic with wireless controllers, but the default OS keeps forgetting the mapping on the controllers every time I switch to a different game and it was impractical to have to keep remapping them over and over.

Mmmm! That is a tasty burger!

!Pulp Fiction!<

!Prompt: Cinematic low angle closeup of a middle-aged black man with Jerry curl hairstyle mustache and sideburns wearing a black suit white shirt and black tie standing in a crummy apartment eating biting a hamburger while looking down and to the right with an intense menacing confident look on his face Warm, Saturated Tones !<

Proverbs 26:18-19

Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,

Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, “I was only joking!”

I also would like the answer to this question.

The Six Million Dollar Man first aired in March, 1973.

The online inflation calculator says that’s equivalent to $43,732,794.46 in December, 2024 dollars.

Now the question becomes does $1 human = $7 dog, or is it $1 dog = $7 human?

There are people who, disturbed by “big government” today and its tendency to curb the advantages they might gain if their competitiveness were allowed free flow, demand “less govern- ment.” Alas, there is no such thing as less government, merely changes in government. If the libertarians had their way, the distant bureaucracy would vanish and the local bully would be in charge. Personally, I prefer the distant bureaucracy, which may not find me, over the local bully, who certainly will. And all historical precedent shows a change to localism to be for the worse.

—Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981

Oh my God, what if they cashed them all at once and emptied out America’s checking account.

My theory, at least for purposes of The Terminator, is that after Judgment Day, there were some human holdouts in Austria who sent troops to help fight Skynet, so that’s why an Austrian accent would be assigned to an infiltration unit.

I have nothing to say about Terminator 3. That was like three or four timeline modifications later. There’s bound to be some reality degradation.

I was hanging out with this woman and we made some boffer swords. Now, these are soft… ish. They’re made from half-inch PVC with foam pool noodle on top and the whole thing wrapped in duct tape. You can take a direct hit from one of these without it seriously injuring you, but it’s not exactly pleasant. She had little to no experience with larping, but we took them out on the driveway and went at it a bit. I accidentally, and I really want to emphasize that, accidentally hit her full in the face with this foam bat. I apologized and we went again… and then I full-on hit her in the face again. And I apologized, and she smiled, and we continued to have a good time sword fighting.

So anyway, we got married and our daughter is almost five now.

There’s a proposed amendment that would permit a person to be elected president for a third term, but not if they have already served two consecutive terms. It’s literally written so that Trump could run for a third term but Obama couldn’t.

I hate how plausible this sounds.

Dipshits, ex-boyfriends, and imbeciles.

My question was silly, and I appreciate the serious and thought-out response.

So you’re saying that the solar system actually only has seven planets?

I love both. The movie is legit cinema from the director of The Crying Game. He got a performance out of little kid Kirsten Dunst that raised the bar for what can be expected from child actors.

The show also is fantastic. It incorporates the idea of people having preexisting notions of what the story should be into the story itself in a really interesting way. It gives itself a framing device (the titular interview) that also has stakes, so it’s not just cutting back to people talking in a room getting away from the interesting story in the past. The performances, the set and costume design, the gore effects, they’re all absolutely brilliant. The only complaint that I have is that it isn’t longer… there are a couple of spans of time that they gloss over in a scene or less that could have been entire multi-episode arcs in and of themselves. That said, wishing that there was more of a show isn’t really that bad of a complaint.

I’ve heard that some people are very not happy with the show, which I suspect is because it made really strong decisions about how to adapt and reinterpret the material, which is bound to upset some people. I don’t try to convince people to change their aesthetic opinions, but I think the show is amazing, and I can’t wait for the third season.

The less said about Queen of the Damned, or the AMC show Mayfair Witches, the better.

World Market sells fancy sparkling lemonade in clear latch top bottles like this.

Don’t forget the microplastics.

Corrupt politicians and judges can help usher in a fascist dictatorship, but after that, the fascist dictatorship doesn’t really need them anymore.