There is nothing not funny about this whole thing. It’s amazing. The world has been pulled inside-out through its own asshole.
The Backlash to Simu Liu’s Casting in ‘Barbie,’ Explained
This week, we’ve been treated to (arguably bombarded by) images of the utterly stacked cast of Barbie, starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Dua Lipa, Issa Rae, and pretty much everyone else you’ve seen on the big or small screen before—including Marvel star Simu Liu. And as some have celebrated Liu’s inclusion in the movie as a triumph for Asian representation in the film, it’s also been met with a fair amount of eye-rolls from others.
Every now and then, the question of what, exactly, the internet’s conflict with Liu is arises, and with three months to go before Barbie releases in July, I have some time today. In the fall of 2021, around the same time Marvel released Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings, old Reddit posts by Liu resurfaced, appearing to show the actor frequenting mens’ rights activist circles and regurgitating homophobic, pseudo-science conspiracy theories likening LGBTQ identity with pedophilia.
This is a HUGE leap forward for Asian males. You’re nearly reviled as the average White guy! Welcome, brothers! When they are bitching about posts you might have made in 2015, you’re living The American Dream.
Also, I’m pretty sure the Barbie movie will give you dark thoughts of self-harm, so I suggest not watching it.
I LOVE YOU, SQUIRM BACON!
— Nature is Scary (@TheScaryNature) April 5, 2023
In their latest step forward on their long march to lost profits, Wizards of the Coast has revealed that they will be removing the concept of ‘Half-‘ species from the Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook on the grounds that they are “not comfortable” including an “inherently racist” concept in the game.
This forthcoming update was first announced publicly at the recent D&D Creator Summit, an event wherein Wizards of the Coast gathered a number of notable personalities ranging from game developers to content creators and provided them with a sneak peek at Dungeons & Dragons’ upcoming releases.
Following a rocky start to the Summit marred with various technical difficulty issues, the publisher eventually hosted a demo of their upcoming D&D Virtual Tabletop, after which D&D lead rules designer Jeremy Crawford, senior story designer Chris Perkins, and studio art director Josh Herman appeared for a Q&A session with the attendees.
Eventually, the post-demo Q&A turned to the topic of WotC’s ongoing efforts to sanitize D&D, beginning with a question about how exactly the publisher makes use of their sensitivity readers.
“We don’t send everything to the same people all the time,” Crawford explained of their content review process (per a summary of the event posted to the EN World forum by user brimmels and a recap provided by content creator Daniel Kwan). “Different reviewers have different areas of expertise and experience. Everything gets sent to at least 2 people, sometimes more. The old inclusion review process had holes in it because they would only send out what they thought would be a problem. Now EVERYTHING is sent out so we aren’t guessing what might be a problem.”
“Our team are game designers and storytellers, we’re not experts in culture and inclusion,” he added. “So we’re focused on what damage should this creature do. That’s why everything goes through inclusion review now so everything in our game brings out delight. Even reprints are going through inclusion review. That’s why some older books are changing, too.”
Further elaborating on WotC’s process, the designer detailed, “We get a full report. We then address the issues identified. We have a conversation. Then it goes back to the reviewers so they can see what we did and comment as to whether it addressed the issue. We also now send the art, even the sketches, through the review process. Jeremy thinks of it as ‘inclusion collaboration’ because it’s a conversation going on.”
If you employ sensitivity readers, you are already lost. OSR or nuthin’!
“Peace Frog”
The Doors
Morrison Hotel (1970)
There’s blood in the streets, it’s up to my ankles (she came)Blood in the streets, it’s up to my knee (she came)Blood in the streets, the town of Chicago (she came)Blood on the rise, it’s following meThink about the break of day
She came and then she drove awaySunlight in her hair
Blood in the streets turn a river of sadness (she came)Blood in the streets, it’s up to my thigh (she came)Yeah, the river runs red down the legs of a city (she came)The women are cryin’ and rivers are weepin’ (she came)
She came in town and then she drove awaySunlight in her hair
Indians scattered on dawn’s highway bleedin’Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind
Blood in the streets in the town of New HavenBlood stains the roofs and the palm trees of VeniceBlood in my love in the terrible summerBloody red sun of fantastic L.A.
Blood screams her brain as they chop off her fingersBlood will be borne in the birth of a nationBlood is the rose of mysterious union
There’s blood in the streets, it’s up to my anklesBlood in the streets, it’s up to my kneeBlood in the streets, the town of ChicagoBlood on the rise, it’s following me
It’s trolls all the way down.
