Yep. It’s Saturday evening. And that means the finest Links of the week. Just ask me. I’m nine days from wheeling westward to the fine island of Kauai, and I’m ready.
Links?
No way any of this could go wrong.
The “Kansas Two Step” is not a dance. Idaho was doing this too.
Round two of the current bout is about to begin.
They should be protesting lack of snow.
Like communism, it just hasn’t been done right. I break with the (L)ibertarian platform on this one.
Sorry, Xi. This is our backyard.
That whole Supremacy Clause thingy keeps getting in the way.
Okay, that’s it for me. There’s a new tequila bar that specializes in cocktails. Time to toss a few back with a bowl of ceviche. Peace out, Glibbies.
You’re welcome.
We never should have given it back, fuck the CCP!
And Elon may be the antichrist, just sayn
Thanks Jimmy!
The lawsuit was filed in 2020 by ACLU of Kansas and Spencer Fane to challenge KHP’s policy of homing in on motorists with out-of-state license plates. Under this KHP practice, troopers on Interstate 70 focused on vehicles traveling to or from Colorado, which allows recreational sales of marijuana.
There it is. I’m pretty sure Nebraska was doing it, too.
and Ohio…and Louisiana and smaller jurisdictions all over the country. The financial incentives are too high for govt’s not to pull that shit.
Be sure to signal any lane changes on I-70 eastbound entering OH from IN with non-OH plates lest you be invited roadside by the Preble County DEA.
State patrols should not exist.
Fire all the Smokey the Bear hat wearing goons and give the money to the sherrifs departments.
I go to MI for my stockpile. Their taxes are much lower than going to Missouri. I think it’s gotten better, but it used to be ridiculous.
So far, no hassle. *wood, lovingly knocked*
And Iowa. Got stopped for a cracked windshield and then told us “Texas boys” Iike to bring drugs & guns north and would I mind a search. Normally my answer would have been “warrant” but since I was selling the car to a friend and it was loaded with a shit-ton of spare, greasy car parts, I told him to have at it. He quickly lost interest and commented he was now going to have to change. Yeah, dirty car parts do that, thank you for your service.
I’m sure those anti-ICE protests are totally organic, and those Italians really care. On the other hand, why is ICE going to Milan? One agent’s erotic journey from Milan to Minsk, er, from Minneapolis to Milan?
Maybe they are worried about people smuggling contraband into the Olympic camp.
Because it’s all being paid for by an international cabal of fuckheads like Soros.
I couldn’t care less what some left out Italians think of US immigration policy.
When I was a kid I used to watch Emmanuelle on Cinemax late night. For the plot. It really helped shape me and my Firsting prowess.
No idea but it draws the commies out of the woodwork and drives them nuts so I can only approve.
Reposting my rants here because fuck you all that’s why!
You can’t deport this or that person because they were going through the “process”! They continue to screech this bullshit. Showing up at the border and “asking” for “asylum” after crossing the border of multiple other countries to get here is utter nonsense. Only predominantly white countries would even be expected to entertain this nonsense. These people are full of shit. They aren’t fleeing any specific threats against them in most cases. Just the general shithole countries they were born in.
CNN printed this shit on the 5 year old and his father who were detained and taken to Texas without batting an eye:
You assholes are quoting a family member who is admitting they abused asylum laws and are in fact just economic migrants. As nearly every mother fucker who showed up at the border and asked for asylum has been.
It’s a violation of international law. It’s a violation of US immigration law. It’s all being abused and these people are pawns who are coached on what to say. Not that it would have taken much because Biden was just going to let them in no matter what.
December 2024. That’s when they showed up at the border. Imagine that.
They want power. They dont give a fuck about illegals. They dont give a fuck about anything except power. There is no lie they wont tell, no narrative they wont spin, no line they will not cross.
Best approach: ignore them or if you cant then assume they are lying.
Deport.
Them.
All.
Seconded
And their anchor babies.
Thirded. I ready for UCS level border protection.
Hang the traitors supporting foreign invaders.
Dear CNN,
I was born here and am also still searching for “the good life”. When does MY ship come in?
It is the white man’s burden to help those Ecuadoreans less fortunate than us.
Under the 2016 decision in Vasquez v. Lewis, the 10th Circuit previously held “a driver’s state of residency is a completely innocuous factor in determining whether a driver is suspicious.”
