ABigGuy4U
11hr ago
It should be possible to do a scene with a puppet or very rough cgi and just have AI replace it with a realistic cat.
WTF?! How did they get the cat to do that??
ABigGuy4U
14hr ago
It’s ok, the brief depiction of the attack is pretty accurate, but the majority of the movie which is about the assassination campaign afterward is heavily fictionalized. Also it’s a bit overly sentimental for my taste, I don’t think Spielberg was the best fit for the material even if he was the one who got it made.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
In the last century there were fairly high paying manufacturing jobs that could give you a middle class lifestyle. So in the United States from about WWII to 2008, you could be middle class if you worked hard. The route gradually changed but the rule mostly held.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
If some ancient soviet program to promote teaching precisely the wrong way took on a life of it's own in academia.
It’s a Prussian conspiracy. The vile Hun could not beat America on the battlefield in any of their three attempts (1776, 1918, 1945) so they turned their autistic minds to devious conspiracy.
Has any neutral third party actually confirmed who committed the Bucha massacre?
Not that I’m aware of. I don’t even know who would count as neutral at this point. It’s very odd, since both Russia and Ukraine seem to have been pretty well behaved since.
which made me adjust many of my priors about the competence of the Russian military.
Russia always starts incompetent. Then at some point it turns around. I suspect they’ll end up getting more, because decision paralysis will keep Ukraine fighting until their army completely falls apart. It’s like how imperial Germany lost WWI: Gradually, then suddenly.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
Like the Bucha massacre, which they spent the next three years trying to blame on the Russians. This was potentially a problem in 2022, but now even a pretty solid Ukrainian win at the negotiating table probably wouldn’t include Donbas.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
No alleged legality issues like with the infamous Muslim Ban?
This basically is the renewed Muslim ban, with a few additional countries thrown in to keep the Supreme Court off his back. Which is how he ended up doing it the last time too, after a few tries.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
That’s the real ploy. Everyone is missing the forest for the trees, quibbling over the legality of the drone strikes, when they are being prepped for Iraq 2.0. Venezuela is like in the D minus list for drug smuggling, if it was really about drugs they would be talking about Mexico.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
I don't think that even during the darkest years of the cold war there was much to suggest that Americans would directly engage in lawless killing or torture of average South Americans to further their goals
Yeah it’s not like the Reagan administration had a school in Georgia where they taught Latin American right wing death squads how to torture and murder people. Oh wait they did. Latin America is already well aware that America has no baseline rules of conduct. This boat stuff is absolutely tame by the standards of the 1980s.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
Dumped his wife for his cousin. Professionally I think he was ok, if I recall correctly.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
The funniest outcome here is that Texas creates a whole pile of slightly-pink districts to try to stretch the Republican butter over as much toast as possible, and a truly bad midterm causes Texas to elect more Democrats than they thought they would.
That’s one of the classic dangers of Gerrymandering, it can turn a small landslide in the wrong direction into an absolute blowout.
The thing to remember about Slavs is that they were (as the name would imply) slaves. They were in the borderland between the mongols, the muslims, the Germanics, and the Vikings, and constantly getting rolled and subjugated by all four. As you can see from other ethnic groups that were slaves for generations, it does not make you high trust. It makes you servile in the face of brutality, cruel when you have power, distrustful, melancholic, and constantly scheming for any advantage.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
A lot of cruise ship tickets are surprisingly cheap and since you are in Florida you wouldn’t need to travel that far to embark. I can’t speak to the quality of the experience having never been on one.
It’s like when the Nazis designated certain sections of their population to be “useless eaters” and then gave them a lifetime stipend out of the government’s pocket so they could continue uselessly eating. Or when corporations run the numbers and decide that ten percent of their employees aren’t making the company enough money so they decide to keep paying them anyway. Or when Pol Pot decided Cambodia didn’t need scientists or intellectuals so he gave them all a monthly check to stay out of everybody else’s way. Or how during periods of food insecurity, Inuit tribes would give the most elderly and infirm members double portions of seal meat to make sure they don’t lose too much weight.
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
The Thirty-Year Old Barsoomer
•Lost his job because he literally cannot stop Barsooming
•Stayed in his Barsoom-cave so long that everyone thinks he’s dead
•Freed all his slaves so no one can walk in on him while he’s Barsooming
•”Is that a Princess of Mars?! Ahhhh I’m gonna BARSOOOM!”
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
There seems to be great pressure mounting to force Ukraine leadership to sign whatever rag of a document is presented to them and let the whole thing be over.
Or they need fall guys to blame if Ukraine collapses. It wasn’t Europe or America’s fault, it was these corrupt oligarchs!
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
This, it smacks of a group that did a lot of reading but had minimal actual field experience.
Supposedly he shouted “Allahu Akbar” while opening fire so apparently Islamic lone wolf terrorism.
Edit: Please disregard the fact that the shooter was employed by the CIA in Afghanistan. Please disregard the fact that this shooting has spurred a comprehensive review of all Green Card holders in the United States. :^)
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
"my chad tribesmen will beat the shit out of your effeminate wimps, if only the sheeple finally wake up and develop classtribal counsciousness"
Maybe I’m unusual, but I’m pretty doomer-pilled about the right’s prospects in a civil war.
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
A million dead Ukrainians is too high: we would see the evidence everywhere in both economies if that were true.
The articles about stunning and brave Ukrainian girlbosses taking over the coal mines and shipyards because all the men were... uh.... somewhere else started popping up like a year and a half ago.
Also recently it he come out that the algorithms used by hiring websites were effectively black-listing millions of applicants from getting hired by anyone. Which could explain some of the horror stories about putting out 600 applications and not getting a callback from anyone.
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