But not half-trolls.
To be fair, under 3e rules you could have as many “-half” templates as you wanted which shouldn’t be biologically possible. But then again, wizards!
“You have sixty-three halves. What sort of debauched interspecies orgy spawned this thing?”
There is an Oglaf comic that covers this that I won’t get near to during work.
If I were trying to find the actual answer, it wouldn’t be in quotes.
I suspect there’s probably more than one 😉
I love the Croquemnoch (spelling?) bit from years back, apropos of nothing but Oglaf.
If they’re dumping the idea of half-orcs, etc., the logical conclusion is they must drop the idea of separate races altogether. Because there are no inherent differences between individuals! Everybody can be whatever they want to be!
Also eat shit SF for putting that godawful pic at the top of the page where it is staring at me every time I refresh.
No one has ever accused me of kindness.
But you’re so nice!
Dummy up, you.
Awwww…..
Makes you really crave a Butt Light?
Bud Light so bad I’d almost rather have him going down my throat. Almost though…
I see some similarities…
For you.
what the fuck
Even Satan thinks this is getting a little over the top.
Even Satan has standards.
Well, he is a man of wealth and taste.
Is it just me, or does it have freakishly long arms? Like a gibbon.
Enforced equity should make D&D really fun.
Genius idea, taking a fantasy game that you play to escape your real life, and making it exactly like your real life.
World of Officecraft
LOL
In their latest step forward on their long march to lost profits, Wizards of the Coast has revealed that they will be removing the concept of ‘Half-‘ species from the Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook on the grounds that they are “not comfortable” including an “inherently racist” concept in the game.
What the fuck is a mule, anyway?
Isn’t this really up to every single individual DungeonMaster?
Even worse – the races can’t “mix”.
Stay in your lane, everyone.
The return of miscegenation laws? Democrats approve.
One drop rule book.
Is there one single thing that those wokist morons can’t get exactly backwards?
“We don’t want to be racist, so we are going to ban race-mixing.”
“Men can be women, but only if they exhibit the most stereotypical female appearance and behaviors.”
“Because we are so inclusive, the women world record holders and women of the year going forward will be men.”
Wouldn’t the D&D thing be Speciest?
Unless we’re talking about half dark elf/Light elf?
Mulatto elf?
Mulatto elf
Going on epic adventures, vanquishing evil, in a word …. heroic.
Does it like to eat ass?
+3 Sphincter of Power!
I’ve got your Vorpal blade, right here…
I think you need to hold onto that for the Foreskin of Vecna.
I LARPfed.
Octaroon elf
The original rule set defined them as races, as variant Homo sub-types, which meant they could cross-breed (much like a Homo sapien and a Homo neanderthalis.) By using “race” in a pre-Year Zero sense has led to a lot of “modern” issues with the races and accusations of racism.
Species makes more sense, where they might be able to produce offspring but not fertile offspring (much like a mule from a horse and a donkey.)
NERD!
Well, yeah. I’ve read too much science fiction. There’s no going back now.
https://ifunny.co/picture/i-want-to-fuck-an-elf-unprotected-PJ8V0OS1A
Original D&D had Elf as a class.
They were a race until the 1977 D&D Basic handbook defined all non-humans as a classes. This was reversed in AD&D 2nd ed.
It was a long strange trip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)
Attack rank M, be-yotch!
I hear “race” talk in the Trek universe and it’s jarring now.
Heroic Mulatto hardest hit.
STEVE SMITH SMILES, AND BY SMILES MEANS…
Mulatto butts?
Pathfinder is the way. Either 1e or 2e.
One of my D&D buddies is married to a marketing executive for Paizo. The inside gossip is so very excellent.
I bought the entire Pathfinder Humble Bundle for a couple bucks, after they dead-checked WotC over the recent open game license fuckery…
I grokked zero information from your second sentence.
Err, third/final sentence. The second one, I got. Kind of. No clue what Paizo is.
Paizo publishing is the company that prints the pathfinder game system which forked off of D&D a few editions back.
And seems to be cleaning WotC’s clocks. Not that the megacorp that owns WotC notices, or would care overly much.
WotC is a common abbreviation of Wizards of the Coast, a division of Hasbro which bought D&D using money from selling card games. They are the current holder of the IP, and the open game licence fuckery was an attempt to squeeze money for things that they didn’t make that they had previous allowed to exist without payment.