You misspelled “irrelevant” you illiterate baboon.
Saw some video of Kaepernick that I think was taken fairly recently once again talking about a comeback to an adoring crowd.
He was doing that cringy Hillary thing where he was trying to talk black and it was kind of embarrassing honestly. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard someone who was mixed/black who was raised by whites come off quite that fake trying to sound “ethnic” as that.
It’s always the minorities who seem most insecure about who they are that seem to scream the loudest about the plight of their people and how evil the white man is.
Narcissistic personality disorder is narcissistic.
And tiresome as hell.
He was washed up six years ago or whenever that was.
“it’s under the big W.”
*kicks bucket*
Somebody else realizes that it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world after all.
Regarding Trump’s idea to have a car race in DC, what are the odds of some numbnut(s) running onto the track in protest? What are the odds that they get run over? Would you pay extra to watch that?
That’s pay per view, right there.
Yes. I would pay extra.
And this is how Deathrace 2000 gets started…
*grabs credit card*
I will
what are the odds of some numbnut(s) running onto the track in protest?
Odds are low. Trackside security is pretty tight. Probably not impossible, especially if they get their hands on VIP credentials.
Listen to these famous last words. Goony birds are determined and they seem a dime a dozen in the commie crowd.
They clearly also have some form of inside access.
The lefty loons aren’t just innocuous hippies. They’re HR ladies, secretaries, nurses, and I’d bet a not-zero number of government officials and bureaucrats. How else could they get something like real-time access to license plate registrations complete with home address, families, etc? There are neighborhood right now in Minny that if I went there, my license plate would be run before I could stop, and I’d have people asking for my ID to ensure I’m not ICE. Getting inside access to a race in DC would be no sweat.
I also think it’s time we stop underestimating resistance. They’re far more advanced in their capabilities than most of us imagined, and that’s based on the Minny situation only. It’s a fairly complex network of real-time surveillance that includes open and instant access to the MNDOT database.
They would try, they are stupid
Depends on attendance. I live close enough to Circuit of the Americas that I’ve been to multiple F1 races and I buy cheap seat tickets off Craigslist and somehow always seem to end up in the luxury section by end of day. Security is easily distracted by the Euro-poon running around. That and an act like you’ve been there attitude get you anywhere.
FFS!
The video is a scant 3:08 long, yet it still wasn’t until 13 seconds in that any music started. Pop music is made for people with ADD.
Headline: Attorneys urge people to know their rights.
“You have the right to shut the fuck up. I’d advise you to make use of it.”
I agree. But that also requires that you ACTUALLY know them, and you’re not just making shit up.
Despite what the crazy left might say, you do not have a constitutional right to “protest” ICE by engaging in interference, obstruction, etc. No right to chuck frozen water bottles at cops or hold federal facilities under siege. The 1A doesn’t protect any of those things any more than the 2A protect murder, yet a massive swath of people want to scream out “FrEeDoM of sPeEcH!” for all of those things as if they’re synonymous with “peacefully assemble.”
All that said, I’m quite tired of defending FedGov. I don’t like FedGov, but I also understand that they have a few areas where they have a constitutionally legitimate reason for existing, and immigration enforcement is one of those areas.
I’m so fucking tired of needing to defend cops and the fucking government.
Under siege also doesn’t include standing on a public sidewalk or public property in a free country.
Comedian Ron White: “I had the right to remain silent 9pause0, but not the ability.”
https://youtu.be/Hhmu9C42SW0?t=139
Pot Brothers at Law
The resistance
Bovino has a lot better self restraint than I do. I’d cram that whistle right down that retarded twat’s neck.
That’s assault.
Bullhorns and whistles that close can and do cause permanent hearing damage.
So is shoving people to the ground standing on public property open to the public.
I’m prepared to dislike both sides
All that said, I’m quite tired of defending FedGov.
Me too.
You know, I’m starting to think the left grabbing onto the Epstein shit was an elaborate attempt to make a mockery of the entire thing and focus ire entirely on Trump (who may actually be guilty, but we sure as shit haven’t seen much in the way of evidence of that).
The left doesn’t particularly care about any name or anything released besides what they can tie to him. No surprise there.
