Love this show. Everyone is great but Garett Dillahunt gives one of the best and most underrated comedic performances in the past however long since it aired.

Doing my first re-watch of The Wire in like 3-4 years. Maybe even longer. Someone on a group chat mentioned they were watching and I started getting that itch like it was a for a 1000th re-watch. Man it is still so good.

On the season 1 finale, and god… Avon trusts implicitly that Stringer’s not being arrested along with him was crazy and it’s not even possible he was snitching. Does not even blink, there wasn’t a single fucking atom of doubt about Stringer’s loyalty.

Season 3 Avon reads that Stringer was the one who gave him up. Which is a different kind of death. Not that it is some like super deep insight but that scene in season 1 is appreciated so much more having that knowledge now.

It’s a new story every time.

Widow’s Bay Margo’s Got Money Troubles

Loving these two right now. Surprised by how much I am enjoying them.

I am no more frustrated with it than I am frustrated with my inability to take flight.

It was better when they were called FredBlox

I agree with almost all of this and even the parts I disagree with I agree in principle. There will never be someone who can reach level or power needed to actually do what you’re describing without being a very, very good liar. Because they are never reaching that position on merit and message alone. It’s not just republicans outnumbering us. It’s people who are indifferent outnumber republicans and democrats and progressives combined. And not performatively indifferent. I mean people who genuinely do not care and do not vote and never will vote no matter how bad their circumstances get. A rock bottom low enough to engage that many people can not exist in a world with drive thrus, cell phones, and air conditioning. There’s no way to make that many people uncomfortable enough to care without it already being too late.

That is the system though. The world would be a better place if we had leaders not motivated by their self-interest. But those leaders don’t get into positions of power. So, they don’t functionally exist other than to pat themselves on the back for suffering for their principles in their own minds that effect zero change or progress. I don’t say it to be cynical, either. It’s just reality. There are only a handful of people throughout history who reached high enough levels of power to actual change things for the better that were actually willing to sacrifice themselves for their principles. And most of them suffered for it and the only reward they got was a legacy.

You are not punching anyone in the face. And telling other people they are lazy or bad for not pretending otherwise doesn’t make it anymore true that you are. You’re just someone shouting a lie at a person who is sick of being shouted at and wondering why no one is doing what you want them to do.

I was just talking about this on discord (unironically). Something I genuinely miss about reddit (among other things) is being able to go to a TV show subreddit and engage on topics by strictly quoting lines from the show back at each other. But to have that meant all the other shit, where you can’t quote Wayne’s World 2 without automod thinking you’re advocating violence. The world I want and the world we have cannot seem to co-exist. And I am not sure it should. I’m just not sure it shouldn’t either. And my side is always losing.

That’s the spirit!

It’s a good lesson. People who reach positions of power are only able to do so because they are motivated purely by their own self-interest. Keeping her position was in her self-interest. Even the people who appear on “your side” are only in that position for themselves. The higher they get the less incentive they have to make performative sacrificies. Which they all are. Always and forever.

I am middle aged with a bad back and gout. My ability to fight is pretty limited.

I doubt anyone here is doing anything to prevent that now though

Half-Man is very good so far. Has a very similar tonal discomfort like Baby Reindeer. The actors who play the younger versions of the leads are fantastic.

I didn’t even find her stubbornness particularly novel or outrageous. I would say the majority of supervisors in my subordinate day over the past 20 years are just as if not more stubborn. They may not have been as aggressive or hostile about it but I don’t think it is because the impulse wasn’t there. They just lacked the vocabulary to weaponize their words. Plenty of them screamed or threw tantrums though.

Just cobwebs. They’re delicious.

“Maybe go fuck yourself.”

Will do, thanks!

I don’t get it. Don’t we all eat churros like this?

Started watching HBOs The Dark Wizard today. Three episodes in and I found him genuinely insufferable and yet I could not stop watching because I recognized the architecture of it. Not the climbing. The part where the thing that makes you extraordinary is indistinguishable from the thing that’s slowly killing you and everyone around you knows it except you, or worse, you know it too and just don’t care enough to stop. The result is roughly the same, people who loved you standing around with complicated feelings trying to figure out how much of it was genius and how much was just a very compelling death wish. The doc is great. He was kind of an asshole. Both things are true.

The final episode is pretty devastating but poignant. Really can’t recommend it enough.

Andrew Garfield.

So, all colleges started accepting the ACT or the SAT without preference about 2 decades ago and what happened was the ACT never had a guessing penalty so a lot of students started shifting to the ACT in favor of the SAT to the point that the SAT had to change their test to be more like ACT to continue to compete in the marketplace with them. And “compete” might even be misleading because they were still very popular and still the standard but they made the change to avoid losing their stranglehold on the market is probably the more accurate way to describe it.