“However, what you’re looking at is actually just a single individual – and this worm is under an immense amount of stress.
Because their delicate bodies rely on water pressure to hold everything in place, ribbon worms do not fare well away from the ocean environment. In fact, they typically survive for only about ten minutes in the open air.
When a similar clip went viral back in 2015, nemertean specialist Dr Sebastian Kvist, who is also an associate curator of invertebrates at Royal Ontario Museum, noted that the animals sometimes fall apart if handled. When this happens, the severed pieces can continue wriggling around like animated copies of a parent worm.”
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/oceans/oceans/the-sad-facts-behind-that-multiplying-ribbon-worm-video/
Fragile, but capable of being transplanted into humans, explaining spineless politicians.
But the half elves have a bonus to their saving throws for sleep and charm spells without the strength penalty plus they have infravision. Eat a dick Wizards of the Coast, you cucked douchebag assholes.
And they get some sweet elf ass in its prime their whole adult life.
/Tanis
There is something so horrifying about creatures that look and move like that and the beer sucks too,
I read stuff like this, and it’s like being in an English country house being regaled with tales of deepest darkest Africa. I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about, but it all sounds extremely exotic and fascinating. Do please continue.
*waves to servant for more whiskey*
So we’re talking about White Slavery, then?
It fits.
I LOVE YOU, SQUIRM BACON!
Wtf is that?
https://youtu.be/ug2fv3Fyz9Y
Not sure how long this guy has before committing Clintoncide.
More likely to be suicided by a Mansonesque Satan Pedo cult than a Clinton in Hollywood but point taken.
Who wants to tell her?
Democrats are openly pushing for Trans Activists to become extremists.
Just look at the far left Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota with a Knife above the word Trans on her T-shirt
A trans EMT tried to use his medical training to prove that sex is not binary. He ran into trouble when I asked him how he’d respond to a patient with a penis who claims he’s having a miscarriage
https://twitter.com/RobSchneider/status/1643461886095269889
I have a penis and could, theoretically, have a miscarriage if my pregnancy were not protected and guided by The Great firster.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
So, you could go fuck yourself?
Through the First, anything is theoretically possible.
*Nelson laugh*
Twitter has made it official, National Public Radio (NPR) is now classified as a “US state-affiliated media” outlet on the platform.
It’s a label that has traditionally applied to state-run media outlets in foreign autocracies, like Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk shared the company’s guidance on state-affiliated media Wednesday.
“State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution,” the Twitter policy read.
I’m so happy he bought Twitter. If only for all the laughs I’m getting.
Nice. Should have always been labeled as such.
“State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures,
Now do Facebook and Google
Meh, not sure this really applies to NPR. I don’t think they need any pressure from the feds to report the news the way they do.
Doesn’t that make them that much more pathetic given that they probably are free not to be so stupid?
But make no mistake – if they criticized the Dems public funding would be yanked so fast.
No doubt – much more pathetic.
Public funding makes up a v. small amount of NPR’s budget. Which makes the whole argument even more stupid.
That Bud Light picture is so cringe I slapped myself.
The IMF is concerned
The IMF has long warned of increased costs, economic friction and GDP output losses associated with the global economy fragmenting into geopolitical blocs, with U.S.-led democracies on one side and China and other autocratic states on another. This can lead to competing technology systems and reduced trade.
——-
To curb the risk of potentially destabilizing fallout from geopolitical events, the IMF said banking supervisors, regulators and financial institutions should use stress tests and scenario analysis to better understand how rising tensions could be transmitted to the financial system.
What will become of the IMF when China tells them they are not needed?
They’ll be needed by China, the way they’re needed by the US.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
Bear in mind there is doubt as to the veracity of the author’s claims.
“ The IMF has long warned of increased costs, economic friction and GDP output losses associated with the global economy fragmenting into geopolitical blocs”
As if you needed any more evidence that the IMF is a weapon/tool of the globalists and intended to keep the second/ third world in line.
The responses to this have a disappointing lack of awareness.
Tennessee Republican lawmakers took the first steps Monday to expel three Democratic members from the GOP-dominant House for their role in a recent gun control protest at the state Capitol.
I have to admit I have developed a grudging respect for Dylan. He managed to seize the cultural Zeitgeist and make a bajillion dollars and become super famous almost overnight by doing some bizarre form of gendered blackface. Sure, he had to give up every pretense of personal dignity, but when has there been an actor with a shred of that?