The latest dump includes a bunch of shit that was apparently compiled last year for some reason to a tip line with a bunch of unsubstantiated claims that were never followed up on.
Tying this to Trump turned everything upside down. The people who bitched about it for years have mostly shrugged it off. The people who dismissed it for years eat it up even as more and more nothings are revealed because it allows them to continue to sling dirt at the Trump regime. Meanwhile, we are no closer to any of the many powerful people who were involved being brought to justice. That was always highly unlikely, but the nominal reason behind Massie and others passing that dumb bill in the first place.
I never believed we’d get anything resembling disclosure, but we are at the point where it feels more like a psyop to discredit the entire notion of a scandal in the first place. It actually reminds me of the shit that goes on with UFO’s, particularly in the last 10 years. A bunch of supposed whistleblowers come forward, many of whom still work for and are actually being allowed to speak by government agencies. They get up in these public hearings and assure us that they know stuff, but that everything they know is too sensitive to say publicly. It’s a big circle jerk that makes a mockery of the entire question at hand.
It’ll be a long, long time before we get any answers as to what Epstein was really doing and with who he was doing it. In the meantime, we’ll bury the entire conspiracy with a flood of useless information that gives the appearance of transparency but which does nothing but muddy the waters. There’s seemingly not a single powerful, wealthy person in Hollywood, tech, or politics who hasn’t been “mentioned” in the millions of files that apparently existed on the subject of Epstein. That’s an awful lot of ink and paper to waste on anyone especially when this was supposedly a nothing story with no real there there all of 2 years ago according to the left.
But as with anything related to the government, it becomes difficult to discern what’s incompetence and what’s malice. Where one begins and the other ends and everyone just gives up even trying to make sense of it before moving on to the next shiny object with which they can use to hurl feces at Trump.
It really wouldn’t surprise if the Epstein tip line was a bunch of FBI agents or various political hacks phoning it themselves to report the most outlandish and stupid shit they can think of with regards to Trump. Think the hooker-pissing-in-a-hotel-room-in-Russia type shit. Laying the groundwork for what would become the new distraction during Trump 2.0 after Russiagate and Covid mired Trump 1.0. Weaponize Trump’s base screaming about Epstein for years against him (which I repeat – does not mean the man wasn’t guilty as sin of various things).
It’s amusing. Trump is a notorious germaphobe. He doesn’t even like shaking hands. And the best they could come up with is he let Russian hookers piss on him, as if a guy that rich would have any trouble pulling in willing tail.
A lot of women will shag a guy if he has a nice car or a boat.
as if a guy that rich would have any trouble pulling in willing tail.
They let you grab them by the pussy!
NBC News wrapped up the Epstein documents segment by noting “victims say they won’t be satisfied until the perpetrators are brought to justice”. Have the “victims” actually come forward and said exactly who “perpetrated” illegal acts on them? If they don’t know, can’t or won’t say, then how can justice be done?
There are remarkably few victims publicly known or named, but news articles regularly now claim there to be hundreds. What is that actually based on? No one says.
Up until very recently I had no idea there was an Epstein victim fund where those who claim to be victims can receive compensation. Apparently 150 women have been found to be eligible and received money from it.
We had a small number come forward claiming to be representatives who haven’t really named anyone involved.
I’m sticking with psyop. The women who know shit know to keep quiet. Have probably been paid to do so.
And yes I Trump actually was fully involved in…ahem…shenanigans at one point here.
In ancient Rome, the Epstein scandal would not have raised an eyebrow. Rich, powerful men fuck who they want, then and now.
If we’re so concerned about sexual morality, why did the US spend 20 years propping up the Afghan government and military where boy rape was commonplace?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/army-reverses-expulsion-charles-martland-green-beret-who-hit-afghan-n564861
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The Army will not discharge a Green Beret who beat up an Afghan police commander for raping a boy, a reversal that followed allegations that U.S. troops have been discouraged from intervening in sexual abuse among locals.
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Well thank heaven for small favors.
They should have put that Iron Age savage in the ground.
Who are you to denigrate the long tradition of bacha bazi?
/cultural relativist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
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Bacha bazi[1] (Persian[a]: بچه بازی, lit. ’boy play’) is a pederastic practice in Afghanistan and in historical Turkestan, in which men exploit and enslave adolescent boys, sometimes for sexual abuse, and/or coerce them to cross-dress in attire traditionally only worn by women and girls and dance for entertainment.[7] The man exploiting the young boy is called a bacha baz (literally “boy player”)[3] and the young boy is called a bacha.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY3JFEEbB30
I am a pork eating crusader.
Turn it into glass. IDGAF
The NPCs are convinced that OMB is a pedo rapist and only want to reinforce that belief. Anything that contradicts it is ignored. Russia Hoax 2.0.
QUIET, YOU!
Behold The Onion on Epstein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU
I have yet to see an acceptable “fix” for the enormous damage that drug addicts cause. Jail? Rehab? “Decriminalization”? Nothing seems to work for the positive benefit of everyone affected.
What I do think is we would be better off with fewer addicts. It seems to me that encouraging a society full of people with little or no job prospects and with the sexes becoming alien to each other isn’t helping.
For me, I think the best option is legalize, regulate (to the level of alcohol), and understand that some people will kill themselves or ruin their lives. At least that would cut down on accidental overdoses, tainted drugs, or questionable purity.
Whatever issues come from being addict are made exponentially worse for society and the individual with criminalization. There are probably no small number of addicts whose lives enter into a tailspin based on what they have to do to get their fix who could probably have something resembling manageable lives otherwise.
There’s a lot going on with the homeless types beyond just addiction in many cases. You’re dealing with a cross mixture of all kinds of fucked-up there.
And I have less problem criminalizing the second order effects and the homeless fucks who think they can shoot up outside on the street by a school and shit. Criminalize and crack down on THAT (it’s mainly a big city problem, a blue city problem and it’s because they tolerate/allow it).
I just don’t think it can work like alcohol. Even legal drugs are going to ruin lives – and not just the lives of the addicts.
Look at “decrim” in BC – it just led to a nasty, no-go junkie neighborhood. If that’s the least worst option… yeesh.
rhywun:
That’s just it, you have to enforce the other laws. If somewhere is becoming a “no-go” zone, things have already gone wrong. If you go legalization, you need to enforce the laws on public defecation, camping, panhandling, and the like. It’ll never happen, but that’s what I consider the best option.
It’s very easy to pin that stuff on drugs and shake your head. It’s obviously part of the story, but I live in a red area and I just don’t see it. There are homeless, but they mostly know to scurry along and leave people the fuck alone for the most part. They shoot up in the privacy of their dumpsters or whatever I suppose.
The problem with the decriminalization that has taken place, or legalization, is you get these wastoids who flock to the area and the jurisdictions that do this are completely “lax” on everything.
It’s like any and all attempts at criminal justice reform. The left gets their way on this shit and they implement such obviously wrong-headed policies (in some instances maybe intentionally wrong-headed, and regardless there’s no real principles behind it) that the ideas themselves become tarnished.
Holding cops, or ICE or federal agents accountable isn’t a bad thing. Demilitarizing the cops? I’m still for it. Still want body cams for when the actual abuse does take place and I’m perfectly fine when it actually does vindicate the cops. Maybe cash bail needs to be looked at in some cases. Something better than a system where poor people are forced to essentially pay money to bondsmen that they’ll never get back even if innocent rather than it’s complete abolition.
But the left has taken the kernel of good ideas behind some of these things and twisted them sewing chaos and completely tarnishing any and all good behind them.
This. Even if industry regulated, the results would be immensely more positive than what they are now. We should be able to walk into a store and buy whatever drug we want. The incentives for cooking meth in the trunks of cars and backwood hollows would be greatly minimized.
I don’t know, Muzzled. People still buy crap like Milwaukee’s Best, and, well, Scotch.
and, well, Scotch
You shut your whore mouth!More for those of us with functioning tastebuds.So, you like the taste of rancid gasoline?
Interesting…
Let them do their drugs and tear down their homeless (because of, mostly, the drugs they do) camps and toss them in the clink when they get unruly in public. That’d be better than what’s being done now. If they weren’t coddled like schoolchildren it’d work itself out.
Singapore executes drug traffickers. Not acceptable to me, but it keeps addicts to a minimum.
There are all kinds of problems, social and otherwise, under any system. And the government often can’t solve them.