I mean, the guy’s got his own Bud Light “Real Men of Genius” ad.
***WILD APPLAUSE/STANDING OVATION***
Eventually his 15 minutes of fame will be up. I’m guessing one of two things will happen.
1) It was all a grift, so he’ll just go back to being male, and spend all his time sipping drinks in his beach house.
2) He really does have psychological issues, in which case he’ll have drug and alcohol issues, and will become overweight and unrecognizable.
You forgot facial tattoos…
There’s a clip floating around the internet of him appearing on the Price is Right, trying to soak up all of the attention that daytime TV has to offer.
I’m sure that when he is all…used up there will be a position open for him on The View.
…so I suggest not watching it.
No problem.
Regarding Squirm Bacon
Pretty damn cool!
That is without a doubt one of the best Kids sketch of all time. SUUUUUUUCKS!
I’m not a Doors hater. I really like Peace Frog. But Morrison was a shit poet.
Joan Didion includes a rather surreal studio session with The Doors in The White Album (essay in book of the same title). She was underwhelmed.
Didion was a treasure.
Yes. Yes she was. A neurotic, obsessive, damaged treasure, but a treasure despite, or more likely because, of that. I don’t love The White Album with the same passion I have for Slouching Towards Bethlehem, but few essayists could match, let alone top, it.
Slouching is right up there with Saint Hunters best work. Fun fact, my son went to the same high school she went to, albeit decades apart.
Yup. I’ve long said that to really grok the sixties you need to read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Two mor different authors, two more divergent viewpoints and authorial voices, would be hard to find, but that itself is a mark of what the sixties were.
Thanks, boys. Just downloaded The White Album from the library.
IMNSHO, it’s not as good as Slouching, but the title essay certainly captures the death of the 60s dream, whatever it was or might have been.
Slouching wasn’t available. I’ve got it on hold!
Peace Frog is the only truly good Doors tune #changemymind
Tragic tale of loss and woe
Tesla has to pay just over $3 million to a Black former contract worker for failing to protect him from racial abuse—a charge for which the electric carmaker was initially awarded a $137 million fine in 2021.
Owen Diaz, who worked as a lift operator at Tesla’s Fremont factory from June 2015 to May 2016, filed a lawsuit in 2017 alleging rampant racism at the workplace. In October 2021, a federal court in San Francisco found Diaz experienced a racially hostile work environment, and Tesla did not take reasonable steps to rectify the harassment, despite complaints to supervisors. At the time, the jury ruled Tesla must pay Diaz $137 million in damages. It was seen as a landmark verdict that doled out the highest ever award for an individual suing over discrimination.
The drastically reduced penalty announced Monday (Apr. 3) comes after Tesla lawyer Alex Spiro attacked Diaz’s credibility, claiming he’d distorted the time he’d worked at Tesla, and lied about working as bus driver to escape the factory setting, when in fact he went to work in another factory for Coca Cola. None of these claims addressed the workplace environment at Tesla.
“I don’t think the truth drove the decisions here,” Lawrence Organ, a lawyer for Diaz, told Fortune, adding that Tesla’s strategy was to “minimize and sanitize” and “it’s just sad that those antics worked.”
He should have brought some nooses to court.
People can be racist to me all they want for that kind of money. As long as they don’t attack my Firsting, I’m good.
Lawyer is unhappy with his paycheck, the poor dear.
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1643692648337686528
There’s video! I’m with SF, this stuff is hilarious.
The batshit fucking crazy Joker smile is terrifying.
That is the type of shit that you see before they shoot up an elementary school.
Lindsay’s comment is interesting. He proposes that they’re promoting this mentally unstable loon in the hopes that he’ll crack and commit suicide.
Then they can have their Trans Floyd moment.
I’m at the point where that doesn’t sound so crazy anymore.
Any possible excuse for a riot, huh?
So, the Trans Mission of All Our Goodbyes?
“I said ‘wow, that’s a lot of money.’”
I can’t believe the Lightbringer was dirty.
I can’t believe the Lightbringer was dirty.
I’ve got a bridge to sell you right over here.
But he was so articulate!
And clean. Can’t forget the clean part.
Nice crease in his pants!
A thoroughly Magic Negro.
Good thing no one is above the law.