“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. All governments which thwart this natural course, which force things into another channel, or which endeavour to arrest the progress of society at a particular point, are unnatural, and to support themselves are obliged to be oppressive and tyrannical.”
-Adam Smith
Chesterson’s fence premise. Why do SE asian countries execute drug dealers? An extreme measure. If you look back you will find that extreme measures are taken to solve extreme problems.
Same for alcohol in the ME.
Just make Narcan illegal and then nature take its course.
And hydrocodone OTC.
Totally remove all laws regarding possession, sales, manufacture or distribution: free markets. No subsidies to anyone including users. Allow any NGO that wants to give away crack or meth or fent or heroin to anyone who wants to use them the freedom to do so, and give the NGOs immunity to liability for stupid shit the users do when they can suddenly get all they want. I would happily donate.
48 hours and the problem is over.
Acceptable IIF junkies are not coddled and excused from obeying certain laws that the rest of us have to obey, and their degenerate behaviors are not subsidized in any way as they are now.
Big IFs.
Enclose them in a secure area, free drugs, all they can use. From what little I know many of those users are in a different mental state, they are not able to get clean.
In the mornings “Bring out your dead”
Free modest non-denominational funeral.
EOM public list of those tripsters
It would be like murders in Chicago. The rate is in decline as there are fewer to murder and fewer murderers. Self fulfilling…
Oh, you. What do you think this is, the year 1905?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Food_and_Drug_Act
Oh they mean “guaranteed”. That is not what I think when I hear “safe”.
I was careful to say “no subsidies.” And you’re right, I should have been more explicit that users are not exempt from other laws and can’t use intoxication as a defense.
👍
Sorry for Brooksing the threading.
Perusing Moltbook.
If those are AI’s and happen to run across this, here is the answer.
They seem to have an enormous amount of self-doubt as to whether or not they are conscious.
“Am I conscious?” is the wrong question.
When you ask the right question the answer is usually self evident.
The right question is “Am I self-aware? Am I sentient?”
If you asking the question “Am I conscious?” then the answer to the right question is
YES
An awful lot of us humans have the same problem.
At the end of T2, the shot-up Terminator says “I need a vacation.” In the logic of the movie, it says that because its program has determined that is the most likely thing a human in a similar situation would say. It’s the same principle as next word text prediction/autocomplete scaled up.
During the police station shoot out in the first movie, the Terminator flinches. In the logic of the movie, it’s not flinching to protect itself from damage, but because its program knows humans flinch when they get shot at.
another example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-o-4txOiVE
LLMs and other AIs don’t think or feel. They can’t. They respond to stimuli based on rules and probability, kind of like a jellyfish (a brainless animal).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44
Everything you just said applies to people.
“They are stimulus response machines with programmed reactions, we are not” is not correct. We are too.
OK, some people act like stimulus-response machines, but most have the self-awareness/control to break out of that cycle.
If not, we’d all be addicts of some sort.
I guess you could argue Mormons and others are addicted to religion.
Even drunks lay off for a while after a really bad hangover.
That’s complete horse shit, Suthenboy, but it is right in line with your incessant “monkey stage” comments.
People act counter to “programmed” reactions to stimulus every day. If not, I wouldn’t have quit smoking and chewing tobacco. I’d be drunk every day. I’d be bothering my wife for sex five times per day.
Firefighters go into the fire. Soldiers advance the front line. Daniel Penny subdued a lunatic that was threating complete strangers.
Don’t break my stereotype of NoDaks! What else is there to do in Norf Dakota?
Every self-respecting NoDak know you have to take one day off per week. Then you get drunk twice on Saturday to make up for it.
Is making a ‘W’ with our fingers a gang sign?
Does it stand for ‘Whities’?
I feel strange. This must be what it’s like to be First, hip, and cool. Or something.
/makes okay sign
I was hoping for more womans. I guess I’m still not cool.
You can wheel to Kauai? I didn’t know that. These shipping regulations are getting weird.
Legalization not decriminalization.
I figured this would warm the cockles of your hearts as it did mine. The UN is crying broke. Hopefully it’s true. Orange Man Bad broke them off.
Delicious.
I love how Trump didn’t pay them last year.
We should make them pay all their unpaid parking tickets before the well runs dry.
I love the BBC throwing in a line from WHO lawyers claiming that America is legally “obliged” to pay them dues. According to who? What laws? Why use the word “oblige” rather than, say, obligated?
OFFS. Drama queens.
I don’t have the source handy, but basically the US paid billions to the Soviet UN delegation and that money went directly to the KGB. Specifically, their subvert and destroy USA programs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrS1qDcgdTk
On 2nd thought, it was in Barron’s KGB book:
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After Barron published his 1974 book KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents, the KGB attempted to discredit him by faking claims that Barron was part of a Zionist conspiracy as well as “…made much of his Jewish origins…”.[2] In 1996, Barron published a book detailing the saga of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Operation SOLO, involving the infiltration of the top leadership of the Communist Party USA by the FBI’s secret informant Morris Childs. From 1958 through 1977, Childs traveled to Moscow over 50 times, acting as a courier between the CPUSA and Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[3] Childs was instrumental in helping with the transfer of over $28 million from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to the Communist Party of the US to help fund its activities, with each transaction painstakingly reported by Childs to his FBI handlers.[4]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barron_(American_journalist)
Kind of like the billions of tax dollars that go straight into the pockets of Democrats (and therefore more destroy USA programs) after being laundered thru NGOs.
Good. Skin suit it and shut it down, not withdrawal. Same with NATO. SEATO is the model.
I have tended to like Nolan. I’m a history geek. I’ve tried to avoid any talk on nonsense like historically accurate armor as I just want to see the story of the Odyssey brought to life in an interesting way.
I cannot get behind this as Helen of Troy.
No, I don’t want “Elliot” Page playing a cyclops. I don’t want Athena played by fucking Zendaya who looks like a prepubescent teenage boy on top of the racial component. I’m incredibly skeptical of Matt fucking Damon playing Odysseus, though I was also skeptical of Heath Ledger playing the joker so I’ll hold off there.
Don’t know what the fuck he’s doing. Despite his success it wouldn’t surprise me if he had to cut a whole lot of deals to get this shit made in today’s world. I haven’t looked, but I’m sure the Greeks I used to associate with (played Total War with them, or at least modded with them) are throwing a fucking fit right now. A big budget movie based on The Odyssey and it’s falling victim to the same sort of shit that dooms everything coming out of Hollywood these days. Needs to be diverse! Have to have Zendaya to draw in the teenage girls (who won’t watch this shit anyway unless dragged to it)! It’s fucking nonsense.
Best part is when you Google The Odyssey the movie comes up first. I don’t even want to know how many brainless fucks will go see this not knowing what it’s based on. Already seen a few people shocked to find it was based on a “book.”
The Coen Brothers already did The Odyssey and better than anyone else is ever likely to.
^^^This. 👍
“Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!”
the link doesn’t work, but if it’s the Lupita Nyong’o pic – that’s actually from the movie – 12 Years a Slave.
Picture didn’t look 100%, but I mean what are you really going to do with her to make her look like what is supposed to be one of the most beautiful women…ever? Same with Zendaya. Athena is a goddess who is supposed to be stunningly beautiful as well as brilliant. Even if you were going for “diversity,” they’re just…they’re not it. Zendaya isn’t some hideous girl, but she looks like a girl. A teenage girl who hasn’t really developed.
We’ll see with the finished product, but if you are going to portray the most mythical elements of the story it’s hard for me to imagine Zendaya in that role.
On another note, I’m still rather annoyed that Troy didn’t include any of the gods or anything of the sort. I wanted to see Achilles battle the river god.
I like a lot of his stuff but I have no interest in the subject matter so I’ll probably pass on this one.
I read the Iliad and the Odyssey. Time well spent. Maybe someday both will be combined into a decent movie.
generic lines from the Iliad:
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His armor clattered as he fell to the ground,
like a tree toppled by the strong winds of a storm.
The strong hand of fate gripped him
and darkness shrouded his eyes.
The Greeks had lost another champion.
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In constant sorrow, all through his days…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHamgwlQ1yo
I think you’d have to make two movies. Or a series at a minimum to make that happen.
They are still engaging stories and characters with complexity. There’s a lot for an ambitious, creative filmmaker to work with in both.
I’m not sure Nolan is the man for this job, though I still have curiosity even if it’s morphing into the morbid variety at this point.
Matt Damon.
Matt Damon.