Remember when Obama’s campaign deliberately turned off address verification for campaign contributions on his website so anybody from anywhere could use any name to make virtually unlimited contributions? Good times.
You have to admit, the commies got game.
But no New York business records were “falsified.”
I’m going to take a wild guess that there is actually a good chance the paperwork was done in New York.
So, if someone wears falsies on a date in New York, we can sue now?
The Doors are only surpassed in shittiness by the Beach Boys.
Si, su puede!
Retaliation!
Starbucks has fired a Buffalo, New York, worker who “ignited a movement” from one of the first stores in the coffee chain to unionize, Starbucks Workers United said Friday.
The firing came the same week that former CEO Howard Schultz testified before Congress, where he was grilled by lawmakers for the company’s labor practices and alleged union-busting.
Alexis Rizzo had been shift supervisor at the Genesee Street store in Buffalo for more than 7 years, the union said. That store was one of the first of two locations to officially win their union campaigns in January 2022 after the federal labor board certified its results. Rizzo was the worker who first contacted the union.
“This is retaliation at its worst,” a statement from Starbucks Workers United said. The union noted two other employees were fired and a union leader was written up.
Rizzo said she was fired after her shift Friday for attendance and being late, discipline issues that stemmed from the beginning of the union campaign. She said she was fired after a few instances of being several minutes late to work, though the company said she had missed over four hours of work over six separate incidents.
This couldn’t have anything to do with non-job-related activities on the clock, could it?
Your whole goal was to impose hard-and-fast work rules, right?
What goes around comes around.
“This is not just a job,” Rizzo said, adding she will fight “tooth and nail” to get reinstated. “I feel like I’ve lost everything. It’s my family and my support system.”
Her infractions are committed by many coworkers, she said – some worse than her – without any reprimand. She noted other union leaders in Buffalo have been fired.
“I guess I finally cracked and gave them the opportunity to retaliate against me, too,” Rizzo said.
In a statement, a Starbucks spokesperson said, Rizzo “had been on a progressive disciplinary track.” Starbucks said one of Rizzo’s late arrivals, which happened after a final warning was issued, resulted in the store opening one hour late.
Rizzo, who has been working at the coffee chain since she was 17, said she was “set up to fail” to oversleep with the opening and closing schedule assigned to her.
She should get Tom Clancy to ghost write her autobiography. The movie rights should be astronomical.
Cause no one before has ever closed at night and opened the next morning.
I remember there was some listing in the teen labor laws here that mandated a minimum 8 hours off between the end of one shift and the start of another.
My maternal grandfather ran a bakery for many years as the sole owner/operator. With late night closings, clean-ups and 4 A.M. start times, I don’t think that guy ever slept.
I’ve avoided saying stuff like this for a very long time, but my patience has finally been exceeded: kids today are spoiled little asswipes, more so than at any other time in human history.
Narrator: “It was just a job.”
Learn a trade.
“I feel like I’ve lost everything. It’s my family and my support system.”
That’s just sad.
Rizzo, who has been working at the coffee chain since she was 17, said she was “set up to fail” to oversleep with the opening and closing schedule assigned to her.
Requiring employees to be on time is sooooo meanie-pants. This is why we need unions! And my goodness, she was only an hour late opening the store, what’s the big deal? It’s not like coffee shops do a lot of business in the early morning.
I chastised an employee for being late one morning. He resigned that afternoon, said there was too much pressure.
Being on time is a White supremacist thing. If Ms. Rizzo is White, she needs to comply. Otherwise, she can come and go as she pleases in order to speak truth to White power.
This intolerable job was everything to me.
DC-area health departments shed light on what the end of federal COVID emergency actually means
This is my life.
**HEAVY SIGH**
Yeah, me too, bro.
Remember back when there was a kerfuffle about how dudes (it’s always dudes) were setting HVAC systems to cold so they could see chicks nipples?
And then we had to inform them that in the rare cases were you can change temp setting more than one degree, it was probably a woman in her 50’s having a hot flash.
So Chelsea hired Lampard for rest of year.
Have we discussed yet?
“Just don’t get us relegated.”
no chance of that
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/04/wmu-professor-accuses-university-of-retaliation-over-his-renouncing-his-gay-identification/
Western Michigan University Music professor Daniel Mattson prides himself on being a “world-class trombonist.” He says that he had a promising and successful academic career when he was a gay faculty member. However, he alleges that changed when he found religion and declared that he was no longer gay.