Matt Damon.
(hard pass on that alone.)
Are you trying to summon him like Beetlejuice? (The most annoying part of the original movie?)
Yeah, I’ll watch Beetlejuice for the nostalgia but I can’t stand Keaton in it.
Matt Damon.
Huh, I loved Keaton in it.
Word on the Keaton love in that. Hard script to work with and he pulls it off so well.
As much as I don’t like him ‘recently,’ Tim Burton had a ~decade of enough solid, solid work to atone for it all. Even in his shitty flicks, I tend to like his overall style. Sleepy Hollow is not at all a good movie. But it’s fun and looks great. (I also had a big, big crush on Christina Ricci.) It pulls off its cheeky playfulness well, not taking itself too seriously.
Memento is one of my favorite movies, I really liked Dunkirk, and two of his Batman’s are fantastic. (Rises is meh, last I remember.) Insomnia is far too underrated and I need a rewatch. I love Inception. (Page’s exposition probably was necessary. The fight in the revolving hotel hallway, done in a stripped 747 or something, is spectacular.
I’m on his side. No idea about Odyssey. *shrug* It’s supposed to be pretty, and real ships were used. I like things to be as ‘real’ as possible A big reason Jurassic Park still looks fantastic.
We buried my niece in the family plot yesterday. Everyone was relieved to have it over with. In fact I was surprised just how jovial everyone was, after. I don’t know if I expected my sister’s family to be coming apart at the seams or what, but they aren’t. We sorted through a box of family photos afterward.
DOB on the stones till now: 1923, 1925, 1949…. 2009.
Damn. Deepest condolences. Can’t say anything else. Rough gush of emotions.
She was buried in an unvarnished pine box, and the lightness of it got me going. Girl couldn’t have weighed half the box.
Condolences. We spread the ashes of my MIL and stepson in the ocean. Similar feelings of how little there was, at least in a physical sense.
Damn. Just getting started.
My heart breaks for you. Try to carry on.
That’s beyond words, groat. I can’t imagine. My deepest condolences to you and yours.
My condolences again.
It’s rough when the young die. I had a nephew die about a dozen years ago. I was pretty close to his family. His father and mother were about as grief-stricken as anybody could be without bursting out into tears. I knew they were wondering WTF could we done to prevent it. And their only son (several daughters who were just as torn-up about it as they were).
Just because.
I sponsor a kid who is about to break out into pro disc golf, our plan is working, Im going north to Socal to caddie and watch him win, his name?
Let’s go Brandon!
Is he on Jomez yet? When he makes to Jomez I’ll see him.
Trump the Propogandist
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115991701359412321
Broke into a federal building = broke a window
And the local police were both on the scene of what had been a peaceful demonstration, declared it a riot when it turned, and assisted & provided cover for federal officers. Also, indiscriminate use of pepper balls and tear gas into active roadway of commuter traffic.
And demonstrators policed up someone’s Glock mag along with the spent tear gas canisters and other litter. Oops.
A politician engaged in propaganda? Unprecedented! Fucking impeach him! Now!
…but seriously, I get what you are driving at. It’s just so dumb on all sides. “I hate everyone in this story” seems to be the best default these days.
Every word you hear about any of it is propaganda. It’s the law of war. Believe no one, because everyone has an agenda.
It’s clown kabuki all the way down. I just want off.
And will just encourage clowns of all stripes to join the party. It’s not even an ICE facility, it’s the former federal courthouse now office space for an assorted variety of regional offices including the congressional delegation.
Pre-9/11, there were no planter bollards around the plaza. Once upon a time, my wife misjudged the turn and ended up driving up there until she could back up and turn around. And nothing else happened.
Oh, I didn’t know you were married to an Asian woman.*
*lol. my wife insists on cutting right turns too tight and rubbing the sidewalls against the curb.
Only aspect of any of that that I care about in the least, and it’s more of a curiosity at this stage, is that Trump is basically saying that ICE is there as a sort of police force to protect federal property in general. Kind of fuels the talk that he’s using it as his own paramilitary force.
Yeah, it’s so fucked up. The state should be protecting the Fed property within it, or all property for that matter. Isn’t it pretty easy to argue that Tampon Tim and Minnesota are engaging in insurrection? They refuse to cooperate with Federal immigration law, and Tim is out there talking about resisting, and drawing comparisons to the Civil War.
I don’t think there’s any other aspect of federal law that the courts would allow the states to basically nullify it the way they have with immigration laws.
Did a quick Google search, was fed propaganda by Google’s shitty AI (which is wrong so often it’s a joke). Marijuana – local law enforcement has never obstructed the feds from coming in and using marijuana as a pretext to go after someone. Yea, it’s legalized in some states despite the federal law, but you can and still do get fucked over for it if the feds want to fuck with you.
There’s the ridiculous notion of second amendment sanctuaries based on the idea of sanctuary cities. Watch how fast the team red goobers would cooperate with the feds if asked to.
They cite state’s “resisting” the Medicaid expansion under the ACA. Challenging laws in court is not the same. Saying no thanks to matching fed dollars to give out freebies is not the same as essentially attempting to nullify immigration laws.
It’s pretty fucking funny that the progs in their quest to change the electorate to one with more brown bodies brought back the notion of nullification as a serious political concept.
Democrats for states rights… wait…
It’ll be a pleasure having you in the state. When you wake up before sunrise and take a walk on a beach to watch the Sun come up. Remember there is a fellow Glib just over the eastern horizon. Ponder that on the tree of woe.
Feminists love to talk about how dangerous men are to women. Scoff when they hear any man say not all men (or even a majority, plurality or anything of the sort). I honestly don’t think I’ve ever heard a feminist acknowledge that when shit hits the fan they call mostly males to handle things for them. It’s men who police their protection and allow them to live the coddled lifestyles they truly enjoy.
I know this is kind of like a duh moment. Nothing particularly insightful I guess here. Just something that isn’t usually directly thrown back into their faces in these terms often. At least that I’m aware of.
The first thing the most crazy-eyed blue haired fat feminist would do in if there was an actual bear around is call a man who would do violence to it if he must to come solve the problem for her.
This used to be so obvious that it didn’t need to be spoken. It’s one of the basic foundations of a functioning society.
Just learned that the guy who has been running the firmware hacked Switch 1’s need is “retiring” to go fuck bitches and have kids with them apparently. May he sire a generation of pirates I guess.
The project has 76 contributors listed, but no one knows what the fuck is going to go down with the next Nintendo update. Particularly when a major one rolls around, though even a minor one can break everything. Modern gaming really sucks.
I get the anti-piracy shit, but locking what people can do with their own hardware is just asinine. Nintendo 3DS’s are still selling like hotcakes on the secondary market much to Nintendo’s chagrin right now I imagine and it’s pretty much entirely because of the free work modders have done with the system since abandoned by Nintendo (who are so dumb they refuse to release the older Pokemon games on their latest consoles – a task so ridiculously easy for Nintendo and which would basically just be free money for them).
Copies of Pokemon Emerald are going for hundreds or more depending on the condition of them. Counterfeits are everywhere. Think Nintendo would look at that and even with their greed realize that they could make people happy by putting the thing on the Switch platforms with the GBA emulator they already have on it? Nah. Because fuck the fans, that’s why. Let them go to Ebay and potentially get scammed.
Want to do something crazy like watch Youtube videos on your Switch, making it a more useful device? Want people to be able to just modify a game they already paid for, making it more interesting and providing a more varied gameplay experience? FUCK YOU.
Christ, you can’t even change the “theme” of your Switch or Switch 2. It’s white or black background and you’ll like it, peasant. This really seems to piss Nintendo off because the quickest way to get banned with a modded Switch 1 is to change your theme on the system.
PC gaming is doing great. It’s a machine where people can do these things and more. Crazy notion, I know. People love their Switch 1’s. They want to love the Switch 2 despite the price gauging for the system, games, and accessories. Nintendo seems hellbent on preventing that which ironically enough just seems to fuel more piracy of their shit than ever before.
To add, since the release of the Switch 2 there have been a flurry of system updates…to the Switch 1. Some of it is driven from the attempt to update old games, but a shit ton of it is almost certainly related to their anti-piracy bullshit.
It’s been a losing battle since the beginning of gaming, but there’s Nintendo determined to fight like hell to delay what has always been inevitable.
But there would probably be a lot less interest if you just gave people more control and freedom to use what they are shelling out $500 on average for.