My favorite edition of D&D is B/X by Tom Moldvay, David Cook, and Steve Marsh.
The focus of the game is not fighting monsters or rescuing princesses, but rather exploring the ruins of ancient empires, searching for treasure. It is more like survival horror than Lord of the Rings.
There is a modern version of B/X called “Old School Essentials” by the publisher Necrotic Gnome. NG is working on its own setting called “Dolmenwood” that is based on English fairy tales that is extremely interesting to me: https://necroticgnome.com/collections/dolmenwood
There is a podcast called “3d6, Down the Line” that is highly entertaining. One of their campaigns is in Dolmenwood; their most recent campaign is “The Halls of Arden Vul”, a megadungeon that derives its themes from fantasy Rome/Byzantium.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtBYin1uOBmDo5G8PCb-1JttO-HCyZYcQ
I’m a White Box kinda guy. I am very much a rules-lite player, so I agree with SF’s OSR comment.
D&D:
I loves it. I have all of it up to 4e. No really, I’m missing a few Gazetteers, but that’s it. I have almost a complete set of physical copies of Dragon, and the CD rom of the issues I don’t have.
But I don’t play it. People are tarded. I treat the rulebooks as giant plotless novels, full of yummy worldbuilding.
This was about 90% of my experience.
I caught a bit of the news a few minutes ago, waiting for the weather man to come on. Of course, they covered the Crime of the Century. Bragg was preening for the cameras. I can’t remember the exact wording of what he said, but it seemed inescapable (to me) that if Trump is guilty of a crime for paying money to conceal information in order to affect the outcome of an election, anybody who pays for opposition research is also guilty of a crime. I wonder when his next indictments may be expected to be filed.
A Famous Lawyer reviewed the charges today and announced on his podcast that there was nothing of merit in them. There was no victim. It is truly entirely political. Sadly, he also predicted that the judge would be chickenshit to throw it out, so the trial will happen.
Another good playlist by 3d6DTL is their “Blades in the Dark” game. It is criminal heists done in a world that has no sun, and which has been cut off from the afterlife so when a person dies, government workers have to track down the person’s ghost and eliminate it. There are rules for growing from small time criminals into a major syndicate.
Neph – any word on testing Pat’s thing for Zoom?
Pat’s thing? This sounds promising.
Neph – any word on testing Pat’s thing for Zoom?
All your euphemism are belong to us.
The magic-user on the cover of the Moldvay box set is now available as an action-figure:
Super7 Dungeons & Dragons Sorceress Basic Box Set – 3.75 in Reaction Figure https://a.co/d/1VCwFnS
It’s on people.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/chipotle-sues-sweetgreen-over-chipotle-chicken-burrito-bowl
Bitch please. Chipotle’s bowl looks NOTHING like that. Chipotle should be sued for misrepresentation.
Malice had Kmele on this week. I used to really like the guy, but I found the whole conversation kind of milquetoast.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0AdklqOWwaGvSzaed7TICc?si=edef08e92fa440fc
Is he still at Reason?
Give up the 1%.
NPR operates independently of the U.S. government. And while federal money is important to the overall public media system, NPR gets less than 1% of its annual budget, on average, from federal sources.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-media
So, basically they simp for big gov’t?
Weak sauce.
I just had an advertisement for these show up on my BookFace. I have to admit, I could see myself sippin’ sazeracs out of those with the Glibs logo.
I guess you could say they choked?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilymason/2023/04/05/fintech-startup-aspiration-plans-to-lay-off-more-than-half-of-staff/?sh=51afef1a7899
Sadly I am watching “Supercell.” A more contrived movie is not possible.
I liked it…
https://youtu.be/eLPs_w-FepA
Not that one, this one:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XOq5zmhQigc
I have predicted every plot point. And laughed when my predictions came true. It has been my only entertainment. The wife wants to see it.
Watched the trailer.
NEEDS MOAR FLYING COWS!
And Philip Seymour Hoffman, natch.
Rather interesting.
https://newatlas.com/automotive/inside-out-wankel/
/s Former RX 8 owner.
Not rather, but really.
/ former RX-7 owner.
Still not sure why rotaries aren’t the standard.
Efficiency, pollution and much better, but still problematic apex seals.
Don’t care.
Gaia can take care of herself. My 1984 GSL-SE was absurdly cool. I loved the top-mounted oil filter, high revs and oh so sexy lines.
Good riddance, I say:
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1643617550935248901